Posted on 08/02/2013 6:41:08 PM PDT by chessplayer
Salon’s Andrew O’Hehir has fingered the main culprits behind Detroit’s bankruptcy. According to him, it’s none other than Fox News host Sean Hannity and all his fellow racist conservatives who were threatened by Smokey Robinson.
In his July 27 screed for Salon headlined “Why the Right Hates Detroit” O’Hehir claimed the fall of big cities like Detroit and New Orleans had less to do with longtime Democratic rule and more to do with the right’s desire, as seen in the “coded racism of Sean Hannity” to punish the cities that spawned “the worldwide revolution symbolized by hot jazz, Smokey Robinson dancin’ to keep from cryin’ and Eminem trading verses with Rihanna.”
The following is the relevant excerpt from the July 27 Salon article:
Is it pure coincidence that these two landmark cities, known around the world as fountainheads of the most vibrant and creative aspects of American culture, have become our two direst examples of urban failure and collapse? If so, it’s an awfully strange one.
I’m tempted to propose a conspiracy theory: As centers of African-American cultural and political power and engines of a worldwide multiracial pop culture that was egalitarian, hedonistic and anti-authoritarian, these cities posed a psychic threat to the most reactionary and racist strains in American life. I mean the strain represented by Tom Buchanan in “The Great Gatsby” (imagine what he’d have to say about New Orleans jazz) or by the slightly more coded racism of Sean Hannity today. As payback for the worldwide revolution symbolized by hot jazz, Smokey Robinson dancin’ to keep from cryin’ and Eminem trading verses with Rihanna, New Orleans and Detroit had to be punished. Specifically, they had to be isolated, impoverished and almost literally destroyed, so they could be held up as examples of what happens when black people are allowed to govern themselves.
They know Hannity so well that they know his taste in music?
The irony, perhaps lost on the dumb@ss author, is that Motown bolted for the West Coast in 1972.
The clear message is “No matter what happens, or who does it I, black people, and “progressives” or Democrats are never ever responsible for anything.”
Actually there is still some good music coming out of Detroit. Earlier today I was talking about Kid Rock and Uncle Kracker. It ain’t motown but that’s OK because those white boys are actually trying to do things for the city rather than sitting around and bitching.
I despise Hannity...
...on what grounds, might I ask...?
They know Hannity so well that they know his taste in music?
..don’t know about that, but apparently there are some on this forum who know him well enough to despise him...
Didn’t the Jazz move their team to Utah? Dang Mormons...
Good point.
Coded racism? What the Hell does that even mean?
Anyway, Hannity likes country, I don’t.
I like some old Motown. Let’s enjoy some.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIdIqbv7SPo
Bill Withers. Awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBR2G-iI3-I
Gloria Gaynor. Magnificent!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1eOsMc2Fgg
Roberta Flack. Art!
Whatever black singers are producing today, I don’t even know what it is. Jay Z? What is that? Beyoncé? Without talent. Nicki Minaj? False, everything is false.
Now I am just upsetting myself. Time to listen to some more old school.
I mean, I LMAO at this crap! Whoo!
Unbelievable!
Some of my favorite acts are Motown. I grew up in the New Orleans area.
Democrats ruined both towns. Democrats who abused identity politics specifically.
Detroit was doomed a long time ago....From a old song:
Hey, Mama, is it true what the say, that Papa never worked a day in his life?
And Mama, they talk all around town say that
Papa had three outside children and another wife
And that ain’t right.
Heard them talkin’ about Papa doing some storefront preachin’
Talkin’ about saving your souls and all the time leechin’.
And stealin’ in the name of the Lord
Mama just hung her head and said.....
The far left politicizes everything and will demonize any personal preference if it fits their prejudice and worldview. I wouldn’t be shocked if we soon see an article branding as racists people who favor vanilla ice cream over chocolate.
A ‘Progressive’ I argue with says that “People know who their friends are.”
This ‘Conservatives hate (fill in the blank) is the propaganda tactic du jour coming down the pike just in time for the 2014 election.
What do you do? Beg for forgiveness? Yeah, right!
I stopped listening to Hannity radio because he has too many libs on his show. The back and forth is simply silly. His TV show is often a shout match between two or three people.
Leftists are simply insane
How did Sean Hannity and right-wingers “punish” Detroit and New Orleans? These people are nuts, and the MSM NEVER call them on it. This crap just keeps coming out day after day, week after week, year after year, and they get a pass. But any gaffe or overreaction by the right - Limbaugh’s “slut”comment - is immediately elevated to a national story and a national debate about the “incivility” of the right.
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