Meet the Race-Baiters

Race baiting is the term for an act of using racially derisive language, actions or other forms of communication, to anger, intimidate or incite a person or groups of people, or to make those persons behave in ways that are inimical to their personal or group interests.

This can also be accomplished by implying that there is an underlying race based motive in the actions of others towards the group baited, where none in fact exists.

Meet the Race-Baiters



Sean Hannity

"It's all about the black community, the black -- it's a black-separatist agenda."

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"On Hannity & Colmes, Sean Hannity claimed that the pastor of Sen. Barack Obama's church, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright, "has a very black-separatist point of view." Hannity played a video clip of an interview with Wright from the March 1 Hannity & Colmes, but did not play the portion in which Wright specifically stated that his church's point of view does not "assume superiority, nor does it assume separatism."

HANNITY: It's all about the black community, the black -- it's a black-separatist agenda. Now, he -- this pastor was supposed to be at his announcement this winter, when he said he was going to announce for president. All of the sudden, at the last minute, Barack Obama disinvited him.

From Wright's March 1 appearance on Hannity & Colmes:

COLMES: I want the public to understand where your church is coming from, because you're being accused of being a black-separatist church, and thus Obama is being accused by default of being a black separatist. Could you straighten that out for us, please?

WRIGHT: OK. The African-centered point of view does not assume superiority, nor does it assume separatism. It assumes Africans speaking for themselves as subjects in history, not objects in history. It comes from the principles of Kawaida, the second principle being Kujichagulia, which is self-determination -- us naming ourselves -- and not saying we are superior to anybody. We have no hierarchical arrangement. When you say an African-centered way of thinking -- African-centered philosophy, African-centered theology -- you're talking about one center. We're talking about something that's different, and different does not mean deficient --

COLMES: Aren't there black churches --

WRIGHT: -- nor does it mean superior or inferior. The whole notion of hierarchical, one's superior, "let's be separate because we're better," that's nothing -- has absolutely nothing to do with --

Rush Limbaugh

"...how many times, of those of you who are evangelical Christians, big-time pro-lifers, have you been smeared because you happened to like Pat Robertson? You've been smeared because you happen to like Jerry Falwell? You've been smeared because you happened to go to church? This guilt by association stuff, let's turn it around and do a 180."

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