Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Racism? Where?

Let’s play a game.
It’s called “Spot the Racism”. Good luck.
Here is a little hint for you NPR listeners...the answers are b & c.

a.
"I am going to stop calling you a white man and I'm going to ask you to stop calling me a black man," he says. "I know you as Mike Wallace. You know me as Morgan Freeman. You wouldn't say, 'Well, I know this white guy named Mike Wallace.' You know what I'm saying?"
The actor also criticizes Black History Month, saying setting aside a special month actually segregates black history from American history. Calling the idea "ridiculous," Freeman notes there's no "white history month."
"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" Freeman asks Wallace. "I don't want a black history month. Black history is American history," he says.


b.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said the following... It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans -- the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. This city will be a majority-African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way.


c.
When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about,"Clinton (D-N.Y.) told an audience at the Canaan Baptist Church of Christ during an event sponsored by the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network.


Well, how’d you do? Better than the MainStream Media, I bet.