Michael Moore States His View On Being White & Critiquing Black Viewpoints
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On an very recent interview with Larry King, Michael Moore, the man known for his documentaries about the crucial issues surrounding America as well as his thought provoking opinions on many items from money to government and even race, told Larry King how he (Moore) being a white man can't begin to basically disregard or critique how a black man feels or even vents after being mistreated by and in America for years. This was stated in response to Rev. Wright and his controversial remarks.
Moore basically understood that different points of view that Americans could have depending on their race, age or sex which would determine their outlook on society. He further pointed out the age of Rev. Wright and the time he lived through and even gave an example of women who were treated unfairly even until today to back up his viewpoint.
This is a major and very honest stance finally coming from someone about not only the Rev. Wright issue but race in general. What Moore says is very true, and though people behave as if they are shocked at the fact that there are different ways of seeing the same now in America as a result of past and even present discretions, this fact of injustice isn't and hasn't been oh so long ago.
Michael's words were very tactful and all inclusive as to not down any race for their thoughts especially after seeing where they are coming from when placing himself in their shoes.
He endorses Barack Obama.
Michael Moore's Words on Larry King Live below:
Yes, I'm a white guy. And I think -- I think -- I've got to tell you something. If you were black in this country, especially if you are of his age, of his era or even -- or times before that or even kids today, when you look at the situation in our inner city schools, I mean, you have to ask yourself, Larry, what's it like to be black in America?
And what kind of rage would you feel?
And if you did feel that rage, what kind of things would you say that, at times, would be outrageous, crazy even, because you've had to live through this for so long.
And I do not believe, as a white guy, that I am in any position to judge a black man who has had to live through that. And I would never refer to him as -- in the way that Senator Clinton just did. You know, I can say that I would disagree or that I wouldn't use the language that he used or whatever. But to go after him like this, I just think it's a diversionary tactic, it distracts us from the real issues. And the issue is John McCain is four more years of George W. Bush. John McCain is four years of George W. Bush.
That's what we should be talking about and not what an elderly black man is saying because he's upset on how he's been treated.
And let me say this, too, because I've received a number of letters from older women, especially, who support Hillary Clinton. And they support her with great passion because they've had to suffer as a second class citizens in this country.
If you're a 50, a 60, a 70 -- I've had letters from women in their '80s and actually a 90-year-old woman who said to me, you know, I lived in a time where, as a woman, had my mother decided to go and vote, she'd be arrested -- arrested and thrown in jail because she wanted to vote in the United States of America.
So women feel this -- a similar sense of trying to undo what's been wrong for so long. And women, to this day, don't -- they're not paid the same, in terms of what men are paid. They don't have a lot of the same opportunities that men have.
And so I understand that anger, too, and that frustration and that outrage.
And I guess what I -- I guess the difference I see here is, is that I have not heard Senator Obama try to make people afraid to vote for Senator Clinton because she's a woman. I haven't heard anything out of his mouth.
But for her to try and make white, you know, working class, as they say, people vote for her and not him, to frighten them with words like Farrakhan and Hamas and things like that, I just -- I just think that that's not necessary.










Word up Michael More.
Gotta love it.
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