MMFA: On the May 11 edition of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart highlighted the absurd hypocrisy in Fox’s manufactured controversy over the White House’s decision to host rapper Common at a poetry event. As Stewart pointed out, Fox has celebrated musicians with far more violent lyrics, including hosting Ted Nugent–who once told President Obama “to suck on my machine gun“–multiple times. From The Daily Show:
Jon Stewart On Fox’s Fake “Common” Controversy: “It’s Almost Impossible To Express How Ridiculous…You All Are”
Then Bill O’Reilly, the chief narcissist at Fox News made the mistake of inviting Stewart to his show. Stewart destroyed O’Reilly, exposing his stupidity and hypocrisy:
Stewart & O’Reilly Debate Common: Stewart Notes That Fox Regular Liddy Advised How Best To Shoot ATF Agents
Stewart Debates O’Reilly: Fox Shows “Selective Outrage” By Attacking Common But Ignoring Similar Songs By Dylan, Bono
Complete Unedited Debate
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From Tora Bora to the Deathers: The Conservative Media’s Lies, Conspiracy Theories, and Hypocrisy in Covering Osama bin Laden’s Death.
If there is white racism, surely there must be black racism. If whites have, historically, enslaved and oppressed blacks, there has to be some remote island out in the Atlantic where Bobby Whitman is being forced to pick cotton and sing Barry Manilow songs while Tyrone Jackson stands over him with a whip and a tall glass of Country Time Lemonade. However, this Bizarro World of black supremacy only exists in the minds of Ultra Right talking heads and those who set their watches by the Glenn Beck Show. America’s search for black racists carried into the Civil Rights Era when Mike Wallace introduced America to Malcolm X via the documentary “The Hate that Hate Produced.” This frantic search for black supremacy continued into the 80′s and 90′s when black leaders such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Minister Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Al Sharpton were labeled racists as well as entertainers such as the rap group, Public Enemy. We see the same trend continuing over the last year as Conservatives tried to link black racism to the Obama administration by their attacks on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Even the Latino community was not spared as Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor was portrayed by the conservative media as a brown racist.
By: Paul Scott With the announcement of Rush Limbaugh’s failure to purchase part of the St Louis Rams football franchise, the Right went on a safari to track down the ever elusive, black racist. As usual, the race hunters came up empty. The best specimen that they could capture was Fox News Channel’s token black commentator, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill with a picture of former Black Liberation Army member, Assata Shakur on his website. Hardly, evidence of a violent plot to take over America by spear wielding black militants.
The reason why the Right Wingers have never been able to successfully cage a black racist is simple. They don’t exist.
Now this may be a hard pill to swallow for those who, wholeheartedly, believe in a warped version of the law of opposites.
If there is white racism, surely there must be black racism. If whites have, historically, enslaved and oppressed blacks, there has to be some remote island out in the Atlantic where Bobby Whitman is being forced to pick cotton and sing Barry Manilow songs while Tyrone Jackson stands over him with a whip and a tall glass of Country Time Lemonade.
However, this Bizarro World of black supremacy only exists in the minds of Ultra Right talking heads and those who set their watches by the Glenn Beck Show.
For years, the Right has used the charge of “reverse racism” to hide their collective fears that they are losing control of America. Oddly enough, many people who scream racism don’t have the foggiest idea what the word means. While the definition of “racism” may be a doctrine of racial superiority, the functional definition is the power of a group to exercise this doctrine over others. Therefore, as author Nelly Fuller wrote “the only form of functional racism that exists among the people of the known universe is white supremacy.”
The doctrine of white supremacy is so entrenched in this society that even an African American president of the United States is not exempt.
So, sorry folks, by this definition, African Americans cannot be racist. We can be a lot of things; prejudiced, bigots, etc but the one thing that we cannot be, for social and economic reasons, is racist.
It must be noted that in order to find a black racist apologists for white supremacy have had to reach back centuries.
In his book, “The Ice Man Inheritance: Prehistoric Sources of Western Man’s Racism, Sexism and Aggression,” Canadian author, Michael Bradley traces the foundation of the myth of black racism back centuries when the Bantu-speaking people conquered the Khoikhoi and the Saan. Because anthropologist CS Coon divided the Africans into two separate races, some have used this as evidence of “black supremacy.” However, Bradley also quotes anthropologist Ashley Montague as saying,” The modern conception of race owes its widespread diffusion to the white man. Wherever he has gone he has carried it with him.”
America’s search for black racists carried into the Civil Rights Era when Mike Wallace introduced America to Malcolm X via the documentary “The Hate that Hate Produced,” which, like future programs,confused reactionary racial rhetoric and calls for black self empowerment with black socio-economic supremacy.
This was also evident in the late 60′s and early 70′s, when those attempting to label the Black Panther Party as “racists” ignored the fact that Panther ideology was based on Marxism which downplayed race in order to organize the oppressed working class and also the fact that the party had many white supporters including celebrities such as Jane Fonda and Marlon Brando.
This frantic search for black supremacy continued into the 80′s and 90′s when black leaders such as Rev. Jesse Jackson, Minister Louis Farrakhan and Rev. Al Sharpton were labeled racists as well as entertainers such as the rap group, Public Enemy.
We see the same trend continuing over the last year as Conservatives tried to link black racism to the Obama administration by their attacks on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Even the Latino community was not spared as Supreme Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor was portrayed by the conservative media as a brown racist.
So, it is not black racism that is the problem, it is conservative talk show hosts such as Sean Hannity, Mike Savage and Rush Limbaugh who spew their hate filled venom across the planet via their satellite powered pulpits, 24 hours a day.
If Limbaugh and his ilk want to see a real racist, they need to look no further than their own bathroom mirrors.
About The Author: Paul Scott is a self-syndicated columnist and author of the blog, No Warning Shots Fired.com. He can be reached at (919) 451-8283 or i...@nowarningshotsfired.com
Assata Shakur Assata Shakur, (b. 1947 in New York) of the Black Liberation Army was captured in May 1973. She is a US Political Exile and former US Political Prisoner now living in Cuba.
‘The price of the beef is higher than the dope in the street’
Curtis Mayfield, Future Shock
When Chicago’s music wizard Curtis Mayfield produced an album called Future Shock thirty five years ago, lean times were forecast. As the cost of feeding, clothing and sheltering ourselves explodes currently, his lyrics ring true. Indeed, the season of the thick woven sweater, belted and with a hip length, was upon America during the Gregorian year of 1973.
A government’s internal cold war on several fronts advanced when on 8 January the Watergate hotel break in trial began. By months end, charges were brought and two Richard Nixon Republican soldiers, Liddy and McCord were convicted.
A bloc of oil exporting nations such as the gigantic petroleum basin Saudia Arabia would accent a military offensive by Egypt against Israel. Israel encroached further and Palestinians battled on. London, Washington, Amsterdam and Paris recoiled from a coins and gun rich ascendancy. Since the half dozen OPEC nations included formerly dominated Tehran, Iran and Baghdad, Iraq among them, two decades of puppet governments had revolted.
All of a sudden, Europeans and Canadians, Americans and the White elite of the Caribbean and Central and South America called on societies to become aware of energy use. Expanding oil exploration and drilling in nations more easily manipulated began. Nigeria, for instance, was visited by Ashland, Agip, British Petroleum, Elf, Gulf, Shell-BP and Texaco- all supposedly equitable partners with the national oil body Nigeria had built after a devastating Biafra conflict.
The lesser known war against the dissident actors/impoverished spiraled also in the Americas. On the US domestic level, the ghost of J. Edgar Hoover’s (1895-1972) federals still terrorized. Head of the FBI for half a century, Marcus Garvey, Emma Goldman, Paul Robeson, Martin Luther King, Claudia Jones and even the assassinated John Kennedy the American president, 1960-63, had suffered from his goons. Only symptomatic of the racist and exploitive system, James O. Eastland of Mississippi, Democratic Party, had risen to serve as Nixon’s president of the US senate. Outrageous as he or Hoover were, the mechanism, not a screw loose, is the issue.
Capital, stirring its oil pot with one hand, used another hand to enforce via Augusto Pinochet and the US CIA, destruction of an admittedly socialist Chile government led by Salvador Allende. With another hand, the imperial octopus drove into the subterranean any of the Black Movement for Justice who had not hurriedly gone there. Beginning with the American public learning of the spying on Viet Nam war protesters, activist break in (Media, Pennsylvania) of government offices (FBI COINTELPRO discovered) to reveal a mass of civilians under surveillance in ’71, there was panic. The chill was not just from thermostats down low. The tape recorders, ‘bugs’ and wiretaps led to the White House. And through 1973, fragile trust in authority, including Nixon, the ‘Nation of Laws’ candidate in ’69, crumbled even more. Even the English feared America’s lashing out at Soviet and OPEC forces.
Nixon, the conservative anticommunist Quaker, had visited China and met Mao Tse Tung in 1972, the first US president to compromise since the Revolution of 1949 which ran the British and American influence out. In the shadow of armament agreements being made, a new time was unfolding. Both were isolationist governments and the interlocking future of rulers joined over exploitation one day would be revealed. Pakistan, for one regional power, had already been in the Pentagon’s pocket and 1971 horrors were glibly minimalized by Henry Kissinger’s baritone voice. Nixon’s feat, that of the Americans striving for capitalist reaches in Asia and everywhere ‘foreign’, fell deaf on domestic ears by the end of 1973. Gas stations had closed or lines for service stretched for a mile.
Although time has proven that the crooner was singing of the withering nature of state power on the ordinary person (inspired by Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock book), Curtis Mayfield was on point. Until there is a people power that can withstand tyrants, that which pacifies the people will be close at hand.
Even as the substance of life, food, is violently kept at arm’s length
With the announcement of Rush Limbaugh’s failure to purchase part of the St Louis Rams football franchise, the Right went on a safari to track down the ever elusive, black racist. As usual, the race hunters came up empty. The best specimen that they could capture was Fox News Channel’s token black commentator, Dr. Marc Lamont Hill with a picture of former Black Liberation Army member, Assata Shakur on his website. Hardly, evidence of a violent plot to take over America by spear wielding black militants.
