So, in Ms Coulter's views, the only people that have civil rights are black people, because of the history of apartheid and slavery. Nobody else has civil rights. Not women, not hispanics, not LGBT. Note that she did not include rich white people in that list.
The thing is that Ms Coulter has a law degree from University of Michigan and a BA from Cornell. I've never thought Ms Coulter to be stupid - arrogant, pompous, rude, and elitist yes but not stupid. So what gives with her saying this?
See that's where we differ. I think Ann Coulter is stupid. Stupid enough to believe if she flashes her degrees along with her skinny legs in a short skirt, only smart people won't notice how full of shit she is.
Here's the quote from
This Week:
“I think what — the way liberals have treated blacks like children and many of their policies have been harmful to blacks, at least they got the beneficiary group right,” Coulter said. “There is the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow laws. We don’t owe the homeless. We don’t owe feminists. We don’t owe women who are desirous of having abortions, but that’s — or — or gays who want to get married to one another. That’s what civil rights has become for much of the left.”
When asked whether immigrant rights were not civil rights, Coulter responded,
“No. I think civil rights are for blacks… What have we done to the immigrants? We owe black people something. We have a legacy of slavery. Immigrants haven’t even been in this country.”
There's all kinds of wrong in those two graphs, but here's where I think Coulter is most in error. It is debatable what it is America supposedly "owes" Blacks from the day when it owned Blacks.
What exactly are Blacks owed? Reparations for centuries of unpaid labor? Forty acres and a mule? An all-expenses paid college education at a Ivy League school? A bucket of Popeye's chicken and Kim Kardashian's cell phone number?
This reflects a fundamental failure to grasp what the Civil Rights movement was waged for. Blacks were certainly beneficiaries of the reforms brought about by the passage of the ’64 and ’65 Civil Rights Acts, but it was
never the sole purpose to help only African-Americans. Martin Luther King, Jr., made it plain when he said,
“If physical death is the price that I must pay to free my white brothers and sisters from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing can be more redemptive.”
It wasn’t just the souls of Black folks that were on the line. White folks were doomed to be destroyed by their own racism as much as any Negro. Only radical surgery to expel the cancer of racial hatred from the hearts of America could spare it from a second Civil War.
Ann Coulter wouldn’t know anything about that.
The only thing America "owes" Blacks are the exact same rights it guaranteed to everyone
but Blacks when they were written out of the Constitution. Personally, I've got my eye on a new Chrysler 300, but I'm not expecting Barack Obama to buy one for me.
That's your right.
But she also speaks to quite a big portion of a community, and each things she says edges people toward normalisation of the views she espouses.
I'm sorry, this may sound blunt, and I'm not trying to sound mean, but sticking fingers in the ears and making noises doesn't diminish the effect she has on the people who don't mind her.
I really don't care if someone believes the crap Ann Coulter bony ass farts out. I don't care how big of a portion that community is. That's
their problem.
Coulter speaks to a portion of a community that digs her nasty, ugly, "I'm better than you" philosophy. This is a woman who let us know what her hustle was early on when she said,
"I am emboldened by my looks to say things Republican men wouldn't."
I take Annie at her word. And her looks are nothing to get hot and bothered about.
Her expertise on matters of race is confined to profoundness such as, “
our blacks are so much better than their blacks” because “you have fought against probably your family, probably your neighbors… that’s why we have very impressive blacks."
Oh, and if it wasn't clear, I
am trying to sound mean because when I say I do not care, I mean it.
Coulter's only "expertise" is relentless self-promotion, no matter who she has to shiv to get it.
