Why did so many black people get on stage at the Beck freak show?

[Cyrano]

Whether entertaining, preaching, or just speaking, why did any black people agree to appear on stage at the Glen Beck scam?

I really don't get it. To me, it seems like the equivalent of Jews showing up at a skinhead rally.

Did those blacks who appeared looking for some free publicity? Were they paid huge sums of money to show up? Or, worst of all, do they actually believe the tons of crap Beck is peddling?

Maybe someone can explain this to me. I just don't get it.

[EstimatedProphet]

1. Probably because he paid them.

[Fumesucker]

2. +1

[Bitwit1234]

22. My thoughts exactly

[SweetieD]

3. Because Crazy isn't race specific

Well there are lots of reasons.

Some people want to feel special.

There are black conservatives too and maybe they felt they had a place at this rally.

Some black people don't ever want to support other black people (the other being Obama).

[Canuckistanian]

4. It was their only chance to sing bad rap songs

And have a captive audience to perform it to.

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. My take is that some people would rather be a big fish in a

small pond...in a narcissistic sense. Same thing with black republican leaders. I really don't think they believe the crap or if they are self deluding. If you want the national limelight then become a standout in the crowd. This way you are guaranteed face time and, in the republican party, maybe even a lucrative career being a poster child.

[onpatrol98]

6. hmmm...because black people are now free to do whatever they want

"I's free now, Boss" :sarcasm:
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Maybe its' all of the above. Me personally, I don't mind. I used to wonder why 5% of black people voted republican. It may be more now. Then it occurred to me...why should I care? People can do what they want to do for any reason they want. Again, its just me, but that's my personal dream...NOT TO BE WITH BECK, THAT WOULD BE A NIGHTMARE.

But, rather, that a day would come, when people will stop asking..."Why do black people ________??" And, although republicans don't do a single thing (in my opinion) to help minorities. I think some democrats have gotten a bit complacent with that nice chunk of the vote. So complacent, that now, they know they can get my vote and not support my cause.

Why do white people vote republican?
Why do white people vote for democrats?
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Eventually, it'll be, "Why would anyone?"

Black people are free thinkers. We can support any idiot we want too.

[Kind of Blue]

10. +1000 but minus the sarcasm

because I think the poster honestly wants to understand. I'm black, wondered the same thing and came to the same conclusions. I'm with you, I hope one of these days, the why do black people question will stop. Until then, you've answered the question masterfully.

[Bluerthanblue]

23. +1,000,000

"Why would anyone appear with Glenn Beck?" is the real question.

:hi:

Thank you for your excellent reply.

[shanti]

7. $$$

don't see any other reason why they would...:shrug: it's not like it hasn't been done before.

[closeupready]

8. Similarly, like those Coptic Christians at the anti-WTC-mosque rally who kept shouting, "we're Chris

Christian!" but kept being harassed due to their brown skin.

:wtf: In hindsight, I can not figure that out, and it's difficult for me to muster much sympathy for such people. They are like the Ken Mehlman's in the world, who work to keep other people down even when they belong to those groups.

[Cal33]

9. In addition to the above possible explanations, I could add

another one. Have you ever heard of he "Stockholm Syndrome?" It's so named
because it happened first in Stockholm, Sweden, where bank robbers held the
bank workers hostage for many hours. They terrorized the bank employees.
Finally, the robbers gave up to the police outside. To the surprise of
the police, the employees did their best to defend the robbers who had been
mistreating and threatening them. The hours of stress must have done
something to their minds!

Later, in the USA some 30 years ago, there was the case of Patty Hearst, the
Hearst heiress, who was kidnapped by (the Symbionese? perhaps). She was
locked in a cellar for weeks, perhaps gang-raped, etc...), and then she
began to take active part in bank robberies with that gang. Later, she
refused to testify against them. She was found guilty by the court, and
did receive a relatively mild sentence.

I don't think she should have been found guilty at all, since something did
happen to her mind under all that stress. Some part of her mind must have
snapped.

I also think most of the NeoCon leadership as well as many of the top
corporative executives are psychopaths. Just look at their sense of values
behavior. These aren't normal people. These are sick people! And so many
millions of ordinary people have been fooled into voting for them to rule
over us.

The worst thing that could happen to this country is to have sick people
rule over and control our nation.

I personally think that if the Neocons should also win the presidency in
2012, democracy in our country will be a thing of the past soon after.
Bush tried but didn't make it. The next time, they could very well succeed.

[Cyrano]

11. I know about the "Stockholm Syndrome." However,

how many concentration camp survivors identify with the Third Reich? And how many black people have forgotten about the hundreds of years of slavery, followed by Jim Crow, that took place in America? It seems to me that the victims of these atrocities, and their descendants, would be immune to the "Stockholm Syndrome."

[Cal33]

13. I think the vast majority must be immune, as you say. But

there is always that small percentage of people who remain susceptible.

By the way, are you an admirer of Edmond Rostand's play,
"Cyrano de Bergerac?" :o)

[LynneSin]

12. Some of them are known right-wing screeds like MLK's niece

Ironically MLK's kids were at the other rally.

[guitar man]

14. $$$$

;)

[Iggo]

15. Because they were just people.

Crazy people, yes. But people.

[mike r]

16. Remember this guy:

H.K. Edgerton - the former head of the Asheville chapter of the NAACP who marched from North Carolina to Texas to defend the Confederate flag.

[Cal33]

19. It's the first time I heard of him. Thanks for the info. In a sense,

we can't blame people like this. They can't help being the way they are.
But, if they are out to harm people (like the psychopaths do), we
should do what we can to stop them, because we all have the right
to be protected from being harmed.

[JPZenger]

17. One isolated member of the King family

Beck managed to find the one member of the MLK family who is completely detached from all of the other members and who is an extreme fundamentalist.

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[Cyrano]

20. Actually, I find your response distasteful.

Perhaps that's just me, but I'll leave it up to others to decide for themselves.

[Rebubula]

24. LOLZ

So....anytime a black person agrees with a conservative it is because they are an 'Uncle Tom, a House Boy or has Plantation Mentality???

This is why many people in the black community feel as though the Democrats take them for granted. Many progressives cannot fathom that someone that has been helped so much by progressives and liberals would ever turn away.

Do you see how this attitude could be infuriating??

[KingFlorez]

21. Here's what it is

Some black people love to push themselves on people who think they are responsible for all that is wrong with the country. I would imagine that most of the black folks on stage with Beck believe some very negative generalizations about their own people. Self-loathing is a disease and it seems that a lot of black conservatives seem to have it. Some of them could have been paid too, it doesn't take much to persuade some people.

[slackmaster]

25. Unrec for racial profiling

Maybe someone can explain this to me. I just don't get it.

Black people have diverse attitudes, beliefs, opinions, and philosophies, just like everyone else.

:nuke:

[John Kerry VonErich]

26. Is it because they're "house n*+#&!s"?

:sarcasm:

Lets not go the selective racism route.

[TexasObserver]

27. Because that's what they were hired to do.