Crazy Quote of the Day

Posted on 01/07/2010 at 5:43 pm by Bob Cesca

“African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. Ok so you were brought over — either your family was brought over through the slave trade or you were born here and your family emigrated here or whatever but that is not a race.” —Glenn Beck

I always love it when presumptuous assholes tell other people what they should call themselves. For example, I don’t like Glenn Beck. But I also don’t expect him to refer to himself as Mr. Googly-Eyed Escaped Mental Patient With A Punch-Me Face just because that’s what I think he is.

If African Americans prefer to be called African Americans, then so be it.

Oh, and he’s really doing wonders for his reputation as a racist. I guess he’s just daring more advertisers to jump ship.

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  • roxsteady

    Great timing Bob. I just commented on this story over on ThinkProgress:Um, I’m African American and that means that I’m an American who’s ancestors are from Africa. Now, if you’re Irish but, you were born here like us, you might also be described as an Irish American or Italian American. You got that you stupid bastard? White isn’t a race and neither is black. We call those colors.

  • Jonah Barcelona

    am I a troll, or a “Red stater” or should I scurry off to a KKK metting?You guys are complete fucking hypocrites.

  • alopecia

    Ah, Glenn Beck. Just when we think he can’t get any more ridiculous, he proves us wrong.The stupid, it burns.The mind, it boggles.

  • alopecia

    Oh, Jonah Barcelona, do please enlighten us as to the exact nature of our hypocrisy. I do not recall any of the regulars to this site ever insisting that other ethnic groups were calling themselves by the wrong names, so I must confess myself to be puzzled.

  • roxsteady

    Really, fuck off!

  • j.w. johnson

    “am I a troll, or a “Red stater” or should I scurry off to a KKK metting?”If you have to ask, you probably are.

  • SierraDrinker

    Yes you are a troll.You are probably a “Red stater.”If that is how you spend your free time, by all means, don’t the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

  • http://radicalsahm.blogspot.com/ Radical SAHM

    And off the rails it goes…again. Ignore it.

  • Jonah Barcelona

    mother fucking hypocrites. whaaaaa rebublicans whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • roxsteady

    The truths hurts those needle dick, bug fuckers!

  • Casey

    I realize this will be unpopular — but I think Beck was in the ballpark on this one. I think you are correct as well with the statement of “If African Americans prefer to be called African Americans, then so be it.”My opinion is that it is silly for white/Caucasians to call black people “African-Americans” because is assumes too much. There are plenty of black people that live in Britain, Canada, etc. There are plenty of white people that are from Africa. Just because a person is black doesn’t mean they are necessarily African-American. If someone wants to call themselves African-American, that is of course fine.So, the question becomes “If a black man is born in England, and becomes a citizen of the US, should he have to claim to be an African-American even though he is a British-American?”It is for that reason that I say that Beck is actually in the ballpark. If he were a little bit smarter, he would know how to intelligently talk about this subject — but I don’t think anyone has ever confused Beck for a intellectual.

  • Dr. Squid

    am I a troll, or a “Red stater” or should I scurry off to a KKK metting?

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1AghS3sNSk Matt Osborne

    He’s such a beckerhead.

  • caribbeanobserver

    There are so many mixed-up and mixed-in races in 21st century America that I honestly think just American would do!Some feel the need to be definitive as in afro american, asian american, irish american, caribbean american etc.. (you get my drift),insinuating the proud heritage, but the bottom line is that they are AMERICAN born and bred.

  • kansasdem

    Option #1: Jonah blows goats.Option #2: Jonah is a troll.You decide!

  • kansasdem

    rox,I hear you loud and clear. I’m white as the driven snow, largely Norse heritage, but even though some of my ancestors helped with the “Underground Railroad” around Omaha they were all covertly racist!My mom used to spray all kinds of spray stuff after a Hispanic or black person came to our house.Time out for a funny: spell check says I must capitalize Hispanic, but it doesn’t say shit about “black”. Of course it wouldn’t!Not all black people are descended from slaves!Obama is not descended from the American slave trade!I could go on for hours but I’m going to skip to the punch line:America has yet to make up for it’s two greatest genocides; trying to exterminate the American Indian, and then the fucking evil deeds we committed against slaves that were brought here against there will!And much of our most treasured infrastructure was built by slaves! Quite a history to be proud of, eh?

  • EGB

    Beck is just mad that they won’t let him just use the N word anymore.

  • http://politicalpartypooper.wordpress.com/ Political Party Pooper

    Kansasdem,I understand what you are trying to say when you state that America has yet to make up for slavery and how we treated native Americans.At the risk of sounding racist, I think I have to say that we can’t make up for it, ever. Further, we cannot continue to live in the past.As cold as this sounds, the only logical way to move forward is to realize that I am not my great-great grandfather, and that any African American I meet is not a slave living in the mid-nineteenth century. I cannot possibly “make up” for something that occurred so long ago. Nor should anyone reasonably expect me to. I’ve never been a slave owner, and am not guilty of that crime even through relationship.The idea that today’s America somehow owes African Americans anything other than equal opportunity is racist in itself. We have a long way to go in some areas of our country to even reach giving them equal opportunity, but today’s living generations are not responsible for genocide, nor are we responsible for slavery. We are not guilty by association, and we are not guilty of the sins of our fathers.It is this kind of thinking; this idea that America is as guilty today for slavery as we were in our early years, that perpetuates racism.I cannot make up for the sin. I have no way of doing it, and nothing i do would ever be enough. I, and my fellow Americans, amongst all of our sins, do not currently count slave ownership as one of them. Make up for it?How? Why? Are you implying that our generation should somehow pay for it, pay for a crime none of us are guilty of? That would be as egregious as slavery itself.It’s time for a new America; rather than the same old politics and rhetoric of the past. We are all living in difficult times. But to dredge up the past, without ever being able to “make up for it” is a plan to fail. If we look forward, we can build America. If we continue to look back, we will continue to tear America apart brick by bloody brick.

  • http://nanotyrnns.blogspot.com/ Nanotyrannus

    I think one of the most important things that could be done, PPP, is acknowledge the contributions made by African Americans and other races to the building of the country. I think that’s what Beck and his ilk are smarting about. Not the nomenclature, but the very idea of inclusion. When you listen to Beck and Buchanan tell the story of “their America” you find that it was a country built by white Christians, and yeah, the other races were there too but mostly it was us white dudes that did all the real work.I think that’s part of their effort to disempower and disenfranchise anyone not white and not Christian. And if you are of a race that didn’t really work to make this country great, why should they, the beneficent masters, allow others to partake in the reward?

  • trahan

    Hey snowy Kansasdem, where I come from driven snow isn’t very white at all, kinda dark and dirty.

  • kansasdem

    Triple P,You pooped more than a party. Consider your own statement:”today’s living generations are not responsible for genocide, nor are we responsible for slavery. We are not guilty by association, and we are not guilty of the sins of our fathers.”Well IMO we certainly are guilty as long as whites flourish compared to native americans and blacks. How does that look with no CAPS?”If we continue to look back, we will continue to tear America apart brick by bloody brick.”And if we fail to look back we never learn from our mistakes! History and science are our two most valuable tools.

  • http://displib.blogspot.com/ Mark Adams

    “I always love it when presumptuous assholes tell other people what they should call themselves.“That goes for the purists who tell me I can’t call myself a “liberal” if I support the current Senate Health Care Bill with all it’s flaws, wanting something, anything, to pass at this point so we can get on with life and fix it later (which we will) … right.I love it when an axiom like this fits both the left and right.

  • Russell

    Back in 1979, I (a white guy) married Black woman (that’s what she called/calls herself, and that’s the point), and I was fascinated to see the generational differences. Her grandfather preferred to call himself “Colored” (as in the NAACP), her mother preferred “Negro,” she preferred “Black” and all three generations expressed dismay and resentment when they were told they should start calling themselves “African American.” The family was firmly rooted in the MLK movement toward claiming their American birthright and viewed the new term as neo-tribalism grown from the Malcolm X separatist side. Now, I have two Black children who have grown up in a culture that mostly calls Black people “African American,” so that’s the term they use.Noting your point that people should be able to call themselves whatever they like, I point out that my in-laws felt like they were being denied that right and being pressured to express a political and social view that they did not share (Black separatism). And, although the white MSM has largely ignored it, there has been a rather heated debate raging since the early 2000s among Blacks/African-Americans about who should be referred to by that term and why — which means there is no agreement about what “they” wish to be called. In fact the 2010 census form includes “Negro” as one of the choices because when it was left off the 2000 census form, many older people in that category wrote in the word “Negro” for themselves.As one writer put it:So, we will have a name for ourselves – and it should be Black. “Colored” and “Negro” had their good points but carry a whiff of Plessy vs. Ferguson and Bull Connor about them, so we will let them lie. “Black” isn’t perfect, but no term is.Meanwhile, the special value of “Black” is that it carries the same potent combination of pride, remembrance and regret that “African American” was designed for. Think of what James Brown meant with “Say it loud, I’m Black and I’m proud.” And then imagine: “Say it loud, I’m African American and I’m proud.”Since the late 1980s, I have gone along with using “African American” for the same reason that we throw rice at a bride – because everybody else was doing it. But no more. From now on, in my writings on race I will be returning to the word I grew up with, which reminds me of my true self and my ancestors who worked here to help make my life possible: Black.

  • watchdog

    I think that Beck is just trying to attract more black people to his side (fat chance), he does it in a really dumb way. I find that many republicans can’t understand why they only attract 8% of the black vote, as I told the guys on Amazon, it was because all of the old segregationists left the Democrats and became Republicans in the 70′s. Needless to say the guy I was debating went racist on me and claimed the real reason black folk did not flock to the virtous Republicans was because we dont understand freedom or the Constitution, really he did!read it for yourself;http://www.amazon.com/review/R1BU8LK4JBERIL/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg1?ie=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1A3SVKIKYG6PZ&cdPage=1&cdThread=Tx2PJLJQU1VDUKTWith dim-witted poorly thought out arguments like those is it any wonder why they can never gain a larger percentage of minority votes.