Right on, Andy Rooney !

Andy Rooney said on '60 Minutes' a few weeks back:

I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of anything except numbers.. The only things I can think of that are truly discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to have things like the United Caucasian College Fund, Cloud Magazine, White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America; and see what happens...Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door.

Guns do not make you a killer. I think killing makes you a killer. You can kill someone with a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to the ball game.

I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason, which is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts! ARE YOU LISTENING MARTHA BURKE ? < BR>
I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it is an opinion.

I have the right 'NOT' to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or tick me off.

When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial profiling; it is the Law of Probability.

I believe that if you are selling me a milkshake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want to be an American citizen, you should have to speak English!

My father and grandfather didn't die in vain so you can leave the countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours.

I think the police should have every right to shoot you if you threate n them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word 'freeze' or 'stop' in English, see the above lines.

I don't think just because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any special loan programs, government sponsored bank loans or tax breaks, etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other business.

We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk our lives in wars to defend their freedoms, so that decades later they could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document; and open to their interpretations.

I don't hate the rich I don't pity the poor

I know pro wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television. That doesn't stop you from watching them.

I think Bill Gates has every right to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you off, go and invent the next operating system that's better, and put your name on the building.

It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does take a parent to stand up to the kid; and smack their little behinds when necessary, and say 'NO!'

I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And, please, stay home until that new lip ring heals. I don't want to look at your ugly infected mouth as you serve me French fries!

I am sick of 'Political Correctness.' I know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them was born in Africa ; so how can they be 'African-Americans'? Besides, Africa is a continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I am proud to be from America and nowhere else

did he really say that?

he's a crazy old kook but i highly doubt he said that stuff. is this a hoax? i swear i've seen andy rooney hoaxes before.

who knows..probably just someone said it and they credited him wiht it..like when you get "adam sandler quotes", and they end up being carlin sayings

Yeah, this was the first Google result I got:

http://www.breakthechain.org/exclusives/badrooney.html

Good lord this is one old hoax.

i think i've gotten this e-mail a dozen times.

i might be a cold hearted bastard but i thought that was great

The title of that ought to be: "Talking Points for the Modern Social Conservative"

Yeah, because I'm sure conservatives only think this way. Save me the political party bullshit. We all think this way sometimes, it's only some of us who voice it

You handle e-mail forwards like my mother.

Not all of us think this way. Just bigots, racists, and generally uneducated, ignorant cretins.

Ummmmm....I wouldn't consider myself to be uneducated or racist, but I have to say I agree with these two:

Well played.

whether you think this is racist or not, you know very well this is true, only replace jesse with al. for instance, the golf channel girl, forget her name, shes been friends with Tiger for over a decade, she made comment during a conversation with nick faldo about ways to beat tiger woods and she said, lynch him in an alley way.

tiger and his agent both came out and said they consider it a non issue since her and tiger are such good friends. but al has to step up and demand she be fired cause she offended millions of african americans. first off, i bet maybe 10,000 minorities total watch the golf network and secondly, the person who it was made towards said it was a non issue and that he knows it was not said in a racist manner, so thats what should have been done.

but al is like my mother, not happy unless they are bitching about something




i dont think anything is particularly wrong with either of these.



having an open mind about everything isnt always needed, though it does help, and it doesnt make you a bad person per se



i think this probably fits 99% of the so called liberals on this board



i have no problem with this either. as i have stated several times before this, just after 9-11, the interviewed a black guy from jersey and asked him about the racial profiling middle easterners were facing and he said he was all for it, i mean, they were the ones who hijacked those planes right? so when he was asked about why a certain stretch of jersey expressway always had blacks pulled over he said he was outraged, even though the numbers of carjackers and violent crimes were close to the numbers as the hijackers. he just shut up




i will say this. people who come here, legally or illegally should make a better attempt to speak the language and fit in with our culture, but when we ask this of them, we are trying to stiffle their personal freedoms, but when americans go to other countries and do this, we are ignorant and lazy for not adapting to the host country's culture



i have both in my family and i can honestly say the only thing that seperates them is drive. people who are rich should not have to help support the poor to a greater degree than others



i would pray nooone would argue with this



i look back at some of the things my mother did, and had it been this day and age, there is no doubt id be a foster kid, but i did learn from it so i have no ill will at all about it



hahahaha



i cant really disagree with this either, though i have no problem with people being proud of their heritage

This one is correct. Black people are black. Assuming every black person is from Africa is asinine. There's nothing wrong with being black, or white, or whatever. It's just a description, and it's more accurate (and less offensive) than saying African-American. Unless you're the son of immigrants from Ghana or something like that.

Still waiting for someone to argue against the statements made in "Rooney's" email...

Or you can just let Andy Rooney himself do it.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/rooney4.asp

Moreover, Andy Rooney himself denied it in 2003, saying:



Mr. Rooney disclaimed the above-quoted piece again in his 60 Minutes segment of 23 October 2005, saying of it:

I don't think it's racist and that mean spirited. This is America. In America many different types of people walk around. The result is plenty of people fuming with each other over every day things. I've accepted that. I've accepted that I live in a diverse country where not everyone is going to like each other. That is the price America pays for standing by the principles it stands by. And I'm OKAY with that. I think a new term should be invented for people who are born into a culture that has been seeped into such a wide range of ethnicities and values, which results in their own ridiculements of that culture. Sometimes I think that you can't help but to think the things you do. People on this message board will find this e mail offensive, when I'm damn sure they have ridiculed plenty of people themselves. It's okay if you are. You're not going out sending anyone into concentration camps, or petitioning for anyone to move back to where they came from (at least I hope you're not).

I always liked this bit from "25th Hour". Yes, the message inevitably says that this hatred should be frowned upon, but the writer of dialouge still had to think the remarks in order to write them. Like I said, you can't help but to think the things you do when living in a country like you do.

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