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(10,118 posts)Who appose Obama, It's their DNA, It's A pez dispenser for RWNJ's, Candy for hate,
Always sugar to the horse that lost, Racism is Very Alive At Fox News, And Roger Alies
Need to be fired for being a racist prick.
fascisthunter
(29,381 posts)he has a heart, the courage and brains to say what most of us have a much harder time saying. I'd love to have a beer with this guy!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)An uncle tom is someone who displays servile behavior, accepting a "second class" position willingly, or who tries to erase / deny their own background in order to "pass" among the dominant ethnic group. For lack of a better phrase, to be an Uncle Tom is to "act white."
No, no. What we have here is something called a "rented negro." This is a black person (though other groups also have "renteds" who serves as a mouthpiece for white racist views, saying the lines for the white people thinking them, so that the white racist can then go "Look, a black person said it, it's okay!"
David Webb is not an uncle tom. He's not bowning and subservient to the whites, he sits with htem as an equal in this piece. Rather he says what they are "not allowed" to say for them, exonerating them of any guilt in the sentiments expressed.
Also, "Uncle Tom" is an undeserved epithet, based on unauthorized minstrel show versions of Stowe's novel that degenerate a strong black martyr into a servile, ancient geezer who backs up the ideals of racism and oppression.
drynberg
(1,648 posts)I'd never heard the term "rented negro", but that it is. Well done.
First time I've heard "rented negro" as well. I think pretty much every race has a term that parallels both of those.
bobopa
(17 posts)Look at whistle blower Richard I. Fine in Los Angeles, but it is not local to LA, IT IS EVERYWHERE!!! Research Sturgon v. Los Angeles County. But hey, people who want reality don't really watch Fox News!
limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)What he says is basically correct but the way he is saying it is making me cringe.