Conservative pundit Ben Stein on Monday said that the “black underclass” in America cannot escape “the scourge of drugs and the scourge of gangs,”
On Newsmax TV, Steve Malzberg asked Stein about a report that the mother of Michael Brown, the black teen shot and killed by a Ferguson, Mo. police officer, faces felony charges.
Stein said he hadn’t seen the report, and instead started discussing his views on race.
“You would think, if you read the liberal mainstream media, that the main problem with race in America was poor innocent black people being set upon and mistreated by the police. That’s just nonsense,” he said, according to video recorded by BuzzFeed.
“I mean, the real problem with race in America is a very, very beaten-down, pathetic, self-defeating black underclass that is — uh, just can’t seem to get its way going in the way that blacks were able to before the scourge of drugs and the scourge of gangs,” Stein continued.
He added that President Obama has failed to address this issue.
“I mean, it’s an amazing thing — blacks were on their way in this country, even after the horrors of slavery, and then drugs came in, the destruction of families came in, and the crisis in the black community is just absolutely unbelievable,” he said. “And that, it seems to me, is something that Mr. Obama could have addressed, and he just ignored it completely.”
About a week ago, Stein called Obama “most racist president there has ever been in America” in an appearance on Fox News.
Please somebody rid us of this vile mouthpiece.
I think we can officially turn off the Ben Stein comments now. Dude is a racist prick and if you call him on it he’d probably say something that can be reduced to “nuh uh, I can’t be cuz I’m jewish and my peoples was and is the oppressededest, which means I can talk with impunity about all my racist beliefs about black murkins.” The only thing that would ever get me to want to hear from him again is a game show called Win Ben Stein’s Execution.
Does this fool know about … DUCK DYNASTY?
“that, it seems to me, is something that Mr. Obama could have addressed”
This sort of goes along with the article from the other day that someone linked about the belief system among whites that blames black people for their own plight and staunchly refuses to acknowledge systemic and institutionalized hurdles and obstacles that continue to oppress the black community…and the fact that even liberals in the South tend to gravitate towards that belief (northern/eastern liberals being the only ones who have fully embraced the idea that there are systemic/institutionalized problems that should be addressed). It’s all their own fault…opportunity is already equal…affirmative action is actually favoritism and white oppression…welfare and food stamps and unemployment only encourage them to be more lazy…it’s all cuz they’re so easy to get hooked on drugs…culture of family decay and where’s their daddies?, etc. etc. etc.
Teatroll Rosetta Stone: “We really really really wanted Obama to legitimize all of those positions because, as a black man, if he had just taken our side and chided the black community, we would forever be able to point at it as proof that we’re right and that things like welfare and Medicaid, etc., should be destroyed.”
Its amazing that more shit doesn’t fall on Stein’s shoes when he opens his mouth.