Phil Robertson of ‘Duck Dynasty’ shocked fans of his beloved show when he told ‘GQ’ that gays can’t go to heaven, and that black people were ‘happy’ before the Civil Rights Movement. Now the show’s patriarch has been suspended by A&E, though his family is sticking firmly by his side.
Phil Robertson is in some major hot water, and with good reason. The Duck Dynasty patriarch made some shockingly racist and homophobic remarks in an interview with GQ, and now A&E has suspended him from its colossal hit series. Find out how the rest of the Robertson clan has responded below.
‘Duck Dynasty’ Family Responds: ‘Prayer Is The Best Conversation’
Unreal. Phil showed an unbelievable amount of ignorance and stupidity when he claimed that black people were better off before the Civil Rights Movement â€" and he knows this, of course, because he’s “white trash”:
“I never, with my eyes, saw the mistreatment of any black person. Not once,†he said. “Where we lived was all farmers. The blacks worked for the farmers. I hoed cotton with them. I’m with the blacks, because we’re white trash. We’re going across the field … They’re singing and happy. I never heard one of them, one black person, say, ‘I tell you what: These doggone white people’â€"not a word!… Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.â€
So to recap, not only is Phil calling himself and his friends and family “white trash,” he’s also insinuating that black people (who were so happy before integration!) are trash by default. Lovely.
Most of Phil’s famous family has kept quiet both publicly and on social media since the backlash, but Phil’s son Jep Robertson did tell GQ that he tends to agree with what his father says. “We’re not quite as outspoken as my dad, but I’m definitely in line,” he said. “If somebody asks, I tell ‘em what the Bible says.”
Phil’s granddaughter Sadie Robertson seems to feel similarly, as she sent out a cryptic tweet on Dec. 19 that also references the power of religion. “Prayer is the best conversation of the day,” she wrote. “It’s better to go to God before taking it to someone else.”
Prayer is the best conversation of the day. It’s better to go to God before taking it to someone else
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