- By Bahram Maskanian - Sunday March 26, 2006

A few months ago I had a talk with an American friend who had seen a supposed comedy show aired on Saturday nights on FOX television, called MAD TV. He asked me if I had seen the show and particularly that show, that weekend? Since I am not a big fan of TV and particularly FOX or its affiliates, my answer was no. He told me about this shocking and highly insulting sketch / act they do on MAD TV called the - - Persian Tow Truck Driver - -. - Michael McDonald -, plays the role of the Persian Tow Truck Driver; he is a chain smoker, has a thick reddish-brown mustache in the show talking to - Ike Barinholtz -, the other actor to whom he shows a picture of an - orangutan - as his Persian wife.

As we all know, Orangutans are large apes / monkeys, who live in South East Asia on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. These apes / monkeys mostly live on treetops. They are arboreal and swing from branch to branch using their arms. Orangutans have a large, bulky body, covered with long reddish-brown hair, a thick neck, very long, strong arms, short, bowed legs, and no tail. Orangutans are about 2/3 the size of the gorilla. - - Just to give an idea of what an Iranian / Persian women are portrayed as by FOX television and MAD TV show writers, producers, directors, sponsors, etc. - -

So I decided to watch the show and see for myself. Whenever I had a chance I did tune in and watched MAD TV show. What a waste of time that was. But finally on Saturday March 25, 2006, 11.p.m New York Eastern Standard Time, I did see it for myself, what the - - Persian Tow Truck Driver - - was all about. - Michael McDonald - played the role of the - - Persian Tow Truck Driver - -; wearing a thick reddish-brown mustache standing next to - Ike Barinholtz - the other actor in the hospital behind the window of nursery wards looking in at the newborn babies.

Through the course of the sketch - Michael McDonald - the - - Persian Tow Truck Driver - -, is talking to - Ike Barinholtz -, while smoking cigarettes. He establishes as facts that all through his life he had sex with his Persian wife only twice (2), but he has fifteen (15) children. As camera pans into the nursery - Michael McDonald - the - - Persian Tow Truck Driver - -, points out a little monkey in the nursery to - Ike Barinholtz -, as his newly born daughter who looks just like her mother. A few seconds later the little monkey is brought out of the nursery and handed over to - Michael McDonald - the - - Persian Tow Truck Driver - -. The little monkey crawled out of the white towel it was wrapped in and began running over the shoulders of the two men. Much and many other highly insulting rhetoric designed deliberately to dehumanize a nation was used in that few troubling and painful minutes.

Since 1978, I have been living in the US, I have had many unpleasant racist experiences to say the least, but no one ever portrayed Iranian / Persian women on American National television, many times over as apes / monkeys. As if the barbaric Islam dehumanizing Persian / Iranian women was not enough to deal with, but now our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters are been portrayed as whores and apes / monkeys, that makes us the Persian / Iranian men sons of whores and apes / monkeys.

- - Shame on all of us, Iranian / Persian people to allow dehumanizing nonsense like this to take place. - -.

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