Where else but MSNBC?
Michael Eric Dyson: O’Reilly ‘Surprised That Black People Don’t Throw Bananas’ ‘Or Swing From Trees’
Georgetown University Professor Michael Eric Dyson issued a challenge to Fox News Channel host Bill O’Reilly during a Sunday morning appearance with MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry. He said that O’Reilly’s talk about the problems facing the black community lacks a base of empirical knowledge, and he would like to have a real “conversation” about race with the Fox host. Dyson said that O’Reilly was recently “surprised that black people don’t throw bananas at each other or swing from trees” in Harlem, and is not well-positioned to frankly discuss racial issues.
“There is one high-profile white man who is willing to talk about race,” Harris-Perry opened a segment on race relations. She played a clip of O’Reilly talking about what he thought were the problems facing the black community, including the breakdown of the African-American nuclear family.
“Why is it that when we say we want to have a conversation on race, you want to have a conversation on blackness?” Dyson said in reaction to the clip. “You don’t want to have a conversation on white privilege, on conscious bias. You don’t want to talk about the collective world we’ve made black, brown, red, yellow, and white people. You want to lecture black people.”
Dyson and Harris-Perry are doing pretty well for a couple of oppressed minorities living in a racist hell hole.
But wait! There’s more!
Don Lemon has been accused of being some kind of race-traitor because he agreed with Bill O on a few points. Today he went on The Skew to defend himself:
The camera panned over to Lemon for a quick, impromptu interview about the statements he made that have so many people on both sides of the racial divide fired up this week. He explained to the hosts that he was simply trying to give “suggestions” to African-Americans like pulling up their pants and stop saying the “n-word.” Joy Behar responded by asking, “Which part is controversial?”
Lemon didn’t see why what he said caused such a stir, saying, “That’s advice my mother gave me in kindergarten.” He said the pants issue, for example, was just a “symbol of respect,” adding he wasn’t giving advice on how to “end racism” but rather on “self-empowerment” for African-Americans.
Sherri Shepherd hit the nail on the head when she said it was Lemon’s comments involving Bill O’Reilly people really “took umbrage” with. “I don’t want to give Bill O’Reilly license to say anything,” Shepherd said, “because he’s never been a young black man.”
IOW – If you are white then STFU!
But wait! There’s more!
I don’t know where Toure Neblett is today but here’s “Reverend” Al Sharpton and a friend:
Earl Ofari Hutchinson, journalist, radio host, and frequent MSNBC guest, appeared on Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show on Monday where he weighed in on the controversy surrounding Fox News Channel hosts Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity and CNN anchor Don Lemon’s criticisms of some aspects of African-American culture. Hutchinson told guest host Bob Slade that people like O’Reilly and Lemon are “paid,” “professional assassins of African-Americans” and they should be ignored.
And that was Today in Race Baiting.
The Crawdad Hole 
Obama has set race relations back 50 years. 👿
Yeah, but what happens at MSNBC, stays at MSNBC (because nobody watches MSNBC)
True story.
Very true!
Back to the glorious 19th century.
Obama’s set women in Politics back 50 years also. The way he was elected on the “new” progressive strategy of mocking and sexualizing all women who run for office makes me sick.
Ditto.
Yea, his presidency has really be a huge breakthrough for minorities huh? When does he set off for his next privileged summer vacation with all the demonized white blue bloods on Martha’s Vineyard? He cares so much, just like he did as Senator in IL.
honk
Constitutional Scholar:
It’s good to be the king.
Good God. The man is completely out of control.
out of his mind
It’s a small step from there to declaring the ’16 elections to be “delayed”.
The tyranny of lawyers.
There was a decision made that only lawyers were versed enough in the law to become judges, even though no such restriction exists. It’s one of the reasons judges can be elected. While precedent and legal foundation is important to judicial decisions, there are any number of highly qualified law clerks who do research, aside from the fact that judges routinely put the burden on lawyers to cite the relevant legal cases to support their case.
The fact is, lawyers are not smarter than other people. They have a few years of specialized knowledge that culminates in learning to “think like a lawyer.” Barack Obama is an especially bad lawyer, having never practiced any kind of law. Joe Biden graduated near the bottom of his class. Those two should not be interpreting sweeping federal legislation.
A lawyer wrote the Declaration of Independence when doctors were still bleeding people with leeches.
If lawyers like Obama keep getting involved in Obamacare, we’ll be using leeches again.
He sees the cookie jar, he is a lawyer, therefore he may take a cookie, because he understands why it is wrong more than his mother.
Once again: there is NO SUCH THING as a “Constitutional lawyer.” Many, many areas of law deal with the Constitution — criminal law deals with the 4th, 5th, 6th & 8th amendment, for example, but no one calls them “constitutional lawyers” — they are criminal lawyers. Civil rights attorneys are often dealing with the 14th & 15th amendment — which is not the ENTIRE Constitution, so calling civil rights attorneys “Constitutional lawyers” is incorrect as well.
Obama is a fucking fraud & a hack for claiming to be a “Constitutional lawyer.” But that shocks no one here.
That pesky Congress, and the Constitution with it’s annoying checks and balances – what a nuisance.
Ace:
Very true.
Just back from a wonderful 3 day weekend in Austin with my son, daughter-in-law, and 1 1/2 year old granddaugher—fun, fun fun!
But I heard on the radio on the trip back that the CBC’s new idea of “fixing racism” is to pass legislation forbidding ANY business background checks on potential employees applying for jobs, cuz………wait for it……
Background checks discriminate against African Americans.
Can you believe that’s where our country is, now? Sheesh.
I’m going tanning. Stat.
LMAO!
Then there’s goodie……
http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2013/07/congressional-black-caucus-recommends-sheila-jackson-lee-for-homeland-security-secretary/?cmpid=htx
Hey, what could go wrong ? 😛
Might as well. It’s a joke office that does nothing useful.
And that way she can work on her real agenda.
Sherri Shepherd is a racist
And an idiot .
Yup. We “white folks” should just let wealthy Blacks like Sherri Shepherd and Oprah Winfrey pay all the taxes for the free stuff for other Blacks.
We whites should just butt out, ya know, verbally AND financially.
ANd a cheapskate.
She lives in my neighborhood, and recently stiffed a server at Uno’s out of the beverages (and tip) on her bill (diet soda and a big-ass pizza) because “You know who I am, and I’ll come back some other time”. To date, she has not returned.
Or we could look at it this way- If white people have no idea what it’s like to be a black person, then we also have no idea how to solve any of the problems black people face. So their problems are their problems to solve. Which is pretty much what Bill Cosby, Ben Carson, and Don Lemon have said. If we have no idea what it means to be black, then black people have no idea what it’s like to be white. Our problems are our problems to solve as well. If we’re racist, we’ll fix it without their help. And if we’re believe we’re not, then there’s nothing to fix. Because we’re the only ones who know whether we’re racist or not. How could they possibly understand us?
Elitist whites and other races don’t seem to realize there are different classes of whites and that the Elitist class is not warm and friendly toward the whites they consider lower class. In fact the only time elitist whites are inclusive towards all classes of whites is when they are smearing their guilt around. Then they want us to take it on for them so they can lecture at us and wallow in self righteousness.
According to Dyson: Its not black-on-black violence; its “proximity murder”
WTF did he just say??? “Proximity Murder”???!!! Srsly?
Why must we call a spade a digging implement? Oh – I get it……
Proximity murder ? does that mean ” they ” just murder people who live nearby ? Or that they just murder when they live in too close quarters to each other ? Or they just murder when they get close enough to kill ? I am sooooo confused What is the motivation to murder again?
If you get murdered the most likely killer is someone close to you.
That’s why I live alone and have no friends.
Could this be why people avoid “proximity” to certain groups? To avoid proximity means you are less likely to be murdered? Is this what they mean to imply? Do they realize WTF they are saying?
so if go back to segregation it would be safer for white people?
It’s white people’s fault they don’t live close enough to be killed by blacks.
Here’s a funny thread:
http://minx.cc/?post=342063
O’Reilly Strikes Back:
Today in Race Baiting could be a regular column. Plenty of material to keep it going.
Are you a Grammar Nazi?
I got to Level 8 and completed “You Can’t Write Proper English Under Pressure”! Bet you can’t. http://toys.usvsth3m.com/write/
It took me 5 tries to get past Level 1
I had several tries each on the levels past 5 …. some were pretty sneaky !
The spelling levels were easier since it was a single word. I did notice that the higher levels referred back to the earlier levels (e.g, there, their and they’re).
If you click on the floating pictures on the Library Disco screen, it links to the wiki article on that person. The only one I knew without a clue was Samuel Johnson.
But half-way (about level 5 I think) was basically a spelling test, not a grammar test. I had to take that part twice because the first time time expired as I tried to figure out what the “grammar” part was. LOL
She was so glad she could use charges of racism to finally teach racism to her son. Other lessons to consider.
Don’t beat the hell out of people, even if you know they don’t have a gun.
Try exploring the neighborhood during the day, instead of at night in the rain.
Don’t be a junior Walter White.
Again, to whom should I give more credence: Al Sharpton or Dr. Ben Carson?
That depends on your goal.
Lord have mercy — are these a–holes really going to make me have to defend that blowhard O’Reilly?
Fuck me.
Come on, I like O’Reilly, he is a good showman and he covers the news. He sure beats those self righteous lecturers at MSNBC, those guys are unwatchable. I am thrilled to see him take on the racial grievance industry.
I concede that compared to those half-wits on MSNBC, O’Reilly is a genius & very watchable — but that’s not much of a compliment considering my cat’s shit is more intelligent & “watchable” than those idiots on MSNBC.
I know, I know. Almost inconceivable. He sounds damn reasonable in comparison, which shows how low Sharpton et al are willing to go.
Ever since he allowed obama to grab/hold his leg in 08 during what was supposed to be a challenging interview I can’t stomach the man. And his “word of the day” spiel is creepy.
His replaced his “Pinhead or Patriot” segment with his “Tip of the Day” — which are as ridiculous as you’d expect — and that spiel is even creepier than his word of the day one — it’s like he’s trying to be Oprah (which fits, his ego is about as big as her’s).
Colbert Report is a parody of Bill O.
It’s stupid too.
OT — this is hilarious:
http://trilliansthoughts.tumblr.com/post/56379573415/two-churches-located-across-the-street-from-each-other
That was so funny !
“Free dog souls with conversion”
You can’t beat that.
Am I the only one who was shocked and dismayed by the ending of tonight’s episode of The Bachelorette?
The White House reminds me of Pavlov ringing the bell. O’Reilly has set up a competing bell. Now the dogs are running back and forth between the bells and Don Lemon was trampled and bitten. I apologize to any real dogs whom I may have offended.