Meet Princess Garafalo ~ cultural icon. Too proper for tea.
Posted on 10/30/2009 7:17:08 AM PDT by Starman417
In a much publicized rant that sent chills up the legs of millions of liberals, oops, progressives, Janeane Garofalo emphatically exercised her opinion of the millions of 'tea-party' protestors: "This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism, straight up. Its is nothing but a bunch of tea-bagging rednecks."
Anyone who has read Thomas Sowell's Black Rednecks and White Liberals, knows that Garofalo's statement is either demonstrably false, or just plain racist.
Sowell, a fellow at The Hoover Institution and a prolific author (who happens to be black himself) actually documents the origins and evolution of the redneck culture. He makes the excellent, and unchallenged point that the inner-city culture celebrated by many blacks today is, in fact, derived directly from the redneck culture - which had its origins in England.
People migrating to America's south from the largely fringe areas of England, the Scottish Highlands and Ireland brought with them certain cultural values: Proneness to violence, aversion to work, neglect of education, sexual promiscuity, improvidence, drunkenness, lack of entrepreneurship, lively music and dance, style of religious oratory, touchy pride, boastful self-dramatization and vanity. These traits describe what came to be known as the redneck culture, and the people who exhibited these traits were labeled rednecks or crackers.
During the civil war era, 90% of blacks in America lived in the south. They adopted many of the traits associated with this 'redneck culture,' which they then spread across America as they migrated after the civil war. As Dr. Sowell so persuasively argues, these cultural differences were the actual basis of what we today label racism. Originally, what we now consider racism was an objection to cultural differences, not skin color.
Fast forward to the 1960's. Along came the liberals. Social do-gooders who ushered in the welfare state and altered the criminal justice system to conform to their own version of social justice. This allowed many of these counter-productive cultural traits to flourish. Among both blacks and whites.
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What I find interesting is that first and foremost Janeane Garofalo is considered a comedian yet ironically the only time she is truly funny is when she is trying to be serious and relevant...
What I find interesting is that first and foremost Janeane Garofalo is considered a comedian yet ironically the only time she is truly funny is when she is trying to be serious and relevant...
Ouch.
Rednecks were union miners in Blair Mountian West Virginia.
Actually, she’s pretty funny when speaking lines written by someone who knows how to write funny stuff. This is a skill she shares with Rosie O’Donnell, who is equally weird when speaking in her own voice. The two are only funny when being carefully directed and not speaking as themselves.
I can’t watch her ‘tea-bagging’ video and call it funny, and that is her speaking as herself with no filter or guidance. She doesn’t do well as an adult, sadly.
The sweet irony is that this left-wing whack job got so upset that she used a homosexual slur against the tea party crowd.
ACK! A warning should have preceded that photo!
What a pitiful putz. AND...she’s ugly to boot. True coyote woman. Yuk!
Race-baiting is a business and a nonissue. Ignore these people and they will go away.
She needs a powder!
“This is about hating a black man in the White House.”
1) I would watch a football game with him.
2) I would debate what Stevie Wonder record is Best.(Innervisions)
3) I would go to Hooters with him and check out the girls in Orange.
4) I’d share a beer with him.
5) I play a round of golf with him.
However I have every RIGHT to disagree VEHEMENTLY with Obama’s policies.
If that makes me a racist then so be it.
She did, at one time, have a pretty good act.
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