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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Black people don't know about the struggles of whites." Please come CAPTION Bill O'Reilly!!!
Bill ("Why aren't you bagging groceries?" O'Reilly is saying: "Your average African American couldn't care less about my struggles going up. . . . They just want to call me a racist and blame everything on me. . . . But I'm the farthest thing from a racist. . . . Did I force black women to have babies out of wedlock? . . . Did I make their sons join gangs and kill innocent people in drive-by shootings? . . . Did I tell black men to abandon their families, rip people off with armed robberies and car-jackings, and then waste all their money on gambling and drugs? . . . . Of course I didn't. . . . I don't have a racist bone in my body!"
edhopper
(33,615 posts)after spouting a racist rant like that.
But he is right, black people don't know my struggles of getting into a good college, or passing a Co-op board.
I have to fly economy and can't afford 4 star restaurants.
It's tough.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)but we often try to capture our subject's essence for satiric purposes. (Like an SNL skit.)
But this joker has said snippets of these things for years, as evidenced here:
https://mediamatters.org/research/2017/03/28/bill-o-reilly-s-history-racism/215845
but it does sound so accurate.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)the subject linguistic tics &c.
But you're right with O'Reilly. Much of what I had him say were made up of snippets of whtat he actually did say (see clip at above link).
It's getting damned hard to satirize these *ssholes.
metroins
(2,550 posts)Or fly other than economy?
I understand that you might not, but I don't think it's fair fyi say others don't.
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)Sometimes I'm so sad that I deliberately break my taillight just so a police officer will pull me over and chat with me. Often I'll delightfully surprise him by showing off all the unregistered guns I have in my glovebox. Oh the jubilation we partake. We'll round things off by roasting a bone together (i have several pounds in the passenger seat) and maybe popping an oxy or two (non-prescribed) while we complain about immigrants bringing too much guns, drugs, and crime.
Do I get a ticket you ask? Huh? What's a ticket?
Jonny Appleseed
(960 posts)I remember all those people figuratively lynched. Those women figuratively burned at the stake. Those native peoples figuratively pariahed and exiled.
It would be tragic if it wasn't so figurative
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)bhusar
(131 posts)Just by all the things you said black people did. You posted stereotypical bull shit. That makes you a racist.
skip fox
(19,359 posts)See post #2.
Dumbass me. Lol
nini
(16,672 posts)AND the fox viewers eat it up.
underpants
(182,877 posts)Johonny
(20,888 posts)It's a fact. Look, when a woman has James Brown hair I'm going to say it. That's just a fact. Facts matter here on my show. They might not matter with those racists on other shows, but here in the no spin zone they matter. Racists only hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see. I see exactly what is real and I tell my audience exactly what they want to hear. That's completely different than what a racist would do. I know, we know, we all know, some people say I'm being persecuted only because I'm white. I think we know that's true. If a black man who looks like a crack dealer after asking for some mother fucking ice tea said she had James Brown hair and this hair completely invalidated any point she tried to articulate then the liberals would hail it as free speech. It's only the white man that can't ignore black woman. Everyone else can in the liberal's cracked world view. It's only the white man that has calls to be fired for speaking the truth. Well, let them call. I'm about freedom and the truth and so I'll never back down. Until white men are free to air their thoughts on television this country will never be free. Remember that, and remember this, I will be heard.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)They should get out of the way so that rich, aging, bigoted white assholes can finally catch a break.
LakeVermilion
(1,044 posts)and assuming that the apology will be accepted.
Orrex
(63,224 posts)It's clear that he was ordered to give a mea culpa, but who believes he actually regrets his statement or will reflect upon his racist attitudes?
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)skip fox
(19,359 posts)Nonhlanhla
(2,074 posts)skip fox
(19,359 posts)"And I'm the one who is really the victim here!"
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)I will be donating all the brown M&Ms I've picked out over the years to the Black Caucus.
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)What fucking "struggles"? Growing up in an all white community (Levittown) in the 1950s, going to parochial school and attending private universities? Cry me a fucking river.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)my ex, his dad worked with Bill O's dad in New York, even attended his funeral - says Bill Sr was a supervisor, and a big bully (imagine that)
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Thus arrogance disguising low self esteem. Sound like anyone else we know?
Skittles
(153,193 posts)Warpy
(111,339 posts)C'mon, you know he's said this at least once.
latinaliberal
(102 posts)I have met all of Bill's black friends.
What an asshole!!!
FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)(Louis CK)
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Seems like he has a bit of racist going on there if he can't understand how the system has been stacked against the black people to the benefit of white people for so long... mostly white dudes like himself. He wouldn't be making bitchy statement like this if he understood that.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)they weren't because he was white.
The struggle white people have because of their skin color is the
HIGH COST OF SUNSCREEN!
Skittles
(153,193 posts)seriously
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)and sick