Posted on 10/08/2012 6:17:20 PM PDT by oliverdarcy
A prominent Ivy-League professor denounced Columbus Day and mocked those who celebrate it by releasing a list of individuals he deems are the “15 most overrated white people” on Monday.
Marc Lamont Hill, Associate Professor of English Education at Columbia University, wrote that the holiday is one of America’s “most bizarre cultural rituals” and that he finds it perplexing people “continue to praise the vicious conquistador as a hero.”
“To honor the true spirit of Columbus Day, I have created my own list of overrated white people,” he wrote in his article published on the Huffington Post.
The list includes Elvis Presley, Ronald Reagan, Babe Ruth, William Shakespeare, Tim Tebow, among others.
“Elvis didn't write his own songs (despite taking credit for them), barely played the guitar, and was a worse actor than the entire cast of Belly,” wrote Hill.
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Can I make an overrated black people list I have someone in my already
Doesn’t Fox pay this loser?
Isn’t Hill that cross-eyed idiot that Hannity is always blabbing away with? It’s pretty obvious he has a problem with “white” people.
Is this that gay guy that’s on Fox now and then?
Can I make an overrated black people list I have someone in mind already
So who are the 15 most overrated black people then?
LOL
It appears somebody needed 15 minutes of fame.
Whoever brings up race first is the racist.
I think he’s on O’Reilly.
This is just disgusting.
Yeah, why praise the successful?
The left loves them some victims.
The more beaten, the more heroic.
Shakespeare? This joker teaches English at a prestigious university. Affirmative action cultural suicide in action.
Donovan McNabb comes to mind...
Most annoying academics are highly over rated, over paid and over here. Send them to some backwater hell-hole where they can luxuriate in the cultural splendor free from the poison of Americanism, Christianity and Western ideals.
They are all tied for #1.
Was thinking of a list of overrated liberal college teachers, but that would be an unnecessary waste of paper.
Marc Lamont Hill probably wouldn’t be thought of on such a list. He’s irrevelant
Marc Lamont Hill: Black Ku Klan Klan Racist
Can you imagine the whining this Black Racist would do if someone published: 15 Over-rated Black People?
MSNBC is nothing more than Black KKK TV
Columbus was a conquistador? Thankfully, this professor of “English Education” is not a member of Columbia’s History Department.
So who are the 15 most overrated black people then?”
How many are rated?
BJ Clinton on list, LMAO.
also
Obama Economic team
Where would the seed of Marc Lamont Hill have sprouted if not for the West’s inhabitancy of North America?
O’Reilly calls this guy “Doctor”. His PHd is in “African Studies”.
I will put him in the number 2 spot
If Baraq is “black” (debatable since he’s a halfrican)
He HAS to be at the top of the list.
Let your racist flag fly, dems!
LMAO — that has got to be one of the most tasteless things I have ever seen, but flippin hysterical!!!!
I get why looney lib professor would put Reagan on the list. I agree about Tebow - most overrated player in NFL history.
but Babe Ruth? Seriously?
Marc also wrote a book. Synopsis is:
This collection of conversations between celebrity intellectual Marc Lamont Hill and famed political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is a shining example of African American men speaking for themselves about the many forces impacting their lives. Covering topics such as race, politics, hip-hop culture,
education, mass incarceration, and love, their discussions shine a spotlight on some of the most pressing issues in 21st century African American life.
My take: See Marc push racism and Islam. LOL
If he hates our culture so much, remind him that the pinnacle of African culture, was the Zulus.
He can build a mud hut and start drinking cow blood anytime he wants.
I have my own list of overrated white people that I'd be happy to share with the good Professor:
1. Karl Marx
2. Friedrich Engels
3. George Bernard Shaw
4. Che Guevara
5. Alger Hiss
6. Gloria Steinem
7. Walter Cronkite
8. Jane Fonda
9. Noam Chomsky
9.5 Barack 0bama - half of him, anyway
10. Margaret Sanger
That isn't even the top ten, it's ten off the top of my head. Yes, I am aware the Chomsky did some decent work in linguistics. Hitler was good to his dogs. It doesn't matter.
Idiot boy postulates that if the Babe had to face black pitchers he would have been a stiff.
Racist fantasy knows no bounds, apparently....
A professor of English education obviously knows how to judge everyone in history. It’s a farce.
Ivy League... that is the same thing as a progressive dickhead... isn’t it?
LLS
If he could get away with it, he’d eat white people. He’s one of the more rabid of the liberal racist bunch. Klan with a tan leader.
“Whoever brings up race first is the racist.”
Yes... we must apply the “fart rule”.
LLS
Muhammad was white? Since when? I would call him an Arab, and in the 7th century I don’t know if any of them could be called “white”.
I don’t know if he’s paid, but he is on. But only to discuss issues relating to blacks. Apparently this professor’s opinions are not too reliable on any topic not called “race.” I guess that indicates his actual field of expertise.
I am pretty certain that desmond tutu, mandela, sidney poitier, snoop dog and spike lee are on that list.
LLS
Not many people realize:
1. “judged by the content of their character, and not the color of their skin” was NOT first written by MLK
2. large parts of his PhD dissertation are said to have been plagiarized
A powerful speaker? Yes. But there is more to the whole picture....
I am so sick of the double standard. Here’s obviously a racist, and he gets away with it with no negative repercussions because he’s black. He could make the point with almost every single one of the list, but then he paints the whole NHL, and I’m sure it’s because there’s hardly any black players there. Could you just imagine if some white professor did the same thing, but with a list of over-rated black people, and mentioned the NBA within that list? He would lose his job over it, because nobody wants their kids taught by a freaking racist. But it’s okay because he’s black?
I am so sick of the double standard. Here’s obviously a racist, and he gets away with it with no negative repercussions because he’s black. He could make the point with almost every single one of the list, but then he paints the whole NHL, and I’m sure it’s because there’s hardly any black players there. Could you just imagine if some white professor did the same thing, but with a list of over-rated black people, and mentioned the NBA within that list? He would lose his job over it, because nobody wants their kids taught by a freaking racist. But it’s okay because he’s black?
Every time I hear that “America has had many Presidents but only one King” phrase, I wanna throw up.....
Tebow is a very good football player. Tebow has realistic goals and abilities. Ask the Steelers if he’s overrated.
I just saw him throw a beautiful pass downfield that was dropped!
He’s a winner all day, everyday!
But these people are definitely NOT overrated:
Elvis Presley: One of the greatest popular singers of the 20th century (along with Crosby and Sinatra).
Ronald Reagan: Won the Cold War; the most revered figure in the conservative movement.
William Shakespeare: Are you kidding me?? Shakespeare is one of the most important, influential figures in the history of Western Civilization! The most imporant writer in the history of the English language!
Babe Ruth: The greatest baseball player ever, probably the greatest professional athlete ever, his stardom transcended his sport.
Bill Walton: I saw Walton play many times in his prime. Terrific all-around center, one of the best ever, when healthy.
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