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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI’m Black and I Want More “Stuff” and “Things”: An Open Letter to Bill O’Reilly by Jesse Hagopian
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/11/10Dear Mr. Bill OReilly,
On election night, as it became increasingly clear that Mitt Romney was going to lose the election to Barack Obama, I watched Fox News host Megyn Kelly ask you, How do you think we got to this point?
You responded by saying,
'Because its a changing country. The demographics are changing. Its not a traditional America anymore and there are 50 percent of the voting public who want stuff, they want things. And who is going to give them things? President Obama. The white establishment is now the minority. And the voters many of them feel that this economic system is stacked against them and they want stuff. Youre going to see a tremendous Hispanic vote for President Obama, overwhelming Black vote for President Obama and women will probably break President Obamas way. People feel that they are entitled to things. And which candidate between the two is going to give them things?'
It is my hope that a great artist takes brush to canvas to capture the contours of your furrowed brow when you uttered the words, Its not a traditional America anymore. It was a look of depraved beauty that made my heart sing. Watching you, Mr. OReilly, before a national audience, realize that all of your racist lies and hatred could not change the fact that people of color exist and will not be bowed by your insane denunciations, was an inspiration to me and millions of others.
Yet, on one account, OReilly, you are utterly correct: Black people definitely do want stuff and things as you so eloquently put it. And I am one of them. To very loosely paraphrase the rap crooner of the West Coast, Warren G: I want it all, money, fast public transportation, fully funded public schools, Medicare for all, Social Security, an end to all wars, and every damn thang.
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I’m Black and I Want More “Stuff” and “Things”: An Open Letter to Bill O’Reilly by Jesse Hagopian (Original Post)
xchrom
Nov 2012
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kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)1. I want what you want!
LeftofObama
(4,243 posts)2. Add me
to that list!
Chiquitita
(752 posts)3. "people of color exist and will not be bowed by your insane denunciations"
This inspires me with so much hope!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)4. I want every American to have at least enough education to understand how tides work.
Iris
(15,661 posts)5. Excellent! And it occurs to me that somehow O'Reilly and his ilk are shocked and appalled that
the masses may actually want to have the "stuff" and "things" that white men think they are simply entitled to.
A memory that sticks out in my mind is a woman I worked with in South GA who spoke in disgust about how when the government started giving assistance to the "black folks" in her rural community, they quit working as maids for her family and the other white families. So, basically, she was against welfare programs because they took away her family's cheap source of labor.