IN case you are too young to recognize the above title, it refers to a book written after, and about, the JFK assassination (in which the murder was attributed to every conservative who ever lived, beginning with McKinley). I (pre)judged such silliness to be relevant to my topic. Recently the radio host Rush Limbaugh was rejected as a potential part owner of a (allegedly) professional football team. One reason seems to be that he is a “racist.”
Michael Wilbon is a sports writer, and is Black. He attacked Rush with some specific negative attributions, and then properly withdrew them, when Rush denied having said them. In being interviewed on the subject Michael then added the following. “Universally”---he used this word three times in a short interview!---Blacks consider Rush to be a racist.
I am not concerned here whether Rush is a racist. The term itself is so vague as to be useless. However, I am interested that a self-appointed Black spokesman feels that he can speak for EVERY Black person in the entire USA. How interesting! I was under the impression that Blacks, as are all humans, actually have various opinions, evaluations and reactions. I thought that to consider all of them to be stereotyped by a only one viewpoint was to judge an entire people by the skin color, and not by personality, experiences and individual characteristics.
But then Blacks do have a universal tendency to do this, don’t they?
If you wish to be universally correct
in your opinions, evaluations and reactions (for they will be mine) then
subscribe to the A&E.
It seems to me that all the negative vibes this blowhard (Rush Hudson Limbaugh A.KA. Jeff Christie) has been spewing over these many years has come back to blow back on his face (A classic “Blow Back”). He always tries to give off the airs that he can have anything he wants but as we all witness those with more money and more influence tossed him aside like sack of potatoes and the ultimate insult was that it was done in public (money don’t buy you everything butterball).
Now of course he blames everyone else (Michael J. Fox, Perez Hilton, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Olympia Snowe, ESPN, NFL, the media, basically people of color, the handicapped, women and gays) when of course all you have to do is listen to his show and plainly hear his daily prejudices filled sermons. So NFL, I salute you decision, job well done. And to the whaling cry baby perched on his self made pedestal, quit your whining it was your own fault. You are reaping what he has sowed, KARMA, "Palin and simple" like his followers. Don’t we all feel better?
http://www.chasingevil.org/2009/10/rush-limbaugh-in-his-own-words.html
Posted by: Paul | October 20, 2009 at 12:00 PM
The story here isn't really about Rush - it's the blatant racism of the "anti-racists".
Posted by: Citizenfitz | October 21, 2009 at 11:34 PM