ACORN also falsely accused of fostering anti-Americanism
Here's a quote from Rush Limbaugh recently on his show:
From the time of my birth, 57 years ago, to today, this country has grown and expanded, prosperity has opened its doors for more and more people around the world, not just people born in this country. We know the stories of Asians emigrating and running rings around people born in this country academically in California. We know all about the immigration, legal and illegal, to get into the country. We know that the standard of living has risen. We know that technological advancement is going along at light speed. And yet during this period of time, whether it be the last 57 years or be it the last 20 years, it seems that a majority of the black population has remained angry, frustrated, and behind. They've been left behind. They are acting like they've been left behind, and of course we've heard that this is because of racism, natural systemic institutional racism in America, that we are unfair, that this country is just horrible and rotten.
You ever ask yourself how it is that people not even born here can come here and in a few short years begin prospering in school, their own business or what have you, yet people who are born in this country somehow have been raised to hate it, to think they're still back in the days of slavery. I actually think, after studying all this ACORN stuff and reading what Stanley Kurtz has written about this, I actually believe that what has taken place here in addition to liberal Democrat legislation, such as the Great Society and the war on poverty, which a lot of people will now acknowledge really busted up the black family by the government taking the place of the husband and father, free to roam around and bear no responsibility. The mother remained the mother, she got the financial assistance from this legislation, from the federal government. The federal government became the father. The father didn't have to hang around in order for the kids to be okay, depending on how you define okay. But as you study more and more of this ACORN stuff, you find that it has been part of an entire movement that has been going on for two, maybe three decades, right under our noses.
We thought that it was just liberal welfare policies and all that that kept blacks from progressing while other minorities grew and prospered, but no, it is these wackos from Bill Ayers to Jeremiah Wright to other anti-American Afrocentric black liberation theologists with ACORN, and Barack Obama is smack dab in the middle of it, they have been training young black kids to hate, hate, hate this country, and they trained their parents before that to hate, hate, hate this country. It was a movement. It was a Bill Ayers, anti-capitalist, anti-American educational movement. ACORN is how it was implemented, right under our noses. They're doing far more, folks, than just cheating when it comes to elections and registration. They are in deep in this mortgage crisis. ACORN and Obama and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, the Democrat Party, have their fingerprints all over the subprime mortgage crisis. The whole concept of affordable housing was people that can't afford a mortgage are going to get one, because America is unfair.
It has been a movement, it has been a religion, and Obama and Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers were all up to their big ears in it.
Wow. I mean, just... wow. So both ACORN and Barack Obama have been fostering anti-Americanism, in cahoots with the likes of Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers, in some sort of decades-long conspiracy against the United States. Is he {bleep} serious?!?
Of course, this totally ignores the role that racism has played in the recent history of this country (not to mention the older history). It assumes that ACORN is some sort of racist organization that hates America, and it essentially implies that anyone affiliated or associated with ACORN also hates America. African-Americans make up almost a quarter of all enlisted personnel in the military and almost ten percent of the officers, when they are only about 13 percent of the population as a whole, so in other words they serve in uniform at a rate that is almost twice their percentage of the population. Of course, had Rush himself ever worn the uniform a day in his {bleep} life he would have known that, but that is a whole other issue. But this idea that somehow all or most African Americans hate this country seems, to be charitable, pretty damn unfair. I would not have to look too hard to find plenty of examples of white people who say and do some pretty horrible things in regard to their views of this country: various right-wing militias; Neo-Confederates and other secessionist groups; Neo-Nazis and other racist groups. Does that reflect on ALL white people as a result? Hardly. But to say that institutional racism and ingrained societal racism has nothing to do with many blacks being "left behind" is a sad, sad joke. And while there has certainly been a lot of residual racism in the last twenty years, the last "57" years that Rush mentions absolutely includes all sorts of ugly racist things - does he think that nothing really racist happened in the 50's, 60's, 70's, and 80's? Does he think that none of it was institutional? Does he think that African Americans have no right to be upset for what has been inflicted on them over most of the history of this country? Sure, we as a country have come a long way since slavery, but the idea that racism is no longer a real issue in this country, or a real issue in the politics of this country, is naive. [/b]
