I heard this on NPR a week or two ago and I almost got into an accident because I was laughing so hard.
Here is a brief breakdown of the story. This white democrat, thinks white people think blacks are superhuman and have magical powers. She speculates that white people came to this conclusion because Morgan Freeman played God in Bruce Almighty. This of course was in response to the Ferguson shooting. This white democrat actually believes that Darren Wilson shot Mike Brown, because he thought Mike Brown was superhuman because Morgan Freeman played God in Bruce Almighty.
Eric Holder thinks Americans are cowards when it comes to race and are scared to have a conversation. How do you have a conversation when democrats are making these kinds of arguments?
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/30/367600003/examining-the-myth-of-the-superhuman-black-person
ERIC WESTERVELT, HOST:
Transcripts from the grand jury's testimony were released after the decision not to indict Officer Wilson. They gave us a little glimpse into what was going on inside his head during the fateful encounter with Michael Brown that August afternoon. In Officer Wilson's testimony, he says at one point in the confrontation with Brown, quote, "the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan."
It's worth noting Wilson is 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, and Brown was an inch taller and weighed about 290 pounds. But seeing blacks as not just powerful, but almost super-human, is not nothing new. For the past three years, researcher Kelly Hoffman has been studying white views of black physicality.
KELLY HOFFMAN: There's a long history of the super-humanization of blacks So going all the way back to slavery. And then with - physicians, you know, in the late 1800s, early 1900s characterized blacks as having these magical bodies that were able to withstand pain and surgical procedures. And then today in contemporary times, blacks are portrayed as super-human in a lot of the media.
So we have movies depicting blacks as these magical beings, for example, Morgan Freeman as God in "Bruce Almighty."
Here is a brief breakdown of the story. This white democrat, thinks white people think blacks are superhuman and have magical powers. She speculates that white people came to this conclusion because Morgan Freeman played God in Bruce Almighty. This of course was in response to the Ferguson shooting. This white democrat actually believes that Darren Wilson shot Mike Brown, because he thought Mike Brown was superhuman because Morgan Freeman played God in Bruce Almighty.
Eric Holder thinks Americans are cowards when it comes to race and are scared to have a conversation. How do you have a conversation when democrats are making these kinds of arguments?
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/30/367600003/examining-the-myth-of-the-superhuman-black-person
ERIC WESTERVELT, HOST:
Transcripts from the grand jury's testimony were released after the decision not to indict Officer Wilson. They gave us a little glimpse into what was going on inside his head during the fateful encounter with Michael Brown that August afternoon. In Officer Wilson's testimony, he says at one point in the confrontation with Brown, quote, "the only way I can describe it is I felt like a five-year-old holding onto Hulk Hogan."
It's worth noting Wilson is 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds, and Brown was an inch taller and weighed about 290 pounds. But seeing blacks as not just powerful, but almost super-human, is not nothing new. For the past three years, researcher Kelly Hoffman has been studying white views of black physicality.
KELLY HOFFMAN: There's a long history of the super-humanization of blacks So going all the way back to slavery. And then with - physicians, you know, in the late 1800s, early 1900s characterized blacks as having these magical bodies that were able to withstand pain and surgical procedures. And then today in contemporary times, blacks are portrayed as super-human in a lot of the media.
So we have movies depicting blacks as these magical beings, for example, Morgan Freeman as God in "Bruce Almighty."
