Desperado sent me this gem from Media Matters:
So... race relations were fine until people started "making it about slavery?"
Was he educated in Texas or South Carolina or something?
I almost feel like I'm insulting my readers if I give you a detailed list of the pre-civil-war race clashes. Of the free blacks that were captured, sold to slavery, beaten, children ripped from them and sold, and on and on and on. These human rights atrocities were absolutely the darkest days America has EVER faced, and to try to spin and justify in this manner is just .. I'm sorry, I can't come up with a word to express what it is. I shouldn't HAVE to analyze why this is wrong.
If one set of papers from pre-civil war times prove that there was racial unity in slave-ridden America then I've got pre-Columbus writings to prove that the earth is flat. You find proof of one church that wasn't segregated it means that all race relations were hunky dory? I know of at least one Muslim mosque that denounces terrorism - so, Glenn, does that mean we can now bring home the troops?
When Beck talks of the black soldiers that died of the revolution and were honored as soldiers and not as black men or white men does he even CONSIDER that those may have been slaves sent to their deaths by men who didn't want to risk their OWN lives (aka that Dick Cheney?)
Beck is saying that if the slaves hadn't been uppity and demanded to be freed and treated as equal human beings that we wouldn't have had such a history of race issues.
If only they'd known their place.
Time for Fox News and Premier Radio Networks to show Beck his place. And it isn't on the air.
The airways are polluted with nuts like Beck. Black people, I can assert, have never taken to the streets to attempt to take anything over, back or because of. We have for the most part tried to succeed according to the rules of the minute. There is only one reason the Becks of the air feel that they can all of a sudden blast their openly racist statements ---they know that there is a substantial percentage of their listeners who hate having a black family in the White House and no matter who it hurts the Becks and Limbaughs will feed that base all the way to the bank. If or when their followers become ugly or violent {teapartiers vs John Lewis}, Beck and Limbaugh will keep going and not miss a beat with their lying, distortions, and hate-based rants. Great article AstrosGirlKel.
Why sure, relations between the races was great prior to the Civil War...Perhaps some of you have read this pleasant story, told in the form of a law case, before...
Beck is backhandedly jumping on the Rand Paul bandwagon - let's get back to the good ol' days before the 14th amendment...all the brown men and all the black men can't become citizens and, of course, women and children are chattle....ah, the GOOD OL' DAYS...
(Chief Justice Taney for the Court ruled that United States citizenship was enjoyed by two classes of individuals: (1) white persons born in the United States as descendants of "persons, who were at the time of the adoption of the Constitution recognized as citizens in the several States and [who] became also citizens of this new political body," the United States of America, and (2) those who, having been "born outside the dominions of the United States," had migrated thereto and been naturalized therein. The States were competent, he continued, to confer state citizenship upon anyone in their midst, but they could not make the recipient of such status a citizen of the United States. The "Negro," or "African race," according to the Chief Justice, was ineligible to attain United States citizenship, either from a State or by virtue of birth in the United States, even as a free man descended from a Negro residing as a free man in one of the States at the date of ratification of the Constitution.)
OK why did my comment post twice? I only hit submit once. I swear I did.
And yet....he has that damn TV show, he has books and even some stupid Christmas movie. From reading about his past antics as a "morning Zoo" DJ on radio (including Houston), I think he's seriously whacko. Not to mention just plain mean.
He's one who makes me want to punch my fist through the TV screen whenever I see him.
And yet....he has that damn TV show, he has books and even some stupid Christmas movie. From reading about his past antics as a "morning Zoo" DJ on radio (including Houston), I think he's seriously whacko. Not to mention just plain mean.
He's one who makes me want to punch my fist through the TV screen whenever I see him.
He should be muzzled, ignored and banished to Antarctica where we can forget about him in perpetuity.
Glenn Beck has been given too much air time and blog time; every time I see him presenting his views the views become more and more extreme, and to be honest, unhinged. There may be people who like him; however, please take a moment and look at how he has become so emotional (at least on camera and on radio) that it should make anyone who views or listens to this stuff take a moment and say to themselves..."if a friend of mine acted like this, what would I think or do???"
Beck illustrates the poisonous loop that language in {higher} animals can cause. The intellect becomes black with revolving conspiracy theories backed up by impeccable reasoning so powerful as to be intoxicating anew. There is no way out of the loop short of mental breakdown.
He is, and will remain truly insane.
Jeez. Every time I start to believe that we, as humans - not to mention as Americans - are making some damn progress in how we treat our fellow man, or making some progress in believing that all men really are created equal, then some jackass idiot such as Beck throws my beliefs into the crapper again. And I start to lose faith in my fellow man.
I hate him. I absolutely despise him.
God, does that make me as bad as he is?
He is a worthless piece of shit and how people can believe his bullshit is beyond me.