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Lamusa · 11-05-2009, 02:36 PM

Is Rush Racist?

I think the more important question is what degree are WE racist or struggle with our own internalized oppressions. Rush Limbaugh is a symbol. A caricature. I feel sorry for him. Isn't he deaf? I think he's got heart problems. Anyway, he's human like the rest of us. He admits he says all the things he does for money. Who is he really, then? What does he really believe? Like all of us he needs our love. And we can choose to be grateful to him for helping to bring out the racism and anger that we hold in our hearts about the past because then we can look at it and hopefully release it. Racism is insidious. It's painful for everybody. It's difficult to turn away from. But in order to end racism it might be helpful to look at it fully in yourself no matter what race you are before we start focusing on one man with a radio show. We can say it's 2009 and let's move on but if we are to move on we need to examine this in a much deeper way than focusing on the coments of one man. Racism intersects with so many things. Capitalism for one. Classism. Sexism. Colonialism. The psychological effects of these things on all of us is quite profound. So much poverty still exists in the U.S. among blacks and whites and Native Americans. Study White Supremacy and how it intersects and then divides with Black Nationalism. Study the painful history of "Passing." Ever watch the melodrama, "Imitation of Life?" Bring tissues. Everything today is informed by all of this. Hollywood was built on the 1915 movie Birth of a Nation which re-energized the KKK. This movie is still taught in film schools because of its groundbreaking use of technique and because it was master of the close-up and so on. D.W. Griffith, the director denied being racist at all. We deal with race all the time but where do we get to? We only scratch the surface.

Now, I practice Intention-Manifestation, meditation, forgiveness and so on but it is not always easy to forget these things. Most of us want to ignore it because what you focus on expands and then history just repeats itself. Where is the middle ground? I am black, European and Indian. I embrace all sides of me. One side of my family was born into poverty. The other, great wealth. I love all parts. This took me awhile to get to. Science tells us the oldest bones were found in Africa. If we all originally came from the same place then it is only something unchallenged in us that continues to divide and conquer. Don't look at Rush, look at you.

11-05-2009, 02:36 PM	#36 (permalink)
Lamusa Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 261	Birth of a Nation Is Rush Racist? I think the more important question is what degree are WE racist or struggle with our own internalized oppressions. Rush Limbaugh is a symbol. A caricature. I feel sorry for him. Isn't he deaf? I think he's got heart problems. Anyway, he's human like the rest of us. He admits he says all the things he does for money. Who is he really, then? What does he really believe? Like all of us he needs our love. And we can choose to be grateful to him for helping to bring out the racism and anger that we hold in our hearts about the past because then we can look at it and hopefully release it. Racism is insidious. It's painful for everybody. It's difficult to turn away from. But in order to end racism it might be helpful to look at it fully in yourself no matter what race you are before we start focusing on one man with a radio show. We can say it's 2009 and let's move on but if we are to move on we need to examine this in a much deeper way than focusing on the coments of one man. Racism intersects with so many things. Capitalism for one. Classism. Sexism. Colonialism. The psychological effects of these things on all of us is quite profound. So much poverty still exists in the U.S. among blacks and whites and Native Americans. Study White Supremacy and how it intersects and then divides with Black Nationalism. Study the painful history of "Passing." Ever watch the melodrama, "Imitation of Life?" Bring tissues. Everything today is informed by all of this. Hollywood was built on the 1915 movie Birth of a Nation which re-energized the KKK. This movie is still taught in film schools because of its groundbreaking use of technique and because it was master of the close-up and so on. D.W. Griffith, the director denied being racist at all. We deal with race all the time but where do we get to? We only scratch the surface. Now, I practice Intention-Manifestation, meditation, forgiveness and so on but it is not always easy to forget these things. Most of us want to ignore it because what you focus on expands and then history just repeats itself. Where is the middle ground? I am black, European and Indian. I embrace all sides of me. One side of my family was born into poverty. The other, great wealth. I love all parts. This took me awhile to get to. Science tells us the oldest bones were found in Africa. If we all originally came from the same place then it is only something unchallenged in us that continues to divide and conquer. Don't look at Rush, look at you.