In a September 28 article on Time.com entitled, "What Bill O'Reilly Really Told Me," Fox News contributor Juan Williams explained the context of his conversation with O'Reilly that found itself fodder for context-mangling by liberal interest groups and O'Reilly's perpetual ratings victim, Keith Olbermann:
So, O'Reilly says to me that the reality to black life is very different from the lowlife behavior glorified by the rappers. He told me he was at a restaurant in Harlem recently and there was no one shouting profanity, no one threatening people. Then he mentioned going to an Anita Baker concert with an audience that was half black, and in sharp contrast to the corrosive images on TV, well dressed and well behaved.
I joked with O'Reilly that for him, a guy from Long Island, a visit to Harlem was like a "foreign trip." That's when he brought up his grandma. He said she was prejudiced against black people because she knew no flesh-and-blood black folks but only the one-dimensional TV coverage of black criminals shooting each other and the rappers and comedians glorifying "gangsta" life and thug cool. He criticized his grandmother as irrational for being afraid of people she really did not know.
I defended his grandma.
After watching all those racist, minstrel images of black people, I argued, she is right to buy into stereotypes of blacks as ignorant, oversexed and violent. And I said while I worried about his grandma having racist images justified in her mind I had bigger worries.
The most pernicious damage being done by the twisted presentation of black life in pop culture is the self-destructive message being beamed into young, vulnerable black brains. Young black people, searching for affirmation of their racial identity, are minute by minute being sold on the cheap idea that they are authentically black only if they imitate the violent, threatening attitude of the rappers and use the gutter language coming from the minstrels on TV.
Williams noted in his column's lede that he has been derided by critics as playing the "Happy Negro" by defending O'Reilly. You can see our related item on that smear of Williams here (post includes video).
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Not Brown Paper Bag Enough
September 30, 2007 - 02:35 ET by Lame CherryI pondered how to start this comment without leading into the same old fray, but it doesn't matter if one has black friends, listens to rapper trash talk or has black people in your family..........it only matters to those people judging others by the black enough, Indian enough, Jew enough or whatever enough crowd.
There is a huge propaganda event on PBS these 2 weeks in Ken Burns "War". In watching it I have seen minorities featured like they won the war on their own while other Americans just sat around. It is this kind of stereotyping which is just as bad as the Jack n Jill rich families not letting the "other little black kids play" as what is being stewed up against O'Reilly.
As a credit to Mr. Williams, he is a great example of knowing that people only know from their experience. For all of the stories Ken Burns relates, I have known and known some very well known war heroes who would tell another story of blacks in the military with most of them dealing with "hanging back" while others were allowed to take the fire.
What the purpose of the above is meaning is, the liberals have so cemented the "this is the way it is" dogma that people can not stand around and carry on a conversation because O'Reilly will get the Imus treatment.
Don Imus can not be an old fud.........but yet a black girl can sue the bajesus out of him looking exactly like the term he used.
The sooner this Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton nonsense of "I speak for all blacks" like blacks are all clones stops is the sooner problems can be solved. Blacks can be cowards. They can like chicken and watermelon as much as I do. Blacks can also be the man who found a multitude uses for the peanut and the guy who sits on the Supreme Court in a person liberals hope has a heart attack as black men do.......but I hope Clarence Thomas goes on forever.
All of this nonsense of covering up what is really going on does no one any good. We now have homosexuals calling a sex act a race, but Bill Maher and his clique will not name one pedophile of his gay friends.......as we are all told gays are all faithful, happy and never sleep around......
And that is why Aids is a sort of suicide out for millions of dead miserable gays killing themselves.
I maintain the biggest hate filled people in life are the ones who let others do whatever they can to destroy themselves like liberals or are such cowards that they allow people to dictate to them the use of an N word which blacks use all the time.
No one wants to look at history to realize that the term is from negroid and is British and was used to describe dark Indians of Asia. It graduated to slang where it was used to describe black slaves and after their liberation it defined a class of shiftless, sloven and immoral people in black culture. Somehow discussing all of that is taboo as there is a segment in black society which is using the N word as a control of American culture to cover up the immorality and shiftless nature of a certain group of blacks. They are enablers in hiding these people who only need to be tossed into the military to learn some self respect instead of prisons.
I heard though the same nonsense coming from the GOP candidates at the Smiley debate where one of the space takers was complaining about it being a drug problem and to turn the drug pushers loose. All of this gets big hands, but none of it exposes one thing which is why is it that liberal media execs always portray blacks as Don Imus types instead of some of my favorite people?
The answer is these liberals are all racists and have a distinct dislike as their democratic ancestors did in "those people" competing on the same stage.
These are the people who are lying about Bill O'Reilly and the institutional welfare bigots who are calling Juan Williams a happy negro. There is money to be made in this, power to gain and votes to be purchased by keeping Oprah pealing taters on the porch.
The sooner that blacks like white people start being called sell outs like Colin Powell who owes it all to the Rockefellers and not because he wears a suit and that Clarence Thomas is esteemed the hero he is and that Thomas Sowell and Walt Williams are brilliant minds..........and Cynthia Tucker is just a babe of affirmative action and Oprah was sold to an American market on the terms of the "nanny in Gone with the Wind" for comfortable profit is the sooner that what is wrong can be settled as an American issue and not as a black issue.
The liberals will fight this as this is where they get their power from and it is the weapon they use against people in the right to destroy them, but O'Reilly does need to correct the mistake by speaking out not about Gram........but about the real issue that blacks are just like everyone else and with unique character traits which are stereotypes. It doesn't make it bad or good. It simply makes them a race of people with around 40 different ethnic groupings originating in Africa.
There is a reason Dinka, Zulu, Masai etc... did not end up as slaves in any place in the world. It is because they had organized armies with sharp spears. Other blacks had nations like Uganda and other blacks caught other more primative blacks which Theodore Roosevelt wrote of in his African Game Trails and sold them as slaves to a willing Arab and European market.
America has those blacks in number and they according to Roosevelt benefitted greatly in not becoming lion and crocodile dung. General George Custer in governing in the Texas Mandate of 1866 had to inform blacks then that they had to go back to work and earn a living as the government was not going to take care of them. By 1870 a number of blacks called buffalo soldiers attempted serving in the Indian wars. The 37th regiment was all black.
Some were good, some were cowards and some were fine soldiers.
The reason I typed all of that is that is has to be said. People need to be educated on blacks as Bill Cosby didn't jump out of a box in 1960 starring in Eye Spy. It is all a complicated history with warts and with glory.
None of that though deserves ridicule or hyphenated Americans like when Tony Dungee and Lovie Smith coach football.......fans do not notice black. They notice 2 admirable gentlemen successful in a very tough profession.
.......and for the record, it is not media selling black kids the garbage. Black kids are very bright, skillful, observant and intelligent. They look around and see the stupidity of working for jobs at minimum wage or wasting money in colleges when they can earn thousands selling dope or themselves.
It is not to be celebrated, but it takes a great deal of savy to beat the system and they are beating it in jail and out.
So Mr. Williams can point at media and Mr. Cosby and can point at "who dat", but the fact is black kids are only doing what is human nature in taking the easiest route to profit.
They though are just being jailed for it now when in 1830 patricians from America were dumping opium into China to make fortunes like the Delano family did.......as in Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
One can not expect black kids in poverty places to do the right thing when they are too bright to see working gets you nothing but the IRS stealing all you have and Hillary spending it on others.
America is adult enough to take on these facts, but the cork holders braying racism at every word need to be tapped and the free wine of Truth enter the conversation freely.
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Lame Cherry, you have a completely warped mind
September 30, 2007 - 11:10 ET by RJYou take a trivial smattering of history, a trivial smattering of language, a trivial smattering of current society and mix it all around in some kind of a demonic mental whirl-a-gig and come out with a really odd look at the world.
You say that "The War" features minorities as if they won the war on their own while other Americans just sat around? Huh?
And even if your racist veteran friends are right about seeing blacks "hang back", does that mean that all of them did? Does that mean that no whites hung back? Funny how you later contradict your broad generalities of blacks when you discuss their calvary days.
Too bad you don't give blacks the same credit for being a mix of humanity, like you do later when you talk about gays...."but Bill Maher and his clique will not name one pedophile of his gay friends.......as we are all told gays are all faithful, happy and never sleep around......"
And, oddly, you have no problem with describing one of the Rutgers basketball players as looking like a "ho." Wow.
Because the word "n----" has a traceable history, it's usage should be allowed?
"the stupidity of working for jobs at minimum wage or wasting money in colleges when they can earn thousands selling dope or themselves." Again, wow. According to Lame Cherry's social philosophy, it's understandable that black kids deal drugs....because that's where the money is. Why bother working hard to better yourself? Sort of the Willy Horton philosphy....he said "I rob banks because that's where the money is."
I could go on and on, but that's enough to get the idea. You are one whacked-out dude, Lame Cherry.
Your posts are like watching whacky Mel Brooks movies. Like all good humor, they throw in some underlying truths, but they're not really meant to be taken seriously.
RJ
September 30, 2007 - 11:24 ET byfunny, i was considering posting the question whether or not anyone here bothered to read LC's lame posts anymore? I have been pavlovian trained to ignore cherrys posts (the bell rings: no pellet to the point the bell rings: ignore the bell). I've found that if a point can't be summed up it's usually invalid and the ramble is mere convultion.
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
botg, I'm the same way
September 30, 2007 - 21:25 ET by hydrodynDMbotg,
I'm the same way with LC's posts. And it isn't even a matter of the content - his/her writing style is so convoluted that I have to reread each sentence two or three times to get what they are saying.
I think my eyes would begin to bleed from the effort if I ever made it through a whole post.
RJ, there are a few posters
September 30, 2007 - 11:47 ET by MikeBRJ, there are a few posters here that I just scroll past their posts, and Lame Cherry is one of them. Good call.
One problem, though. It wasn't Willy Horton that said that he robbed banks because that's where the money is, that is attributed to Willie Sutton. There seems to be some doubt that even Willie Sutton said it.
"A communist is someone who reads Marx. An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx." Ronald Reagan
Willie Sutton!
September 30, 2007 - 12:05 ET by RJYou're right, of course! Can't believe I typed that.
As for Lame Cherry's posts, Mike and botg, I scroll past most of them, too, but this NEEDED answering to keep the leftists from attaching NB to his goofball views on race.
Couldn't agree more with all of you.
October 1, 2007 - 10:40 ET by KarmaHis "goofball" views on "Ohioans" in general, also floored me.
More on Lame Cherry's racist post
September 30, 2007 - 20:01 ET by RJI'm watching "The War" right now, and they had a segment about a black soldier named Willie Rushdie (phonetic spelling).
He and his company had been assigned to offloading supplies on a Pacific island being attacked by the US. The entire company of black men volunteered for front line duty, which was granted. Serving on the front line, fifteen men from his company were injured in that battle.
Does this sound like your racist veteran's version of blacks "hanging back", Lame Cherry?
I think you thought you were defending blacks, but you wound up with offensive racism instead. I remain disgusted by your post, and you should be more careful about what you write, Lame Cherry.
Well, Juan "happy Negro"
September 30, 2007 - 07:03 ET by motherbeltWell, Juan "happy Negro" Williams has just torn up his Liberal buddy-club membership card. He is now a "house slave" to "the man."
And he will be ignored.
Careful
September 30, 2007 - 06:53 ET by hs29fanCareful Juan, all Liberal Guns are now being aimed at you. Thankfully you have a job at Fox. You won't get canned
Poor Liberal, he's educated beyond his intelligence.
Oh Well
September 30, 2007 - 07:21 ET by totalkaosdaveTotalKaosDave
Another contextual explanation to be ignored by the left. I believe the left takes these sound bites out of context because they do not have the intellect to understand the context in the first place. True communication, the understanding of contextual meaning of verbal and nonverbal cues are beyond the left.
The Liberal Plantation
September 30, 2007 - 07:52 ET by pocomocoToday, there is a new plantation called liberalism in the country, but this time the slave owners are black.
The overseers of the plantation are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton who see to it that blacks like Juan Williams and Clarence Thomas don’t wander off the reservation lest they be deemed ‘house niggers’, and black children who exceed in school are demonized as being ‘too white’.
Forty years ago, Democrats determined that their political power lay in keeping blacks down, and with the help of turncoats like Jackson and Sharpton and an organization called the NAACP - they have succeeded as 90% of blacks vote Democrat.
Blacks, however, might be thinking twice if, in school, they were taught that it was the Democrats who were doing the hangings in the South, and in the 1960s opposed Civil Rights for blacks.
But with the help of white liberals in academia and in the media, those facts have been quietly washed from history making blacks think the Democrats are as pure as the driven snow.
There is, however, is a new underground railroad being formed with the purpose of allowing blacks to escape the plantation. It takes the form of blacks like Bill Cosby, Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, and Juan Williams who have been, and are, putting out the word that for forty years blacks have been had.
And the fact that these people are being demonized and called names is proof that they are being successful in getting the truth out.
Because the Democrats have so successful in keeping blacks down, once blacks finally realize what has been done to them, the political landscape will be drastically changed to the detriment of the liberal plantation owners, and Jackson and Sharpton will be out of a job.
It's never PC to tell this particular truth, but...
September 30, 2007 - 07:59 ET by sarcasmoBlack slave-owner freemen existed during slavery. They weren't common, but they were there.
JMR
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September 30, 2007 - 08:08 ET by DontFeedTheTrollsWow, Juan must have gotten a dose of common sense. For once I agree with him. Perhaps he has been talking to Bill Cosby.
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September 30, 2007 - 08:17 ET by dahliatraversGood job, Juan.
Well done Juan!
September 30, 2007 - 09:18 ET by c5thenAnother inconnvenient truth comes out that the liberals would rather not hear. It is further confirmation that there are those in the black community that are being used to keep the victim-psychology firmly in place. Hell, there are those in the black community that are the users themselves and have there whole career and legacy based on continuing the "blacks-are-victims" stereotype.
The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Fred08.com
This Is Too Easy
September 30, 2007 - 10:39 ET by Bill W.The answer is in the solution, not in the problem. To the extent they can keep society/people focused on the problem, they keep it alive. School vouchers for black families? "Hell no" the race-baters would say. Equal opportunity employment...so that more capable/qualified people are left out of the process? "Now, that's good" they'd say.
If they keep the problem solely in the mind of the nation, they keep getting donations. Solve it and all that goes away.
If babies stopped having
September 30, 2007 - 11:53 ET by NortonalecIf babies stopped having babies that a lot of problems in the black community would go away. The left did a great job destroying the black family and removing the father from the household.
Nortonalec
Fitting the mold
September 30, 2007 - 12:16 ET by Jerry MackIt is obvious to me that Juan does not fit the "Liberal Media Mold" and must be crushed by them.
As far as I'm concerned, at
September 30, 2007 - 14:07 ET by Sonny LykosAs far as I'm concerned, at 65 and growing up in Chicago, I've come to the conclusion that considering all of the forms of communcation (sources) today, and the fact that 90% of blacks still vote Democrat, they are in large part a very stupid people. Moreso today than ever before. Wait! When did the majority ever vote Republican?
O'Reilly's typical of New York-area people
September 30, 2007 - 14:53 ET by Alfred J. LemireA Media Matters intern blundered in his or her conclusion on what Rush Limbaugh said on his radio program about "phony soldiers." MSNBC blundered worse by representing the intern's notion of what Limbaugh said as what Limbaugh had said. Their error surprised someone who does not respect either organization, since Media Matters provided the transcript, which totally did not support the intern's claim. MSNBC types and a host of opportunistic Democratic politicians eagerly wholesaled the falsification. (Can one salnder a public figure? Probably one can't.) Part of the problem: liberals' prejudices. Many fantasize that to be conservative is to be ignorant or bigoted, and try to make conservative remarks fit their prejudices. Something like that happened with the gross falsification of what Bill O'Reilly had said about blacks.
O’Reilly is a typical guy from the New York area, who has spent a lifetime going to school with, playing with, socializing with, working with, and seeing people of perhaps a hundred ethnic strains; he’s sat at a table with a good slice of those strains on his program. He’s gone to Yankees games, as this Red Sox fan has seen, and likely has cheered for a team with a pretty good mix of ethnicities. The claim of racism against him was absurd, with leftists hearing what they expected or wanted to hear, not what was said. We have lots of serious problems in this world to grapple with and try to resolve or reduce. People do differ on the best way to deal with them. It would be nice to debate those differences. It would be nice to escape the politics of personal destruction that one spotted in the critics’ blundering errors re: O’Reilly and Limbaugh.