Hey Isaiah...
...did it occur to you that maybe the reason you were fired hasn't got as much to do with you being black, as you being a self-righteous and supremely arrogant asshole?
Everything I've read or seen about this guy tells me I wouldn't want to work with him, either. It sounds like he certainly went through the motions -- making an apology, offering to go to counseling, etc. And I don't deny that racism is an issue that still tears at the fabric of the country.
He has a mind of his own, he says, and people are intimidated by the "booming voice of a black man," he suggests. He denigrates an HR manager who told him that people on the set were "afraid of him," and chalks it up to his absence of subservience to whites.
No, it's not that. People are intimidated by others in positions of authority -- like prominent cast members of a hit show with a documented history of violent behavior -- who get into shrieking matches with their coworkers. I've worked for sociopaths, and it doesn't matter if they're black, white or green. Crazy is as crazy does.
Isaiah Washington seems on some levels like a really nice guy -- he's building a five-room school for a village in Sierra Leone. And he's been, as he put it, volunteering in Africa for longer than Angelina Jolie and Bono. That's dandy. He's got an altruistic streak.
But I think his comments -- and more specifically, his actions -- betray that Washington has a violent streak. The "faggot" incident on the set of Grey's Anatomy wasn't the first time he's been caught yelling at co-workers, an issue he chalks up to "an artist's temperament." I'm sorry, but that's a bullshit excuse. Isaiah, you have anger management issues. If you go to therapy for anything, it ought to be for that, not for using the "f" word.