Brit Hume's Idea Of Despicable Differs From That Of Normal Human Beings

Sad commentary, Brit Hume ... very sad on your part.

Self-Righteous Brit Hume Engages In Religious Bigotry Against Tiger Woods

Fox News right-wing commentator and religious expert Brit Hume (on the Sunday, Jan. 3 edition of Fox News Sunday) offered golfing phenom Tiger Woods, experiencing no shortage of marital problems these days, some religious advice. Hume, reminiscent of Europeans who went into Africa to colonize and civilize blacks (by introducing and imposing their religious beliefs), was strong in his words of advice toward Woods.

HUME: Tiger Woods will recover as a golfer. Whether he can recover as a person, I think, is a very open question. And it’s a tragic situation. . . . But the Tiger Woods that emerges once the news value dies out of this scandal, the extent to which he can recover, seems to me to depend on his faith. He’s said to be a Buddhist. I don’t think that faith offers the kind of forgiveness and redemption that is offered by the Christian faith. So my message to Tiger would be, ‘Tiger, turn to the Christian faith and you can make a total recovery and be a great example to the world.’

Hume seems to be engaging in what is little more than religious bigotry by taking it upon himself to define Buddhism and suggest Woods just abandon it and embrace Christianity.

Check out this video of the historic Alex Haley film “Roots.” Fast forward to about 6:55 of this clip to see the relevance (below the video is the transcript).

Hume’s comment made me think long and hard about this particular scene from that film.

CAPTAIN DAVIES: What are they like…the blacks?

MR. SLATER: They’re just a different kind of breed, sir. A man breeds a dog for hunting…and breeds another sort of dog for his family. Blacks are slow-minded but strong. They’re made for slavery like you’re made to run this ship. The natural order of things, eh?

DAVIES: Yes. Yes, I could understand that, I suppose.

SLATER: It’s good for them, us taking them like that. They’re better off for it, sir.

DAVIES: I’m not sure I understand that part, Mr. Slater.

SLATER: For one thing, there’s Christianity. We’re bringing them to a Christian land. That’s got to be better for them than the heathen Allah they got now. That’s the first thing. Second is…we’re saving them from being eaten by their own kind. They do that, you know. Cannibals, all of them.

DAVIES: As I said before, Mr. Slater…below decks, you’re the expert.

Maybe Hume feels like he is civilizing Woods by trying to convert him to Christianity … much like Mr. Slater believed in “Roots.”

The religious bigotry from Hume, however, displays a shameful form of ignorance and bigotry. It also shows that Hume has learned nothing from the bigoted beliefs (symbolic of intolerance) of some people 400 years ago.

It’s not to say Hume is exactly like slave masters, but it is sad he has not learned a little something about religious bigotry from that horrible legacy.

Check out how a few conservatives are predictably coming to the defense of Hume: http://mediamatters.org/research/201001040038

Brit Hume Of Fox News Finds Conservatives’ Favorite Whipping Boys … Jesse And Al

When conservatives become angry about racial politics, and feel things are not going their way, it’s generally not long before too familiar names come up … ahem … Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rev. Al Sharpton.

As Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page said in an interview, some of the hatred being directed at President Obama is paybacks for the anger that a good number of conservative (by far predominantly old and white) feel toward Jackson and Sharpton. President Obama is an easy and high-profile target for these conservatives to step up and unleash their venom disguised by code words or terms like socialist, communist, fascist, anti-American, Marxist and more.

This is from a CNN special:

ELAINE QUIJANO: Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page sees the Obama presidency as a chance for some to lash out.

CLARENCE PAGE, DC-BASED CHICAGO TRIBUNE COLUMNIST: People are not just mad at Obama. They’re mad at Jesse Jackson, they’re mad at Reverend Wright, they’re made at Al Sharpton, they’re mad at people who have nothing to do with Obama except they all happen to be black.

QUIJANO: Page says the vehement racial resistance that’s emerged is another sign any notion of a post-racial society after Barack Obama’s election was wishful thinking.

PAGE: It’s only the beginning of the process that we are able to live with leadership that may not look like us, may not come from the same background as us but is still part of this very diverse society.

This all brings me to a commentary published on the Fox News Web site by conservative talker Brit Hume, who sort of proves what Page was talking about with respect to Jackson and Sharpton.

Fox News article by Hume (speaking for racism/racial politics deniers aided by the more subtle form of racism that exists today):

FOX News’ Brit Hume with ‘Special Report’ host Bret Baier

One of the great achievements of the American civil rights movement is a broad and deep consensus that racism — which has a long history in this country — is unacceptable, indeed even intolerable. Civil rights activists, led by Dr. King, appealed to the conscience and good will of the nation on the issue and won the nation over.

See, a lot of these conservatives will say something like “yeah, we know racism is still out there” but every time an instance of racism is pointed out they (generally speaking) vehemently deny it’s racism and then turn around and go on the offense by accusing you of playing the mythical so-called “race card.”

In America, one of the worst things that can be said of anyone is that he or she is racist. The charge is so potent that some — Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton come to mind — have hurled it about with abandon, knowing how far people will go to avoid the label.

To say Jackson and Sharpton have “hurled it (the racism charge) about with abandon” is a tricky statement – even by Hume’s (Fox News) standards. Whenever a race issue comes up, reporters from Fox News, CNN, MSNBC and others jump up and stick a microphone in the faces of Jackson and Sharpton. Then, the two reverends are accused of playing the race card when a lot of times they are the ones who are sought out by the media. Now, there are times when a lot of us wish people (including Jackson and Sharpton) would sometimes say “no comment” as those two in particular inexplicably seem to represent the so-called black community to a lot of white people (in a negative way).

If there is a black community then does that mean there is a white community? There’s food for thought.

Enablers of racism blame the victim instead of standing up against these more disguised forms of racism. Now, people need to be careful hurling the charge because, as Hume says, it is a powerful charge. But, those who engage in these kinds of activities or use inflammatory language must be called out by people like Brit Hume (don’t hold your breath waiting on that to happen) who seem to have no problem calling out Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, but are silent on certain other people.