Glenn Beck: "African-Americans" are "human rights frauds"

  • Glenn Beck (Jan, 2010): "African-American" is a bogus, P.C., made up term. I mean, that's not a race. That is, your ancestry is from Africa and now you live in America. Okay?
  • Glenn Beck (Aug, 2011): If you can't be true to yourself, what are you doing? If you can't find courage now, you're not going to find it when you really need it. It does take courage [...] It takes honor. Make sure you know who you are. Make sure you know what you believe. Make sure you know your place in the universe. Make sure you know that you have power. Make sure you know that you're not alone. And then, as they turn up the heat, they're going to try to do everything they can to make sure you are alone. Remember, it's Saul Alinsky tactics. Isolate! Isolate! Ridicule! That's what they're doing. You have to not care anymore. You have to not care about political correctness anymore. It doesn't matter. You know what, Pat, correct if I'm wrong. Didn’t you feel ridiculously stupid everywhere in Africa, in Europe, in South America, in Jerusalem, when you would say the words "African-American?" [...] It doesn't apply! Now how can people be one thing in one country and nowhere else in the world?
  • Pat Gray: Thats' such a great point. What are you supposed to say? What is the acceptable term?
  • Beck: "Black."
  • Gray: African --
  • Beck: "Black!"
  • Gray: African-British?
  • Beck: "BLACK!" [...] It's black! In South Africa it's "black" and "colored." [...]
  • Gray: But we've been taught here that "colored" is really a bad thing to say because, "what color are they?" Well, okay, so you got us to stop saying that, but in other parts of the world they still do!
  • Beck: Yeah, and it's not a bad thing! Only here, why are we made to feel bad? Notice this? "African-American" was not made to do anything except try to create a superman. "Oh don't you dare feel bad about yourself, you're African-American!" No! You're an American. In stead of building the country up and saying, "Lookit! We all have the right, here in this country - look what happened with Martin Luther King! That makes you an American! Judge not by the color of your skin!" You weren't over in Africa! Your great-great-grandfather was, your great-great-great-great-grandfather may have been, but you weren't! And sure this country sucked for blacks. Sucked! Beyond sucked for a long time. But it doesn't now. It doesn't now. Be proud to be an American!
  • Gray: I've always felt it's such an insult too, the idea of "African-American" that they, for some reason, need to have some qualifier, not even special help, just some distinction as if they're different than us. They're Americans, they're just like us, they're 100% Americans. They deserve every right, and they have every responsibility that everyone else has.
  • Beck: The thing is, it makes people afraid. That's the key. It makes other people afraid. If we're afraid to say something, and we all are, you're afraid to say something because you don't want to offend. Americans are good. Americans are kind. Not all of them, but we are great because we are good. Why do you think we said "handi-capable?" Because we don't want to hurt anybody's feelings! They've been using this! It's our achilles heel! Have no fear! Dismiss these human rights frauds!