On Monday’s Radio Show…
October 12th, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT
• Should Christopher Columbus be remembered as a hero or despot? Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley, a Keetoowah Cherokee Indian descendant who is author of Living in Color: Embracing God’s Passion for Ethnic Diversity, discusses Columbus Day with Alan.
• Georgia bar owner Patrick Lanzo attempts to defend his controversial sign that uses the N-word to protest President Obama.
• Time Out! Alan weighs in on the furor surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s efforts to buy the St. Louis Rams.
Patrick Lanzo: making Georgia look every bit the racist Bubba state we always believed it to be.
October 12th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Conclusion from the essay by Rev. Dr. Randy Woodley, found through the above “hero or despot” link:
“When Americans continue to celebrate Columbus Day we do damage — not just to Native America but to all Americans. Jews will never celebrate the rise of the Third Reich. Ugandans will not likely hail the legacy of Idi Amin, Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge Regime, et. al. This Columbus Day, let’s see Columbus for what he was and begin to celebrate new legacies of the past that better represent where we want to be as an America of the future. Maybe by next year we will be officially celebrating a pre-Columbus day!”
Well put, as is Woodley’s entire essay. It’s time we dispensed with Columbus Day as we know it altogether!
October 12th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Joel: “Time Out! Alan weighs in on the furor surrounding Rush Limbaugh’s efforts to buy the St. Louis Rams.”
That’s a subject that SHOULD guarantee lots of highly emotional callers from either side of the issue.
October 12th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
“Georgia bar owner Patrick Lanzo attempts to defend his controversial sign that uses the N-word to protest President Obama.”
Wow, I just don’t see how Lanzo could do that conv1ncingly.
October 12th, 2009 at 10:21 pm
BRABO,
IT’S ABOUT TIME THE WH IS TAKING ON FOX NEWS DIRECTELY.
THEY DISTORT AND WE MUST RETRACT.
October 12th, 2009 at 10:29 pm
Colmes needs to get out of NYC more often.
The “N word” is commonly used down South. Especially, the rural South. It’s used to put or keep uppity color’d people in their place and boost the ego of the cracker user at the same time.
Not happy with that, the average rural Southern cracker will also find ways to look down his nose at Yankees. In that case, Johnny Reb will often find ways to measure himself against the Yankee by comparing how many kids each has? How many Redbone coonhounds in a pen in your backyard? Got a nice ATV? How much beer can you drink before you pass out? Have you got a good place to go hunting in the Fall?
I’m guessing Colmes (or the average New Yorker) is a complete failure on most or all of the above.
Rocky the Liberal Rottweiler Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 1:48 am
So in other words the very same measures which they themselves use to gauge their own “superiority” demonstrate beyond any question that the typical rural southerner is clinging to his own posterity by a frail skinny frayed hair on Darwin’s ass.
anonymouse Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 1:56 am
In other words, many crackers could benefit from a visit to a shrink.
They aren’t necessarily bigots by choice, only by birth or circumstance. That’s the culture they were born into.
anonymouse Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 2:12 am
Speaking of Darwin, a “blue gum” is an Aussie tree, by the way. That’s not a term I’ve heard down south here before applied to human beings.
jazmine Reply:
October 13th, 2009 at 3:43 am
“Blue Gum”? I think I’m experiencing a case of deja-poo. Hehe!
October 12th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
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