Rush: What Will It Take To End Racism?
By John Amato Wednesday Feb 20, 2008 11:01am
A C&Ler sent me an email with the audio and I turned it into a post below. The issue of racism is never going away---at least not in our lifetime and Limbaugh knows this all too well so he'll try to spin Obama any way he can. Good for the ditto head that called in and said "no."
Is it any wonder the republican party is constantly being branded as the "Party of Bigots"? Ask yourself this question. What would it take to officially end the perception of racism in America ... once and for all?
You might answer, a few decades of knowing that African Americans are given the same job opportunities. It doesn't have to be perfect, just show some progress for a change. That would be a nice start, right? How about 5 or 10 years of no more stories about block busting or blacks, Arabs, and Asians being told "sorry, the house was just rented"? That seems like it would be an important element, right? How about finding out that teachers in black communities like Detroit are making a fair wage, and that rather than being threatened into good test scores (ala the No Child Left Behind Act), that we actually start to see some real-live education among disadvantaged black and Latino youth, setting the stage for a more balanced 2nd half of the century.
THAT ... would be a milestone toward being able to say "Racismo Esta No Mas!"
Not according to Rush Limbaugh - the official mouth of the Party of Bigots. And although he was successful out of turning the comments of Christian from Detroit into a discussion on racism instead of his thoughts on Barack Obama is President - he failed miserably at convincing Christian to give the correct answer to his patronizing question.
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Proof that Limbaugh just does not know what Racism is all about or how serious of a problem it is.
Right... 'cause if Obama wins the presidency with, say 51 to 55% of the vote (a likely scenario in these polarized times) then obviously, none of the 49 to 45% of voters who voted against him could possibly have been motivated by anything approaching racism.
Tell you what Rush: if Obama gets elected with 100% of the vote then,yes, I'll agree that racism has greatly diminshed in this country.
We won't even dream about Sexism going away, obviously it is alive, well, and accepted by all.
I have yet to see more virulent racists than those from Southeast Missouri the home of Rush and myself.
You won't find a more conservative town in Missouri than Cape Girardeau, Rush's childhood home.
I have a true plan to end racism. Every white guy and girl marry a black guy and girl. Their offspring marry an asian...in 100 years we will all look like Polynesians!!!
"What will it take to end Rascism?"
How about Rush shutting his mouth!
For what it's worth, Rush's longtime call-screener and back-up person, nicknamed Bo Snerdley, is an african-american. His real name is James Golden.
That fat, nasty, gooey, drug addict should disqualify himself from discussing any race issue. FOREVER.
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Snerdley @ 7:
It's worth nothing. Slave owners employed African Americans too.
peon @ 4:
Not accepted by me. My sister and I were just talking this weekend about how the only thing that pushes us toward Hillary over Barack is the virulent misogyny we see surrounding the campaign (not from Obama, but from all the pundits). It makes me sick.
And I can't decide if Rush is willfully ignorant or really can't see things sometimes.
Snerdley @ 7:
Racism has been pushed back to the point that it for the most part is no longer acceptable in public. Sexism and homophobia are alive and well. Just look at network situation comedies. Racist jokes would cause outrage and most likely heads would roll. Sexist or homophobic jokes are all over the place and excepted without as much as a whimper. stereo typing caricatures to the lowest common denominator. Racism is not dead by any means, we have a long way to go but we have hardly started on sexism and homophobia.
ms b @ 12:
Fear and ignorance. Thats the fuel for racism. We have moved an amazing amount as a people in my lifetime. But there are ignorant and malicious people that use racism for gain. Whether its on a grand scale like imperialism or small, it always comes back to someone afraid of change or too stupid to know better.
hareli @ 9:
Those are great links. Y'all should check them out.
Anything that makes Rush speechless (if only for a second or two) is a good thing.
Or, you could just order the newest television subscription service...BIGOTv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llqM94-bYvg
This is so unfair to Rush. OxyFatfuck loves the brown and black people. Especially the underage prostitutes in the Dominican Republic where the thumbdick druggie likes to vacation. With "all guys" and a pocketful of someone else's Viagra.
peon @ 4:
Don't be ridiculous. Agreed it is still alive and well in the media, but if Obama weren't such an inspiring speaker, Hillary would have it wrapped up. People aren't voting Against Hillary as much as they are voting For Obama. If Obama suddenly decided to drop out tomorrow, the same people would be cheerfully voting for Hillary.
Hillary's problem is not sexism, it is timing. If it were anyone but Obama, she'd be the next President.
Rush Limbaugh: 'We're Trying to Avoid a 50 State Landslide.....
"I don't know who elected Rush Limbaugh or Hannity as the heads of this conservative movement," Eagleburger says at the beginning of a clip from MSNBC last night that was aired on today's radio show.
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5717
marko @ 5:
Hey, I'm doing my part, although I'll try to get my kids to marry someone that is half latin, half asian.
can we get a transcript of this? can't stand the sound of limbaugh's voice, like finger nails across a blackboard.
Shorter Rush: Can we hurry up and say Racism is ended so I can talk more about those shifty negroes?
Limp-Dick Blimpaugh is the typical uncaring Reslug that is so full of hatred and racism.
Monorail @ 22:
I don't think this ends racism, it just makes everyone the same. I think its possible to live in peace and respect everyone no matter what they look like. People should all be equal no matter what they look like, or who they choose to be with. Plus even if everyone does end up looking the same, there would still be something that would differentiate groups of people, so if the initial racist attitude isn't abolished, the problem will still remain.
If it wasn't for racism, the reich-wingers would have been a permanent minority a long, long time ago.
“What will it take to end Rascism?”
The media has to stop labeling people different colors. People are people.
Speaking of racism, why in the world would Barack Obama recite Malcom X's divisive, anti-white tirade in front of a mostly black audience in South Carolina?
I want everyone to keep their head level and clear and look at this question honestly, instead of losing your minds in usual fashion.
Obama usually cribs his speeches from various uplifting sources, but when he cribbed Malcom X's anti-white “they will bamboozle you, they’re trying to hoodwink you” speech, that was the complete opposite.
Look for yourselves and look at how different members of the audience react and look at Obama's reaction when he realizes it's an inside joke.
This is clearly a "dog whistle" speech that scored a direct hit with the intended target.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuB_W8o_UsU
I know many people who refer to blacks as niggers (to my white face) and always in the most stereotypical ways. Racism is alive and well and Obama, if elected, will change very little.
Fade @ 24:
Exactly. He's not concerned about ending racism, but about getting people to shut up about it.
george @ 28:
We teach our kids (nieces, nephews, grandkids, etc.) not to label people by color. My kids just got their first talking-to when they refered to someone as "a black man." I had to teach them how to describe people and use color as an absolute last resort.
Sam @ 26:
While I believe that racially diverse kids will probably have a stronger gene line [hooray for evolution] I agree that 'eventually we'll all be homogeneous and it won't matter' is not a solution.
We need to try and remove this blight from our species.
What difference does it make where we come from our what we look or sound like or what gender we are? We're all human. We're all mammals. We're all the same on the inside. Same number of ribs and everything, fundies I'm looking at you.
We have got to learn to understand that different doesn't mean 'bad'. I think we can do it. Maybe someday we'll successfully breed the fear of the "other" out of ourselves. Maybe.
george @ 28:
If you think that's all there is to ending racism, you're incredibly naive.
pick any negative "-ism" and the reich will use it. there is nothing they will not exploit. as long as there are people, some of them will be stupid. some are too stupid to eat a pretzel, and they get ahead because other stupids will identify.
OxyCon @ 29:
If you think by using the name Malcom X you have dug into the fear Psyche's of the whites reading this thread your wrong. Nice try though, you should try H. Rap Brown, or Angla Davis. So many scary people of color. Malcom X was a great leader and hero of his time and projected the feelings and problems of his time.
@23
I have to agree. I just can't bring myself to listen. Just can't.
OxyCon @ 29:
Hey genius, don't be intellectually dishonest. Not everything Malcolm X said in that speech was racist. Furthermore during that time in the 1960's, this nation was deeply racist and segregated. Before he was assassinated by renowned bigot J. Edgar Hoover, Malcolm X had changed from many of his racist views. People like you just pick and choose to frame your arguments.
You nailed it, Fade. To many conservatives, "an end to racism" means "an end to people talking about racism."
Oy - why, why, oh why, does anyone give any weight to what a non-remorseful, not interested in recovery, prescription pain-pill junkie says?
Poor Rush - he sounded disappointed at the caller's answer. Could it be he hopes to see an end to racism some day?...
... mmm... nahhh...
Na Go Hah
WHen these people die off. That will end it. Their popularity is clearing waning at a fast clip, but as long as knuckle-draggers have a mouthpiece(s) it will continue to some extent. We just have to yell back longer and louder.
Like this is a surprise to anyone with half a brain?
Jeez. Wake up, Hope-sters.
The worst is yet to come.
I don't have time to read all the comments, so forgive me if someone linked to this already. But as of two years ago, it was easier to get a job as an ex-convict than as a black man.
So I guess my point is, if you want to talk about the possiblity that racism no longer exists in this country, kindly shut your pie hole, cause you are not paying attention.
Robinwood @ 1:
Um... nice seeding of your business model. Oldest trick in the book. Please knock this shit off as I (and probably others) do not like being played for suckers or idiots who will fall for this.
Racism starts at home. Kids grow up with what they perceive as role models. If a child's role model happens to spout racist slurs here and there at home, you can expect that child growing up to be a racist/bigot. Since you can't change humans (parents) overnight, it's up to schools and afternoon programs to educate the next generation.
The media plays a major role in this as well. When kids grow up seeing that the janitor in their favorite TV show is always a black or a Hispanic man, then they'll grow up believing stereotypes. Drug dealers and pimps are another bag example. Hollywood used to do this with Middle Easterners before 9/11. Whenever a Middle Easterner was seen on the screen, he/she was either a sheep herder, camel jockey or a terrorist.
The influence of parents, educators and the media goes hand in hand. If kids can't find role models at home, they can at least, find better examples at school or on TV.
RayC @ 36:
And, before he was assassinated, he wasn't a hatemonger anymore, he went to Mecca, and saw Muslims of all colors, and backgrounds, and truly shook him to the core. Malcolm X has been misunderstood by alot of people. White and black.
Scy @ 42:
Sorry but that's what I thought when I was 18 and now 40 years later things have changed but I wouldn't count on the racist dieing off and solving the problem.
economic equality is the surest way to improve race relations.
FYI: when speaking of a concept, se usa the article. "El Racismo"
why doesn't limpballs exchanged that cigar for the real cheney's dick?
it would look more natural.....now would it not?
It would be a day of celebration for me if one morning I woke up and the headlines read "Limbaugh found dead of heart attack due to drug overdosage". I am serious. This man does nothing but spew hate. It isn't about party lines anymore, it is about an evil person inflicting evil thoughts on the world.
I know one thing: racism will lose one of its vessels of propagation when Rush Limbaugh drops dead. So there's one thing we can look forward to.
Racism is perpetuated by fear and ignorance. You would have to wipe out ignorance first. good luck with that.
Knowing Rush's track record and the hatred he helps spread on the airwaves, it seems to me he was actually trying to tell African Americans that "your continued whining about racism in this country, even in this day and age, is unfounded, see, the president himself is black".
To me, that's what limpbrain was driving at. I've heard similar rhetoric from quiet a few racists who turn the tables on African Americans and claim that if they want to be treated well and with respect they need to stop going on welfare when they are, in fact, capable of working....etc. It's the same excuses over and over. Blame the victim is the name of their game and dismiss ill will and wrong doing on the part of the aggressor.
Every election seems to become about repubs being against flag burning, presumably because they're wrapped up in it. And with Bob Dole as spokeman for Viagra, and rash limpball's taking boner pills to go on pedophilic sex vacations, can we say repubs have a flagging libido?
this boob goes on and on about "exellence in broadcasting" but everytime i hear him he's gonking the mic, or rustling papers, pounding on his desk, or chocking over his own jowels. how can anyone tollerate listening to that? its like eating with someone who chews with their mouth open and slurps their soup like a dog. no offense to dogs
It will take another 3 generations....at minimum
But the future is bright....if you ask most kids under the age of 21 today....
they don't share the hatred of the right wingnuts, the disgust that there are actually people that don't want to be like them....
Take a look at the youth campaigns for Obama...if that doesn't tell you where racism is headed....its going to the exact same place as con-servatism....dodo bird land
Anthony_8 @ 54:
absolutely correct.
And that 'change' is what scares them the most....
Con-servatives are just standing in the ocean kicking at waves...
Rush Limbaugh said something mildly hurtful? That is so important... again.
Does anyone else think that this may be the next step in the conservative arguments. We elect a black man, so there must be no more racism. Now we can get rid of all affirmative action policies, etc. Obviously, its hard to buy that there is no more racism when O'Reilly goes and refers to lynching when speaking of Michelle Obama. But I think if Obama is elected, conservatives will say everything is all better and start cutting back on a lot fo social programs
“'What will it take to end Rascism?”
How about Rush shutting his mouth!'"
Thank you.
That being said, he sounded incredibly naive about how bad the disease knwon as racism is in this country.
Maybe when the dinosaurs like Limbaugh are extinct. Or at least when people like Limbaugh (et. al) quit whipping up their listeners into a hateful frenzy (including making fun of Parkinson's Disease patients-a sore spot for me because my father had Parkinson's and it is not funny) and actually express intelligent discussion of issues.
The Smiths - Expose the Crooks @ 21:
Even conservatives are calling Rush and Hannity FUBAR's LOL
RayC @ 13:
then you can explain
-katrina aftermath
-jena, miss.
-cop shot in westchester, ny
-and why I got stopped on the way to church
Sam @ 61:
that 'cutting back' has been going on since noxin. it's not new. look at the last seven years, better yet, this last busch budget.
The problem with ending racism is that humans, by nature, have authoritarian and xenophobic trends. There will always be people who find some excuse for xenophobia, whether skin color, writing hand, sexual orientation, hair color and eye color, political ideology, or what have you. The easiest way to end racism, I suppose would be either a manufactured or real equivalent-level alien strike, cuz otherwise humans gonna hate and kill each other world without end, Amen.
Sucks, but them's the breaks.
He was so flustered that the caller didn't say "yes" and agree with him.
Poor widdle Rushball, it was good he recovered as quickly as he did, his tiny conservative head may have exploded
/snark
Snerdley @ 7:
I thought Bo left him years ago and he's now on his third or fourth Snerdly
What will it take to end racism?
(1) Improved education. (2) An end to religion.
The bullshit belief that people were just plunked on the Earth by a "god" is what enabled some to say, "We're superior to them," or "We're human, they're less than or half human."
Just take a look at the history or racism and slavery. The anti-slavery side was a mixed bag of christians, jews, atheists, etc. The pro-slavery side was 100% christian. The same goes for racism: those who rabidly and ardently believe in religion are the largest numbers of the KKK and other white supremacist groups, atheism and judaism (among others) are almost non-existent. You can't believe this crap without christian creationism polluting your thinking.
Personally, I think part of the desire by the reichwing to destroy science education is a strategy to bring back racism. You can't claim non-whites are "inferior" if you are forced to face the science and admit that all humans are descended from Africa and blacks.
As it turns out, blacks are genetically superior in some ways (with fewer genetic defects, probably due to "bottlenecks" that led to inbreeding in non-blacks after leaving Africa) as the results of worldwide DNA testing have recently shown. So much for the "three fifths of a white man" nonsense.
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2039522120080220?sp=true
As my Great Aunt use to say, "there is something definitely "wrong" with that man".
Fade @ 24:
And there you have it. The only thing that Limpballs can see as a positive part of Obama winning, is that he'll get to make fun of a black man for 8 years. Maybe he and Bill O'Liely will get out their lynching party noose and go on tour together.
The fact that this plug of shit and sub humans like O'Liley are allowed on radios across America proves that we have a long way to go to eradicate racism.
Racism will be gone when we don't have to ask the question, Is it gone?. It will be obvious, there will be no fanfare. It will just simply be a thing of the past. Like Limpballs.
racism will not leave this world untill ignorance is eradicated,and ignorance wont be eradicated until poverty is eradicated,and poverty wont be eradicated for s long as we retain and believe in the right to acquire and maintain unlimited wealth.only where there is poverty can there be cheap labour,and where there is cheap labour there racism will grow...etc.and let everybody wake up to the fact that racism is not alone the white mans province!the idea that one group of people is inferior to another group of people is as old as civilization,as old as culture,as old as religion,as old as wealth and power.the conquorer is always superior,the conquored always inferior... racism will not disappear until the ability to be superior disappears.
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