{"id":385974,"date":"2021-03-11T16:08:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=385974"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:42:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T20:42:23","slug":"americas-real-anchorman-never-a-coward-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2021\/03\/11\/americas-real-anchorman-never-a-coward-on-race\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s Real Anchorman: Never a Coward on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

TODD: I want you to hear what I think puts the biggest lie in the world to what the media tries to do to Rush, trying to call Rush a racist. I think Rush was the opposite of that. Rush was a man who wanted everybody to succeed and have a chance to succeed. So I want you to just… This is a blissfully long bit of the Maha, and I want you to listen here, okay, to Rush speak of his pain he felt at seeing the Democrat Party damage the prospects of black people and immigrants<\/a> with the Democrats\u2019 constant insistence that these people couldn\u2019t thrive in America without Big Government.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You people know the truth, and you are whom I care about. You in this audience know exactly what happens on this program and what doesn\u2019t, and you know what I am and what I\u2019m not, despite what the Drive-Bys say. Where to start with this? Shortly after becoming attorney general, maybe during his confirmation hearings, Eric Holder said the United States is a nation of cowards on the subject of race, that we desperately need to have a huge national conversation about it, but that people are afraid to, people will not engage in it.<\/p>\n

\"\"And that\u2019s not true. We never stop talking about race.<\/p>\n

When you get down to it, the left does not want to have a conversation on race. That\u2019s code language. Saying, “We need a national conversation on race,” means, “We need to stop opposing the objectives of the civil rights coalitions in this country,” and what is meant by “we need to have a conversation about it,” what that really means is that the people who disagree with us on this need to be silenced.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how you finish the conversation is just by eliminating opposition to the agenda of the civil rights coalition, which you might think, “Civil rights? What could be wrong with that?” Nothing is wrong with it, but that\u2019s not what civil rights coalitions are about. Well, anyway, I\u2019ve never shied away from it, because I frankly think it\u2019s something we do need to overcome.<\/p>\n

I think we do need to get past it. I think it is weighing our culture down. It\u2019s weighing our society down unnecessarily. And the biggest damage that\u2019s being done is to African-Americans themselves in this whole thing. This is where I\u2019ve gotta start being very careful, because it\u2019s undeniably true, and I could give you illustrations of what I mean.<\/p>\n

Which, easily taken out of context, could be plastered all over the nation\u2019s newspapers and cable news networks in an effort once again to portray me as something that I\u2019m not. In fact, quite the opposite. The bottom line for me is that it depresses me. You know, I\u2019m an American. I love this country. I know what is possible in this country for everybody.<\/p>\n

I see immigrants from various parts of the world coming into this country and just doing gangbusters. I see people natively born in this country doing gangbusters. I know it\u2019s still possible. I know that it\u2019s likely, if certain steps are taken. I know that the American dream is alive and well. It\u2019s sad that so many people have given up on it, but it\u2019s because of the way they\u2019ve been conditioned. It\u2019s the way they\u2019re influenced. It\u2019s the way they\u2019re taught.<\/p>\n

The sad thing about all this is that there\u2019s a beneficiary to this. There\u2019s a beneficiary to economic stagnation among our minority communities, and that beneficiary is the Democrat Party. The Democrat Party benefits from people being unable to provide for themselves. The Democrat Party benefits from people believing that the rest of the country\u2019s out to get \u2019em.<\/p>\n

The Democrat Party benefits from all of this strife. The Democrat Party benefits from economic stagnation. The Democrat Party benefits from the fear and the bullying. And it breaks my heart, folks, because it\u2019s so unnecessary. It\u2019s not cliched to refer to the U.S. as a land of opportunity. It always has been, still is. There are steps one needs to take in order to access it.<\/p>\n

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It just doesn\u2019t come knocking. Well, maybe once in your life it will. You have to know to open the door when that happens, but for the most part the recipe is pretty much the same: hard work, dedication, desire, preparation, study, passion. Those things are still required, and if they\u2019re present, you can write your ticket. Not to say it\u2019s easy. Not to say there won\u2019t be setbacks.<\/p>\n

We all suffer them. We all suffer some form of discrimination. We all have obstacles out there in our way. Many of them we put in our way ourselves. Many of the obstacles that we face are self-imposed. But others aren\u2019t. You go back to the campaign of 2007 and 2008, I\u2019m convinced that a huge number of Americans voted for Barack Obama hoping that in so doing his victory would be a giant step at progress, a giant forward step in demonstrating the folly that this is still a racist, slave-based nation.<\/p>\n

Which, sadly, young people are still taught in some of our worst public schools. People had a lot of hope. The hope and change, the hope in hope and change was that. There was no other reason to vote for Obama. Nobody knew who he was. The press hadn\u2019t really vetted him. He was young. He was articulate. He was an open canvas. People hated the current regime, Bush, Iraq.<\/p>\n

Anybody saying they\u2019re gonna do things different would have benefited from it. You had the added benefit of Obama being African-American. Man, what would that say about America, the American people elect a black president, that has to say, that has to mean we\u2019re not a racist country, not like they tell us we are. So many people were desperately hoping that that would have been the outcome.<\/p>\n

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