Glenn Beck: Obama is a “racist” with “deep-seated hatred” for whites

in Politics by griffn — July 29, 2009 at 2:38 am | 3 comments

By far, one of the most entertaining aspects of Barack Obama becoming the first black president is the way certain white folks are losing their minds:

This morning on Fox and Friends, Fox host Glenn Beck accused President Obama of being “a racist.”

The group was discussing the recent Gates controversy, and Beck exclaimed that Obama has “over and over again” exposed himself as “a guy who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture. I don’t know what it is…”

When Fox’s Brian Kilmeadeon pointed out that many people in Obama’s administration are white, so “you can’t say he doesn’t like white people,” Beck pressed on. “I’m not saying he doesn’t like white people, I’m saying he has a problem,” Beck said. “This guy is, I believe, a racist.”

What’s hilarious about this argument is that, black president or not, white people still overwhelmingly hold the balance of power in America.  To illustrate this point, here’s a picture of the cast of this summer’s hit show The Bachelorette.

The fact that there are no black, Latino, Asian or Native American men appearing in your picture, and that ABC’s most popular reality franchise has a strict no miscegenation policy straight out of the 1940s isn’t what’s important.  What’s important is that this could be a picture of pretty much anything in America– the 30 richest CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, 30 members of Congress selected at random, 30 owners of NFL teams.  So tell us, Barack Obama, why aren’t you giving white men the same benefits and privileges and preferential treatment that they’ve received in this country for over 230 years?

For the sake of argument, let’s say we replaced one of the men in the picture above with a black man in order to add some diversity.  Glenn Beck’s worldview ignores the fact that 29 of the 30 cast members are still white men, but is instead outraged at the one white man who lost his place on the show to the equally qualified black guy.  Suddenly, a show that is 29/30ths white is racist against white people.  Apply the same philosophy to everything else in America– like, say, the Supreme Court– and suddenly the most pressing issue our country faces is racism.  Against white people.

To be fair, most white folks are chill about the New Colored World Order.  In fact, they helped usher it in.  But it’s the few who are losing their minds at the American presidency becoming 1/44th black, the few who think the definition of racism is “the absence of special treatment,” the few like Glenn Beck who drive an Escalade to their eight-figure jobs where they complain that white men just can’t catch a break in this country that are making television worth watching these days.

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4. Obama and Gates: Black men in big houses
5. Obama’s conclusion on Gates arrest: Can’t we all just have a beer?

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