Bill O'Reilly- Restaurant was nice, ''even though it's run by blacks'' (page 5)

snowbird

Why aren't black people infuriated about that?

Why aren't some or most Black people infuriated about that? I and a lot of others don't appreciate the comparison.

Sylvia

Open mind

As a healthy white, male, child of non-abusive parents, raised in one of the wealthiest nations on the planet, I'm sure my observations would be most appreciated here. Uhhh. On second thought.

Eccl 3:7b "a time to keep quiet and a time to speak".

I think I'll be sitting this one out.

Open Mind

In the words of Steve Martin in the movie The Jerk..... "I was born a poor black child in Mississippi...." I don't know why I remembered that, but I just did. Oh well. Leave it to me to say something completely off topic and strange. I love that movie, though. It's amazing what I think about due to my incredibly short attention span.

snowbird

There is a psychological term for the abnormal practice of hating someone YOU have wronged or injured - instead of vice versa.

I will have to dig out my psychology text and look it up, but this aptly describes the White/Black situation in the USA, imho.

Sylvia

Dorktacular

Sylvia, I dated a girl like that once. She always wanted to get me back for stuff she did to me. It was weird. Needless to say I didn't go out with her very long.

----not that she had anything to do with the Bill O'Reilly topic of this thread-----

snowbird

Sylvia, I dated a girl like that once. She always wanted to get me back for stuff she did to me. It was weird. Needless to say I didn't go out with her very long.

LOL!!! Thanks for giving me my first laugh of the day. I really shouldn't allow things like this to upset me, but I just have to vent sometimes. Much has been made over the timeless patience of Black people; I'm wondering, how long before the cauldron boils over?

Sylvia

Dorktacular

LOL!!! Thanks for giving me my first laugh of the day.

Yep. Hey, can I get you to call my wife and explain the "timless patience" of black people to my wife? She gets upset with me way too much! Of course, she'd probably counter that by saying "It isn't that black part of me that's mad at him!" LOL

JWdaughter

I think O'Reilly was coming from a place of social and cultural ignorance (that he should be over by now). How many times when we see such men as Colin Powell, Barak Obama, and women like Condoleeza Rice etc-very articulate and educated people of color, are we told that they are ONLY so well spoken because they were lucky, not raised in places like (fill in the blank) filled with poverty, crime, malnutrition. The ONLY way that they are so 'acceptable' to us 'white people' is that they are not like REAL black people. So, many of us, not ever having been anywhere really filled with poverty etc., buy into it. So, when we go to a place that fills all the stereotypes of places that raise the black underclass, struggling, crime ridden, etc (like Harlem-or for me, the south Bronx) and find wonderful, intelligent, caring, helpful, skilled and talented people we are a bit surprised. I was. The only black people I had known before living in the east coast were to me, talented and very bright people. I was told that they were an anomoly-that if they had been raised under different circumstances, they would not be those people (true to a certain extent-for anyone). So I then met friends in a nice middle class suburb of NYC. Then I went to church with them in a very mixed Black/Latino/White congregation. Still waiting to see all the stuff that would fulfill the negative stereotypes I had yet to see proof of. . .but one of my friends had been raised in the south bronx. His dad was pastor of a church there. I got to know many of his friends, started going to church there and found out something. People can be wonderful and smart and talented ANYWHERE! But my ignorant, white bread, socially isolated self had to learn it by being there. I would have said the same stupid thing as he did, and I wasn't racist. I was ignorant. He isn't as ignorant as he used to be, now, is he??

For the record, I think that generally O'Reilly is a blowhard arrogant SOB. I am not defending him. I do think that we need to have a lot less isolation within our country than we do. It really is like more than one country, and we keep clashing-when we all really want the same things. Just my opinion.

White Dove

I read into his surprise reaction that he had previously believed there to be inherent differences in the "races." (There is no useful purpose for this word since we are all biologically the same.)He's a biggot but sounds kind of innocent. He may be an open minded biggot in that when he learns different, he accepts it. He sounded like a child. Children react to things similarly.

snowbird

People can be wonderful and smart and talented ANYWHERE

!THANK YOU!!

Sylvia

Bill O'Reilly- Restaurant was nice, ''even though it's run by blacks''

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