Response to Olbermann: "People of color" at Tea Parties

UPDATE: More than 31,000 views in 2 days http://randyhaddock.com/post/401908459/more-than-31-000-views-in-2-days

So last night that race-peddlin' buffoon over at MSNBC... wait, that's pretty much everyone on that network. Let me be more specific. OK, so, last night Keith Olbermann used his self-parodying Special Comment segment to ask the following question: Where are the people of color at the Tea Parties? Now, implying and outright saying that Tea Party protesters are racist is commonplace in the far left. No news there. But two things in particular bother me about his question:

First, his choice of words. People of color? Who are these colored people he's referring to? What does that mean? It may be because I'm not a native English speaker, but I find this people of color business to be really bizarre. So as a Boricua, am I colored? I guess I'm olive but if I hit the beach on a sunny day I can be golden brown. Is he referring strictly to skin color? Culture? Ethnicity? I mean, I'm not that much darker than Mr. Olbermann himself. Do I fall into his people of color category?

Or, as I suspect, are people of color just code for those who deviate too much from the skin color which Olbermann seems to deem as the standard? I mean, come on, Olbermann has no color, right? He's white. That ain't no color. That's just how it's supposed to be, right? So, all I can think of is that he means black. Black people are colored, and everyone else is just normal and a-OK. Man, this race and colors stuff is difficult to understand!

And secondly, the question is stupid, the premise terribly moronic and the insinuation totally insulting. The Tea Party protesters aren't racist. Are there a few kooks with nefarious motivations? Sure, every movement has them. It's nice how, during the Bush years, the MSM did everything they could to whitewash the fringe elements of the antiwar movement, but I digress. Whats Olbermann's evidence that Tea Parties are overwhelmingly racist? Apparently, that there are no people of color at these rallies. That is so blatantly false as to induce uncontrollable laughter. There are people of all backgrounds at the Tea Parties. But even if an event is dominated by a certain race group, what does that prove? Similar to what Glenn Reynolds said earlier this month, if you look at a group of white folks and the first thought that pops into your head is "racists!" then you have some serious issues.

So I put together this video response to Olbermann's burning question. Here are his "people of color" he's been inquiring about.

http://randyhaddock.com/post/397776463/response-to-olbermann-people-of-color-...

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[pjmgame]

@RandyHaddock Buffoon? I wouldn't say everyone on MSNBC is a buffoon, EX: Rachel Maddow. She has Doctor of Philsophy from Oxford University. WOW. And that's a buffoon? Do you know how hard it is getting into Oxford? Its probably the best college in the world.

[pjmgame]

The Tea Party is NOT Racist. They only hate muslims. If your a muslim and you have conservative values you will NOT be accepted into the tea party. Why? Because your a muslim. The tea party HATES muslims. BIGOTRY LIVES WITH-IN THEM!!!!

[janelasdedeus]

OMG... who let Nat Turner out of the Democrat party plantation?

[Xantheus07]

@pjmgame Wow i guess its true you cant cure stupid. Either you're being willfully ignorant or you're borderline retarded. Either way im done with you be safe and have fun.

[pjmgame]

@Xantheus07 LMFAO!!!! What a crazy story.....which is not true. Stop the lies!!!

[Xantheus07]

@pjmgame cont " and that every mussulman who was slain in this warfare was sure to go to paradise.He said, also, that the man who was the first to board a vessel had one slave over and above his share, and that when they sprang to the deck of an enemy's ship, every sailor held a dagger in each hand and a third in his mouth; which usually struck such terror into the foe that they cried out for quarter at once."

[Xantheus07]

@pjmgame "In March 1785, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams went to London to negotiate with Tripoli's envoy, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman (or Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja). Upon inquiring "concerning the ground of the pretensions to make war upon nations who had done them no injury", the ambassador replied: "It was written in their Koran, that all nations which had not acknowledged the Prophet were sinners, whom it was the right and duty of the faithful to plunder and enslave;" cont

[Xantheus07]

@pjmgame Your ill informed i suggest you google the Barbary Wars.

[pjmgame]

@Xantheus07 Your insane. Islam has NEVER attacked us before the 1900's.

[NewYorkCityUSA7]

@KingRogan Wake me up when a black republican has a REAL shot at winning the republican nomination for President.  BTW - We all know it's not gonna be Cain.....The stupidity of people like you actually hurts my brain.