Quinn to "race-baiting" African-American "ingrates": "get on your knees" and "kiss the American dirt" because slavery brought them to U.S.
June 24, 2009 1:36 pm ET
From the June 24 edition of Clear Channel's The War Room with Quinn and Rose:
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Quinn spouts another historical inaccuaracy in the last minute. Slavery occurred as a result of popular racial conceptions that allowed for the commodification of a person. Those conceptions also allowed for the colonization of Africa. Anyone that's studied the history of Rwanda or Zimbabwe or even Africa would know that, were it not for for the conceptions that produced slavery, the Rwandan genocide, the present mess that is Zimbabwe, and many of the other problems that plague modern Africa would most likely have never occurred.
Quinn insults the intelligence of his audience with that entire diatribe.
Or does he?
Slavery never truly ended in all parts of the United States until 1964 when Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act enforcing the equal access and treatment provision for all Americans. Including Africa-Americans in the the South.
Quinn does not mention that after the Emancipation Proclamation Act was signed into law in the late 1800's how the South continued to arrest African- Americans on bogus charges and sold them for money to coal miners and farmers to help rebuild areas of the South devastated after their defeat during the Civil War.
This belief in the South and some parts of the North from the 1600's -1965 that African- Americans were free but not equal to whites caused much bloodshed and pain to a group of American citizens that could not count on their goverment to protect them.In our nations history other than Native-Americans no group of Americans were treated more harshly.
Quinn like many others from the right should educate themslves on the history of slavery before they comment to their listners about a very serious and sensitive time in Amercan history that can never be erased.
While most sentient beings will see this for the gawd awful mess of logic that it is, it isn't uncommon to hear racists and closet racists (not anymore!) expouse such nonsense. I've also heard people use similar "logic" to justify U.S. intervention in South American countries like Chile.
Yes, the unintended consequence of slavery was that current day blacks have the priviledge of living in the U.S. instead of possibily living in the more impoverished regions of Africa (hmm, how did they get that way? Must be a lack of personal responsibility from the natives!! They have no one else to blame, right?). The problem is...you bet...it was an UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE!
Slaves were not brought here so that they could reap the fruits of American prosperity and take part in civilized society. They were forcibly brought here, torn apart from their families, treated like property, and worked so that others could prosper at their expense. The fact that AAs live here now is irrelevant. Slavery was one of this countrie's first evils, and blacks and everyone else are justified in being mortified over it.
I'd consider giving him something to kiss. Though it being inanimate and thereby unresponsive to lips, there would be little pleasure involved.
But I really don't swing that way.
His listeners are TrailerTrash Republicans who couldn't think their way out of a teacup.
He is reading this from some website..he cannot think. He hasn't had an original thought in years. The idiots that listen to him think he speaks from the heart.
Quinney is a little man who is cowardly when it comes to confrontation. Quinney, why not take phone calls from LIBS for one straight hour? Reason you won't..you are a coward and just to dumb.
Go harrass some feloow worker...Rosie needs it.