Posted on 03/23/2012 5:00:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
......The two-minute clip shows Hanks hosting the castaway-themed auction in a room decorated to look like a jungle at the £18,000-a-year St Matthew’s Parish School in Pacific Palisades, California.
As the blacked-up man takes the stage, Hanks quips that the Right-wing US commentator Bill O’Reilly, who has himself often been accused of racial insensitivity, has arrived.......
..........Hanks, who starred in the 2000 Hollywood film Castaway, recently narrated a 17-minute campaign video calling for President Barack Obama’s re-election.
In response to the auction video, Niger Innis, of the Congress of Racial Equality, said: “I call upon President Obama, who has Tom Hanks doing the narration to his campaign video, to cease, to remove Mr Hanks’ voice-over from his video, and end any association or affiliation with Mr Hanks,”
“It is gross, it’s coarse, and it is shocking that something like this would be done in California. Not Mississippi — in California.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
I wonder if (really when) the Race Hustlers (led by Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson) will hit Mr. Hanks up for a big donation as “penance”. I guess that’s the celebrity equivalent of getting mugged.
I couldn’t have happened to a more deserving big mouth lefty.
Send Tom back to the island with his volleyball friend.
Tom Hank’s Ethiopian Serenaders
The hypocrisy of the liberals is well covered in “Demonic” by Ann Coulter. She backs up the Democrats’ racism with details of history.
I’m reading it again. It’s good information to have when debating a liberal.
Like carbon credits, which you can purchase to offset your jet setting, Hanks has bought enough “liberal credits” so his racism doesn’t count.
Sleep with dogs, wake up with fleas...
I like Tom Hanks, but when it comes to politics, he is only slight less astute than Forest Gump.
Bosum buttheads.
Notice also that Glen Frey suggests that the black-faced investment banker try playing professional basketball instead. "These are the jokes people!"
This is how the liberal white elites always act amongst themselves. They are racist to the core, but their's is a nice racism in their minds.
They don't want to harm black people, they want to help them. Like the poor animals at the rescue shelter. They don't want blacks in their kid's school. They don't want blacks in their neighborhood after dark, once all the rooms are clean and the dishes put away. They don't want them at their parties unless they're carrying a tray of hors d'oeuvres.
But they're not mean to black people, like Republicans. Liberals want to give them some trinkets and stuff. Condescending douchebags.
This is not a big story because Tom Hanks is a pro-Obama liberal.
They like "Designer Tribalism" from afar because LIBERALS can't separate culture from primitive. They are unable to recognize prosperity and education (except for themselves) as gifts to give following generations. Then wrap all that stupidity on the Left up with their biases, and you see what that video clip shows.
The Perils of Designer Tribalism
........."The Australian anthropologist Roger Sandall does not mention The Tears of the White Man in The Culture Cult, his new collection of essays. But his discussion is everywhere informed by the same spirit of salutary impatience. What Bruckner criticizes as Third Worldism, Sandall castigates as “romantic primitivism” and (marvelous phrase) “designer tribalism.” What is romantic primitivism? In the words of Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas, it is “the unending revolt of the civilized against civilization.” Sandall begins with a small but telling contemporary example. In 1996, the actress Lauren Hutton took her two young boys to Africa to witness a bunch of Masai warriors and their witch doctor perform a tribal dance, slaughter a cow, and drink some warm blood straight from the carcass. The whole spectacle was captured for the television audience by Ted Turner’s minions. Miss Hutton loved it: according to Sandall, “Wow!” was her frequent refrain. But her young children, one of whom burst into tears, were terrified. Quite right, too. The purpose of the television show was to show that “Masai culture is just as good as Western civilization, if not better.” Miss Hutton’s enthusiasm was sparked by the display of “authentic” tribal passion. But her children saw the episode for what it was: a glimpse into the heart of darkness, the abyss of uncivilized barbarism.".....
....."It is part of the ethos of designer tribalism to foist all of one’s own attitudes and longings onto the apparently blank canvas of whatever primitive populace happens to be in vogue at the moment. To some extent, this is simply a matter of ignorance, as illustrated, for example, by Christopher Columbus’s report that the people he discovered “are very gentle, and know nothing of evil.” But the culture cultist supplements ignorance with heavy helpings of ideology and idealization. He looks at an exotic culture and, lo and behold, he finds himself looking into a flattering mirror. This is one reason that natives always seem to be non-smoking, vegetarian, sex-worshipping, drug-taking, eco-conscious, progressive-thinking pacifists—according, anyway, to the press releases distributed by the culture cultists.
Sandall speaks in this context of anthropology’s tendency to “normalize the primitive while treating civilization as aberrant.” Consider the Maoris. In contemporary New Zealand, Sandall notes, one finds “a miscellaneous army of teachers, academics, government servants, clergy, radical lawyers, progressive judges, journalists, and numerous other bien pensants promot[ing] the revival of traditional Maori culture even more fanatically than the Maori do themselves.” He cites an Anglican priest who rails against the “monocultural grip on all our institutions” that British colonialism supposedly still exerts (if only!), and cites various teachers who wish to return the education of Maori children to the tribes. In the background is a rose-tinted view of the Maoris as a peace-loving, ecologically conscious, spiritually delicate people who have been abused for two centuries by hard-bitten, materialistic Europeans.
In fact, the ecological record of the Maoris would not win any plaudits from the Sierra Club. Shortly after paddling up to New Zealand in their canoes eight-hundred years ago, the Maori indiscriminately burned huge swathes of forest. They also decimated the wildlife. Actually, “decimate” is far too weak a word. Within a short time, Sandall notes, some 30 percent of the bird life on New Zealand had become extinct thanks to the depredations of the Maoris. All twelve species of moa, for example, a large, flightless bird without natural predators before the Maori arrived, became extinct some six-hundred years ago. According to Sandall, it was perhaps the fastest megafaunal extinction ever recorded. Not that the Maori were particular about where they got their protein. Divided into numerous tribes, they were incessantly at war. Prisoners were routinely baked and eaten. But all of this is papered over. And even as the Maori past is systematically distorted and rewritten, so their future is jeopardized by government policies that, in the name of “bi-culturalism” and preserving tribal customs, dooms its beneficiaries to a life of second-class citizenship.".....
What isn’t clearly understood here is that when leftists engage in overt, callous racism, they’re just kidding; it’s all in good fun. When a conservative suffers an honest slip of the tongue, he’s clearly recruiting for the KKK and prepping for the coming race war.
Glad I could clear that up for you all.
What a Terrific Article!
Gilbert & Sullivan satirized “Designer Tribalism” in one astute line from The Mikado. In the song “I’ve Got A Little List”, Ko-Ko the Executioner is listing people who would not be missed if they were beheaded. One of these is:
“The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone,
All Centuries but this, and every country but his OWN!”
This idiotic conceit has been around for a LONG time! hahaha!
More of the same from the left, ginning up the anti-white hysteria, par for the course with the left’s racists.
Wow - that was hideously offensive! But Tom Hanks is lying when he says he was blindsided. Suprised for a second, maybe, but he continues to stroll around stage with the blackface dude while making un-funny jokes about him. Pretty sad Tom.
Maybe it’s a bad recording, but it seemed like there was NO laughter at the so-called “jokes.” Must’ve been a fun night!
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