The Ann Coulter "our blacks" statement hit a nerve. Whenever conservative pundit Ann Coulter is involved, the topic is sure to create a firestorm. Ann is known for her comments championing the conservative brand but she is universally a decisive figure. No matter what side of the aisle you're on, Ann always says something to get tongues wagging. Her latest comments sure spiked a firestorm with Democrats.
During an interview about Herman Cain and his latest issue, Ann Coulter defended the presidential candidate by saying, "That's why our blacks are so much better than their blacks. To become a black Republican you don't just roll into it. You're not going with the flow. You have fought against probably your family members, probably your neighbors, you have thought everything out and that's why we have very impressive blacks in our party."
There's nothing like throwing gasoline on the already burning flame. The biggest problem with this statement is "blacks" don't belong to anyone or any group. Life isn't a kickball game with Republicans on one side and Democrats on the other side, choosing which African-Americans to pick for their team.
Lots of people are up in arms about the statement but Coulter doesn't care. In fact, Ann Coulter doubled down on the "our blacks" statement. In an interview with Joy Behar she continued with her claim. When Behar asked if Ann really thought, "all the African-Americans who are Democrats are stupid", Ann says no but she continues, "I'm saying Google Maxine Waters, Cynthia McKinney, John Conyers, and then Google Allen West, Michael Steele or Herman Cain. ... Ours are more impressive. There's no question about it."
Ann Coulter's "our blacks" statement isn't so much racist as it is stupid. Since President Obama won the presidency, the country is falling all over itself to prove America has transcended racism, until the charge is necessary. Ann's comment is one of those attempts. Later in the Behar interview she says, "The only racism you hear in America is against conservative blacks." Both sides have African-Americans with notable qualities and career skills.
John Conyers worked on the civil rights movement and helped register voters in Selma, AL in 1963. Herman Cain is a mathematician and former CEO of a corporation. Maxine Waters is a former Head Start teacher and is the longest-serving African-American woman in Congress. Allen West is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army. You will not find any of these people on trading cards because they're not in competition so lets stop comparing "our blacks."
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Comments: 36
typo? did you mean to say "derisive"? :) Coulter is eminently worthy of mockery with her yammering about "demonic" liberals. Yeah Ann, we are all possessed by Beelzebub.
I object to her use of the word "our"- as if conservative blacks belong to conservatism. Nobody owns anybody in America. We got rid of slavery a while back.
I thought that you meant to write the word "divisive". Just goes to show how each of us can read the same sentence and understand it to mean something entirely different.
In any case, thanks for the article.
best description yet. :)
Ann Coultergeist is a very decisively derisive and divisive ghoul !!!
Here is the cure for WHITE TRASH like Ann Coulter bend over put your head in the electric socket it would do you good, stench.
Sewage like this needs to be sniped!
WHITE TRASH such as she is thinks she's god, when was the last time she looked in the mirror sorry how dare I she cracked it, she needs her teethe knocked out,
I like the story she got her law degree in just 2 weeks almost believable . . .
Coulter certainly needs to fade away, but obscurity seems a better fit.
A M E N ! *->
She should be a slave, she's that UGLY . . . lol
She's K K K . . . obvious!
Who cares what she drools ???????????
I agree with Coulter. Cain didn't know his place and he succeeded.
What exactly is Cain's "place?" You know, the one he didn't know about.
The liberal plantation. He didn't know he needed government programs to succeed. He didn't know he needed affirmative action. He didn't know he needed Ebonics. He didn't know that he was discriminated against in a country that hates him and that white people won't let him succeed. He was never aware that without white liberals holding his hand and protecting him from conservatives, he was doomed to fail.
William, the world isn't that scary of a place. Free your mind. You are intellectually more than capable.
Have to say, Ann does show the hypocrites on the left for who they really are