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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTed Nugent launches a racist rant for the ages
Be forewarned. What you'll read here is not nice.
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/16/ted_nugent_writes_insanely_racist_op_ed_about_the_legacy_of_martin_luther_king_jr/
Even for Ted Nugent, who once wrote that Americas African-American community has a mindless tendency to violence, this one is bad. Writing at the batshit insane right-wing fever swamp of a site known as WorldNetDaily, Nugent claimed on Wednesday that a viral video of a young child cursing was representative of all the ways black people in America had failed to live up to the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Just when you think it cant get any uglier, Nugent begins, some street rat will slither out of the sewer and do something that shocks even the most hardened and calloused among us, me included. He goes on to argue that the video showed the continuing and unbroken cycle of street-rat savagery and that the boys family (he uses scare quotes around the word) is a bunch of gangster thugs, punks, degenerates and criminals.
As much as the video bothered Nugent, however, the former rock star writes that it represents just the tip of the black gangster iceberg. He goes on to argue that [h]igh school dropout rates, illegitimacy and other culture rot is a black plague that has engulfed the black community and that this tsunami of dysfunction is the result of Fedzillas $16 trillion and 50-year-old so-called war on poverty, which created a cycle of dependency, destruction and culture rot for black America.
Finally getting to how any of this dehumanizing and blatantly bigoted rhetoric relates to Martin Luther King Jr., Nugent proclaims that African-Americans cannot honestly celebrate the legacy of Dr. King until they admit to the self-inflicted destructo-derby they are waging and begin to tell their liberal Democratic slave drivers to take a hike.
Skittles
(153,169 posts)he's just tossing red meat to his rabid, racist fans
timothywcrane
(9 posts)The fact that you are not a racist is enough to rile these guys up. I guess I am a "white guilt victim"/sarc. That is the nicest thing that was said on "http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/somali-muslim-migrants-protest-welfare-reform-in-maine/" when I dared state even the slightest hints of factual advice. I am neither left nor right, but as a native born American muslim I guess that I am either too intelligent for my own good, not smart enough, do not know my own faith, and am in support of destroying my own country. I know so because I was told so . LOL. I am sure that not everything I believe in or say is shared by all, but the treatment I got here (didn't know where I landed after a search before commenting) borders if not only the scarily threatening, at least morally depraved.
It actually made what ole' Teddy say seem tame.
Even guest votes in my support would be appreciated. I did stay and fight... for almost three days. Please don't leave me alone in this one, even if you do not share my views you will be appalled.
surrealAmerican
(11,362 posts)I can't quite figure out what you are trying to say. Apparently, you were poorly treated at some other site.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)brush
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Why give this asshole any coverage? He's not worth the toilet paper he didn't use back when he was soiling his pants to avoid the draft.
Who the hell is he with his shitty-panted legacy to criticize anyone?