For those unable to watch the video, this is what Rush said:
From the time of my birth, 57 years ago, to today, this country has grown and expanded, prosperity has opened its doors for more and more people around the world, not just people born in this country. We know the stories of Asians emigrating and running rings around people born in this country academically in California. We know all about the immigration, legal and illegal, to get into the country. We know that the standard of living has risen. We know that technological advancement is going along at light speed. And yet during this period of time, whether it be the last 57 years or be it the last 20 years, it seems that a majority of the black population has remained angry, frustrated, and behind. They've been left behind. They are acting like they've been left behind, and of course we've heard that this is because of racism, natural systemic institutional racism in America, that we are unfair, that this country is just horrible and rotten.
You ever ask yourself how it is that people not even born here can come here and in a few short years begin prospering in school, their own business or what have you, yet people who are born in this country somehow have been raised to hate it, to think they're still back in the days of slavery. I actually think, after studying all this ACORN stuff and reading what Stanley Kurtz has written about this, I actually believe that what has taken place here in addition to liberal Democrat legislation, such as the Great Society and the war on poverty, which a lot of people will now acknowledge really busted up the black family by the government taking the place of the husband and father, free to roam around and bear no responsibility. The mother remained the mother, she got the financial assistance from this legislation, from the federal government. The federal government became the father. The father didn't have to hang around in order for the kids to be okay, depending on how you define okay. But as you study more and more of this ACORN stuff, you find that it has been part of an entire movement that has been going on for two, maybe three decades, right under our noses.
We thought that it was just liberal welfare policies and all that that kept blacks from progressing while other minorities grew and prospered, but no, it is these wackos from Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright to other anti-American Afrocentric black liberation theologists with ACORN, and Barack Obama is smack dab in the middle of it, they have been training young black kids to hate, hate, hate this country, and they trained their parents before that to hate, hate, hate this country. It was a movement. It was a Bill Ayers, anti-capitalist, anti-American educational movement. ACORN is how it was implemented, right under our noses. They're doing far more, folks, than just cheating when it comes to elections and registration. They are in deep in this mortgage crisis. ACORN and Obama and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, the Democrat Party, have their fingerprints all over the subprime mortgage crisis. The whole concept of affordable housing was people that can't afford a mortgage are going to get one, because America is unfair.
It has been a movement, it has been a religion, and Obama and Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers were all up to their big ears in it.
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It has been a movement, it has been a religion, and Obama and Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers were all up to their big ears in it. "
Well, Rush has not done his homework again, surprise, surpise. First of all William Ayers and the Weather Underground have only a marginal connection to any black power causes of that time and the SDS was primarily a white organization. It's a HUGE stretch to try and connect Obama to Ayers and I think it's pretty clear Barrack is no Weatherman sympathiser.
The history of Black Liberation Theology is quite a fascinating one however and so is that of Wright and Obama. James Cone began his work on Black Liberation theology as essentially a reaction to the words of Malcolm X that christianity was a "white mans religion." If you read any of the early books by Cone they are very much rooted in the vernacular of the late 60's and early 70's and can be looked on as political documents as much as they can religous ones. Marxist thought combined with making Jesus more in tune with a "black experience" and pushing black power at the same time.
Cone's books are interesting becuase they hold up Jesus as black but they don't feel constrained to follow the word of Jesus. Cone's work makes broad attacks against whites and agrees with Malcolm that white men are indeed the devil with Asians being a distant second (he never clears up why the anti Asian sentiment.)
Can Obama be tied to Cone and to Liberation Theology? No one really knows what's in Obama's heart but I see it as stretch. Having been raised by white people I find it difficult to believe Obama actually agrees with Cone and nothing in his politics seems to say so.
I'm fed up, we can use reason and logic to discuss this but the fact is that people who consider Fox news a reliable news source (and CNN as biased) are not exactly into logic and reason. They are going to believe whatever Rush feeds to them without so much as looking at wikipedia. You should see some of the CNN
comments, in these people's minds they are the victims and blacks are racist for not voting for McCain, never mind that 90% of blacks have voted democratic for the past 40 years.
First off, Rush is ignorant and he has to be in order to appease his fanbase (to actually have your assertions grounded in verifiable facts would make for boring progaming I suppose). Secondly, I'm sick and tired of the way that the black middle class is completely ignored when the topic of race/ethnicity vs. the American Dream.
Guys like Rush love to spout off about how other cultures/races/ethnicities come to America and are able to make something out of the American dream and then reference African Americans in a way that makes them out to be lazy complainers who do not have the will (or possibility the inherent ability) to succeed. That is so untrue.
Yes, there are many of factors why a lot of blacks and latinos are not able to get their fair share of the American Pie (the dream not the movie). These include racism, substandard schools, poverty, broken homes, and urban violence. It would be easy to counter Rush's argument with those facts, but to do so would be missing the main point of his argument. Rush is really saying that enough blacks are not making something of themselves in this great nation of ours. I strongly disagree with this assertion. Could there be more AA's making it in this free nation? Sure, I'm not denying that blacks are facing a lot of challanges. However, we have not just been sitting on our thumbs since the Emancipation Proclamation.
As to the other garbage Rush belched out...my response is this..PFFFFFT!!
LOL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh Lord, i know i am not American (however since americans here ask me whether i am american due to my accent i sorta feel american sometimes anyway...)
As always i have an opinion :
I'm guessing Rush is a racist?? Sounds like one. I have no idea who he is...Or what the hell he is talking about...or what ACORN is and i can't be fucked to google it. So coming from a naive college student..
WHY is this Rush guy connecting Obama to all these randomly important back people in history?
Why is he denying there is institutionalized racism ? We have that in the UK,France and Belgium and my (white) friends in US colleges told me racism is still a big issue in the States.
Why does Obama (and wife) have to constantly prove they love the US ?
Why don't people question McCains patriotism ? Obama's mother was white and american and he loved her to bits, he can't hate america that's like hating his mom...if anything he should hate Kenya !!!!
That's my 2 cents
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Rush is a drug addict, not to mention a rambling nut bar. He has a following, which means his fans are probably just as nutty as he is. He and Bill O'Reilly spout the same venom and it's pathetic. They have no facts to back up their accusations.
LOL! Its amazing how someone so "inexperienced" can have so much influence. These guys are down right insane.
" Having been raised by white people I find it difficult to believe Obama actually agrees with Cone and nothing in his politics seems to say so."
This why I am shocked by White America. The guy's mother was white for God's sake. (and evidently she did a good job raising him while his father bolted).
There seems to be a need to erase that identity hence the Arab link. No wonder many biracials identify as black. Why want to identify with such a group?
I'm so sick and tired of him and have been for many years! :( In my opinion, he seems to consistently appeal to the lowest denominator within this country. It's both well known and documented that he is a drug addict and I'm uncertain as to why he's still even on the air. I wish he would just simply go away. I think he can talk a big game, but would never say such things directly to a person's face. He's a coward in my opinion and his crutch are drugs that he uses to give him some courage.
Rush Limbaugh is just ignorant.
He doesn't really understand the black experience in America, in which black people bear the cumulative psychological baggage of slavery and it's effects in their families, minds and bodies.
The fact is, memory has many components, individual, familial, ancestral, and universal. All of these layers of the memory are stored in the deep recesses of the mind, of which 90% is unconscious, or subconcsious.
All the memories of our ancestors from past history are stored deep in our minds, and this is true of both humans and animals. In animals these collective, accumulated memories are called "instinct".
In humans, it is called "intuition", or "gut instinct". It is the part of the mind that tells us we have seen, felt, heard or gone through this experience before, and it supercedes direct, immediate experience.
Past memories, even generations old, can burst into conscious awareness without warning, giving rise to emotional outbursts, seen in the phenomenon of the "angry black person".
I speak in medical terms because technically it is a psychological disturbance, caused by real stored memories of generations old psychic trauma... most typically from the brutality of slavery.
We also see the phenomenon in survivors of wars and other traumas.
These outbursts of subconscious rage are also transmitted from generation to generation, in the form of verbal, psychological, physical and sexual abuse.
Through this method of transmission, the original destructive energy of the trauma is kept alive and transmitted through many generations, sometimes only coming to public or conscious awareness years, decades or generations later.
The effects of slavery on the psyche of many African Americans are real, they are pernicious, and they are destroying entire generations of people.
We, as a society, have got to stop blaming victims and descendents of victims for having been victimized, and instead take steps to heal those among us who carry the memories and baggage of such brutality deep in their subconscious minds.
Those of us, like Rush Limbaugh, who do not understand real phenomena like "ancestral memories" and it's present-day ramifications need to be educated on the subject, and helped to see the facts of the long term, multi-generational effects of trauma on the minds, hearts and souls of victims of brutality and trauma, and their descendents, even generations later.
With patience, education, knowledge, wisdom and compassion, we can heal these horrible wounds of the past, and learn, as individuals, friends, family members, neighbors, Americans, and fellow human beings, to overcome the pains, fears, angers and hatred that collectively bind us, and finally be, free at last.
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