O'Reilly a Racist - Sharpton Will Decide

1. I read the transcript and I surprisingly was not offended by it. O'Reilly was just saying that contrary to popular belief, not all black people act like ignorant rappers. I don't think he was being racist at all, rather stating the truth.

Aliya at 1:10PM on Sep 26th 2007

2. Bring Imus with you Al......and Kanye West for your anchor on this one....ought to be a laugh....You're cool Al.....

V.S. at 1:11PM on Sep 26th 2007

3. Just don't bring Jesse.you have more class than that Al........

V.S. at 1:12PM on Sep 26th 2007

4. Since Bill was with Al and they kinda hang out together anyway...what is the big thing here.....Bill has Al on the "Factor" all the time and they eat out normally.....Don't make a big thing out of this...Al's cool and he'll hammer Bill on the Factor again....his turn on this one.....ratings you know!

V.S. at 1:29PM on Sep 26th 2007

5. I think it was racist. Bill O'reilly is an arrogant, ignorant, ethnocentric, parochial bigot. Just beacuse he hangs out it Al, does not mean he doesn't belives Al is less than him. He did not say "people should know" it was the same anywhere else, but rather HE was "surprised!"
If this should be taken as a compliment, it's patronizing at best.

Bee at 3:55PM on Sep 26th 2007

6. It's funny to me. Because white people say some dumb stuff. They make them selfs look dumb.

stewart at 4:52PM on Sep 26th 2007

7. I think that sometimes we are too sensitive. I read what O'Reilly had to say and I totally understood what he meant. He meant that the stereotypes depicting blacks as ignorant is not true. People need to LISTEN to what is said first before deciding to have an opinion.

Fee Fee at 5:02PM on Sep 26th 2007

8. WHAT ELSE CAN ANYONE EXPECT FROM O'REILLY. I CANNOT WAIT FOR SOME RAPPER DUDE TO WHIP HIS ASS FOR ALL THE S**t HE TALKS ABOUT THEM AMONG OTHERS. HIE A BIGOT AND A RACIST.

STACCEE at 6:47PM on Sep 26th 2007

9. Bill O'Reilly is a serious political pundit trying to expand his base by insulting and infuriating the fringes to build his loyal core. If O'Reilly occassionally pulls an "Imus", then he is passively showing his hardcore supporters that he is with them. The outrage he attempts to create makes him more relevant. As Mr. O's ratings continue to fall, you can expect more attempts at failed humor. If you ever want it to stop, then demand equal time. O'Reilly isn't the only one who can be serious and funny. He may be one of the few on television, but it could be due to the fact that Blacks are not taken seriously in America. If Al Sharpton is the only Black that can be taken seriously, I'm laughing my butt of with Mr. O and Imus. We can do better, but until we do; disrespect is all we will ever get. We can be funny and serious. Where do I apply?

Cecil Jones at 6:49PM on Sep 26th 2007

10. Clearly some people are too STUPID to figure out when someone is giving them a compliment along with a kick in the a$$. Bill wasn't DEFENDING Blacks he was SHOCKED that we acted in a civil manner and compared our civil behavior to what he'd expect at a white Italian restaurant as though that were the gold standard. That is a clear personification of racism...the belief that one race is superior to another.

What did he expect Black folks to be doing? Shooting the waitresses, acting like animals, cursing each other out? Would he be SHOCKED at people acting civil at a Japanese or Mexican eatery? I think not. So get a clue folks.

I'm not offended personally (I always knew he was a racist moron), but I do find it offensive to suggest that Blacks in general would be anything BUT civil in a freaking restaurant or anywhere for that matter.

Reecie at 7:23PM on Sep 26th 2007

11. Cecil, seems to be having an identity crisis. Just say your comments but don't try to be one of us. The analysis are in, you are not! You ain't fooling any one. Stop insulting our intelligence. Couldn't you find a blogg you really belong? Apparantly not!

Barry at 7:54PM on Sep 26th 2007

12. Bill once said that blacks should listen & do as maintream America if we want to get anywhere. His guest asked, "and you think YOU are mainstream American?" He said with a straight face said "YES!". That's when I stopped watching him.
The guy obviously exhibits the characteristics of a narcisitic, grandiouse psychopath! You haven't heard the last of him!

Boo at 8:06PM on Sep 26th 2007

13. The white media should be concerned about it's people for the simple fact that blacks commit 50% of the murders and a greater percentage of other crimes in this country. If we eliminate crimes committed by young black males from the U.S. statistics our country compares very favorably with all Western countries. Fact -- blacks kill 7 times more than whites kill. Fact -- blacks kill whites 20 times more than whites kill blacks. Fact -- blacks mug or commit group crime against whites 50 times more than whites commit against blacks. Fact -- blacks rape white women 2000 (yes 2000) times more than whites rape black women. In New York City, about 300 white women are raped by blacks every year BUT there has not been a black woman raped by a white male in anybody’s memory (going back over 20 yrs.) Consider: Al Sharpton had to go upstate New York to find a hoax and that was almost 20 years ago and the Duke rape case. (Source NYT 4/22/07)

Unfortunately, as a nation we have become so trapped in the melodrama of black victimization and white oppression that we are in danger of losing all sense of proportion. If blacks are oppressed in America, why isn't there a black exodus? Why do all those black Haitians want to come here? To be oppressed? In the grips of a politically inspired group psychosis, you find it natural to collude with demagogic race hustlers in support of a fantasy in which African-Americans are no longer responsible for anything negative they do, even to themselves. If blacks constitute just under half the prison population, for example, that cannot be allowed to suggest that the black community might have a problem when it comes to raising its children as law-abiding members of society. Oh no. Such a statistic can only be explained by the racism of a criminal justice system that is incarcerating too many blacks.

Nonsense like this is proposed daily by the entire spectrum of the civil rights leadership from racist bloviator Al Sharpton to urbane Urban League President Hugh Price. Against the intimidating atmosphere this consensus creates, to suggest the obvious -- that too many blacks are in prison because blacks commit too many crimes -- is to be identified as an apologist for racism, and perhaps even a closet racist oneself. Your defense of black thugs is only an extreme manifestation of what has apparently become the very essence of the civil rights movement. Do black children fail to achieve in school? White oppression explains their failure. (Nothing else could without blaming the victims.) Poor black academic performance cannot be seen as a failure of black families to educate their children, or of the black community to support educational values, which are often referred to derisively as "thinking white." Black failure can only be the result of some lingering residue of the white perfidy involved in slavery and segregation. Call it "institutional racism."

The myth of racial oppression, invoked to explain every social deficit of blacks, is an exercise in psychological denial. Crying racism deflects attention from the actual causes of the problems that afflict African-American communities. Its net result is to deprive people and communities who could help themselves of the power to change their fate. Nearly 70 percent of black children are born out of wedlock. A child raised in a single-parent, female-headed household is six times more likely to be poor than a child of any color born into a two-parent household. Seventy percent of youth violence is committed by males from female-headed households, regardless of race.

These are the realities that black racists cannot face: Blacks are under represented at elite universities because their test scores are abysmal. Blacks are incarcerated in prisons in staggering numbers because they commit crimes in staggering disproportion to their representation in the population. Those blacks who are chronically unemployed are unemployed not because there are no jobs nor because they are barred from jobs by their skin color but because they are unemployable: They do not seek work as avidly as other groups do; they make their neighborhoods too dangerous for businesses to establish operations; and they do not acquire educational skills or work habits necessary for employment.

Josh at 8:46PM on Sep 26th 2007

14. First of all, the ENTIRE transcript is not at the link you provided. Media Matters conveniently left off the entire transcript and only published part of it. The entire transcript can be heard at billoreilly.com

TL at 9:18PM on Sep 26th 2007

15. This comment is for posting #13

Why are you posting this here? I don't know who you are but I do know one thing that it is crap like this that has got the whole country thinking against black people. I know the world I live in and it is not the one you are talking about.

I am an African American woman who has been happily married for 7 years. I have no children. I have a college degree and a good job (as do all of my sisters). I have 5 sisters. Only one has a child and he was born
AFTER marriage.

No one has committed any crimes in my family. No one in my family is in jail. My twin brothers are honor students as is my nephew. I can go on and on, but my point is that white ppl use statistics like this to slam blacks...to make everyone hate us and to make us hate ourselves, but I will not buy into it. There are no positive statistics out there for black ppl b/c no one wants to talk about the positives.

No one publishes any negative statistics about whites such as pedophilia is rampant among white men. Why are there no statistics about THAT???????? More than 90% of serial killers are white males. Where are your statistics about THAT???????

There are more whites on welfare than blacks. No one wants to hear it b/c we are all too busy hating on black ppl. Oh, and truth be told racism IZ alive and well in Corporate America.

I won't play the race card. I am just going to do my thing as a member of the HUMAN race. I was not offended by O'Reilly's comments b/c he simply pointed out the truth that blacks are no different than whites. O'Reilly may have chosen a dumb way of saying what he felt needed to be said. But I was not offended in the least.

While there are many blacks committing crimes out there, there are many, many MORE who are law abiding citizens who ARE no different than whites. I won't buy into your one sided statistics either.

Natalie at 9:58PM on Sep 26th 2007