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O’Reilly Suggests Violence In Chicago Is Due To Immorality In Black Community

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on June 01, 2012 · Flag

Bill O’Reilly hosted Father Michael Pfleger last night – yes, the same Father Pfleger whom O’Reilly and Fox News has relentlessly demonized was there - purportedly as an expert on the high rate of violent crime in Chicago. But it soon became pretty clear that O’Reilly was more interested in lecturing Pfleger about out-of-wedlock births in the black community than he was in any insights Pfleger had to offer for the increased violence. 

After Pfleger offered up his theories about the high crime rate (a culture of violence and guns), O’Reilly offered up his own theory: immorality in the black community.

Noting that most of the victims of violence in Chicago are minorities, O’Reilly asked, “Do you as a Catholic priest make any correlation between above 70% in the black community out-of-wedlock birth rate, whereas babies are being born primarily to single mothers who are poor, who have trouble supervising, no father in the house. Do you make any correlation between the morality of that situation and the violent crime you’re seeing?”

Pfleger didn't. He said, “What I do make a connection with is that we are living in a society where the family is broken apart, neighbors are broken apart – we’re a country now that we don’t talk to one another.”

O’Reilly pressed. “…You have a lot of African Americans in your church… Do you tell them not to have babies out of wedlock?”

Pfleger said “of course” he does. He later said, “This is not a black situation.”

O’Reilly interrupted, “No, it is a black situation. When you have above 70% in one ethnic group, it’s a black situation, Father!”

Pfleger said he sees the same thing in white communities.

But O’Reilly said the rate of unwed mothers is about 25% in white communities. “I think that we have to be honest about this…The more you have chaos in the family, the more violent crime you’re gonna have,” he said.

If O'Reilly really wants to be honest, he should note that out-of-wedlock birthrates are soaring in this country and not just among blacks. The Centers for Disease Control found in 2009 that from 1995 to 2002, the nonmarital birth rate for black women declined 12%. Also, the birthrate for unmarried Hispanic women is higher than for African Americans. Yet O'Reilly fixated on black babies from unwed mothers.

This is far from the first time O’Reilly has showed disdain for African Americans. Who can forget his visit to Sylvia’s restaurant in Harlem where he was so pleasantly surprised to find everybody well mannered? Or his condescending interview with African American Jehmu Greene in which he said, “I think everybody understands that black Americans vote for the Democrats because of entitlement spending.” Or his patronizing attitude toward Trayvon Martin’s mother?

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Ellen commented 2012-06-02 01:03:47 -0400 · Flag
mj – the same one wrote:
I’m surprised BillO didn’t suggest the violence was due to a lack of “MFing iced tea” . . .

LOL!
Ellen commented 2012-06-02 01:03:15 -0400 · Flag
Bob Roberts – OMG, you are so right!
Kent Brockman commented 2012-06-01 22:57:41 -0400 · Flag
Killer O’Reilly Sez

I’m Placing the Blame squarely on Those Immoral Black People from the President’s Home Town.
Kent Brockman commented 2012-06-01 22:57:41 -0400 · Flag
Killer O’Reilly Sez

I’m Placing the Blame squarely on Those Immoral Black People from the President’s Home Town.
Christopher Currie commented 2012-06-01 22:13:32 -0400 · Flag
O’Reilly is the type of “dutiful Irish Catholic”, who, historically, would have fled the neighborhood once people of color began to move in.. and petitioned the Archdiocese to close the neighborhood church in favor of building a new one in a distant suburb..
Antoinette commented 2012-06-01 15:55:21 -0400 · Flag
Billy knows all about immorality. Just ask Andrea.
mj - the same one commented 2012-06-01 15:50:14 -0400 · Flag
I’m surprised BillO didn’t suggest the violence was due to a lack of “MFing iced tea” . . .

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Gooch X commented 2012-06-01 15:16:23 -0400 · Flag
When race is the only variable a person chooses to focus on when determining the cause of social problems….then that person is nothing more than a racist.
Aria Prescott commented 2012-06-01 14:52:51 -0400 · Flag
My only question is how long this will take to make the list with civil rights groups. This is O’Reilly’s what- third notable attack on Chicago’s black community? I’m surprised he isn’t joining Beck and Limbaugh on losing sponsors at a freefall rate.
Bob Roberts commented 2012-06-01 13:55:53 -0400 · Flag
And, I forgot to add O’Loofah would find some way to tie President Obama into it.
Bob Roberts commented 2012-06-01 13:54:44 -0400 · Flag
Ellen, if he had any of the “Interrupters” on, he would probably focus on their past criminal activity, decry that they don’t make a difference among their “own people” (by throwing out his meaningless statistics) and then rail that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson don’t spend any time there to help them because they are too busy “race-baiting” and dividing the country.
Ellen commented 2012-06-01 12:30:42 -0400 · Flag
God forbid O’Reilly should have these people on. They know Chicago violence, they’re fighting it and they’ve had success.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/interrupters/

But then again, it wouldn’t work into the Fox News demonize-the-poor-and-minorities messaging.
Anne-claire Souza commented 2012-06-01 11:55:19 -0400 · Flag
Who said “If I only had a brain?”
NewsHounds posted about O’Reilly Suggests Violence In Chicago Is Due To Immorality In Black Community on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2012-06-01 11:39:27 -0400
O'Reilly lectures Fr. Pfleger about the "black situation" of crime and unwed motherhood.








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