Posted by
flagwaver on Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:17:13 AM
I didn’t want to write about this, but something that I saw on television just set me off. I was watching the July 16
th edition of The O’Reilly Factor where guest host Monica Crowley was interviewing Kevin Jackson and Ellis Henican about the NAACP smear of the Tea Party as racist. I had just tuned in, and had missed most of the segment, but what I saw and heard set me off like a Roman candle.
Full disclosure: I cannot stand the sight of Ellis Henican. He reminds me of a lab rat, with his white hair, whiny vice, too little for his face mouth, and his constantly leaving his mouth open after he finishes speaking. Just the sight of him irritates me to no end, so I usually avoid seeing him whenever I can. That said, I would have had the same reaction if it had been Bob Beckel, Kirsten Powers, or any of the other good liberals that Fox News employs as contributors in an effort to give balanced coverage to their opinion programs.
What set me off was an exchange where that rat-faced b@stard Henican so graciously tells Mr. Jackson, who writes The Blacksphere blog (found in my blog roll), that he and any other conservative black people have “every right to his conservative views”, but that he (and I apparently) are outside of the mainstream of black America. As if Ellis Henican knows what black folks think, respect, and value because so many of them vote against their interests by supporting the Democratic Party!
Well thank you Mr. Charlie! See, us po’ nigra folk sho’ do need you to tells us that we can have our opinions! An’ you not even givin’ them to us! Why, Massa Henican sho’ is a good massa, to be lettin’ us think for ourself some a da’ time! Why, Massa Henican and his kin even gives us thangs like dat affirmative action to help us out, an’ tells us what it really means to be black dese days, a’ even tells us what leaders we ‘posed to follow…like Rev. Jessie an’ Rev’run Al! Why, thankee, thankee, thankee ‘cuz us po’ nigras ain’t got sense enuf to figure dat out on our own! Why, where would we po’ nigras be wif’out our beloved liberal massas?
I wonder if that is the reaction that Henican and so many other white liberals actually want to hear when they presume to speak for blacks? It damned sure feels like it, even if it’s not!
I am so sick to damned death of white liberals acting as if they know what’s best for blacks, or any other minority group. They act as if taking some damned multiculturalism seminar gives them insight to who a whole ethnic group is, how it thinks, and how it will behave. What they never stop to think about is that I am not an ethnic group member; I am a man who thinks for himself…as are the other “group members.” What seeing us as members of a group allows for liberals to do is discount us as people, while pretending to care about us. But that care is but an abstraction, which allows the white liberal to feel good about himself, while never having to have any real meaningful relationships with any blacks at all, and especially with those who have strayed off the plantation.
Sorry about the rant, but I just had to get that off my chest!