Answering Janeane Garafolo
“They don’t know their history. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.”
“Well, because they’re not just honest protesters. They were indeed motivated a lot by racism. You saw some of those signs. Did you not? And if they are upset about fiscal imprudence, where were they for the last eight years?”
“Everybody I saw at that tea party are racists.”
Those are the comments of Actress, JANEANE GAROFALO. Why her comments matter is beyond me, but the media has made a sensation of it, and especially those in the conservative media and circles have made her comments important.
Perhaps they do it to point out the hypocrisy of the left, and that is a fairly worthy but lost cause. Garafolo represents a lot of the limousine liberals who rail about racism. Their comments and their ideas are somewhat tainted though by their own form of racism, a racism that they have no clue they are living, and possibly much more insidious than anything the Klan can up with.
The Klan is outright rejected by the masses, but the insidious form of racism practiced by the Hollywood left, and others on the left, is surreptitious and fools the masses so much so that they have no opportunity to reject it. Their misguided intentions seem intuitive, but they pull the Americans into their same form of racist bigotry.
The answer to Garofolo is not to whine about her ignorant remarks which obviously come from the mouth of a clown, court jester or perhaps a king’s fool. The answer is to ask Garafolo if she is the savior of the black race? She seems to think, as do many Hollywood liberals and leftists do, that without them, blacks in America would have no chance.
In other words blacks need their help because blacks are helpless. The great white Garafolo is going to come and rescue the poor helpless black people with her constant attacks on those she considers racist, and after all it is always nice and good to attack racists. Everybody can rally around that cause.
Consider the new movie the Soloist and many other Hollywood drama’s of similar theme. Its about a black man who has fallen on hard times and is discovered by a generous white man who through a stormy and turbulent friendship rescues the black man so that his real talents can be discovered and utilized.
The back story that is ignored is that it took a white man to come along and rescue a black man as if a black man was helpless and unable to step up to a winning life on his own. The white man is in the position of power and the black man is in the position of weakness. The white man is the winner and the black man is the looser until the white man kindly makes the black man a winner. The white man is able to save the black man because of the powerlessness of the black man, despite the fact that this black man had all the talents and power and the white man had none.
This is the same theatrical theme, the “poor weak black man is in need,” that Janine Garaflo uses to attack conservatives so that they can be rescued with her sloppy yet angry diatribes against all that oppresses and which she alone has the power to drop in and effect a rescue.
Is the black man, or woman powerless? Why do we never see stories or hear tales of black people rescuing white people? I am sure there are many of these stories out there where black folks step up and make a difference in the lives of powerless whites.
I believe that these stories are not told because it keeps black people powerless. It keeps them believing they are powerless. It keeps them believing that they have no hope except that which some do gooding powerful white comedian gives them. That is the most insidious form of racism I have ever seen. And it has to be the most insidious form of racism a balck man or woman can encounter because it is right in their face and pretends to help but while smiling at them it is tearing their very soul from their being. That is a form of racism that truly demeans people of color and keeps them oppressed.
Great White Hopes. They are not the savior of black folks. They are not the only means for blacks in America to find their way to the top. They are the means by which blacks remain in hopeless oppression. Janine Garafolo needs to shut up. She’s not even funny anymore.
July 4th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
Garofalo question does not deserve an answer. I agree that she feels she needs to be the sound reasoning voicebox for all blacks…..she sounds more like a racial enabler. If I was a empowered black man or woman, I would be embarassed by this generic pollywood wannabe liberal celeb.
May 14th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Garafolo doesn’t speak for me.
I’m waiting for this idiot to join her ‘SISTER-IN-ARMS’ … JANE FONDA and join the enemy in Iraq, for a … PHOTO SHOOT … while are men and women are fighting in that country.
Garafolo is ‘MAD AS HELL’ because ‘FOR ONCE’ her … LIBERAL SOCIALISTS BELIEFS … are being challanged by a ‘GRASS ROOT GROUP’. It angers the loons from Hollywood and DC.
Garafolo has to label the ‘TEA PARTY MOVEMENT’ racist, to get her point across. What else can she do?
I disagreed with the Bush Administration on some issue, I disagree with Obama on many issues, and it just happens that the president is ‘BLACK’.
CALL ME A RACIST BECAUSE I CHALLENGE A BLACK PRESIDENT … DOESN’T MEAN A THING.
What GARAFOLO, has to do is, GET RID OF HER GROUCHO MARX, EYEBROWS, TRADE IN HER GLASSES FOR A NEW PAIR, and STOP WHINING.
May 14th, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Great commentary David. Unfortunately, much of this is all too true.
May 14th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
To answer Janeane Garafolo’s question “…if they are upset about fiscal imprudence, where were they for the last eight years?” - we’ve been watching for the past couple of years growing more and more worried about where our country was headed, but it wasn’t until the giant pork bill was passed in late 2008 that people became outraged. If Garafolo doesn’t already see that, then she’s dumber than I thought.