Unbelievably racist comments by C-Span caller.

[madfloridian]

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The host on C-Span was gracious in the face of such rudeness and racism.

She begins: "I have a question for the colored man."

And it goes downhill from there.

[young but wise]

1. .......

What the hell is wrong with these people? It's fucking 2010.

Colored Man?:wtf:

[rug]

43. Yeah but she was born in 1920.

She's a 90 year old woman.

[glogrrl]

65. 90 year old racist

Yeah, she's 90 but so is my mother, and she would never in a million years say anything like that. People can educate themselves and overcome their prejudices....obviously this woman is ignorant.

[TheMadMonk]

69. 'twould depend entirely on where she lived her life. And in what company...

..she lived it.

I would allow a 90 year old white South African a hell of a lot more latitude than I would offer a recent graduate of Berkley.

People can indeed educate themselves, but the sad fact is that MOST WILL NOT. If they would, we woudn't be having this discussion, because forums like DU and Free Republic would not exist for us to have it in. We would agree with each other without ever meeting or conversing, and the entirety of physics would come crashing dowm as a result of coordinated action without communication.

[gateley]

2. Holy shit. I'm ashamed for her. nt

[southernyankeebelle]

20. I'm not a racist, LOL, right.

[indy legend]

40. What she meant to say was, I,m a christian, conservative, republican, tea bagger .....

....who wants my country back. Back when "you people" knew your place, but I'm not a racist, I have lots of black friends as long as I don't have to eat with them,share the same rest room and they stay on the back of the bus. What a fucking ass-hat.

[SharonAnn]

25. But I'm a wealthy, old white woman from Naples, Fl. D'uh!

[ET Awful]

3. "I'm not a racist, but I'm going to call during a segment on a completely different topic

unrelated to any issue regarding race whatsoever and insert a comment about race to the "colored man" insinuating that all "colored people" get welfare, free healthcare and whatnot.

Nah, she's not a racist.

[obxhead]

4. I love that "I'm not a racist" bit

I always brace myself when I hear that as I know I'm about to hear some stupid and foul crap roll out of their mouth.

[pennylane100]

5. What a bitch.

and she has the nerve to say "I am not a racist"

[totodeinhere]

6. Actually, it is quite believable.

We know that there are many vile racists out there. The election of a black man to the presidency, while a great achievement, did NOT usher in a post racial society. Far from it, it brought racists out of the woodwork.

[jerseyjack]

8. She starts off....

"I'm 90 years old,..." That in itself says a lot. Then she continues, I am a Republican. That says it all.

... she probably didn't even need to waste all that air time to say she was a Republican.

[totodeinhere]

9. I know what you're saying, but not all older people are racists while

some younger people are racists. I used to think that not all Republicans are racists, but the way things have been going lately I'm not so sure about that anymore.

[anthroguy101]

16. Didn't one of the oldest women in America vote for Obama?

I read it in time somewhere.

[Billy Burnett]

30. Here's one that is simply in love with him

President Barack Obama, hugs 105-year old Virginia Shelton as he arrives a town
hall style meeting in Richmond, Va. , Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2010.

[Iris]

52. my 90-somthing great aunt did

but she still thought he was the lesser of the 2 evils. :dilemma:

[sulphurdunn]

63. So did I.

[Iris]

67. I have to admit, that sentiment seemed to be genetic!

[MsPithy]

19. I think it was Bill Maher who said,

"Not all republicans are racists, but all racists are republicans."

[Enthusiast]

45. Bill Maher was right, almost.

Almost because, believe it or not there are those so bigoted that they won't vote Republican because Lincoln freed the slaves. Lincoln being a Republican, of course.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

68. The most racist guy I've ever associated with voted for Obama

This guy is the typical redneck racist from Arkansas, n-word this and n-word that and yet he voted for Obama because he didn't want "that broad" (meaning Palin) in the White House.

Hey, don't ask me.

[NWHarkness]

47. Not all Republicans are racist

But all Republicans are willing to accept racism when it advances their interests.

[snort]

60. Nailed.

[Joe Bacon]

62. +1,000,000

I wish I could recommend that remark more.

The truth is that when it comes to Republicans, the ends justify the means.

[JHB]

35. Let's do the math here...

If she's 90 in 2010, she was born in 1920. Grew up in the '20s and '30s. Young adult in the '40s.
In her 40s during the '60s. So she's had a good 40 years to break the "colored people" habit of speech she grew up with.
If she couldn't do it in that time, she probably wasn't trying.

Also noticed she hopped straight from slavery (ended over 50 years before she was born) to Welfare. Nothing about Jim Crow laws and lynch-mob terrorism. Nothing about white mobs rioting and wrecking communities where blacks were doing relatively well (e.g., Tulsa, 1921).

And, of course, Welfare was "doing something" for "colored people".... but nooooo, she's not a racist. :puke:

[TheMadMonk]

61. My grandmother died hating Japan for WWII and Australia for the underarm...

...bowling incident. That she hadn't seen England since before WWI didn't matter a whit. Given a reason to revert to her "birthright" she did so.

Chemistry stagnated for many a year because of Dalton.


Whenever you are evaluating another's actions/words, (even when most of a century removed) it best behooves you to do so looking through the eyes of their temporal peers, not your own.

By todays standards the caller was indeed a disgustingly rude old cow. However, by the standards of HER TIME she really was bending over backwards to accomodate an idea which truly was foreign to her upbringing. Yes, she has had many a year to come to terms with change over those years, but realistically, the leopard (man) who changes his spots is not a common thing, just like 50% of ALL people are of BELOW AVERAGE intelligence. Most of us have an oldster or two in the family who speaks of, Jerry, Jap or Gook or Slope when recalling the past. (And our children will disown us for ragging on ragheads.)

The Jesuits have their claim about the first seven years of a boy's life and that IS a close facsimilie of the truth, what we learn in our youth does very strongly colour our behaviour as adults.


If the caller had been nineteen, I woudn't have bothered with a kicking, I'd have gone straight for the headshot, dismissing them as a lost cause, deserving of nothing but composting. A ninety year old who began life with their own personal Beulah I CAN understand asking that question.

Whether or not "a modern lefty's" head can wrap itself aroung the concept, Whites HAVE done an incredible amount of good for Blacks in America. That it was done in the face of a contemperaneous bunch of pasty faced arsewipes is testament to that which was once good of America.

That we/you(r representatives(up to and including your ruddy president)) today give fair consideration to the feelings behind those very same pasty faces arsewipes is a damning testament to what America has become.

[sulphurdunn]

64. If you make it to 90,

nobody much cares what you say anymore. :smoke:

[butterfly77]

71. Something I found..

The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921



* Moniker of "Negro Wall Street" coined by Booker T. Washington.
* 118 living survivors were located and registered by the Commission by the time its mandate expired on Feb. 28, 2001. (A number of others passed away during the course of the 4-year inquiry.) 176 descendents of survivors were also identified.
* There is surviving film footage. ABC News showed two brief clips in one story ca. 1999 -- there's undoubtedly more.
* By the end of 1921, KKK membership in Okla. was reportedly greater than in the rest of USA only six months prior. (source: Chalmers, Hooded Americanism)
* The riot proper lasted about 16 hours. The mob numbered about 2,000 (estimate).
* The toll (partial!):
o Between 100 and 300 dead.
o Entire 35-block Greenwood District essentially levelled.
o 1,200 homes destroyed
o 10,000 left homeless
o Two black newspapers burned to ground: the Tulsa Star and the Oklahoma Sun
o Dunbar Elementary School destroyed
o The district's library burned to the ground
o Six churches destroyed
o Offices of "more than a dozen" dentists, lawyers, doctors, and other professionals destroyed.

[Lovecraft71]

58. I bet she was a Democrat in the 40's!

Like the Majority of Americans I bet she LOVED FDR and the New Deal. All this anti-government, anti-tax rhetoric simply didn't exist for most of her life. Uncle Sam was her best friend in 1945!! But when the Democrats began supporting equal rights she became a Republican...like all the other Southern racist Democrats did.

[Nictuku]

7. ... not that this is an excuse

... instead it is actually hope for the future because the woman said she was 90. .... This is the past. The future generations are over it. Perhaps when she meets her maker she will find revelation.

[Norrin Radd]

10. C-Span callers never fail to make me cringe. I can't watch

when they do call-in segments.

[activa8tr]

33. I feel the exact same way, unless there's a wonderfully progressive or

informative guest, I change the channel or go do my housework when the callers start asking their ignorant questions.

[mahina]

11. What a pro. I don't know that dude's name but he earned my respect.

Loved the eyebrow.

Loon: "I have a question for the colored man"
eyebrow: "Doink!?"

[madfloridian]

36. He really showed class.

[Iris]

53. I agree. He was extremely professional.

[LittleGirl]

12. She's one of them UGLY AMERICANS

now, isn't she?

OMFG. I can't wait until that generation of racism dies off.

[doc03]

13. I heard that this morning, I haven't watched CSPAN for a while

but I noticed Republicans were jamming all three lines. After that women he took a call from a Democrat and he got the same Rethug BS then he went to the Independent line and more Rethug BS. I listened to probaly 6 calls and there was only one that was supporting the Administration and I believe that one identified himself as a Republican.

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Guess we gotta start making some of those calls.

On the Republican line.! and counter balance them.

" I used to be a Republican but now, seeing how they turned into the party of NO and not given that Obama feller even half a chance............"

[SemperEadem]

41. the thugs and cons were probably out in droves because of the One Nation rally

it wouldn't surprise me that they lied their way onto the independent and democratic lines. You can't expect them not to be deceptive and manipulative and a bunch of liars.

[eleny]

14. Holy smokes

Btw, shortly before the '08 election I went to lunch with a friend and her 90+ year old landlady. We talked about the election and she quietly expressed that she didn't think that at her age she could get used to seeing a black person as president.

I haven't seen her since nor have I asked about her. But I recall saying something to her about her seeing so many new things in her long life. And that when Obama was inaugurated, it would be one more wonderful thing to happen in America that she'll experience and be comfortable with sooner than she could imagine.

Sometimes you have to restrain yourself from verbally slapping the crap out of a person sitting in front of you. I applaud the Wash Journal's host for his composure.

[d_b]

15. they'll be worm food soon enough.

[jgraz]

17. After the past two years, there's no level of racism that's unbelievable.

Honestly, I'm glad this shit is coming to light. It's like finding black mold behind a wall in your house. Yeah, you're incredibly grossed out by it, but you can't get rid of it if you don't know it's there.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. how true.

Every brain cell in her limited cranial space has a virtual wall up, us v. them. And for her, it is a zero sum game. Any success for a "colored boy" means some good christian person is now suffering.

Bright lights and constant exposure makes for the best antiseptic for this mentality.

Funny, America's history is filled with this, starting with religious discrimination early on. Puritans were under a death sentence in some colonies. Shakers were illegal, and would be thrown in jail if they crossed a colony's border. The Irish, after the potato famine, were looked at as badly, if not worse, than blacks in the 1950s. Germans, after WWI, Polish, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, after WWII, not to mention the Chinese in the late 1800s, or the Italians at the turn of last century.

[crim son]

18. The caller needs to pick up a dictionary

and take a look at the word "racist". She might be surprised.

[valerief]

21. If my mother was alive today she'd be 90ish and she'd never sound like that woman.

Being 90 is no excuse for being racist.

[Ineeda]

39. When I heard that call,

the first thing I thought was, "Mom? Is that you?" Except my mom is dead and she was way too poor to live in Naples. She'd be the same age though, and might have even used the N-word. BTW, she was a big "Ronnie" fan and not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[valerief]

76. Hey!!!!

:hi:

[The Wielding Truth]

23. "oh... I'm not a racist". That is hilarious! She thinks "coloreds" are given everything free and

why are they"thanking us"? I am so sorry for her and her long deluded life.

[Nictuku]

27. It was those remarks

... that were offensive to me (the 'what about what 'we' gave 'them' BS?).

My great-aunt, who is also 90, is a very very sweet lady. But she is from the south, grew up on a cotton farm (no slaves, but there was a family who both lived and worked on the farm). Back then, there was no electricity, they grew their own vegitables, chickens for eggs, cured ham in a smokehouse, through the winter, grew their own food, cooked on a wood stove, and they were very poor.

Her mother (My Great grandmother) did laundry in a huge cast iron pot over a fire outside. Life was difficult, and it was a challenge, especially when the womenfolk had to deal with alcoholic farmer husbands (hard workers though they were).

Anyway, later in life, she moved to Memphis, had a successful career, and employed lots of people in the 60s. She lost most of her retirement income when stocks crashed a couple of years ago, and I know she is kind of scared about her finances at this late age.

Today, she is kind, generous, considerate, and a well loved matriarch of the family, and has many friends who care about her.

And yet, she still calls African Americans 'coloreds', I've even heard her say 'Negra' in conversations during my visits to Tennessee.

It was so weird, hearing her say things like that, but it almost seems innocent when you hear her say these words. Mainly because it is never in a disparaging or hateful way, more simply used as a descriptive in conversation.

While I couldn't tolerate anyone in my generation using the N word in a hateful way, with with my Aunt Millie, I just seem to swallow any criticism.

I have to realize she is a product of a southern culture who doesn't even realize what she is saying could be construed as racist, and I feel I just have to give her a pass. She is the last in her generation in our family. A generation that brought us all the good, the bad, and the ugly.

I just have to think to the future, and hope that generations to come eventually erase the racial hatreds that plague the human race, even today.

[The Wielding Truth]

34. You have her sensibility. I suppose that is why you are with us.

What is wrong is when these notions are fed and coaxed with fear and white superiority. It is not her innocence that is so bad, it is the harm that using her venerability to suppress people that is sinful.

[vanbean]

75. Very true. I can remember when it was acceptable to say "colored".

What does the NAACP stand for?

[NYMdaveNYI]

32. Yes, if I were to take a short drive over to the South Bronx...

I’d see how all those “coloreds” have it SOOOOOOO nice nowadays.

[democracy1st]

26. let me K & R this so that people can here these bigots.

[Spiderzumbie]

28. I love it when right before someone says something horrendously racist, they need to assure everyone

That they are not racist.

example: "I'm not racist, But Black people need to get jobs."

[stlsaxman]

29. the eyebrow at "i'm not a racist" was pure class!

[KurtNYC]

31. true, and it is also hysterical -- one small facial move that says it all

the only way it could be funnier is if it wasn't real.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

37. OMG Great poker face - I couldn't have done it and

it would be great to hear what he said once cameras were off.

OMG

[geckosfeet]

38. 90 years old - racism has been redifined several times over during her lifetime - she seems

like she is a little behind. The manner in which we speak of race has changed a lot. It varies regionally across the country as well. I would say that in some places in the deep south it is still acceptable to speak in this manner.

This also points up the dramatic differences between what one is unblushingly able to say if one 20 years old vs. a 90 year old. A 20 year old could probably not even fathom using that language (again, perhaps a few regional exceptions).

But the interviewer, who appeared to be in his late 30's - early 40's took the question and simply moved on. I bet he has heard much much worse in his lifetime.

[SemperEadem]

42. jesus hates her and she knows it.

that's why she's a miserable old fuck.

[Enthusiast]

44. "We gave them."

"I'm not a racist." Unfuckingreal.

[connecticut yankee]

46. Unfortunately,

idiots like them are allowed to vote.

[Crowman1979]

48. I can't wait for these old racists from the 1960's and earlier to become extinct.

[peacetalksforall]

49. It seems as though she created that little speech-question herself and

has probably said it many times and finally got her chance today - when a Black American was hosting to say it on a program like C-Span. She probably has said it to many racist hosts of local or national radio talk shows. I am sure she thinks it is clever.

It is easy to believe she got the racist message early from her parents. Imagine living 85 years with this in your head.

Then imagine all those people who think like her and act out their racism as she did by calling in (and worse) who believe ONLY THEY are going to heaven because they have accepted God/Christ in their hearts and the rest of us haven't, according to their rules.

Imagine, she believes that skin color is a privilege on which to base separation.

I always get to this point and have to ask why the same people who think like she does are the ones who beieve that the U.S. is superior to every other country on the planet.

[CLANG]

50. Of course you're not a racist, old white cracker lady!

[4dsc]

51. My 90 years old grandmother would have said the same thing

I don't believe this women meant to say anything racist as this is how she was raised and nothing is going to change that.

[certainot]

54. i can't believe cspan plays interviews by fox's major garrett (john thune)

rove really worked cspan over- it needs fixing- all the heritage foundation stuff, etc.

[BlueJazz]

55. I agree with what she said. If there is one truth in this country, it's the fact that....

...every person who ever received Welfare, Food Stamps or free housing was "Colored". :eyes:

[jotsy]

56. I am not a big fan of this particular Washington Journal host.

I cried for him this morning, though.

Rec'd.

[golddigger]

57. Most of these callers are paid republican plants.

[rainlillie]

59. That's proof that wisdom doesn't come with age.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

66. And, yet it probably was only the fourth dumbest call of the day on that show

C-Span phone-in shows are just a long, sad parade of unfiltered idiocy.

[Green_Lantern]

70. she's probably not a hate filled racist...she is just old..

Anyone here who thinks most 90 year old white, black, etc. people aren't even slightly prejudiced are kind of naive.

Sure some 90 year olds aren't prejudiced but they were probably progressive-minded to begin with.

My grandparents are about 90 and they say the same crap. Calling an old lady a bitch ranks right up there too.

[edbermac]

72. Reminds me of the Sammy Davis Jr All In The Family episode

Archie at 2:40 mins:

"Now no prejudice intended, but I always check with the Bible on these here things. If God had meant us to be together, he'd have put us together.
But look what he done. He put you in Africa, he put the rest of us in all the white countries."

Sammy's handling of Archie's stupidity is classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbdg95Abw_8

[Jefferson23]

73. Good God! Why don't "they" talk about what was done FOR them instead

of what was done to "them"! I'm surprised she didn't say darkie.

Yea, let's overlook that little thing called slavery and the Civil Rights movement because the white
man in US politics was ever so WILLING to afford African Americans their civil rights without a fight.

Pathetic hateful woman, and she gets no pass from me b/c of her age.

The gentleman was just that, a gentleman. I doubt that woman recognizes such a thing.

[caledesi]

74. Nasty peeps get old or go insane...doesn't mean they were ever nice. nt