{"id":245310,"date":"2017-08-28T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=245310"},"modified":"2017-08-29T16:08:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-29T20:08:41","slug":"leftists-ban-gone-with-the-wind-call-nfl-fans-racists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/08\/28\/leftists-ban-gone-with-the-wind-call-nfl-fans-racists\/","title":{"rendered":"From Banning Gone With the Wind to Calling NFL Fans Racists, Leftists Rip Us Apart by Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I was making a joke after the protests in Charlottesville. I said, “Why don\u2019t we just go ahead and ban Gone With the Wind?<\/a> Let\u2019s ban the movie. Let\u2019s ban the book.” They\u2019ve banned the movie. “Gone With the Wind is a landmark film, one which has been beloved since its record-breaking 1939 release. … Now, the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Memphis has decided to stop showing the film, as, in the words of one citizen, it has somehow been placed in the ‘tributes to white supremacy\u2019 category. …<\/p>\n

\"\"“Memphis based Orpheum Theatre, whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate, and enlighten,\u2019 will no longer show [Gone With the Wind], theater officials announced Friday. ‘The Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population,\u2019 Brett Batterson, president of the Orpheum Theatre Group, said in a statement. The film was last screened at the theater on Aug. 11 and had been a 34-year tradition at the Orpheum.”<\/p>\n

You make a joke about the left… I mean, it was a staple at this theater. It was a staple. It was a staple at theaters in Atlanta. I don\u2019t know how many other theaters will now follow suit and refuse to show the movie, but these things are trending, and they are copycat. Once they start happening, other people want to get in on the bandwagon. So it\u2019s probably just the beginning of such a thing.<\/p>\n

The New York Times ran an op-ed recently wondering if football fans are racist. You knew this was coming. The sports media is all-in on Colin Kaepernick, and they\u2019re all-in on the notion that white NFL owners are racist and are banning Kaepernick because he\u2019s black (or half black) and because he disrespects the flag and all this other stuff. They\u2019re ignoring the fact that, on balance, Kaepernick hasn\u2019t been able to play, and they\u2019re forgetting that Kaepernick was offered a contract by the 49ers. He walked out on his contract.<\/p>\n

He said he didn\u2019t want it. It\u2019s not as though he was not offered a chance to play. He was. Here\u2019s the excerpt from the New York Times op-ed<\/a>. “Yet we should not be so sure that white fans\u2019 willingness to support black athletes on the gridiron entails a genuine acceptance of racial equality, nor their inclusion of black people more broadly in the ‘we\u2019 that is supposed to be No. 1.” What this guy is saying is that it used to be that white fans supporting sports figures who are African-American, people used to cite: What do you mean America\u2019s racist? How can that be?<\/p>\n

Look at the numbers of people that watch the NFL. It\u2019s 75% black! Look at the number of people that pay for tickets, buy advertising. Look at the financial support that enterprise has, and you\u2019re telling me that white people are racist? And this guy the New York Times is coming along saying: That doesn\u2019t count anymore. You can\u2019t say that white fans\u2019 willingness to support black athletes means they are genuinely accepting of racial equality. You can\u2019t say that. They could still be racist as pigs!<\/p>\n

“Indeed, white acceptance of black entertainers and white exploitation of the physical labor of black persons long predates…” Did I not predict this? Folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you exactly what this editorial\u2019s about by reminding you of my prediction. When the world decided… Well, when the American left decided that the National Football League was going to become a target — and they did it on many levels. They did it on safety, the number of concussions. They attacked the NFL in any number of ways.<\/p>\n

\"\"I mean, this started years ago, and I remember waving the flag trying to get people to pay attention. This is not gonna end, it\u2019s not gonna roll off, it\u2019s not just a one-off. They\u2019re not gonna quit until they have created a public consciousness that football is bad, that football kills, that football maims, that football harms. They\u2019re not gonna quit until they\u2019ve been able to create a public consciousness that the game is bad. Once they succeed in that, then the NFL\u2019s days as it exists are numbered.<\/p>\n

I said, “Wait until these leftist activists figure out that they can equate this to slavery,” and I had people call me. “What do you mean? How in the world…?” I said, “Because who owns the teams in the NFL? Are they all not predominantly white? They are.” “Yeah, but, Rush, look at how much money they\u2019re being paid!” “I know, but look at what\u2019s happening to them! They\u2019re dying early. They\u2019re committing suicide. They\u2019re suffering concussions and other injuries that are shortening their lives.”<\/p>\n

I said, “It isn\u2019t gonna be long before the left starts figuring this out and putting this all together and equating what\u2019s going on here in the NFL to its own brand of white supremacy or master-slave circumstances,” and it\u2019s now starting. The way the New York Times is getting into this is to suggest that football fans are racist. Well, they\u2019re asking the question. They\u2019re raising the specter of football fans being racist.<\/p>\n

“[M]any…” This is from the editorial. “[M]any contemporary white fans\u2019 responses to players of color — when those players express political views (like Colin Kaepernick), behave in ways that make them uncomfortable … or make mistakes … Many [white fans] are content to identify with black football players for as long as they are useful on the field, to imaginatively project themselves into the physical power and hypermasculinity that (fans imagine) they embody, and to discard and denigrate them when they don\u2019t play their parts as expected…”<\/p>\n

So, you see, even as far as the fans are concerned, African-American players are nothing more than temporary objects of admiration. It\u2019s not for any reason other than the fans wish they could do what these players do. But when these players stop playing, when they reach an age where they\u2019re no longer superstars, the white fans discard them like they never existed before — and that\u2019s because the white fans are racist. “[T]o treat them, as Malcolm X put it when describing his own experience as a popular student and athlete in a predominantly white school, like mascots.”<\/p>\n

So white fans of the NFL treat the players like mascots.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not satire, folks. It\u2019s not. This is what\u2019s happening. It\u2019s like this flap with the Southern Poverty Law Center. This is a fantastically illustrative event. The Southern Poverty Law Center, to the American left, is one of the greatest institutions of freedom and openness and non-racism — and it\u2019s just a wonderful place, because that\u2019s what they\u2019ve been told that it is by the media. That\u2019s how it\u2019s been presented. But people who really know understand that the Southern Poverty Law Center is, in fact, one of the top five hate groups in the country.<\/p>\n

They label any conservative group that disagrees with what they believe in as a hate group. For example, if you don\u2019t believe in gay marriage and if you\u2019re part of a group — be it religious or cultural — that does not believe in gay marriage and the Southern Poverty Law Center finds out about you? They immediately put you on their list of hate groups in America, because if you disagree with gay marriage, that means you automatically hate lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgenders.<\/p>\n

\"\"So you get put on the list, and the left thinks that that list is inarguable. The left thinks that the Southern Poverty Law Center is just an absolutely magnificent organization which is identifying evil and hate through America. And that\u2019s not what it is at all. It is its own brand of hate. So, after Charlottesville, Apple, Inc., and JPMorgan Chase both announce massive million-dollar donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, when you look at both of these companies, are they in the interests of antagonizing their customers? No. I mean, that doesn\u2019t make any sense. So maybe they don\u2019t really know what the Southern Poverty Law Center is. These are CEOs and what they think they\u2019re doing is following popular public opinion. The CEOs happen to be, in both cases, extreme leftists, and that\u2019s a relevant fact, and so their knowledge of and perception of the Southern Poverty Law Center is totally different than what the truth of the Southern — What kind of name is Southern Poverty Law Center?<\/p>\n

Well, what is that? It\u2019s a silly name and it\u2019s not indicative of anything that they do. They hate the south. They\u2019re not anything about poverty. They don\u2019t do a damn thing about poverty. And in terms of law center? It\u2019s just a name that is guaranteed to attract donations. But these CEOs and others who are making donations, and then making it possible for their customers to also donate to this group, you have to ask, are these CEOs literally trying to antagonize every conservative, every Republican? Which is more than half the country. Are they really trying to do that? Or do they just not know what the Southern Poverty Law Center really is because they don\u2019t challenge anything that they see or read in their media.<\/p>\n

Now, it could be a little bit of both or a lot of one and some of the other. But this is genuine ignorance to think the Southern Poverty Law Center is something that advances the American ideal is absurd. The Southern Poverty Law Center is its own brand of hate. It\u2019s exclusionary, it\u2019s discriminatory, it\u2019s mean-spirited, it\u2019s extremist, it is everything that it claims to stand against.<\/p>\n

So this idea of just following along like if one theater cancels Gone With the Wind you can damn well guarantee there\u2019s gonna be others. The New York Times comes along and says that NFL fans, white NFL fans are racist. What would even make one start thinking that way? You have to be a little bit race conscious to even start thinking that way.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve often pointed out how racist can America really be when the wealthiest and most popular TV personality is an overweight African-American woman? How can that be? Well, according to the New York Times, it\u2019s white guilt. White guilt is forcing people to watch Oprah. They feel sorry for the circumstances that Oprah had to face as a young girl and other African-American women, and this is the way they make it up to them, by offering fake and faux appreciation. They don\u2019t really like Oprah, but it\u2019s a hip and cool thing to do, and it sends a signal that they\u2019re not racist, but in fact they are.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how the left analyzes white people watching Oprah and now white fans of the NFL. They are secretly racist, or maybe in fact now openly racist. It doesn\u2019t make any sense whatsoever. They are the ones who are race conscious, they\u2019re the ones race focused, and, as such, they are doing everything they can to divide people in this country along the lines of race while claiming to unify and all this other happy malarkey.<\/p>\n

So the fight and the effort to deal with it goes on. But it\u2019s frustrating as it can be. A lot of it seems inexplicable. But if you understand liberals like I do, everything they do makes perfect sense, if you understand them, and it\u2019s eminently predictable too.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, how about this headline: “Dear White Parents of Biracial Children: Having Mixed Babies Isn\u2019t Enough to Excuse Your Ignorance.<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\"\"Well, now, remember when Hollywood starlets and popular music starlets like Madonna became fashionable to adopt African orphans. It became almost an accessory of sorts for women, hip women of Hollywood to adopt not an African-American, but an African orphan, actually travel there and adopt an African orphan.<\/p>\n

It became a statement, it was clearly political in nature, and there was wonderful, great credit that was attached. One could no way be a racist, for example, and in fact to do something like that would be the epitome of humanity and big-heartedness and so forth. But even that wasn\u2019t enough. It\u2019s no longer enough for Hollywood starlets to adopt African orphans. This is kind of why we lose the battle for young skulls full of mush.<\/p>\n

“Dear white parents of biracial children, What are you doing? How many times are you going to sympathize with and defend known racists before your children see a society built to destroy them, reflected in your eyes? I understand that not all of you hang out with known racists, but that is an extreme case of what I more often than not see with white parents of biracial children. Having mixed babies doesn\u2019t justify the things you might do or say. Let\u2019s take Kim Kardashian for example, who has two biracial children and a black husband yet she appropriates black culture and defended known racist Jeffree Star. Yes, I\u2019m writing to white parents like you.”<\/p>\n

So what this person is basically saying at Affinity Magazine, you don\u2019t get to cancel your racism by marrying an African-American and having mixed race kids. That\u2019s not gonna buy you anything. You can\u2019t skate out of your racism by doing that. You realize there\u2019s nothing, the way this is headed, there\u2019s nothing anybody can do to demonstrate that they\u2019re not racist, because no matter how far you go, it\u2019s always gonna be said to be artificial.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no different — remember when David Koch of the billionaire and hated Koch brothers donated something like 25 or $50 million to a New York Hospital, and the nurses union and other left-wing activists told the hospital to not accept it, that Koch didn\u2019t really mean it, that his heart really wasn\u2019t in it. He was just trying to salvage and purchase a reputation. Everybody knew that Koch is a racist pig and this donation was simply meant to buy his way out of it, and the hospital shouldn\u2019t accept it because they shouldn\u2019t let him get out of it that easily.<\/p>\n

Well, that\u2019s essentially what you\u2019re saying here. You want to go out and prove you\u2019re not a racist by adopting an African child? Not good enough. It\u2019s superficial and you don\u2019t mean it. You\u2019re trying to buy your way out of your inherent racism. And now having biracial kids, mixed race kids, you\u2019re just creating problems, you\u2019re not solving your own racism here. The guy says, “I hate to be the bearer of bad news.” You know what the upshot of all of this is? Folks, I\u2019m gonna tell you something.<\/p>\n

This is getting so pervasive that — and I\u2019ve thought this was gonna happen many times in the past when it hasn\u2019t, so I could be a little premature on this one too. But this has gotten so over the top now that I think with the charge of racism being bandied about at virtually every event with everybody involved, I think a lot of well-intentioned people are starting to say, “Wait a minute, everybody can\u2019t be racist.”<\/p>\n

\"\"I think it\u2019s gonna backfire on these people. Because everything is race to these leftists, everything in the world. That\u2019s the dividing line, that\u2019s the division, that is the way they are approving or disapproving of people, and I think it\u2019s gonna backfire on them among people who are not politically focused and oriented on a day-to-day basis and who are not obsessed with this topic. I mean, you start calling people that don\u2019t even think this way racist, innocent people not attached to political causes, and it\u2019s gonna backfire.<\/p>\n

Just like I think Antifa is gonna backfire big time on those people. They\u2019re gonna do a lot of damage in the meantime. But I mean this stuff is getting absurd here now. By the way, Affinity magazine\u2019s a magazine for teenaged girls, mostly black teenage girls. Did I not tell you that? Well, see, I did that on purpose. Well, no, no, no, I withheld that information on purpose.<\/p>\n

It is a leftist magazine, pure and simple, just like all women\u2019s magazines are now. I don\u2019t care if it\u2019s Vogue or Good Housekeeping or Happy Kitchen, whatever the magazine is — Well, (laughing) well, whatever. I mean, take your pick of your women\u2019s mags, they\u2019re all nothing but leftist rags. No offense to rags. There\u2019s all kinds of those, too. People are getting tired of it. They\u2019re tired of everything being race related, and they\u2019re tired of being called racist when they\u2019re not. And what\u2019s happening is they\u2019re converting people, turning people into racists.<\/p>\n

Whoever is the author of this piece: “Now, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you and your child will not have the same experiences. Your mixed baby will branch out into a society that wants to hurt them, a society that looks like you. It is your job to educate them while at the same time educating yourself. Teach them what to do when pulled over by the police or followed by store employees. Teach them that their lives matter before someone else tries to tell them otherwise. In a country run by white supremacists, you need to be absolutely clear about your stance on certain issues. I think this quote from Desmond Tutu explains this quite well –”<\/p>\n

And here\u2019s the quote from Desmond Tutu. Remember Desmond Tutu, apartheid, South Africa, in the Nelson Mandela era? “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.”<\/p>\n

“This is especially relevant to you,” writes this author, “because while you are busy being comfortable and complacent, your child is forced to have an opinion on any topic even remotely related to their racial identity. And because they will be grappling with this constant weight on their shoulders, you too will need to grow accustomed to it. … So when the latest news headline boasts, ‘*Insert Child\u2019s Ethnicity* Person Committed This Crime –‘” no wonder these kids are screwed up.<\/p>\n

You know, it\u2019s no wonder that Colin Kaepernick is screwed up. How do you know that a woman wrote this? I didn\u2019t tell you a woman wrote — Okay, you\u2019re right, but she\u2019s a junior high school student in Portland. She\u2019s not a teacher. The person that wrote this is a junior high school student advising parents on mixed race babies and how it\u2019s not buying \u2019em anything and how if they don\u2019t raise their kids black, it\u2019s gonna screw them all up. That\u2019s exactly right. Yep. Right. Now, where did she get these ideas? You know, nobody is born thinking this way, I don\u2019t believe.<\/p>\n

\"\"“California Moves To Jail People Who Refuse To Use Transgender Pronouns<\/a>.” Are you telling me you didn\u2019t hear about this? This all happened last week. You didn\u2019t hear about any of this while I was gone? “A bill has actually been passed in the State Senate and is now under consideration in the Assembly which would impose criminal penalties — including jail time — if you are found to be addressing a transgender person using pronouns which don\u2019t match the gender they imagine themselves to be.”<\/p>\n

So, in California, if you encounter a transgender who that day is imagining itself to be female, and you don\u2019t say “her” or “she” or whatever, you could be guilty of a criminal act, fined, and perhaps jailed if you use the incorrect pronoun.<\/p>\n

“A bill that passed the California state senate and is now moving through the Assembly could threaten jail time for anyone who refuses to use a transgender person\u2019s preferred pronoun.” So it\u2019s up to what they want to hear. You gotta know that. You gotta be able to read their mind. “The law is currently limited in its effects to nursing homes and intermediate-care facilities.”<\/p>\n

Why? Why? Are there a bunch of transgenders in nursing homes, or is it the nurses that — (interruption) Oh. Oh. I see. They get a pass because they\u2019re seasoned citizens and they don\u2019t know, they\u2019re beyond hope. All right, they\u2019re already established racists and sexists and so trying to teach them about proper transgender pronouns in an old folks\u2019 home would be not even worth the effort so since they\u2019re already in the old folks homes we\u2019re not gonna put \u2019em in jail since they\u2019re already imprisoned in their own way. Oh, okay. So nursing homes and intermediate care facilities.<\/p>\n

“If passed, those who ‘willfully and repeatedly\u2019 refuse ‘to use a transgender resident\u2019s preferred name or pronouns\u2019 could be slapped with a $1,000 fine and up to one year in prison, according to the California Heath and Safety code. The state senate passed the bill 26-12 at the end of May.” I mean, this thing sailed through. “Since then, the Assembly Judiciary committee recommended the bill unanimously and the General Assembly held its first hearing on the legislation Wednesday.”<\/p>\n

The Constitution? What about the Constitution when it comes to illegal aliens and sanctuary cities? The Constitution doesn\u2019t exist, does it? No, no, there\u2019s no free speech. You can\u2019t say something that offends people and if a she is a he, and you refer to it as an it, you could be in big trouble.<\/p>\n

The Antifa people, anti-fascist, what\u2019s become obvious, they are the fascists, and they need to change their name to Profa. This is typical of what the left does. They name themselves exact opposite of what they are. They\u2019re not progressive. They\u2019re regressive. These people can\u2019t stand progress. These people can\u2019t deal with progress. There\u2019s nothing progressive about your modern-day leftist.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I said that! I said the writer of that Affinity magazine story was a junior in high school. That\u2019s who the writer was, advising biracial parents on how having a biracial kid doesn\u2019t buy you anything race-wise and you better be honest with the kid. You know, speaking of that, does anybody…? Do the initials RGIII mean anything to anybody? (interruption) What do they mean to you, Mr. Snerdley? (interruption) What do you mean, “the most fizzled quarterback”? (interruption)<\/p>\n

Now, wait just a second! Wait just a sec. He\u2019s an out-of-work African-American quarterback. He has played. He got his team to the playoffs one year, the Washington REDSKINS! (We happily, loudly say it here.) Nobody\u2019s hiring him, either. Where are the protests for RGIII, Robert Griffin III? He\u2019s not mixed race. He\u2019s full-fledged African-American. He also happens to be conservative, but I don\u2019t know that that matters. It might. But nevertheless, he\u2019s an African-American, he\u2019s a quarterback, and nobody\u2019s hiring him.<\/p>\n

Where are the people in the media thinking that the league is blackballing this guy? In other words, why all this attention on Kaepernick? Folks, it\u2019s very simple. This is not hard to understand. I had the opportunity to explain this to some people recently who don\u2019t look at events like this the way you and I do. They\u2019re not political in nature. I said, “Have you ever…?” The person asked, “Why are they so interested in this Kaepernick guy?” I said, “It\u2019s because he\u2019s protesting the country, and that\u2019s what makes it news.”<\/p>\n

\"\"To leftists — wherever they are, media or elsewhere — this is a flawed country that is just soaking in injustice. And whenever there\u2019s an example of it (and if they can really get race involved) then they\u2019re gonna get behind it and never let it go. And that\u2019s what Kaepernick presents them. They don\u2019t care about Colin Kaepernick the individual. They couldn\u2019t care less. Colin Kaepernick is the latest opportunity for the left to demonstrate that this is a flawed, racist country.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t forget, the key element here in all of this is the media has mastered the art of making it look like their version of things is the majority version of things. That\u2019s why there\u2019s so little outrage or opposition to the media. In the case of the Indiana state religious freedom law, or the case Kaepernick, they make it look like the overwhelming majority of the American people are also mad at the NFL owners and mad at the league and think that Kaepernick\u2019s being discriminated against. When, in fact, it\u2019s the exact opposite.<\/p>\n

A minority of people think that Kaepernick\u2019s being shafted because of… He\u2019s not being shafted. He walked out on an existing contract. The 49ers offered him a contract, a two-year deal worth a lot of money that he\u2019s never gonna get now, even if some team does sign him. He walked out on a deal! They didn\u2019t fire him. He walked out on it as part of his protest. But even if he hadn\u2019t, you say RGIII can\u2019t play? Well, Kaepernick can\u2019t either. Kaepernick hasn\u2019t been able to play the last two or three years. He did show potential.<\/p>\n

But if a business doesn\u2019t want to hire somebody who\u2019s going to disrespect the flag in America, why should that business do it? Why should that business be made to hire somebody like that just to satisfy the media? But a lot of businesses cave to things like that by supporting the Southern Poverty Law Center or what have you. It\u2019s the way the world works. But so far, the NFL\u2019s not responding to that kind of pressure, because roster spots are too valuable and this guy can\u2019t play. The fact is that he may not want to given the fact he walked out on a deal with the 49ers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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