Being old enough to remember the pre-Civil Rights era doesn’t make me wiser. It brings muscle aches, to be sure, but usually wisdom isn’t served up with that. Having been around the Carolinas before the George Wallaces of the South were smacked down, does mean, however, that I know racism when I see it.
Which brings us to Ann Coulter, the giant blonde praying mantis that occasionally mouths off on FoxNews. Coulter and her intellectual near-equal, Sean Hannity, were discussing Herman Cain yesterday, when the Vacuous Beanpole compared African Americans who join the GOP with those who opt for the Democrats.
“Our blacks are so much better than their blacks,” Coulter said. She went on to give reasons for her expert opinion, but those words were drowned out by the giant whoosh of millions of jaws dropping. Yes, once and for all, Coulter laid it all out: Blacks are commodities to be owned, even if only metaphorically. They’re certainly not regular, normal people like white folks, who we would never refer to in such a demeaning way.
Coulter, as we know, has a gift for saying stupid things. She once declared that she thinks Bill Clinton is gay (to which Jon Stewart said, ‘He’s not gay just because he hasn’t hit on your bony ass”). But “our blacks are so much better than their blacks”? Could you be any more of a clueless country clubber, Ann?
This article appears in Nov 1-7, 2011.
She is a raving lunatic, full of hatred. The ONLY good thing I can say about her is that unlike all the other faux newscasters, she actually believes what comes out of her mouth.
love her keep up the good work,,,,, the turth will set u free
How about instead of telling your readers that something racist was said you explain the point she was making and let them decide. If “she went on to give reasons” why don’t you share them? Sounds like you’d rather demonize her because you don’t like her opinions.
Those that took offense are just jealous and want to ignore the obvious. Black democrats are a commodity for the democratic party and they get very nervous when you tread on their turf. It’s a shame that the black community is so brainwashed.
Coulter’s sarcasm and attempt at irony failed, mainly because it was so sophisticated in its concepts and delivery that few are able to grasp it. Certainly Creative Loafing in Charlotte proves again why it is a free paper.
she is an idiot just like anyone who thinks she is brilliant. Some would say that the GOP blacks truly believe they r equal to their white counterparts. Nothing could be further from the truth. She only proves no matter how far this country has supposedly come, hatred, racism and segregation still exist. I for one am a black democrat and I’m damn proud of it. I haven’t been brainwashed or fed a load of crap. I still believe I am just as good as a black GOP or a white one and no one will get me to believe otherwise. It’s a shame that people get off on controversy and ignorant comments. And we are the ones that get called the N word. Seems to me ignorance comes in all different colors, therefore the N word would apply to Ann Coulter. Since she is so brilliant I’m sure she knows the true meaning of the word, not the meaning that has been fed to the masses.
Oh please. The nerve of attacking Ann when the history of the Democratic Party is all about racism and truly owning people. The first blacks elected to Congress were Republicans, and the origins of Jim Crow and the KKK can be found with the Democrats. You twist her words as a distraction from the valid points she makes, but you did it because you know you’ll lose a debate on substance.
She’s such an f’ing pussy! If she wants to join Stormfront, Aryan Nation, or another White Power Organization, she needs to man up and admit she is racist instead of going on Fox News with Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, and all those other faggots who need to put their teeth on the curb and get curbstomped. That c*nt is a bonebag who needs to get her jaw busted.
(qoute)sometimes it is best to be thought a fool than to open your mouth an remove all doubht.will some one please tell ann this for peace sake.
She is a numbnuts of the first order. But we share part of the blame by acknowledging her blighted existence.
She is a hypocritical psychocunt
To john_w: You might be careful about whom you criticize of twisting the facts. You write: “The first blacks elected to Congress were Republicans…” That, sir, was a very different Republican Party. And the Dixiecrats you refer to who were associated with Southern racism and bigotry were a very different breed of Democrats. The times have changed, although the names remain the same. Just curious: What valid point has Ann Coulter ever made?
john_W, you’ve fallen for a standard GOP misdirection play, which goes like this: slave owners supported the Democratic party, Jim Crow and the KKK originated with the Democrats, so that makes the GOP the true friend of African Americans.
Here are the facts: all those things about the Democrats are true. And yes, Republicans were the party of the Reconstruction and freedom for African Americans. But by the mid-1960s, the two parties had switched places on the liberal/conservative rankings. Here’s how:
Many southern Dems were disillusioned as the national Democratic party became more liberal in the mid-20th century. By 1964, they were fed up with northern Dems’ support for civil rights. (Liberal Republicans supported it too, of course – and yes, there used to be such a thing as a liberal Republican). S.C. conservative Dem Strom Thurmond switched to the GOP during Barry Goldwater’s 1964 Pres. campaign, opening the floodgates for other conservative southern Democrats to do the same. At that point, the GOP became the much more conservative party of the two, until by the early 70s, the switch was complete. The real issue on race, rather than party affiliation, is conservative vs. liberal, not GOP vs. Dem, since the two have essentially switched places.
In any case, for the GOP to make a big deal out of their support for African American rights 150 years ago is, to put it mildly, kind of ridiculous, but mostly it’s just irrelevant to discussions of any current issues, since the GOP has been very conservative since ’64, and then super-conservative since the early 70s.
Either the current batch of GOPers don’t know their political history in full, or they think their followers are ignorant and gullible. Unfortunately, I’m often surprised by how many times we get the old “Dems are the KKK party” commentary. For what it’s worth, at the last KKK rally I covered, in the early 1990s, the Grand Whatever was urging everyone to register Republican.
I am registered as an independent and have no great love for the Dems – most of them in Congress are just as willing to be corporate whores as the GOP. But there IS still a chance now and then to get liberal legislation supported by Dems, while that never, ever happens with Republicans.
Regardless how you look at this it a racist remark. Its kind of like the stupid” Some of my friends are black” is what white folks have a habit of saying when accused of being prejudice. You don’t have to be a scholar to read between the lines of some guy like Ann Coulter.
I am a white woman 68 years old, who was taught to respect my elders regardless of race or religion. When is this country ever going to stop breaking us down by race……….. All men are created equal. We are Americans!
We are what we are by the choices we make. Treat others as you wish to be treated. Yes it works, try it.
People will say anything to make a buck, but to treat each other with respect is free.
There are people of all races who make bad choices by dropping out of school, starting families while teens, using drugs or drinking and blame others for their choices. These are not race issues they are social issues we need to resolve as a country.
Now let’s deal with the real issues facing this country.
“Blacks are commodities to be owned” – You would have to feel very inferior and be an extreme racist to come to that conclusion over what she said.
Let me take a moment to explain something to people of all colors.
If your ancestors have lived for a hundred generations in the northern latitudes, your skin is lighter because it helps you absorb vitamin D from the reduced sunlight. In the summer, when the sun is brighter, your skin color darkens in order to protect you from UV. You call it a tan.
If your ancestors have lived for a hundred generations near the equator, where the brighter sun is a constant, your skin is darker for the same reason that the people in the first example tan.
There is no significant genetic difference between the two groups of people. Grouping people by skin color is as stupid as grouping them by eye color, or hair color.
Humans are humans. Race is a red herring used to pit people against each other. People of ANY color who feel the need to define people by skin colors are morons.
Until we get to the point where I’m a human and you are a human; and that is ALL that matters. There will always be racism. Dividing people into demographics, voting groups, Black History month, etc. Any time you seperate people by social, economical, racial, or whatever status, it only adds to the idea that there is seperation to be talked about and noticed. Your article highlights what you deem as her racism but ironically only becomes part of the problem because you are adding to the division. I don’t want to sound like we should all hold hands and sing Kumbiya and be happy together. But as long as people are not viewed as just that….people….there will always be predjustice and racism.
John Grooms: First let me correct you when you said switched “the liberal/conservative rankings” because you are intentionally mixing ‘modern conservative’ with ‘old racist South’, which isn’t true or a fair comparison. History shows the realignment of the South toward the Republican Party was mostly based on two things. First, as the Democrats embraced a more progressive (socialistic) platform (the rise of 1960s radicalism after all), they ignored their southern religious members, which switched because of religion. Second, the Democrat South simply joined the rest of the nation and abandoned their overt racialist policies. You claim Democrats are now the friends to black America – based on what? There is zero evidence that the Democrats have done anything except find a new form of slavery (with government dependency) to control people. Let’s take a look at the results of those “caring” policies on the black community: crime skyrocketed, single-motherhood skyrocketed, unemployment has increased, government dependency of course increased, failing schools (and it should be noted that those predominantly black schools are also in areas that tend to be totally Democrat-controlled), and just about every other social pathology has worsened for blacks with their allegiance to the Democrats. Yes, the parties have changed but not in the ways you are suggesting. I could also point out the numerous viscous attacks made by Democrats on black conservatives, and the comments of Democrats even about Obama during the campaign as “light skinned” and “with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one,” said Harry Reid. Or Joe Biden describing Obama as “…the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean…” Oh the outrage that would have erupted had a Republican said something similar. Yet, these are all forgivable offenses because they ostensibly “care” about blacks (for votes and thus power, yes). Conservative today primarily means limiting government power to its constitutionally defined role, freeing markets from excessive regulations, lowering taxes, and just generally getting government out of people’s lives. But you and others intentionally mix that issue as somehow a desire to go back to 1850’s slavery which is absurd, especially given what the modern Democrats have done to the black community if you look at it honestly. So according to your claims, lifelong Democrat and (ex)Klansman, Senator Robert Byrd, used to be a bad guy, but suddenly turned into a good guy one day in the 1960s? We’d also have to ignore the fact that Byrd as recently as 2001 said, “There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time.” The mountain of evidence simply does not support your claims.
Ann Coulter is a colossal khuntard. Her head is so far up her own queef-spewing snatch, she looks like the miraculously thriving abortion she is. “Our nyggyrs can beat up your nyggyrs!” Brilliant. Ann, you clogged dooshnozzle, simply brilliant. Now go phuqk yourself with a table leg. It won’t complain about the stench. LOLOLOL
john_W, I’d be more impressed with a thought-out logical argument rather than jumping from one thing to another and all over the place, as in your post. What you’re saying is just a jumble of facts that don’t have much to do with what I had written in the first place. What I wrote wasn’t exactly controversial. Any historian of US politics will tell you that the modern GOP won the South by attracting the Democrats who were turned off by liberal Dem policies, especially after the national Dems began supporting the civil rights movement more vigorously. I hate to say it, but I was there, pal – I remember this stuff like it was yesterday, so your revisionist versions of that era aren’t gonna flush here. Look at the list of Dems who voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — within two years, all but a few had become Republicans. This is simple history, I don’t really see your objection.
John Grooms – Pretty funny that you accuse me of jumping around when I stayed on the topic of presenting evidence of Democrat racism, yet I find in your comment something about “corporate whores” and the Democrats not being “liberal” enough for your taste (scary thought). But anyway, you leave out a lot of context and keep repeating the same silly argument: “see, some racists went over there, so now that whole bunch must be racist.” That’s essentially your argument.
How could Republicans be a refuge for racists when they voted for the Civil Rights Act by a larger percentage in both houses than did the Democrats? What does it prove that some Democrats voted against it, but then joined the side that voted for it, other than they are opportunists. It proves nothing. Like Michael Bloomberg, another longtime Democrat, who changes parties when it serves his career or agenda.
Racism was the glue that joined the South to the Democratic Party. During the 60s, with segregation as a dying issue, Southerners turned their attention to other issues, such as taxes and smaller government. This is how they won the south. Southerners were also more religious and didn’t support things like abortion. In this regard, the Republicans fit their political views and social values more than the Democrats. These are the reasons for the political shift, not the GOP deciding to become racists one day and the Democrats simultaneously saying “we love blacks now!” I know the Democrats are desperate to clean up their history and shift the blame elsewhere (like they do with virtually everything). So just disregard liberal statements, policies, history, and the condition of black America under their political guidance, and repeat the revisionism of GOP “racism.” The Democrats are benefiting greatly by it. Too bad we can’t say the same for blacks.
Ann Coulter is a racist plain and simple.
Grooms…..why don’t you mention that THE LONGEST FILIBUSTER against the 1964 Civil Rights Bill was by Sen Robert Byrd A LIFELONG DEMOCRAT. But before that was a grand dragon in the KKK. Robert Byrd was praised his entire career, and even praised today by Democrats. The other biggest opponent to the bill was Sen Al Gore Sr. These people never switched parties. democrats have never done anything for blacks other than stuff them in public housing, kill off their babies by abortions in disproportionate numbers, and keep them on the government tit.
Jesus Christ, people, I’m not “making an argument,” I’m just relating the honest, for real history of how the GOP won the South. This isn’t controversial, it’s not even up for debate, it’s what actually happened. You ask “How could Republicans be a refuge for racists when they voted for the Civil Rights Act by a larger percentage in both houses than did the Democrats?” The answer to that is that the GOP went much more conservative in 1964 and nominated Barry Goldwater for president. That inspired, if that’s the word, the beginning of the move. Again, this is just generally accepted history, guys.
And Super Chuck, seriously, get a friggin grip. You apparently didn’t even understand what I was saying (not that that’s an unusual thing in this comments section, but it’s still annoying) I specifically said that southern Dems were the leading opponents of civil rights, and that applies equally to the ones who didn’t switch parties later. Don’t try to teach me the history of an era I lived through and have studied most of my life.
Like most people who spout off at the drop of a hat without thinking things through, you guys need to learn a little humility. Maybe quit listening to history mangler Glenn Beck
Grooms….the point of your article was that Ann Coulter is a racist and you know a racist when you see one because you “lived through the civil rights era”. People like you do such a disservice to victims of true racism. It is hard to believe you lived in the 60’s if you think someone saying “our blacks are better than you blacks” is racist. People like you that are on a never ending search for the next racist that you have watered-down the term so so so much that any living breathing white person is a racist. You have turned into the “lyncher” and spewer of hate (not to mention your offensive use of Jesus’ name in vain in your last post). Coulter was giving the blacks in the GOP a COMPLIMENT. Yet you are so intent on labeling the next racist…You sir are the one that has strayed from reality.
Grooms has an agenda to paint conservatives as racists, but cannot provide any real evidence. So he, like others, has to twist a pundit’s words, which were clearly meant tongue-in-cheek (making fun of Democrats who are race obsessed and play the race-card constantly). Or he spins the fact some racist Democrats switched parties, as a career move in the face of dying support for racist policies, as iron-clad proof of GOP racism. Goldwater opposed the CRA of 64 (supported the others) on constitutional grounds, specifically titles II and VII, which allowed federal regulation of public accommodations and employment (also, he was so racist that he was a member of the Arizona NAACP and was involved in desegregating the Arizona National Guard). Grooms keeps repeating the same fallacy of “the GOP went much more conservative” to mean racist. The conservatism that attracted Southerners was based on religious, political and social policies. He says his recollection of history isn’t up for debate, yet I know people (blacks) who also lived during that era and earlier who would disagree with him. You can provide a mountain of overtly racist evidence against today’s Democrats, but he turns a blind eye to it and instead attacks the imaginary racism of the other side.