Geraldo: ‘All the white people’ are on ‘one side’

[warrior1]

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/06/15/geraldo-all-the-white-people-are-on-one-side-2/

Appearing on Fox and Friends on Friday morning, Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera tried to pitch a thoughtful argument against racial divisions in America, but the nuances of race relations and political participation in this country failed him.

“You have all the black and brown people on the one side, all the white people on the other side – sadly, politics in America is becoming increasingly about race and ethnicity,” he said.

Of course, he didn’t mean that literally, having said just a few seconds earlier that plenty of white people will still be voting for President Barack Obama — but then a moment later, he suggested those same people will support the president at a “historically low” rate in November.

“People hate when I talk about that, but that’s a reality,” he concluded.

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I'll let this piece of turd just stand on it's own.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Is he still alive?

And if he is still alive - why is he still talking?

And is this his super secret 'treasure' in Capone's hidden vault?

[Mike Nelson]

2. I think Mr. Rivera is...

...hanging around the wrong "white people".

[Erose999]

3. I liked Geraldo better when he was getting his nose broken by racists. Now he's one of them.

[FSogol]

4. What a dumbass/

[Ikonoklast]

5. I am a middle-aged White male. I voted for Barack Obama once, and will gladly do so yet again.

Gerry Rivers is an idiot douchebag whose grasp of politics is juvenile, and that's on a good day.


That's a reality.

[hifiguy]

17. I concur in all respects, Ikonoklast.

[NightWatcher]

6. We're all pink on the inside, and that's the only generalization about color I'm ready to accept

[marmar]

7. Didn't Obama actually get a higher percentage of the white vote in the last election than Kerry.....

...... in '04 and Gore in '00?

Whites, as a national whole, have voted majority Republican in almost all the elections in my lifetime (40 years). But I suspect that if you took out the Southern states, the percentages would look a lot different.

[former9thward]

13. The last time a Democrat got a majority of the white vote was Johnson in 1964.

Yes if you took out the southern states it would look different. But if you took out the NE and the west coast it would look different too.

[HiPointDem]

14. yes.

[kelly1mm]

8. Obviously not all white people are on one side and all black and brown

people on the other, but the reality is that a significant majority whites as a group vote for Republicans and a significant majority of blacks and browns vote for Democrats. What exactly is the problem with pointing that out and discussing the reasons and consequences of that fact for US politics?

Is the outrage about him saying "all"?

[otohara]

9. Well, He Probably Feels Like A Minority @ FOX

living in the FOX bubble - all white & blonde, all GOP

[Blue_Tires]

10. Someone should have asked him what side the Asians and Jews were on

And then the entire conversation would have gone full-circle into trainwreck-y sweetness

[KG]

11. piss on Geraldo

[OffWithTheirHeads]

20. "Piss on" is old school. It's called trickle down now.

[yellowcanine]

12. You mean "Al Capone's Vault" Man?

Yeah, we care what you think Geraldo.

[Initech]

16. Or as Jon Stewart called him recently - "part time Snidely Whiplash impersonator"?

[cthulu2016]

15. Why do you object to this? It is true.

To object to what is in the OP requires some very selective and not-useful outrage.

No Democratic presidential candidate has carried the white vote since 1964. The polarization of the two parties as the white party and the non-white party is real.

And Obama probably will get a record low percentage of the white vote relative to his overall vote total in 2012.

The Republican party really is the white party. It is true.

If one wants to pitch a fit because Geraldo said "all the..." as a conversational construction then why not pitch the same fit when people say, "Class division in America is increasing, with all the rich people on one side and all the non-rich people on the other side."

It's a normal conversation construction. George Soros is on our side and a lot of low-wage workers vote for the interests of the rich... nobody thinks that kind of conversational construction is mathematically literal.

There are gay republicans, but if I said "increasingly all the gay people are one one side and the anti-gay people on the other side" everyone would know what I meant.

[HopeHoops]

18. White and NOT on the GOP side.

[Dash87]

19. Geraldo is on one side of the vault, but there's nothing on the other side.

[fishwax]

21. Jeopardy Question: Geraldo found nothing was there when he tried to open this in 1986

What is his fan mail.

(That joke was in a Mad Magazine parody of Jeopardy in the late 1980s. Every time I read that Geraldo has said something stupid, it reminds me of that joke. :rofl

[entanglement]

22. Poor choice of words. Republicans are mostly white and Blacks/Latinos mostly Democratic.

However, the converse statements (Geraldo's assertions) are not true. At least, not yet.