Saturday, May 29, 2010
Glenn Beck (Dashiki in Waiting) is Now an Afrocentric Historian
In my years I have seen the Berlin Wall fall. I have seen the end of the Soviet Union. I have seen a Black man elected president. I have seen the deaths of Michael Jackson and Gary Coleman. None of these signs portended the End of Days. After watching Glenn Beck's Friday feature on "Black Patriots" and "the Founding," I am convinced that the end is upon us.
On that day I witnessed Glenn Beck channel the hidden histories of our people that were usually consigned to the Harlem book fair, Afrocentric bookstores, the 3rd World Press, and scholars like Kunjufu, Diop, Van Sertima, J.A. Rogers, Woodson, and Franklin. On that day, I almost expected Beck to don a dashiki and preach forth on the Isis papers.
This is the sign we have awaited.
In the spirit of the Left Behind series, with the sentiment of the Christian Nationalists whom believe that folks will fly out of their clothes when they are called home, and the madness of Jesus Camp, I believe the seventh seal has been opened.
When a man such as Glenn Beck can (re)introduce our own history to us--and make it real for Conservative America--I am moved. As I watch Glenn Beck mesmerize his viewers I smell sulfur. When I try to make sense of Beck's words I see a man that is a lover of himself and of money. He is boastful, proud, abusive, ungrateful, unholy.
Ultimately, when a man such as Glenn Beck can simultaneously harness the truth of our black history, while condemning the progressive and radical vision which spawned it, I indeed know that I have seen the End of Days.
One must ask: Is Beck's performance darkly humorous or is it tragic? And what of his Red State supplicants who may (or may not) get the joke?
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I'm surprised that Glenn Beck, of all people, doesn't understand why they're "intentionally leaving others out."
Oh that's right: He lives in a post-racist 'murica.
Expect the supplicants to start correcting our leftist elitist overreach liberal marxist hitler educations, immediately.
Interesting.
I thought that at the end of that clip Glenn was going to tell us that all of these paintings were historically accurate (by that I mean the inclusion of black soldiers depicted as fighting alongside whites) only because the artists in question were all good Conservatives.
Beautiful tragic poetry.
This...
As I watch Glenn Beck mesmerize his viewers I smell sulfur.
is something I want on a t-shirt.
Seriously. Thanks.
Great blog! Glenn Beck hmmmmmm. Extremely suspect...
http://eyeamthateyeam.blogspot.com/2009/12/gl-eye-nn-beck.html
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Hopefully the Obama family accepts this act of contrition from Mr. Beck. But then again, this is yet another insult to Malia Obama who obviously doesn't know shit because of...
That's painfully weird. Perhaps it's Beck's lack of actual consistent worldview, he's pretty damn cynical, so he can be as inconsistent as he likes.
I only ever see clips, he's not exported to the UK (yay!), but he seems prepared to say literally anything that will impress his audience - and this might, on the grounds that it's something they really probably don't know. It makes Beck look clever. And it's always useful for him to be able to point to something and say "I am not a racist because..."
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