This Just In: Black People Are Articulate! And They Dance Well!

Honestly. HON-estly.

Media Matters - O'Reilly surprised "there was no difference" between Harlem restaurant and other New York restaurants.

During the September 19 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, discussing his recent trip to have dinner with Rev. Al Sharpton at Sylvia's, a famous restaurant in Harlem, Bill O'Reilly reported that he "had a great time, and all the people up there are tremendously respectful," adding: "I couldn't get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia's restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. I mean, it was exactly the same, even though it's run by blacks, primarily black patronship."

Black people are just like regular people!

Later, during a discussion with National Public Radio senior correspondent and Fox News contributor Juan Williams about the effect of rap on culture, O'Reilly asserted: "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'M-Fer, I want more iced tea.'

Sometimes black people can speak without using the word m-therf-cker!

You know, I mean, everybody was -- it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."

Black people can go into Italian restaurants in the suburbs and order and have fun! Or something! (No one said Bill-O was a genius. -- Understatement Ed.)

O'Reilly also stated: "I think black Americans are starting to think more and more for themselves."

Sometimes black people are able to function without white people telling them what to do! Even though white people do this for black people's own good!

&@#$@*%!!

Comments

[ja]

Ha! This totally reminds me of a conversation I had last weekend with the elderly lady who lives at the end of my street. She has Alzheimer's, so *every* conversation has the potential to wander into the realms of the surreal. She told me that a "colored" man had moved in next door to her, and she thought she would be uncomfortable, but he was "just like a person."

JUST. LIKE. A. PERSON.

I took Mo's hand and we continued our Saturday morning walk.

[Diane]

It reminds me of the time that former Sen. J. Bennett Johnston visited Israel and came back and reported that "the Jews there were civilized."

No one, by the way, raised an eyebrow or said a word.