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skip fox

(19,359 posts)
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:31 AM Mar 2017

"Black people don't know about the struggles of whites." Please come CAPTION Bill O'Reilly!!!



Bill ("Why aren't you bagging groceries?&quot 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!"
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"Black people don't know about the struggles of whites." Please come CAPTION Bill O'Reilly!!! (Original Post) skip fox Mar 2017 OP
You can't really say you don't have a racist bone edhopper Mar 2017 #1
CAUTION. . . . CAPTIONing at DU is a creative sport, skip fox Mar 2017 #2
Got it edhopper Mar 2017 #14
Part of the game is to channel skip fox Mar 2017 #16
+1 dalton99a Mar 2017 #4
Black people don't go to good colleges metroins Mar 2017 #5
Being called racist really hurts me feelings Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #6
Figurative witch hunts are so dangerous Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #3
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen. Xipe Totec Mar 2017 #7
You are a racist bhusar Mar 2017 #8
CAUTION. . . . CAPTIONing at DU is a creative sport, skip fox Mar 2017 #10
Ah got it bhusar Mar 2017 #21
I'm not racist.. I just say racist crap all the time nini Mar 2017 #9
I mean come on! Look at my history with rappers alone. underpants Mar 2017 #11
when I see a black woman speak, I don't hear her because of her hair. That's no racist. Johonny Mar 2017 #12
Yes, black people have had it too easy for too long Orrex Mar 2017 #13
White privilege means not thinking before you speak... LakeVermilion Mar 2017 #18
Truth. And his shit-eating smirk of an "apology" was business as usual Orrex Mar 2017 #19
I could post a wicked caption...but I'd falafel about it pinboy3niner Mar 2017 #15
After that one you should feel so terrible you'd burn your keyboard! skip fox Mar 2017 #17
Here's some musical accompaniment for O'Reilly's sads Nonhlanhla Mar 2017 #20
B.O. is saying: skip fox Mar 2017 #22
To prove I'm not a racist ProudLib72 Mar 2017 #23
"Yesterday I ate an orange. Does that mean I hate Donald Trump? NO!" randome Mar 2017 #24
His struggles? TexasBushwhacker Mar 2017 #25
he really is full of it Skittles Mar 2017 #32
Probably a bully with Bill Jr TexasBushwhacker Mar 2017 #34
of that I have zero doubt Skittles Mar 2017 #36
"I'm not black but I know JUST how they feel! And they're WRONG!" Warpy Mar 2017 #26
Really latinaliberal Mar 2017 #27
White people have had to suffer - for example, imagine how tough it was losing their slaves! FreepFryer Mar 2017 #28
You have no idea of the struggles of having to settle multiple lawsuits for sexual harassment. chelsea0011 Mar 2017 #29
Average white American couldn't care less about his struggles too. Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2017 #30
And even if he had struggles TexasBushwhacker Mar 2017 #35
conservative white men are the biggest snowflakes ever Skittles Mar 2017 #31
It's so hard to comprehend that there are people who think like that it's just so bizarre , hateful, luvMIdog Mar 2017 #33

edhopper

(33,615 posts)
1. You can't really say you don't have a racist bone
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:36 AM
Mar 2017

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)
2. CAUTION. . . . CAPTIONing at DU is a creative sport,
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:42 AM
Mar 2017

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



skip fox

(19,359 posts)
16. Part of the game is to channel
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 11:20 AM
Mar 2017

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)
5. Black people don't go to good colleges
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:52 AM
Mar 2017

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)
6. Being called racist really hurts me feelings
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:55 AM
Mar 2017

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)
3. Figurative witch hunts are so dangerous
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 09:46 AM
Mar 2017

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

bhusar

(131 posts)
8. You are a racist
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 10:08 AM
Mar 2017

Just by all the things you said black people did. You posted stereotypical bull shit. That makes you a racist.

Johonny

(20,888 posts)
12. when I see a black woman speak, I don't hear her because of her hair. That's no racist.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 10:55 AM
Mar 2017

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)
13. Yes, black people have had it too easy for too long
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 11:01 AM
Mar 2017

They should get out of the way so that rich, aging, bigoted white assholes can finally catch a break.

LakeVermilion

(1,044 posts)
18. White privilege means not thinking before you speak...
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 11:39 AM
Mar 2017

and assuming that the apology will be accepted.

Orrex

(63,224 posts)
19. Truth. And his shit-eating smirk of an "apology" was business as usual
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 11:46 AM
Mar 2017

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?

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
23. To prove I'm not a racist
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:02 PM
Mar 2017

I will be donating all the brown M&Ms I've picked out over the years to the Black Caucus.

 

randome

(34,845 posts)
24. "Yesterday I ate an orange. Does that mean I hate Donald Trump? NO!"
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:06 PM
Mar 2017

[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)
25. His struggles?
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:14 PM
Mar 2017

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)
32. he really is full of it
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:31 PM
Mar 2017

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)
34. Probably a bully with Bill Jr
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 06:31 PM
Mar 2017

Thus arrogance disguising low self esteem. Sound like anyone else we know?

Warpy

(111,339 posts)
26. "I'm not black but I know JUST how they feel! And they're WRONG!"
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:16 PM
Mar 2017

C'mon, you know he's said this at least once.

FreepFryer

(7,077 posts)
28. White people have had to suffer - for example, imagine how tough it was losing their slaves!
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:28 PM
Mar 2017

(Louis CK)

Zing Zing Zingbah

(6,496 posts)
30. Average white American couldn't care less about his struggles too.
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:21 PM
Mar 2017

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)
35. And even if he had struggles
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 06:34 PM
Mar 2017

they weren't because he was white.

The struggle white people have because of their skin color is the

HIGH COST OF SUNSCREEN!

luvMIdog

(2,533 posts)
33. It's so hard to comprehend that there are people who think like that it's just so bizarre , hateful,
Thu Mar 30, 2017, 05:32 PM
Mar 2017

and sick

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