I can’t stand listening to the guy blabber for more than a minute, but I listened for the hilarity of his firearms stereotyping.
“That imaginary person thats gonna break into your home and kill you, who does that person look like? … We never want to talk about the racial or class part of this in terms of how it’s the poor or people of color that we imagine we’re afraid of.”
Good grief.
I honestly believe that in some cases liberals project their own closeted feelings on race since they spend so much time trying to convince conservatives that they (the conservatives) should find black people scary.
For instance, on Monday, the observance of Dr. King’s birthday, a liberal called into my show and during the course of our discussion he admitted that he thought Dr. King was a womanizing communist whose entire career was a joke. (The call is available in the podcasted first hour.)
Then there was the time I was in D.C. covering the 8/28 event when a group of white liberals approached black Republican Michael Warns and told him that he made them “sick” and asked him “what do you think you’re doing?”
So of course it doesn’t surprise me that Michael Moore is completely ignorant of the fact that one of the most important legal cases involving firearms is all due to the diligence and persistence of a black man, Otis McDonald. McDonald challenged Chicago’s hand gun ban because he was tired of not being able to protect himself in his own home. He was tired of being the victim of break-ins and tired of watching his neighbors become statistics, all while wondering when he was again next.
Michael Moore won’t dare acknowledge this. He profits by perpetuating racial stereotypes. It helps no one to talk about race without an education on the facts and by doing so, we’re only left to assume that he does so to grandstand, a “hurt and rescue” way of making himself relevant.