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Bernie Goldberg: Those In The “Elite Media Bubble…See Racism Everywhere”

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The limitations of punditry are a lot like blogging – one has very little time (or viewer attention) to get rather complex ideas across, and the resulting economy of words can often result in oversimplification. But Fox News analyst Bernie Goldberg recently came up with a brilliant solution: discuss the perils of stereotypes and overgeneralizations by stereotyping and overgeneralizing. Its like the onomatopoeia of television punditry…brillz content indeed!

First some background: race politics were a hot topic on last night’s O’Reilly Factor, pegged to NBC’s Norah O’Donnell calling out Newt Gingrich for what she perceived to be racially insensitive comments. Early in the program, host Bill O’Reilly had on guests Juan Williams and Mary Katherine Ham to deconstruct the comments of both O’Donnell and Gingrich (who had labeled President Obama an athlete). (For a complete rundown of that segment click here.)

But Goldberg dug deep into his explanation of raced based group-think in the mainstream media, claiming that “this is how they all think” and later “they see racism everywhere.” Of course this sort of oversimplification of a complex idea is over reliant on stereotypes and over-generalizations – the very stereotypes and generalization that comprise the very racist stereotypes that, in Goldberg’s esteem, the “liberal media” uses on a regular basis. Nothing like overstating and simplifying an issue to illustrate how overstated and simplified it is. Though, one does think that this was the exact intention of Goldberg. It was effective?

Goldberg’s specific comment:

The country is in trouble. Because this is – this is standard thinking inside the comfy, liberal elite media bubble. This is how, you know, if I say this is how they all think, somebody is going to come out of the woodwork and say well, not everybody thinks that. This is how almost all of them think. They see, they see racism everywhere. They see everything as, I said through this prism of race. So Jonathan Capehart sees it at the Washington Post. Frank Rich sees it at the New York Times. Eugene Robinson sees it at the Washington Post. Leonard Pitts sees it at the Miami Herald and it becomes the acceptable narrative. Here comes Norah O’Donnell, who I’m sure is a lovely person. And she just picks up on this. She is just part of it. And that’s why your idea, you really have to do this. It needs to be some blow back on this.

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  • Munch

    So true.

  • Olby Sucks

    Bernie is spot on in his analysis, as usual. Btw, is today a furlough day for the mediaite editor? ;)

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    O’Reilly will focus on “Lefty racism” for the next few weeks to deflect attention from the real racists on the Right.
    On defense, he is.

    Happy Slavery Month, Everyone!!

  • m

    Goldberg nor O’Reilly has ever experienced any form of racism in their entire life. They’re both rich white men who’ve had comfortable lives. Whining that people find racism everywhere is like whining why both of y’alls prostates are the size of soccer balls.

  • Munch

    “O’Reilly will focus on “Lefty racism” for the next few weeks to deflect attention from the real racists on the Right.”

    Such as, Mr Slavery Month?

  • Munch

    m , you should really change your name to BM.

    “They’re both rich white men who’ve had comfortable lives.” And? And?

    So why do people work ? To be poor???

  • MarkStr82Hell

    m says:
    April 13, 2010 at 5:09 pm
    Goldberg nor O’Reilly has ever experienced any form of racism in their entire life. They’re both rich white men who’ve had comfortable lives. Whining that people find racism everywhere is like whining why both of y’alls prostates are the size of soccer balls.

    Stay in school. Get a job. Save your money, Live within your means. JUST LIKE YOU ARE TAUGHT!
    STOP WHINING and CRYING RACISM!

  • Munch

    “Stay in school. Get a job. Save your money, Live within your means. JUST LIKE YOU ARE TAUGHT!
    STOP WHINING and CRYING RACISM!”

    Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You are giving away our secret!

  • m

    >And? And? So why do people work ? To be poor???

    The fact that you’re completely oblivious made me laugh out loud. No wonder you guys have no idea what racism is.

  • Munch

    Yes, M. People work to be poor. Being successful is sooooo un-liberal.

  • MarkStr82Hell

    Born to lose, M. Misery loves company. It’s all in your head. If you have health insurance get help. If you don’t, go to the closest ER and please inquire about counseling

  • Bias-Media

    Hillary Clinton said this back in 2003:

    “I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic, We should stand up and say, we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration”

    Replace “Not patriotic” with “Racist”; and you thus have my true feelings towards the LEFT right now…

  • taxed

    “Goldberg nor O’Reilly has ever experienced any form of racism in their entire life. They’re both rich white men who’ve had comfortable lives.”

    M is another liberal that hates hard working, successful people! The idea of making a profit, is a hate crime to liberals. Unless, of course, your “profit” is spread around to the recipient class.

  • Munch

    MSM follows BHO around during the primaries showing him playing basketball numerous times. NBC does a story last week showing Obama in sweats with a basketball revealing the new White House BB court.

    Newt: “Shooting three-point shots may be clever, but it doesn’t put anybody to work.”

    Norah and M: “Racism!

    hahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

  • Cecelia

    Well, if its too much a stretch for liberals to pin you with outright racism, they go for the milder New Age crime of “racial insensitivity” (whatever that means).

    It’s just preposterous. Norah O’Donnell’s analysis was some of the most cynical I’ve ever seen.

    Before the president’s term is over, the accusations of racism and racial insensitivity are going to have as much coinage in the public as tsk tsking someone for cussing.

  • Olby Sucks

    You have to wonder about a person such as “m” throwing around the term “rich white men.” What if I said that obama is just a “rich black man” all the time. That’s a rhetorical question, of course.

  • Munch

    Hey, BM

    Mediaite just posted a new page about liberal Conan O’Brien, who has never experienced racism, going out on tour after his payout of $42 million from MSNBC and singing, “I Will Survive.”

    Where is your attack on him?

  • MarkStr82Hell

    Norah O’Donnell THOUGHT she was going to score suck up points by mading that rediculous racist comment. You notice she attempted to get the support from african-american and homosexual panelist Jonathan Capehart after the other panelists were shocked by her prespective. Poor, O’Donnell. She was just trying to save her job. Afterall, unless you spew the DNC and angry racist agenda as a talking head on MSNBC, you are subject to getting suspended by Griffrin. Only Scarborough and Buchanan are able to say anything remotely conservative.

  • MarkStr82Hell

    Norah O’Donnell THOUGHT she was going to score suck up points by making that rediculously racist comment. You notice she attempted to get the support from African-American and homosexual panelist, Jonathan Capehart after the other panelists were shocked by her prospective.
    Poor, O’Donnell. She was just trying to save her job. Afterall, unless you spew the DNC and angry racist agenda as a talking head on MSNBC, you are subject to getting suspended by Griffrin.
    Only Scarborough and Buchanan are able to say anything remotely conservative.

  • Munch

    panelist Jonathan Capehart TRIED to go there but the laughter prevented him.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    “homosexual panelist Jonathan Capehart ”

    What the hell does this have to do with the topic?

    Further proof of righty bigotry.

  • timzank

    {Goldberg nor O’Reilly has ever experienced any form of racism in their entire life. They’re both rich white men who’ve had comfortable lives.}

    They are rich white men NOW. They worked hard and EARNED money. Goldberg is a jew from a lower middle-class family the south bronx, and O’Reilly from a middle class family in Levittown. They didn’t come from money at all, they came from the same background and school of thought I did, you earn your way to wealth.

    I don’t know if O’reilly got chided for being a mick, but I’ll bet ya Goldberg knows a little bit about racism. Being a New York Jew wasn’t (hell isn’t) a cakewalk.

  • Munch

    LOL

    “homosexual panelist Jonathan Capehart ”

    What the hell does this have to do with the topic?

    Further proof of righty bigotry.”

    So if someone is gay, that’s bigotry?

    You are a homophobe, DFD.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

    All humans descend from Africa, therefore we are all African Americans. 90% of the people alive can trace their ancestory back to slavery somewhere sometime. Some have just been slaves more recently than others.
    Instead of being thankful that they were born in America they want to whine that their ancestors weren’t left in Africa to be killed. No white people went into the jungles to get their ancestors it was black africans that captured them and sold them to slave traders.
    Get a life.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    The fact that you point it out like it’s a “thing”, when it is totally irrelevant to the discussion.

    I notice you didn’t write “heterosexual Bernie Goldberg” or Bill O’Reilly.

    Douchebag.

  • MarkStr82Hell

    There is nothing wrong with being gay, Big Fucking Deal. Lose the attititude. Jonathan is out of the closet.

  • Munch

    BFD is A HOMOPHOBE AND RACIST!

    Look what he writes:”Happy Slavery Month, Everyone!! “

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    I don’t blame you Mark, I blame your heterosexual mother.

  • Munch

    capehart on whether BHO has abandoned gays on gay marriage:

    http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/msnbc-gays-angry-at-obama.html

  • Munch

    BFD, you did not say Mark, “why does that matter?” You said prove it.

    He is and your homophobia exploded in anger and hate.

    Cool down.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    This headline could just as easily read, “THOSE IN THE FOX NOT NEWS CHANNEL BUBBLE SEE RACISM NO WHERE.”

    Bill O’Lielly and his girlfriend, Rube Goldberg, are playing a race card in white face. It’s bogus.

  • lonestar77

    Of course Bernie is correct. Colby Hall may not like it but that’s just too bad. Mediaite is pretty complicit in the race baiting. Just look at the responses by the left-wing loons. They can not argue with what Bernie & Bill said, all they can do is call people racist…just like the MSM. Everyday, we see the liberal media trying to play the race card because they don’t like the fact that the majority of people don’t like Obama’s policies.

    In short, tough shiite, Colby Hall.

  • Ted

    Goldberg would give his left nut to be in the “elite media bubble,” but he isn’t, so instead he bitches about it. Pathetic, really.

  • Jamestaylor

    While Norah had outrage over the idea that someone might say that ALL blacks are good athletes, I bet shee would have no outrage if someone said ALL blacks have been discriminated against.

  • Jamestaylor

    Ted, the anti-Semite liberal arrives!

  • timzank

    Ted..heh…tan rich and on the right side of history ain’t a bad life for ol’ Bernie. Beats the hell out of wearin’ knee pads and wipin’ the Obama splooge off your chin every night on network television like the MSM.

  • felixw

    Memo to the Dems: You are making yourselves ridiculous by constantly accusing everyone who disagrees with you of racism. It looks to the rest of us like you’ve lost the ability to defend your views on their merits, and are thus reduced to this pathetic playing of the race card in every setting and situation.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Yeah, the democratic president and his democratic controlled house and senate sure look ridiculous.

    Maybe if we staple some teabags to our hats people will take us seriously.

  • felixw

    BFD, when you can’t defend your views, and need to resort to character assassination as your normal method of debate…well, yes, you do look desperate.

    Why don’t you call me a racist while you are at it?

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    stfu and go call out all the righty scum on this board who spam each thread with dozens of posts calling people turds that are flushed down the toilet.

    Like Tyler_Durden.

  • timzank

    Felix, If ya think these guys are whiners now, just wait until after November. Traffic here will surge with guys like BFD constantly complaining, crying, whining, pissing & moaning. It’ll be hilarious..Abrams is gonna make a fortune off of these socialists.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    *shakes fist in air*

    “YOU LEFTIES JUST WAIT !!!!!!!!!!”

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    The mating call of the teabagger.

  • JamesA1102

    I have to admitt, O’Donnell’s remarks are pretty ridiculous. So were Frank Rich’s. But on the flip side, saying that no racism exists in out society is equally turning a blind eye to reality.

  • Cecelia

    Gordon Bloyer,

    Of all the offensive stupidity that can be read on this board, yours is the stupidest and the most offensive.

  • MarkStr82Hell

    The fact of the matter is JamesA1102. If you are educated, have a good job and friends you don’t give a shit what race somebody else is. If you are miserable in life you blame the rest of the world.
    Get an education, work hard, save your money and live within your means and find a great life partner!

    Misery Loves Company.

  • felixw

    BFD’s words of wisdom: “[Grumble]….birthers…..redneck teabaggers…[expletive]….[grumble]….teabagging racists….[expletive].”

  • BR

    Typical leftists comments. If you arent black you have never been a victim of racism. I spent many years driving a delivery truck in black neighborhoods.

    Not all blacks are racist, but most racists ARE black.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    What I learned from the righty’s in this thread so far…

    1 – Johnathon Capehart’s real first name is “Homosexual”.

    2 – Whites did Blacks a favor with slavery.

    3 – Most Blacks are racist.

    Keep ‘em coming!!!!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    Edit : 3 – Most racists are Black

  • Ted

    tea-bagger timzank – something tells me you know what you’re talking about…at least in regards to getting on your knees; beyond that, talk to my door knob.

    jamestaylor – wondering if you can define anti-Semite.

  • Ted

    BR – Let me guess…tea-bagger?

  • BR

    Ted: Sorry to disappoint you, but no.

  • Jamestaylor

    BFD playing the victim. That’s the 2nd card after the race card.

    BFD, from your comments, I would say Tylor Durdin hasn’t flushed enough.

  • BR

    Big F & Ted seem to be obsessed with “tea bagging”. Poor leftest fools. Are you guys in the keith olbermann fan club?

  • Ted

    BR – well then, you must be just your average run-of-the-mill moron then. My mistake, I apologize.

  • Jamestaylor

    BFD is here then is gone and then Ted is back.

    Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

  • felixw

    Check out the spokespersons for the left in this discussion. They can’t put three words together without resorting to name calling. Who can take these people seriously?

  • Jamestaylor

    jamestaylor – wondering if you can define anti-Semite.”

    Definition: Ted.

  • BR

    Ted: What a change, a liberal leftist cant debate, so they call names. wow, that is such a change. I am telling you what I lived from being a white male driving a delivery truck in a black neighborhood. The best you can do is call me a tea bagger and a moron? The left, victim/race card/call names.

  • Olby Sucks

    bfd is the loser that has been baned, but, can’t keep himself away. Right, mr. bovine koldys/karl spencer?

  • Olby Sucks

    banned

  • Olby Sucks

    And yes, he’s an olbyloon.

  • http://www.anonymousfinch.com AnonymousFinch

    OlbyS*cks: Are you saying that Bovine Koldys is Karl Spensen (aka Christian Larson)?

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Gordon Bloyer writes:

    “Instead of being thankful that they were born in America they want to whine that their ancestors weren’t left in Africa to be killed. No white people went into the jungles to get their ancestors it was black africans that captured them and sold them to slave traders.
    Get a life.”

    You’re not one of those ignorant folks who think that all of Africa is “jungle”, and that’s the only place Blacks lived right? You’re not saying that Africans swam across the Atlantic and volunteered for forced labor, gang rape and separation of families, are you?

    “The exact numbers of Africans shipped overseas during the slave trade are hotly debated – estimates range between 10 and 28 million.

    What is undisputed is the degree of savage cruelty endured by men, women and children. Up to 20% of those chained in the holds of the slave ships died before they even reached their destination. “

    No matter which estimate you want to believe, Gordon, that’s MILLIONS of DEAD Africans as a result of slavery.

    And you want African-Americans like me to be “thankful” for that?

    This is exhibit A as to why White Conservative outreach to minorities fail so miserably. I’m waiting for Gordon to state that Native Americans should thank the White man for casinos.

    –Cobra

  • Olby Sucks

    Yep.

  • TfT

    I look forward to O’Reilly’s continued coverage of the race baiters. Norah O’Donnel got more exposure on BO’s show last night than she ever gets on MSNBC. She made a fool of herself; not too hard to do when one works for MSNBC.

  • Ted

    jamestaylor – try harder. Use a dictionary if you have to. Good luck.

  • valkyrie101

    Yes, felix, that is rude. The tea party has been hammered from the left. In fact the tea party can be most appealing, as a righteous, peaceful, movment. I wish it well. The tea party has not expressed, as a united movement, what they are about. What are their principles? Who speaks for them, who do they represent?

  • Ted

    BR – Yes, that is accurate.

  • BR

    You’re not one of those ignorant folks who think that all of Africa is “jungle”, and that’s the only place Blacks lived right?
    —————————————————————————————————————————————————

    Now Cobra: Take out the “jungle” part and tell me that the slaves were not kidnapped by their fellow africans and SOLD to the slave traders. Do you at least admit that the african kidnappers were just as guilty as the slave traders/slave holders for slavery?

  • the real john t

    Olby Sucks says:
    April 13, 2010 at 7:43 pm
    bfd is the loser that has been baned, but, can’t keep himself away. Right, mr. bovine koldys/karl spencer?
    ——————————————–

    This idiot acusses everyone of being someone else. Olby Sucks has been banned from more sites than probabaly anyone on here has ever visited. Hell, he’s even banned from Dollar’s site, where he was the darling alter boy for a while.

  • Olby Sucks

    ted, do you hate Israelites or do you tend to take the side of hamas?

  • Jamestaylor

    Poor Teddy, you just don’t get it do you, anti-Semite.

    To criticize Obama is racism- we all agree on that ; to criticize Golberg, a Jew, with such hate as “Goldberg would give his left nut to be in the “elite media bubble,” is more than enough to prove your anti-Semitism.

    And you and with your alter- ego BFD ‘s “Happy Slavery Month, Everyone!!” and homophobia , win the trifecta: racism, anti-Semitism and Homophobia.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    BR

    No. There was difference between the slavery that occurred in Africa, which was NOT racially based and generational, and the CHATTEL slave system adopted by the Europeans, which was racial based and generational.

    You DO understand the difference, right?

    –Cobra

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    For the record, I have never been been anyone else or been banned from here.

    Although I realize the teabaggers wont believe me w/o some sort of video proof. lmfao

  • Olby Sucks

    bfd, why do you use a proxy?

  • BR

    Cobra: So the africans who sold their fellow africans to the white slave holders get a pass? without the africans kidnapping and selling fellow africans there never would have been african slaves here.

    You DO undersatnd that, right?

  • the real john t

    You know it amazes me, the idiotic RWers on here call anyone that doesn’t share their views racists, anti semite when they don’t even know what the words mean. They heard them from one of their RW heros and think they sound good. It just shows their ignorance.

  • Jamestaylor

    John, John, John- you can’t have it both ways. If criticizing Obama is racism, then criticizing a Jew is anti-Semitism.

    It is as simple as that. It’s liberal logic.

    Come on, pal, get with it.

  • BR

    james: They are true hypocrites and they dont even know it.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    BR,

    You don’t get it. Europeans wanted African Slaves. The easiest way to get them was getting them through the captured prisoners or tribes defeated by the stronger tribes or groups.

    If they couldn’t get their quota, what makes you think the stronger tribes weren’t at risk to the greater weapons of the Europeans? The truth is, they were at risk. Africa was COLONIZED, sir. Don’t you remember that?

    –Cobra

  • Cecelia

    BR, that there are bad men of all races goes without saying.

    What is significant is that without a market for slaves, there never would have been slavery here. Other nations of white men and women resisted or turned away from that “market” far sooner than we did.

  • Jamestaylor

    John doesn’t seem to know what anti-semitism is . I bet he has never met a Jew.

    John, anti-semitism , among other things is prejudice against or hostility towards Jews. And saying “Goldberg would give his left nut to be in the “elite media bubble. is hatred toward Goldberg, a Jew.

    John, come on, these are code words, like “community organizer”, “3 point shots”, “that one”, etc.

    Get with the program, please.

  • BR

    –Cobra: All I can say is, WOW. You are delusional. Africans were KIDNAPPED and SOLD by fellow Africans. They did it for a PROFIT. They sold people!You can not justify that no matter how much you try.

  • Jamestaylor

    How in the world did this suddenly become about the African slave trade.

  • BR

    Cec: First of all, thank you for disagreeing without name calling (see JT, BFD, it CAN be done)

    Now the whole slavery issue is a black eye for ALL involved. It can not be defended and never should have happened. And back to the whole racism issue. I was targeted by racists when I drove a delivery truck in a black neighborhood. The people there didnt like me because of the color of my skin. What is that called? racism.

  • Cecelia

    BR, no one is trying to justify the fact that some Africans participated in the slave trade.

    However, you seem to act as though pimps on the street are significant than the mafiosi who put them in business!

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    BR wrote:
    “I am telling you what I lived from being a white male driving a delivery truck in a black neighborhood”

    Did it ever occur to you that seeing anti-White prejudice in a Black neighborhood is the same as the anti-Black prejudice that African-Americans see in a mostly White COUNTRY?

    Except you can drive home from that prejudice each night.

  • Jamestaylor

    Thanks BFD for finally admitting that there are black and white racists. That wasn’t so hard, was it?

  • Cecelia

    BR, again, if your argument is that people of all colors can be racist…okay fine…duh….but okay…

    However, the tact you’re taking in illustrating this is tenuous to the extreme.

  • BR

    C:
    You don’t get it. Europeans wanted African Slaves. The easiest way to get them was getting them through the captured prisoners or tribes defeated by the stronger tribes or groups.

    If they couldn’t get their quota, what makes you think the stronger tribes weren’t at risk to the greater weapons of the Europeans? The truth is, they were at risk. Africa was COLONIZED, sir. Don’t you remember that?

    –Cobra
    —————————————————————————————————————————————————-

    That sounds like someone trying to justify.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    @JT

    “finally”?

    I never denied it.

    Typical lying righty.

  • Cecelia

    BFD, acting as though it’s still 1955 is just as disingenuous.

  • BR

    BR, again, if your argument is that people of all colors can be racist…okay fine…duh….but okay…

    However, the tact you’re taking in illustrating this is tenuous to the extreme.
    ———————————————————————————————————————————————

    C: You need to read some of the earlier comments. You will see that that was being debated

  • Jamestaylor

    Oh, BFD, tone! Tone!

  • Jamestaylor

    And, BFD, I don’t believe you for a second.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    I’m not sure why you don’t believe me.

    You’re the only one lying in this thread about me “finally admitting” something I never denied.

  • Jamestaylor

    Bfd- nope, not going to do it! You lied about it and we all know about it!

  • Jamestaylor

    BFD, from what I have seen of your posts , if you were Pinocchio, your nose would be on the floor by now.

  • Ted

    jamestaylor – clearly , you have no idea what an anti-Semitic comment is. Hilarious!! Your buffoonery is really something to behold.

    By the way, I think Goldberg would actually give both his left and right nut to be in the “elite media bubble.” Think about it.

  • felixw

    Is Cobra really claiming that there is a moral difference between an African trading in slaves and a European trading in slaves? Whoa, I guess this is what happens when one evaluates everybody on the color of their skin.

  • Jamestaylor

    Ted , you are still a LOSER.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Cobra IS really claiming that. And I’ll reinforce my points.

    “The Atlantic slave-trade was different from all these earlier slavery in several respects. Most enormously important is that it was the first form of slavery that was solely motivated by commercial incentives. In earlier times slaves were used as domestic workers and soldiers, since there were no plantations or industrial factories where millions of slave-labor was needed. The African slave-trade was a capitalist invention. Readers are directed to Slavery and Capitalism by Eric Williams.

    It was the large-scale capitalist mode of production which required cheap labors that induced the slave trade. It was the Industrial Revolution in Europe that made it necessary to traffic in human lives on a colossal scale.

    Slaves in earlier times enjoyed social and individual rights – like marriage, freedom to raise a family, speak their language and worship their gods, rights which were denied the African slaves exported to the Americas. Africans captured and taken into the new world were stripped of all their personality and humanity – they could not even bear their own names. “

    http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/30/013.html

    I will NOT allow this “white washing” of slavery to go unchallenged on this blog thread. White Conservatives here are trying to morally equivocate the exportation, subjugation and degradation of 10 – 28 MILLION people, 10 to 30% of whom DIED before they reached the West–as compared to the African system that existed before where slaves were not considered livestock and a commodity.

    I ain’t done.

    “Along the west coast of Africa, from the Cameroons in the south to Senegal in the north, Europeans built some sixty forts that served as trading posts. European sailors seeking riches brought rum, cloth, guns, and other goods to these posts and traded them for human beings. This human cargo was transported across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to New World slave owners, who bought slaves to work their crops…


    After kidnapping potential slaves, merchants forced them to walk in slave caravans to the European coastal forts, sometimes as far as 1,000 miles. Shackled and underfed, only half the people survived these death marches. Those too sick or weary to keep up were often killed or left to die. Those who reached the coastal forts were put into underground dungeons where they would stay — sometimes for as long as a year — until they were boarded on ships.

    Just as horrifying as these death marches was the Middle Passage, as it was called — the transport of slaves across the Atlantic. On the first leg of their trip, slave traders delivered goods from European ports to West African ones. On the “middle” leg, ship captains such as John Newton (who later became a foe of slavery), loaded their then-empty holds with slaves and transported them to the Americas and the Caribbean. A typical Atlantic crossing took 60-90 days but some lasted up to four months Upon arrival, captains sold the slaves and purchased raw materials to be brought back to Europe on the last leg of the trip. Roughly 54,000 voyages were made by Europeans to buy and sell slaves.

    Africans were often treated like cattle during the crossing. On the slave ships, people were stuffed between decks in spaces too low for standing. The heat was often unbearable, and the air nearly unbreathable. Women were often used sexually. Men were often chained in pairs, shackled wrist to wrist or ankle to ankle. People were crowded together, usually forced to lie on their backs with their heads between the legs of others. This meant they often had to lie in each other’s feces, urine, and, in the case of dysentery, even blood. In such cramped quarters, diseases such as smallpox and yellow fever spread like wildfire. The diseased were sometimes thrown overboard to prevent wholesale epidemics. Because a small crew had to control so many, cruel measures such as iron muzzles and whippings were used to control slaves.”

    http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html

    You wanna wave your little flags and tea bags? Go ahead. You want to whitewash and Foxnewsify history here? You will be challenged.

    –Cobra

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

    It is very funny. I made a factual statement and the leftys turned it into a racist statement. That is why I posted it the way I did. You can see what type of people we have commenting on the left.
    Let me see now, tell me about all the big cities in Africa in 15 and 1600′s? Why don’t you tell me where these tribes that sold the slaves went to capture their enemies to sell to the slave traders? Everything may not be a jungle but what difference does that make. Oh, I know, you are a wimp and sensitive about the word “jungle”. I don’t do PC.
    Let me make this clear, I don’t care about hurting the feelings of phony leftist race baiters. If the truth hurts so be it. Sell you crap to someone else. I don’t cringe and hide because ignorant people toss around the words racist and homophobe.

  • JamesA1102

    The fact of the matter is JamesA1102. If you are educated, have a good job and friends you don’t give a shit what race somebody else is.

    In a perfect world, yes. But unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world.

  • JamesA1102

    I don’t cringe and hide because ignorant people toss around the words racist and homophobe.

    I don’t think they are the ignorant ones here.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Gordon Bloyer,

    You can believe what ever you want to believe. You have the same rights as Jared Taylor, Conrad Black, or David Duke. You can wave any flag, disparage any group, or cling to any deranged, white-washed, etho-phobic history you like. It’s America.

    You post this nonsense on a public blog or message board like you did, and you’ll probably be challenged by somebody. Why you’re SHOCKED that conscious African-Americans have internet access, and can type is probably half your problem, but I digress.

    You write:

    “I don’t care about hurting the feelings of phony leftist race baiters. If the truth hurts so be it. Sell you crap to someone else. I don’t cringe and hide because ignorant people toss around the words racist and homophobe.”

    You get me wrong, sir. BFD has it absolutely right. I’m not trying to silence you. I LOVE you folks. I really do.
    I WANT you to wave that flag high and proud. Let it all out there. You, and your other Angry White Conservative friends are my “examples”. You’re the best one on this blog, because you sign your name and put your face to the ethnocentric swill you spew in here.

    You are the best “get out the minority vote campaign” a Black Liberal like me could ever DREAM of.

    –Cobra

  • Cecelia

    Frankly, Cobra, you better hope you have impetus to get out the minority vote than conservatives making poor analogies for how racism is a two-way street.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

    Poor Cobra, the problem is that you really believe that you can take advantage of what I said. LOL. I have been in the political business for 40 years. I have always told my candidates to tell the truth, it always works. You folks have lost the battle. You have been calling people racists for years and people have caught on. NOTHING I have said is in ANY way racist. Only a fool like you believes that it is. The black people I know are smarter than that. You folks are the ones that think black people are dumb. That is why we have affirmative action. YOU are the folks that push abortion to keep down the black population. YOU progressives are the racists and you always have been.
    Anybody that thinks they have to adopt your values to gain the black vote is a fool.

  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    “YOU are the folks that push abortion to keep down the black population.”

    Jesus Christ, it is so sad that we have people that think like this.

    Speechless.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gordon-Bloyer/537945868 Gordon Bloyer

    Big_F
    When did you START thinking?

  • m

    >M is another liberal that hates hard working, successful people!

    They’re both rich white men who interact with other rich white men = Goldberg and O’Reilly have never experienced sexism nor racism throughout their entire life. They live inside a social bubble that leaves little to no interaction of other people with other skin color, including social class. Do I have to speak to you foam-of-the-mouth right-wingers like you’re children or something? Seems like I have to.

  • Cecelia

    m, I don’t think you can make the case that a Jewish man in his sixties has never experienced any sort of discrimination.

  • http://www.thecobraslair.com Cobra

    Gordon Bloyer writes:

    Only a fool like you believes that it is. The black people I know are smarter than that. You folks are the ones that think black people are dumb.”

    Gordon, like I said, I’m your biggest fan on this blog. Keep it coming! In fact you should take your act on the road. Come on down to MY neighborhood, get on a soap box and spout this “blame Africans for American Slavery” stuff. See what kind of reception you get from African-Americans like me.

    Gordon Bloyer writes:

    “Poor Cobra, the problem is that you really believe that you can take advantage of what I said.”

    The fact that you said it on a public message board, accessible to the world is plenty. Thank you, sir.

    “That is why we have affirmative action.”

    No…President Richard M. Nixon (R) is why we have Affirmative Action. Last I checked, Nixon was a White Conservative. Well, sock it to me! Funny how history works, huh?

    Gordon Bloyer writes:

    “Anybody that thinks they have to adopt your values to gain the black vote is a fool.”

    “Fool?” I’m Black. I voted for Obama with 96% of the other African-Americans who voted in 2008. You were running around making You Tube videos (which were quite funny, by the way). How did your “values” work out in securing the Black vote for McCain, Gordy?

    Again, Gordon…you’re my guy. Post some more Angry Old White Guy rhetoric here. Upload some hardcore Angry Old White Guy videos to your You Tube channel…don’t hold back. No Wilford Brimley oatmeal schtick…no..no–Gimme some of those hardcore “old Muppets in the Balcony” style rants that will just endear you so much with the growing minority population of America.

    Keep it coming, Gordy! I’m counting on ya’.

    –Cobra

  • writer

    m, there’s some argument to be made that O’Reilly has never been in all that much contact with minorities. But neither has Keith Olbermann. So when Olbermann makes his nightly charges of racism against people he doesn’t even know, I assume you also see that as being unfair.

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