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RUSH: Angela, I\u2019m glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I just want to shout out to Thomas E. Mitchell at the Community Journal in Milwaukee. I just want to say that I am just so tired of these types of things coming up because — well, I\u2019m black, and I agree with you whatever you said<\/a> about some things you shouldn\u2019t just pay attention to, and to just devalue one\u2019s self and overvalue another human being by giving them words to just strike you down to stop you cold, it\u2019s ridiculous. I\u2019m really sick and tired of it. It was quite embarrassing whenever the dust-up came about, Barack Obama being ‘articulate,\u2019 and all that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, right. Who said that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Excuse me?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Who said that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Said what?<\/p>\n

RUSH: That Barack Obama, we\u2019ve ‘finally\u2019 got somebody ‘clean and articulate\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughing.) It was the liberals of course.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It was Joe Biden<\/a>, of course.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right, Joe Biden.<\/p>\n

RUSH: When Bill Cosby went out on numerous occasions and attempted to tell certain audience members, you know, it\u2019s time to stop using these kinds of words at home —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — he was tarred and feathered, correct?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s correct. <\/p>\n

RUSH: And he was one of their heroes.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But what it is, is the devaluing of one\u2019s self, and I really hope that people are paying attention to this. The reason why black people don\u2019t care if another black person says these very same things is because — and I can\u2019t say this is true across the board for all black people, but I believe it\u2019s true for some, is that — the black people that say it doesn\u2019t have the value in their minds to even care about what they may say against another black person, but if a white person — overvaluing another human being, if a white person says it — then it\u2019s, ‘Oh, my God, I can\u2019t believe it,\u2019 and it\u2019s just, again, devaluing one\u2019s self and overvaluing another human being, and this is just ridiculous. I could care less what Don Imus has to say! I can care less what anyone says. I don\u2019t even know if Don Imus is a racist more so than he is an idiot, but I could care less what he has to say. I could care less what a racist has to say about me. This is just going… This is ridiculous and I\u2019m really sick and tired of being treated this way. I\u2019m black. I\u2019m part of the black community, the black race, and to have to be looked at as if I care if somebody white calls me the N-word? I could care less. I will not give anybody the power to strike me down with words, ever<\/emphasize>, and I teach my children the exact same thing. Who cares? So I just wanted to make that very clear.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s amazing. You\u2019re pretty advanced, because we\u2019re in the context of talking about words. Now, your employer says it or something like that, it\u2019s a different situation, but we\u2019re talking about people you don\u2019t know from a whole town far across the country from where you are, and all that. Look, I gotta take a break here, Angela, do you have a couple minutes you can hang on?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I can. I can hold on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate that, mucho thanks. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We welcome back to the microphones on the EIB Network Angela in La Crosse, Wisconsin. I was very moved by what you\u2019ve said, because, frankly, I wish more people were that way. It took me a long time to learn. I used to be so affected by what other people thought of me, particularly people that didn\u2019t know me, and those who did. For the longest time it kept me imprisoned, because I spent so much time trying to please people I thought didn\u2019t like me or thought there was something odd about me and I was just surrendering the power to be who I am to all these people who themselves were screwed up. It just was a mess, and I just finally decided (I forget what it was that triggered it), ‘I\u2019m just not going to waste time being offended by this stuff particularly when it\u2019s words and especially when I know it\u2019s not true.\u2019 Why get all worried about accusations about me of things that aren\u2019t true? Those are the things that you just let bounce off, and that\u2019s essentially what you said. You don\u2019t have time for this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I don\u2019t have time for it, and I think that we waste too much time on it. We have children, and how do we want our children to grow up, if we teach them to believe that certain people, white people, matter to the point where… We\u2019re all God\u2019s children, so every person matters. I look at every person and see God. God made the different races for his pleasure and would hope that we would join in that pleasure of people of different races. However, we can also be seduced by evil and teach our children that certain people, if they say this about you, it\u2019s an egregious crime and you shouldn\u2019t take that. You should be offended — and it\u2019s just not the truth, and I\u2019m just not buying into it anymore.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question, though, and I don\u2019t mean to put you on the spot with this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is about the Rutgers ladies basketball team.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did you happen to see their press conference today?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not really. I saw it, but I just really —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it went on for close to 45 minutes, and they had the coach, C. Vivian Stringer. She spoke the longest, and she was very eloquent, but she made it clear — made it very, very clear — that their joy had been stripped from them, the championship that they played for, the joy had been stripped because —<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s too bad.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — they were called these names and so forth, and it had become a national thing, that everybody was now looking at them this way, or at least had those thoughts about them put in their heads because of the national specter of this story, and a couple of the team members went up and spoke briefly, and the college president. They turned this into a big event for the whole university, for Rutgers. My question to you is (sigh). Well, it\u2019s impossible for you to answer because you don\u2019t know these women on the team, but I just wanted you to try to relate your own philosophy to theirs. Everybody made it clear here that this really bothered them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, first of all, if I had a daughter on that team, she would not have appeared on there. I would have told her, ‘You will not attend that press conference.\u2019 Well, I wouldn\u2019t even have to tell her that. She would know that she wouldn\u2019t attend anything like that, because she would know that Don Imus does not carry her joy in his mouth or in his pocket. She wouldn\u2019t have attended that, and she would have kept her joy and her happiness. She probably wouldn\u2019t have paid attention. She would not have paid any attention to what Don Imus had said.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are —<\/p>\n

CALLER: This is ridiculous.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are a brilliant woman. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well…<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your daughter may have been made to appear, regardless what would have been in her heart.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (laughing) No, she would not have appeared!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you never know —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ha, ha, ha! I do know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They were waiting for this opportunity. <\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, universities want to take the opportunity here for as much PR as they can get. That is such a great answer. To let somebody they don\u2019t even know take their joy away, that\u2019s a shame. That\u2019s horrible if that actually happened.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Again, it is more about devaluing one\u2019s self and overvaluing someone else. That\u2019s what it really boils down to me. That\u2019s what I see. I just can\u2019t take part in that, and I would hope that enough black people would express this, because I know a lot of people feel this way. I\u2019m not the only black person that feels this way, and I would hope that enough of us, and I heard John McWhorter, I believe that\u2019s his name, talk about the silent black majority. Well, it is time for us to stop being silent about this because you have people running around acting like we\u2019re so defeated. We\u2019re just defeated little human beings, and any little thing can just rock our poor little world. I\u2019m sick and tired of being portrayed like that. I\u2019m really<\/emphasize> sick and tired of it. So thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you called, Angela. You are a brilliant woman, and your children are very fortunate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughs) Well, thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How old are they?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have children ages twenty-five to three years old.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow, twenty-five to three!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You are really brilliant.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (Laughing.) Thank you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, well, I appreciate the call. Thank you so much, and feel free to call back any time you want.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re welcome. Thanks, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You bet. Jennifer in Andover, New Jersey, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. Good afternoon. I just wanted to keep going with what you were talking about being offended and what the last caller — and she obviously sees herself as being an American and not just being, you know, a black American or pigeonhole herself into a little group — because I think that\u2019s another big issue here was what you\u2019re talking about with the liberals wanting us all to be little multicultural groups, and I think it\u2019s splitting ourselves up into teeny, tiny little factions so everyone is getting offended in our own little tiny group instead of maybe if we all saw each other as being — the common denominator as being — American.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but, you know, the root of this, of people sequestering themselves into groups is — and the Offended and so forth — is actually victimology, because victimology\u2019s become profitable. If you can proclaim yourself a victim of some injustice perpetrated by your country or by the majority or whatever, and form a group on that base, then you can find a way to get benefits for it or redress that is financial in some way, and it also allows for people who knowingly<\/emphasize> choose victim status to excuse their own lack of excellence or performance or even effort.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — in trying to make themselves, because they say, ‘Well, I can\u2019t get anywhere. The world is stacked against me. The country is unfair. It\u2019s injustice here, injustice there. I\u2019m an official victim,\u2019 and there\u2019s a political party and an ideology that has promoted this, and that\u2019s liberalism, because there are votes<\/emphasize> among victims.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Every little group feels threatened, so they\u2019re all trying to claim a stake here. Everyone is pulling. It\u2019s not a polarized nation; it\u2019s a Swiss cheese nation; everyone\u2019s pulling it until there\u2019s holes in it, and my fear is everyone\u2019s pulling, pulling, pulling. If we stopped and saw ourselves as American, we\u2019d have a common denominator. You know, why can\u2019t we all just get along? Well, maybe if we all got along as Americans and the rest of the world sees us as just kind of splitting apart. No one\u2019s outraged when they\u2019re calling Condoleezza Rice names and they\u2019re calling George Bush a terrorist, because Condoleezza Rice doesn\u2019t identify herself as part of the black culture. She\u2019s an American. So where is the outrage at that? Where is the outrage in our national leaders, because we don\u2019t identify ourselves as being Americans! It\u2019s just one group. You know, maybe we\u2019d all stick up for everyone — stick up for each other — if we saw each other as Americans.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a reason for this though, Jennifer. Snerdley keeps telling me, ‘Yeah, we\u2019re going to reach a tipping point. People are going to get fed up with all this group stuff and all the Offended and all the Concerned out there, and they\u2019re finally going to get sick of waking up every day on TV and watching and hearing that this group or that individual, whatever, is offended and we gotta do something about it.\u2019 The problem is that there are certain people, Sharpton and Jackson the latest examples, who are allowed to say whatever they want and nobody\u2019s going to challenge them because nobody wants to be called a racist, and if you are merely critical — you don\u2019t have to call anybody names; you don\u2019t have to even make fun them or do jokes; if you\u2019re just critical — then somebody is going to come along and call you a racist. A lot of people don\u2019t want to go through that. I\u2019m talking about average Americans, not media figures and leaders. They just don\u2019t want to deal with it. They don\u2019t want to be in the controversy of being called a racist or a bigot or any of that kind of thing, because it destroys the reputation, and so there\u2019s silence when all this stuff happens. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s why it continues to devolve. As is the case with everything, there will be a tipping point. I don\u2019t know when. It\u2019s just like I\u2019m convinced there\u2019s going to be a tipping point with the way the Democrats are handling US foreign policy, the way they\u2019re dealing with the troops and so forth. There will be a tipping point on this, just as there was for them after Vietnam, when they lost. They thought they\u2019ve done the greatest thing in the world. They still think it\u2019s one of their days of shining light, the glory days of their past, and end up losing to Nixon, McGovern did in a landslide and they\u2019re setting themselves up for that again. As I say, I don\u2019t know when, but it will be sooner rather than later. There are always tipping points. But the thing that you have to keep in mind is this kind of story, the Drive-By Media loves this stuff. This has knocked Anna Nicole Smith off the lead story ranks. (Well, for a while. She\u2019s getting it back now.) This is made to order for the 24\/7 news machine that\u2019s out there, these kinds of stories that create the chaos and the tumult. Anyway, I appreciate the call, Jennifer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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