Today on his radio show, Glenn Beck wanted to discuss the census. “Apparently the census has come out,” he said. Beck’s co-host then chimed in, “Yeah and there’s a little confusion because there’s three boxes you can check if you’re a certain race. … I don’t know what the race is because there’s three different terms for them. Black, African-American, or Negro.” Instead of having any consideration to take issue with the term “Negro,” Beck launched into a tirade against “African-American”:Oh really.
BECK: African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race. Your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. Ok so you were brought over — either your family was brought over through the slave trade or you were born here and your family emigrated here or whatever but that is not a race.
(Rant alert after jump.)
Look here, you pretentious prick.
I am African-American. I refer to myself as such because my ancestors in fact came from Africa. They were brought here against their will, enslaved, raped, beaten, humiliated and killed, and for a good 200 plus years they didn't even count as human.
After that, just because they could, America treated many of them like second-class citizens...because in several states they were. That finally got fixed about the time your ignorant ass was bestowed upon this Earth in order to test guys like me. So I take personal pride in calling myself as such to honor those who sacrificed before me to get me to the point where I even have the opportunity to improve myself as as African-American.
You know what an example of a bogus, made-up term is? Glenn Beck's conscience. You don't have one.
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