He is of course guilty of bad acting.

http://www.lukeford.net/profiles/profiles/steven_seagal1.htm

But Dad was Jewish, and the family pronounced its name the normal way: SEE-gul. When he and Gary Goldman were in business together, Seagal said he didn’t want to call their production company Seagal/Goldman Productions “because that would sound too much like two Jews from the garment business.” Shortly after that, the actor returned from an art exhibit where he had seen a painting by Chagall. The work moved him to decree that thereafter he would call himself Se-GAL.

The things we learn from the blogosphere…

Race and class are closely related I agree. I don’t agree they are the same.
I don’t agree with grouping everything non people of color and people of color. Part of the reason some groups are arrested more is because proportionally more crimes are committed by members who are/identify with that group. The higher number of arrests and convictions isn’t all to do with some stereotypical redneck sheriff. Asians commit fewer crimes than everyone and are arrested less than non people of color and other people of color.

I didn’t think I would ever be in the position of defending Steven Segal but this woman is suing for a million dollars. It makes you wonder. This is what happens to celebrities/rich people. Again I would not be shocked if some/all of what is alleged is true but I wouldn’t be schocked if it is also exaggerated.

Class is a factor in who gets prosecuted for crimes and who does not by America.

But it’s naive to believe that race does not figure powerfully as a factor as well–not only in prosecutions but also how the US media portrays a suspect.

Just check out the statistics for all the people of color that are disproportionally arrested, convicted, and sentenced for crimes by the US criminal injustice system. Racism and classism usually go hand in glove, and are not separate issues.

As for Seagal, the allegations against him apparently are not even being pursued by the police in the first place. And Seagal just so happens to be cozy with the local Sheriff’s department.

That seems like a “rush to judgment” … in Seagal’s favor.

I not going to call someone a rapist unless evidence is pretty clear, people make claims for all sorts of reasons.

There are a lot of people off all colors with money that have avoided criminal convictions because of money.
Kobe, OJ, etc.

This happens all over the world, some high profile cases in Japan where rich guys have not been charged or charged with the equivlant of manslaughter when their female “friend” ends up missing or dead.

In India guys have hit poor people with their cars and not done any time, just paid a little money.

If Seagal did this, hey it would not be shocking to any of us but I will reserve jusgdemt untill more facts come out.

no need to rush to judgement.

http://articles.latimes.com/2002/oct/17/local/me-arrest17

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C04E1D81531F933A25752C0A96E9C8B63

There are tons of other \rumors\ about him all over the place. The man wears monk’s clothing–when even a lot of monks don’t like to wear their robes all the time in the west because of the attention it attracts.

Does he look like a white guy playing dress-up in another culture’s clothes? Yes. Does he change cultures like an actor changes costume? Yes. Could he be the perfect poster boy for the Nth Generation of Crazy Western Usurper? Absoloutely
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Seems like a total nut-case/wanna-be-Yellow-but-not-really/Aikido Master-but-Ass-Kicker/controlfreakweirdo to me… With him I feel pretty confident in believing that what you see is what you get.

u have really poor vocab