This is the sort of circular firing squad that the leftists bring on themselves as a result of the (over) playing the race card. This is from a CNN anchor, one of the bastions of leftist thought, that never spares an opportunity to accuse those from the other side of the ideological spectrum of being "hate-filled racists".
Listen to this hate-filed, bigoted, diatribe this guy goes into when talking about those who, for the most part, are part of the "big tent" that is the Democratic Party. His friends, his comrades, his buds. Then extrapolate out to see where some of the venom comes into play when they talk about people that they don't agree with. With friends like this guy, who would need enemies?
These guys always mistake xenophobia for real racism when they are pointing the finger at others. Their own bigotry gets a pass as being "satire" or comedy. These guys always excuse their own brand of racism and excoriate any hint or trace of it in others. "Do as I say, not as I do", I guess
I love when the host defended/excused himself in this manner, but he did say that the job of a comedian is to "lower others to raise themselves". Sounds like the prevalent mind-set of the loony left. One big joke. It explains Al Franken, David Letterman and all the other yuksters who want to make serious issues into a joke and "lower others (that disagree with them) to raise themselves. Typical.
This Sanchez guy is just a little ball of hate. He didn't spare anybody. He should have spent less time sucked up snot and more time thinking about what he was saying. I have a feeling his career just hit a speed-bump.
CNN'S RICK SANCHEZ - HATE SPEECH FROM THE LEFT
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/rick-sanchez-jon-stewart-is-a-bigot-news-networks-are-run-by-jews/
CNN’s Rick Sanchez is sick and tired of being treated as a second-rate newsman. So yesterday, he went off on those who he feels have relegated him to the “second tier” of broadcasters — Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, and his own network, CNN — and turned a 15 minute interview into an over 20 minute poor-me discussion on race.
Appearing on Pete Dominick’s satellite radio show, Sanchez railed against “elite, Northeast establishment liberals“ who ”deep down, when they look at a guy like me, they see a guy automatically who belongs in the second tier, and not the top tier.” He then lumped the Comedy Central hosts into that group, and especially went after Stewart:
I think ESPN's J.A. Andande had it nailed pretty good in a recent article discussing the LeBron fiasco and how race may or may not have played into it. When he uses the term "tribalism", that is virtually synonymous with "xenophobia" or a preference to be in the company of "people like ourselves". It's human nature and rooted in a survival instinct.
from ESPN.com
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/trainingcamp10/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=LeBronRace-101001
That brings us to an essential component we must understand when it comes to any discussion of race and the NBA. It's OK for people to root for people who bear the most resemblance to themselves. I had no qualms with white Boston Celtics fans who bypassed racks of Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce jerseys to buy a Brian Scalabrine jersey. If they could identify more with him -- to the extent almost anyone can identify with a 6-foot-9 man with OrangeSicle-colored hair -- that's fine. It's no different than black people who previously didn't care about the difference between a serve and a volley rushing to the TV to cheer for Venus and Serena Williams. We all do it to some degree, be it with athletes or even "Price Is Right" contestants. We tend to support those representing our racial group.
It's not racism. I prefer the term that movie producer (and soon to be Golden State Warriors owner) Peter Guber used repeatedly in his conversation with Charles Barkley in Barkley's 2005 book "Who's Afraid of a Large Black Man?": tribalism.
Tribalism is about familiarity within the known entity. It's not about hatred of others, it's about comfort within your own, with a natural reluctance to expend the energy and time to break across the barriers and understand another group.
Most of what we're quick to label racism isn't really racism. Racism is premeditated, an organized class distinction based on believed superiority and inferiority of different races. That "ism" suffix makes racism a system, just like capitalism or socialism. Racism is used to justify exclusion and persecution based on skin color, things that rarely come into play in today's NBA.
He nails it again when talking about the Lebron James and Dan Gilbert (Cavs owner) battle of the barbs when LeBron left the Cavs at the alter. But he could have easily have been talking about Albert Haynesworth's misguided comments about being treated like a slave or a prostitute by the Redskins who seemingly are just trying to get a minimal amount of return from a huge amount of money invested in this bust.
It began with Jesse Jackson's claim that Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert's late-night rant about LeBron's departure reflected a "slave master mentality" and that "He sees LeBron as a runaway slave." It was an overly exaggerated reaction to the reaction. If Gilbert really saw LeBron as a slave, he would have tracked him down with bloodhounds and lynched him. That's what slave masters did to escaped slaves. That's why I'll never equate professional or collegiate athletics to slavery.
Haynesworth comparing his so-called struggle to slavery. C'mon man!!
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5617037
None of these type of incidents do any good at reaching the goal of promoting better understanding and bringing people closer together. It causes an inertia to set in and makes it easier for people to avoid the problem rather than confront it.
They cause real racists to become better at hiding their tendencies and cause people to "see" racism behind everyone because they believe that "everyone" is hiding their "true" tendencies. It drives racism underground and makes it harder to solve the problem.
These false, misguided or misapplied accusations of racism when human nature is really at play drives a wedge between good people.
The racist label has become almost as devalued as the dollar lately because many times it describes situations that have little or nothing to do with race.
People are different, we need to learn how to acknowledge, tolerate and at times celebrate the differences. This drumbeat of suspicion, accusation and demonization does not do anybody a lick of good and is often as evil as racism itself. That's the paradox that these purveyors of hate need to start understanding by taking a good, long, hard look in the mirror.
For the most part:
People who rail against "illegal immigration" are not racist against immigrants - or they would have to hate all immigrants including legal, productive immigrants which most Americans, by nature derive from. They are against the "illegality" issue.
People who oppose the mosque because its insensitive are not racists or bigots or Islamaphobes just because the disagree. They just don't think its a good idea. They see it as inappropriate. "Not there, not now" doesn't mean they hate any Muslim or mosque built anywhere.
People who rail against LeBron or Michael Vick -- or whomever the controversy du jour is -- don't hate black athletes or blacks in general. They are mostly upset about stupid behavior.
People who rail against President Obama are not inherently racist or the Tea Party movement would have coalesced somewhere around the time it was apparent that he was going to defeat john McCain. And that was pretty early in the process, THERE WAS TIME. But he got elected and by being judged on the basis of his work as President, he is in a sense the personification of MLK's dream of being judged by the content of his character.
I guess in this case, the phrase that "people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones" would apply. It's time to put these false accusations of racism away for a bit and see if we can't bring people together, instead of driving people apart.
In Aesop's fables, when the boy falsely cried wolf too many times, he was ignored when the wolf actually appeared. That is the route we are clearly travelling.
The moral is stated at the end of the fable as:
Even when liars tell the truth, they are never believed. The liar will lie once, twice, and then perish when he tells the truth.
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