Posted on 06/24/2020 6:28:30 PM PDT by grundle
On Wednesday, BET Founder Robert Johnson mocked those who are destroying statues across the U.S. and who are trying to cancel television shows because they think that’s what black people want.
During an interview with Fox News, Johnson said that those who are destroying statues across the country “have the mistaken assumption that black people are sitting around cheering for them saying ‘Oh, my God, look at these white people. They’re doing something so important to us. They’re taking down the statue of a Civil War general who fought for the South.'”
“You know, black people, in my opinion, black people laugh at white people who do this the same way we laugh at white people who say we got to take off the TV shows [like] The Dukes of Hazard,” Johnson continued. “I bet if you go back and look at the Nielsen ratings when The Dukes of Hazard was on television, I’ll bet you it had a huge black viewing population. The one thing you can do is research it, find out, because blacks watched more television than whites did, always has been historically.”
Johnson also took a shot at white Americans who think that by doing “emotionally or drastic things” that black people will look at them and think that white people love them. Johnson said that “black people don’t give a damn” if statues of people like Stonewall Jackson, who was a Confederate general, are taken down.
Johnson also mocked HBO Max for taking down “Gone with the Wind,” then putting it back with a disclaimer, saying, “What the hell do you need a disclaimer with ‘Gone with the Wind,’ as if black people think that we believe that slavery was like ‘Gone with the Wind’? Who are you trying to convince?”
“Look, the people who are basically tearing down statues, trying to make a statement, are basically borderline anarchists, the way I look at it. They really have no agenda other than the idea we’re going to topple a statue,” Johnson said. “It’s not going to give a kid whose parents can’t afford college money to go to college. It’s not going to close the labor gap between what white workers are paid and what black workers are paid. And it’s not going to take people off welfare or food stamps.”
Johnson also mocked “white privilege,” and those who get on social media and apologize for being white.
“You know, that to me is the silliest expression of white privilege that exists in this country. The notion that a celebrity could get on a Twitter feed and say, ‘Oh my God, I am so sorry that I am white.’ I don’t find any black people getting on Twitter and saying, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry I’m black.’ And we got the worst problems. … My thing is: embrace being white and do the right thing.”
Isn’t this the same guy that was all in for reparations just a few weeks ago??
I thought so too.
Was he woke then or just now with this article?
The first step to progress is black people disassociating with white liberals.
The last line here...”embrace being white and do the right thing” means reparations I assume.
Wow. Incredible common sense.
I really think before all this, blacks were afraid to speak out against white liberals, thinking they needed them.
Now they are waking up to what Malcolm X said years ago, that the White Liberal is not their friend.
This is a game-changer!
Same guy that endorsed BLM being a political party
F this guy. He’s pro reparations.
He straddles the fence. Just when I think he’s one of the enlightened, he says something retro like ‘reparations, OK’.
That was the CEO of BET, not the founder.
“Isn’t this the same guy that was all in for reparations just a few weeks ago??”
Probably. This article doesn’t mean this guy is suddenly a conservative or anything.
It just means even BET are shaking their heads at how stupid this “jump-the-shark” nonsense is becoming. This is a signal from one leftist to another to dial it back.
The thing is — we don’t want them to dial it back. We want them to let it all hang out so we can run against it.
My mistake, you are right. It’s the same guy.
As well he should
Ah, he’s in a roll..saying aomething even semi sane is a shock to the system these days :)
White Leftists everywhere wonder why Mr. Johnson doesn't appreciate their condescension.
Blacks are being played. The rich blacks are starting to get uneasy. Wealth is color blind.
He should not apologize. BLM does not want his apology. They want his STUFF. House, cars money. Don’t be fooled. Take responsibility. Give them your house, car, money and everything you have. That is what they want. They want your stuff. Don’t just say words. DO IT. What do you think they will do when they are done destroying all the statues and they are gone? Maybe they can just go from house to house eating your food and killing whites with impunity. Family after family gone. Who is going to stop them? I guess because they are angry they have every right according to our leaders. The more angry the more they feel they are justified. We have no freedom of speech anymore.This is what you get when you are too permissive with you kids. They grow up into these fools with no knowledge of our history and no tolerance for anyone but themselves. One day they will be our leaders. Oh wait, they are now. No one DARE speak against their DEMANDS.
I think it is. BLM was founded by three academic women Marxists, two of them lesbians, whose idol was JoAnne Chesimard, aka Assata Shakur (her adopted Muslim name), who was a member of the BLA and the Black Panthers, responsible for the deaths of several NY State police and others. She escaped from jail and fled to Cuba, where she still lives happily. These women think that Cuba is the ideal country and they want to recreate it here (obviously not caring how much Fidel and Che despised blacks).
The head male in the BLM movement, Shaun King, is actually white but “black identified” like Rachel Whatever her name was.
All of the people whose deaths BLM is using as symbols to stir up trouble seem to be people with lengthy arrest records and a history of violence...against other black people. This diminishes their glory a bit.
I honestly don’t think that most American black people are interested in being part of the BLM show, which is indeed mostly run by white Marxists.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.