The Racist Truth About Beck and Limbaugh

http://www.truthout.org/092409I

by: Joe Conason, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

With admirable calm, President Obama has sought to deflect the supercharged politics of race by expressing his optimism about American attitudes and ignoring the most extreme statements by his critics. For his own sake, as well as the nation's, he is wise to give a pass to the likes of Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. That is not, however, what they deserve.

The behavior of those media provocateurs over the past few months is almost beyond parody. They call the president a racist, even though there is no evidence of prejudice on his part and much evidence to the contrary. They demand that nobody should ever point out racial prejudice, but spend hours on the airwaves making false claims of bias against whites. And they whine constantly about being called racists, even though the president has never made that accusation against them.

If a guy is 1/2 white and 1/2 african , would he be racist if he hated his Mother or his Father because of the color of their skin?
What if he hated both equally, or what if he loved both equally? What is it exactly the Rush and Beck are saying? And should we care?

I've seen some You Tube video put out by people who are supposedly American Indian going on rants about the "white man". These are invariably people traveling under almost cartoonish names which are invariably not their birth names. And yet, they are sincere; they sincerely think of themselves as American Indian even if no one including an anthropologist with an MD would identify them as such.

on which one he hated more.