Portrait Of A Threatened Man

by digby

From John Amato, here’s Cal Thomas (video at the link):

Hall: If they can’t prove he’s a Muslim, then let’s prove his wife is an angry black woman. I think it’s going to get ugly.

Thomas: And who are the black women you see on the local news at night in cities all over the country. They’re usually angry about something. They’ve had a son who has been shot in a drive-by shooting. They are angry at Bush. So you don’t really have a profile of non-angry black women.

Poor old Cal only sees uppity black wimmins on his TV. But as Amato points out, the rest of us see a whole lot of diversity among our African American sisters. Just like everybody else, some are angry, sure. All humans tend to show the full range of emotions at one time or another. If all he sees is anger, it has more to do with him than it does “angry black women.”

If you want to see angry, these are the kind of images that are seen day in and day out on TVs all over this country and people like Cal positively love it:

I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that. I’m just pointing out that you see what you want to see. If we all believed that anger and arrogance were disqualifiers for leadership we’d never have voted for a white man. Or any human, for that matter.

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