Says Joy Behar
By Justin McCarthy
Only white people can be racist according to ‘http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3234 to Jeremiah Wright by pointing to Bush’s association with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson and their many controversial remarks. It could be a valid point if Falwell or Robertson were Bush’s pastor for 20 years. Neither of them ever were.
After Elisabeth Hasselbeck labeled Reverend Wright “racist,” Whoopi Goldberg jumped in and alluded to the late Reverend Jerry Falwell’s suggestion that God allowed the September 11 attacks because of secular forces in America. http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=1064 asked Elisabeth if she should leave the Republican party because of that. Elisabeth noted that Falwell is not her spiritual adviser. Joy Behar then claimed that Robertson and Falwell are “spiritual advisers” to the Republican party.
Behar then essentially stated it is impossible for those in the “http://www.wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3402" (African Americans) to be racist. This is according to her college sociology professor.”I have another point though. Because when I was in college, I studied sociology. And what we learned is that racism is an institutional thing. It’s not like, it’s something that goes from the top down. In other words it’s not something- if somebody is- you can’t be racist if you’re in the oppressed minority. It goes the other direction. The majority is racist to the oppressed minority.”
Behar also added because of African Americans’ long history of slavery and segregation, it is “scientifically incorrect” to label a black man racist for uttering some anti-white comments.
Whoopi Golberg then mocked Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s young age suggesting she is naive and does not understand the true nature of racism. Goldberg felt Hasselbeck would be intimidated by a group of young black men on the street corner. Hasselbeck denied she would but Behar implied that she herself would be intimidated, noting New York City’s high crime rates in the early 90’s.