Right wing radio host Lars Larson: "Racist" blacks should be "ashamed" of supporting Obama

[Amerigo Vespucci]

VIDEO @ the URL below.

October 06, 2010 09:00 AM
Fox guest Lars Larson thinks 'racist' blacks should be 'ashamed' of their support for President Obama
By David Neiwert

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/fox-guest-lars-larson-thinks-racist-

It's getting pathetic really, how eager conservatives are to accuse black people of racism these days -- a la Andrew Breitbart and his various Shirley-Sherrod-like smear jobs. Aren't these the same folks who squeal piteously that "racist is the worst thing you can call anybody" whenever it's a right-winger who indulges it?

For instance, that recent Gallup poll finding support for President Obama still strong among blacks but down to only 36 percent among whites was evidence of "racism" among blacks, according to wingnut talk-show host Lars Larson yesterday on Fox's America Live with Megyn Kelly:

Larson: Well, it tells you that black Americans, for whatever reason, have decided to support this president, and it's hard not to read the race bias in that. To suggest that the president has failed, his policies have failed, he doesn't appear to be listening to the American public, and the American public has figured that out. And the only ones who are still solidly supporting him by 91 percent, are people who happen to share his skin color. So it's hard not to see that that support is because of his skin color.

And I would think that if this was reversed, if this was white voters supporting a white candidate in the face of overwhelming failure, then people would say they're supporting him because they're being racist. I think black Americans should be ashamed of those numbers.

Yeah, OK, I wound up with coffee all over my keyboard when I heard that one too.

See, Lars, it may be hard for a white guy from Portland to get this, but here's how this racism thing works:

Racism, once again, is all about believing one's race to be superior to all others, and concomitantly that all other races are inferior -- and it always emphasizes dehumanizing attacks, demonization, and character slurs in the process of establishing that inferiority.

So it is in fact racist to be ready to jump the gun and condemn someone of another race as being a failure -- with only the slimmest of evidence, and plenty of counterevidence.

It's not racist to refuse to join in that condemnation, particularly if you're a member of that race -- and particularly if that race has a history of being prematurely condemned as failures. Quite the contrary: this is known as standing up to racism.

So you know, when you're busy throwing President Obama under the bus and accusing black people of "racism," you're actually just raising real issues about just why so many white people are eager to do so -- issues that you and Megyn Kelly prefer to bury under groundless charges of racism.

And it's funny: the approval ratings for President Bush never broke the numbers down by race, so we can't be sure. But my recollection is that the tiny, sub-30-percent of Americans who still supported President Bush late in his tenure were almost 100 percent white.

And yes, they did so in the face of manifest and abject failure: Bush's presidency was the most catastrophic of any in our lifetimes.

But I sure didn't hear anyone accusing those bitter-enders of racism at the time. Particularly not from the likes of Lars Larson -- who was adamantly among them.

[arbusto_baboso]

1. I have said time and again that righties are walking Freudian slips.

EVERYTHING they accuse their opponents of doing and being is what they are and are doing. Period.

If they accuse us of hating American, then you can be damn sure that THEY hate America.

[gratuitous]

2. Well, I know that when I want the black perspective on something

The first person I consult is Lars Larson. But if I read his "if this was reversed" comment correctly, then he's saying that every white person who continued to support George W. Bush did so because they were racist, and they should be ashamed. Does that about sum up his position and his racist attitudes?

[left is right]

4. Could there be name that screamed "I am white"

any louder

[gratuitous]

5. Well, there is Erick "Son of Erick" Erickson

The Red State blogger hired by CNN to provide the badly-underreported conservative white man's point of view.

[Raschel]

6. !!!

:rofl:

[BurtWorm]

11. As a person of Swedish heritage on my father's side

I can guarantee I wouldn't go anywhere near Lars Larson if he ran for office. Fuggin' squarehead...

[KamaAina]

3. "if this was white voters supporting a white candidate in the face of overwhelming failure"

Um, tell me again, Lars. Who exactly was it who stood behind Bush* even after pretty much the whole rest of the world had recognized him as a miserable failure? :shrug:

[Raschel]

7. Lars: please address how Blacks have voted for whites since they had the right to vote.

And then tell us how many screamed that they "wanted their country back when Whites were elected Pres.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

8. PROJECTION!!! The Republicans are losing momentum, so now it's time for desparate measures!

Race always works!

The polls showing that a majority of working class whites turning on Obama/Dems...wait...the Democrats never really had this base of supporters, particularly white males.

What the Republicans have done beautifully is implement the Southern Strategy to scare white voters--and oddly enough, many moderate-conservative blacks like my father--into voting for them!

My father suggested that Obama act dumb like Glen Beck! My response was that it's quite a silly notion. Barack Obama could paint himself white, dye his hair blonde and join the Klan and they'd still hate him.

The Southern Strategy is in full force and it works!!!

[Lucy Goosey]

9. That's just so insulting.

I don't even understand this kind of bullshit.

White people who supported McCain (Reagan, Bushes, Nixon)= making a valid decision based on what they believe is in their best interest.

Black people who support Obama = too stupid to make a rational decision. None of it could possibly have anything to do with the GOP's policies or what Obama says or anything, no siree, it's absolutely only possible that they are blinded by race.

:grr:

[calimary]

10. lars larson should be ashamed - period.

[political_Dem]

12. It seems that Lars Larson has a lot of racial baggage.

One of the first thing racist bigots do when they want to hide their racial animus is to use the "reverse racism/ racist Blacks" statement. That only shows how clueless Mr. Larson and his ilk are about race. The sad thing is that this type of talk is indicative of white privilege. He's probably one of those folks thar holler that old colorblindism of "racism being over" and that we're in a "post-racial society" so that they can still turn a blind eye to true bigotry in themselves. It also allows Mr. Thompson and his fellow right wingers to say whatever they feel without impunity.

After all, since Mr. Obama came to office, a lot of folks from the dominant culture have let a lot of untoward things slip out under the guise that they can say anything they like about not only Black folks, but other people of color. The sad thing is that they feel no since of morality or empathy when doing so.

In the end, Mr. Larson has no clue about the depth of racism in this country if he is going around accusing the oppressed of it.

[Brewman_Jax]

13. It never ends

and I doubt that Lars Larson would bother to ask any people of color how they felt since he already knows. That's a pretty racist position to take, Lars. :eyes: I'm sure that he had no problems when Bush* was president.

Like most racists, they say that black people voting for a black candidate is purely based on racism; white people voting for a white candidate is choosing the best candidate for the job.