First I would ask you to watch his comments starting at about 4:30...
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If I may Mr. Olbermann, here is my Special Comment to you today…
Since you asked Tea Partiers a bunch of questions and challenged our assertions and our beliefs, let me tell you what I’ve found.
The entire premise of your special comment was based on an assertion that all Tea Party attendees are white. This is simply untrue.
Your main contention, that we are all simply afraid out of some 60’s throwback mentality of distrusting people who aren’t like us, shows how truly out of touch you are with those who aren’t like you, politically and racially.
For the record, at every Tea Party I’ve attended and the one I spoke at, there were, in fact, people with non-white skin. We’ve had a black speaker and a Cuban speaker. I guess you’d wave your chauvinistic finger at us and claim those people were just token minorities, right? That we intentionally chose them out of some urge to disguise our true, evil, racist intent. Actually, Mr. Olbermann, no we did not.
But I think it’s high time someone finally calls you out, Mr. Olbermann, on something I don’t think you want to hear. That it is you, the one who asks us to count every minority skin color, sexual orientation, or gender, that is the racist. It is you who see based on color, judge based on color, speak based on color, and attack people based on color who is the real racist here. I think for all of your pontificating about how you call others out on their racism, it is you are truly insecure about yours.
You see, Mr. Olbermann, we don’t think minorities need an advocate. They don’t need a crutch. They can stand by themselves and for themselves because they are, in fact, equal to everyone else. They have the same potential as everyone else. They deserve to be treated like humans, not black humans.
Which is how you want to treat them, Mr. Olbermann. As if they need some sort of help. Why do they need a job based on their race and not ability? Maybe, Mr. Olbermann, it’s because you don’t think they can do it on their own. What, are they not smart enough, Mr. Olbermann? Is their some inherent trait that makes them unequal to whites, Mr. Olbermann? Let me help you out, Mr. Olbermann, there isn’t.
And what of your statement that somehow minorities can’t be conservative? They can’t be opposed to bankrupting future generations with debt. Your assertion that minorities don’t believe, or can’t believe this is indicative of another peculiar trait you possess, Mr. Olbermann. That is your assumption that races vote in monolithic blocks. That somehow, those, on average, 10% of black Americans that vote for the Republican Party every four years are, what Mr. Olbermann? Are they, as others on your network have suggested, not black? Do you somehow believe Mr. Olbermann, that to be black, means one must conform to one party. Maybe because you believe they must rely on you to tell them? Are they too stupid to figure it out? Let me help you out, Mr. Olbermann, they are smart enough. And that’s what you and your allies are afraid of. That if black Americans figure out the sick game your playing with them, if they are freed from the mediocrity you expect from them that they might find another party to vote for, or ideology to embrace.
Ah, maybe I’ve hit a nerve, Mr. Olbermann. Maybe I can ask you to ask yourself when you’re on your set tonight, why can’t minorities make decisions for themselves? Why can’t they get jobs without your help? Why can’t they support another candidate and preserve their racial identity in your mind?
I know the answers for myself. Minorities can do all of those things on their own. My ideology allows for every human being's true potential to come out. They don’t have to be subjugated into mediocrity. My ideology makes everyone, regardless of race, color, or creed free.
My question to you, Mr. Olbermann, is what are YOU afraid of?
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