By now, you’ve probably heard that country star Toby Keith has upset many in the Asian American community by making the ole “chink eye” gesture during an impromptu performance of “Rapper’s Delight” with Will Smith at a Nobel Peace Prize after party in Norway. You can check out the clip below if you haven’t seen it yet. Keith makes the offensive gesture about 26 seconds in after Smith raps the word “yellow”:
But my question is—why are we acting so surprised and outraged that this dude would pull some shit like this? He’s Toby fucking Keith, people! He recorded an album entitled “White Trash With Money.” One of his biggest hits is entitled “Beer For My Horses.” In 2003, he went after the Dixie Chicks with a vengeance for daring to criticize then-President Bush. This is a guy who hangs with good friend Ted “I shoot all my own food even if it’s already dead” Nugent. Even the in-bred, banjo-playing, sodomy-loving hillbillies from Deliverance look at Keith and go, “Damn! That motherfucker’s an ignorant hick!”
Here’s the other issue that’s not being addressed in all this—is there a single Asian person out there who even listens to Keith’s music? Seriously, show me just one die-hard Asian American Toby Keith fan who’s not just pretending to like his music so he can get into some big-breasted white cowgirl’s pants. I mean–what would we even do? Threaten to boycott his CDs and concerts? That’s like a devout Muslim threatening to boycott pork. The pig’s got nothing to worry about.
But I think the most disturbing question this incident raises is—why the fuck was Toby Keith at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to begin with? I get that the organizers wanted some star power, but Toby Keith? Really? That’s the best they could do? Did the conversation go something like this:
“What celebrity should we invite who embodies the spirit of the Nobel Peace Prize?”
“How about Bono? He’s passionate about ending world poverty.”
“No.”
“Angelina Jolie? She’s a spokesperson for UNICEF.”
“No, I got it—Toby Keith!”
“That’s a brilliant idea! Who else could represent the ideas of world peace better than the man behind ‘Big Dog Daddy Balls?’”
Team Dixie Chicks all the way! They were right, after all.
Toby Keith is so blatantly white trash, he makes Britney Spears look classy.
Toby Keith claimed to be a Democrat and an Obama supporter last August. I don’t know enough about country music to figure out if he’s genuine, a bandwagon jumpin’ publicity whore, or cynically making money off a segment of the country that treats patriotism as a religion. Nor do I care. I’ll just continue pretending to like his music so I can get into the pants of big-breasted cowgirls. I love America!
FUTK!!!
toby keith is meh, could care less. what i’m wondering is why did the asian justice center make comments about this but didn’t see any comments they made about s. philly ordeal? and nothing on their site too? priorities are f*cked
Typical white trash giving someone two first names so if he forgets one he can always use the other
I wonder if Will Smith’s lyrics had a rhyme about the black man, would “FUTK (google it) Tobey Keith” have done sort of stereotypical black move? you know, something on par with what he says about blacks everyday?
Will Smith should issue a public apology for even being on stage with FUTK. Makes our beloved Will Smith look like someone rapping and celebrating with the kkk
They’re both Scientologists.
I liked Toby Keith. =(
Then again, I’m from Texas, so maybe I don’t count.