Bill O’Reilly clearly thinks African Americans are foolish for voting Democratic. But when he tried to persuade his two black guests, let’s just say they were not impressed.
O’Reilly started his condescending lecture in his Talking Points commentary (transcript via Media Matters):
O’REILLY: The stats say that under a progressive Democratic president, black Americans are less well-off than they were under President Bush the younger. Now, it would be hard to believe that black Americans would rally behind Donald Trump because he has been successfully demonized in many African-American precincts. Also, Trump’s style doesn’t seem to appeal to minority voters in general. I don’t think there’s any question about that. But on the issues it is clear that liberal policies have not really helped the African-American community lately. However, Talking Points believes that change is not in the air, that blacks and other minorities will go big for Hillary Clinton despite the current state of the union. Will anything change that? No.
O’Reilly followed that with a discussion with two African American guests, attorney Andell Brown and Rev. Jacques DeGraff. I’ll give O’Reilly credit for hosting these two instead of members of Fox’s resident African American black attackers or faux liberal/Trump lover Eboni Williams.
“Why isn’t the African-American community saying, ‘Look, You know what? We had a black president. Didn’t really help us very much. The Democratic Party hasn’t really helped us very much.” Why doesn’t the African American community “go supply-side economics and look for a guy who’s going to stimulate the economy?” O’Reilly asked.
Brown took issue with O’Reilly calling Trump “demonized” and pointed to some of the racist things Trump has “said and done,” including his infamous, racist tweet with bogus, inflated black crime statistics.
O’Reilly kept saying he wanted to take Trump “out of the equation,” as if he just wanted to know why African Americans don’t vote Republican. But it was pretty clear that he thought they should vote for Trump – and that they would if they had a lick of sense and would just let go of, as O’Reilly often calls it, “this racism business.”
DeGraff wasn’t buying it. “Black Americans, like any other group in America, are capable of determining their own best interest,” he said. “Black Americans don’t have a relationship with the Republican party because of the hostile environment that they fostered for eight years.”
Nobody mentioned, though I wish they had, the voting restrictions Republicans seem hell-bent on imposing that just happen to negatively affect minorities. Nothing would make me feel less like voting for someone than someone who was trying to keep me from voting.
However, Brown piled on by naming several Obama administration initiatives that have helped African Americans, such as criminal justice reform and Obama’s “Race To The Top” educational grants.
But O’Reilly wasn't interested. He took the last word:
O'REILLY: When you look at a president who’s been in office almost eight years, you have to evaluate what has been accomplished and there’s no question, according to the stats, that blacks are worse off.
Watch O’Reilly’s whitesplaining below, from the August 17 The O’Reilly Factor, via Media Matters and YouTube.
Well, BillO — as a 50+ year old African American man, I’m so gratified for your concern for our well being . . . especially since, not too long ago, you told Drumpf that blacks weren’t qualified for jobs, anyway:
“But how are you going to get jobs for [black people]? Many of them are ill-educated and have tattoos on their foreheads, and I hate to be generalized about it, but it’s true. If you look at all the educational statistics, how are you going to get jobs for people who aren’t qualified for jobs?”
http://news.groopspeak.com/bill-oreilly-tells-trump-blacks-arent-qualified-for-jobs-video/
And that’s on top of what Drumpf himself had to say about blacks — well, specifically, about a former black employee . . . though he didn’t word it that way:
" . . . Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is; I believe that. It’s not anything they can control.” (as quoted by John O’Donnell)
Now what African American WOULDN’T want to get behind Drumpf after a comment like that — right, BillO?
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Everyone who votes for the execrable Trump will be holding up their hand to say, “Yes, I hate the blacks, I don’t trust the Hispanics, I’m scared of the A-Rabs and the womenfolk would all be better off barefoot and pregnant, leaving that there governin’ stuff to their husbands. I’d rather have a greedy, lyin’ creep and fraud than any woman, specially a hard working, good-hearted one like that murderin’ dyke Hellary.”
There ain’t no hiding it now.
Save your twisted ill-logic for you Duke fan club.
