Neil Rogers continues Belafontes thread

Fox news ^ | Nov 8, 2002

[mad puppy]

NEW YORK ? A talk radio host has joined the attack on the leading African-American figures in the Bush administration, and drawn fire himself from critics who see his comments as racist.

Just weeks after singer Harry Belafonte slammed Secretary of State Colin Powell, likening the fellow Jamaican-American to a "house slave," Florida's Neil Rogers jumped on the bandwagon with comments about National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

"Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart?" a song parody broadcast on Rogers' show says. "Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars?" .....

[mad puppy]

Unreal. And this from a white guy! The catch is, he is a LIBERAL white guy. Apparently now you have to be white AND liberal to be racist.

P. Noonan has an article that addresses parts of this too: http://opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/

If one of the fundamental causes that the Dem party has been about is racism, and if your politics (liberal v conserative) now trumps your race, well, I can only conclude that the issue of racism in America has essentially been resolved. No wonder the Dems are floundering.

[mad puppy]

"Apparently now you have to be white AND liberal to be racist."

Should read:

"Apparently now you have to be white AND conservative to be racist."

Dang it!

[anniegetyourgun]

Neil is a white racist who apparently takes joy in seeing the DEM party treat blacks as their own 'house slaves' - suitable to viewing only 30 days prior to an election.

[Russ]

Have any of his fellow white liberals condemned him for
these remarks? When pigs fly...

[Paradox]

You have to have listened to Neil to understand him. Yes he is liberal, but his show is not very serious at all. Its funny. Different than Howard Sterns, a bit more serious, but less so than Rush's show, which uses alot of that type of humor.

I have a grudging respect for Neil. He tells it like it is in alot of cases. But you really can't take him too seriously, or you are missing the point entirely.

[Snuffington]

I think the liberal rage over Powell and Rice is amusing to watch. It likely stems from the knowledge that Democrats are being outdone in empowering black people by the supposedly racist Republicans.

Compare and contrast - the Democrats had the Whitehouse for eight years. In that time, despite 90 percent of black politicians being loyal party members, the highest offices any black people achieved were brief stints as Agriculture and Commerce secretaries. No black supreme court justice appointments. No black leaders of either House of Congress. Basically, the black "leadership" under Democrats is now confined to gospel singers, and black preachers speaking at their conventions (is this the new minstrelsy?), or leaders of exclusively black caucuses.

By contrast, Republicans, despite routinely gaining no more than 10 percent of the black vote, appointed a black man, Colin Powell, to the highest governmental position in the cabinet and appointed Condeleeza Rice to the highest governmental position ever held by a black woman. What's more, the only black Supreme Court Justice currently serving was appointed by a Republican.

In short, Republicans are the ones who are treating black party members seriously, and backing this up in their actions. Despite black Republicans being only a fraction the number of their Democrat counterparts, they find themselves outdistancing their Democratic counterparts on every measurable level. Perhaps that "house negro" comment comes so quickly to the liberal mind because it so accurately reflects black status in the party they're most intimately familiar with.

[Travis McGee]

I lived in South Florida in the 1980s, isn't Neil Rogers a fat homo who used to do skits where he joked about how cute the bag boys were at the super market?

[Dr. Scarpetta]

bump

[Republicus2001]

At my university it would be characterized as hate speech or hate crime...BTW the Hate America First crowd was on campus yesterday, with vicious anti-war protesting...can someone please post a good image of Americans leaping to their death from the WTC last September? I'd like to pepper the area with some pro-American flyers.

any help on the way would be appreciated

[Billthedrill]

What is curious about all this is that these two individuals are policy makers, not echoers like their counterparts in the Clintonian cabinets, and that Powell in particular has on several occasions differed from Bush's stated intentions publicly and not only wasn't "put to pasture," but was praised as an independent voice. This line of smear is so obviously devoid of merit that it's more damaging to the credibility of the smearers than it is to the reputations of the victims.

[zarf]

Neil is a South Florida institution. He's a fat liberal fag who is quite a talented talk show host.

In fact, Rogers, along with Rush, are the 2 best radio personalities I have ever heard.

Neil used to host a serious political program back in the 70's on WKAT in Miami. He gradually began mixing the shock jock/politcal genres to an annoying, yet addicting effect..

[Republicus2001]

ping to whatever happened to Chuck Harder? still on air? he's been gone from Southern California airwaves for years....

[zarf]

Can't answer your question regarding Harder.

[TigersEye]

Here is an update on this story at NewsMax.com. Here are some more lyrics from that sick song.

"Condoleezza, Condoleezza, what you be doin'?
That neo-facist black-haired token schwarze dog.

"Is you there 'cause you a high-toned public Negro?
Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart?
Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza?
Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars.

"Georgie junior says he trusts you, Condoleezza.
Who said our [unintelligible] off the greedy oil woes.
But then he make you clean all the White House bathrooms.
The public sink, the toilet and let's scrub the floors."

Nice.
Glad the liberals don't engage in such racism./sarcasm

[.30Carbine]

Asked about some of the racist-sounding rhetoric on the CD, Radio Hole's spokesman said that Rogers' audience knows that when he plays it, he's "goofing around."

"This has nothing to do at all with racism," he added. "You're taking it far too seriously."

This needs bumping.

[TigersEye]

bttt

[MeekOneGOP]

[Washi]

Well, it appears as if this is old news, though I only heard about it today of Fox. (lucky I did a search)

Fox pointed out that the NAACP has decided not to pursue this.

I guess they should rename themselves the NAA(LW)CP, National Association for the Advancement of (Left Wing) Colored people.

They are now just as irrelevant as NOW, the group that by word and action maintained that Clinton was free to grope, rape, belittle women at will as long as he was on the correct side of the political spectrum.

washi