Fox News host Banderas called Obama a "Halfrican"
On the February 10 edition of Fox News' Red Eye, Fox News host Julie Banderas referred to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as a "Halfrican." Obama is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. Host Greg Gutfeld asked Banderas, who said she is of Colombian descent, "[D]o minorities hate other minorities?" Banderas responded: "I have something in common with Obama, and I don't even know what the big deal is. He's a Halfrican anyway, so I'm not really quite sure why the Asians and the Hispanics have no -- you know, have a problem with him."
Banderas hosts The Big Story Weekend on Fox News and regularly guest-hosts other programs on the network. Conservative media figures such as radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Brian Sussman have also used the term "Halfrican" to describe Obama. Sussman later apologized for using the term.
From the February 10 edition of Fox News' Red Eye:
GREG GUTFELD (host): Now check out this, there's a white guy in this actually doing a black power salute somewhere. There it is. I mean, what are you doing?
[crosstalk]
GUTFELD: I don't know who he is. I don't know who that is. Greg Wilson, do you know who that is?
WILSON: I have no idea who that is. You know, personally, I was offended that it was in black-and-white.
GUTFELD: Really?
BILL SCHULZ (Fox News contributor): I think we're past that, you're right.
WILSON: I was like, what about the Mexican vote? What about the Asian votes? It's just for blacks and whites?
BANDERAS: That's why they didn't vote for him.
GUTFELD: That's true, I was going to get to that. They really - apparently that was the - do minorities hate other minorities? You're a minority.
BANDERAS: Latinos and Asians --
SCHULZ: Half of her.
BANDERAS: Well, because I think it's a -- well, I have something in common with Obama, and I don't even know what the big deal is. He's a Halfrican anyway, so I'm not really quite sure why the Asians and the Hispanics have no -- you know, have a problem with him.
SCHULZ: What does that make you? A Halombian?
BANDERAS: A Halfrilombian. A Halfricanlombian.
GUTFELD: What are you?
SCHULZ: Colombian.
BANDERAS: I'm half Colombian, half American.
SCHULZ: Greg, we all know she's Colombian.
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Fox News must be desperate to fill air time... Why are these people on the news again?
I would love for some moronic right winger to now explain to me how this isn't a racist statement. Fox "News" tows the right wing line once again.
And incidentally, most people find the archaic slavery-era term "mulatto" to be offensive as well. It's derived from the Latin "mulus" (mule), as in a work animal bred from a horse and a donkey.
No you are any ass...
I meant "...an ass"
a shower curtain ?
I think so, but she pulls it off. Sorry, I know she's an idiot, but I'm still a guy and I wouldn't slam the door in her face if she showed up in a shower curtain. Forgive me. ;0)
What the h*ll is Banderas wearing ... a shower curtain ?
No this is the way serious female hosts of news shows dress, don't you know.
It was a laughing orgy of racism. They wallow in it. Much worse when seen on video than simply read as text.
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I have yet to read anything from you that is in any concievable way relevant to any thread or any specific post since the first time you showed up here!
All I see from you are childish quips, zero arguments and 100% lifeless postings! Are you an intern for Rush Limbaugh or BillO?
I have a math question, Im white, and my wife is black, or I guess "Halfrican" and she's pregnant with our first child. So, what does that make my kid? How do they let these morons on the air? This is something I'd expect to hear in a Cris Rock routine (he might even be able to pull it off) but not on what is supposed to pass for a news show.
YAWN... This joke is old already. Red Eye is pretty much insomnia cure television. The only reason any red-blooded Mexican-American male would watch this tripe is because they always sit the pick of the hot Fox chickenheads stables closest to the camera. Those ladies got some gams on 'em, I tell you what! The free gam-show notwithstanding, this cavalcade of j-list comedy luminaries is pretty painful to watch.
Seriously, though, I think my issue with this type of misinformation (?) is that, like Michael Savage's allusions to negative Jewish stereotypes, it legitimizes the use and circulation of terms like "Halfrican" or "old yenta" amongst people I don't think are mentally prepared or qualified to handle them. I heard a ten year-old Mexican-American student at my school refer to himself as a "beaner" recently and had to really unload on him. His rationale? The wack comedian Carlos Mencia uses it all the time and that he, the student, is a beaner. I shudder to think how many racists are similarly getting their jollies off call people like me "beaner" behind our back. They might be thinking it's okay to do so. And minorities are too sensitive, right? I do love me my beans.
Will this hot little firecracker's dumb little comment open up a discussion on who can use what terms in America? I certainly doubt it. But I also doubt the dumb word "Halfrican" is being used in front of people who fit the description. The fact that it's so old and still getting laughs with these hacks kind of tells me it's been in wide circulation is some circles, know what I mean?
GUTFELD: That's true, I was going to get to that. They really - apparently that was the - do minorities hate other minorities? You're a minority.
Doesn't sound like there's too much diversity around the Fox News Studios, does it? Which is kind of weird considering the whole "we-are-being-invaded" thing. That these a$$clowns set up their little bit like minorities in America are these alien beings.
Let's ask the Halfrilombian why the Mexicans and the Asians hate the Blacks. Real fair and blanced there, idiot.
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