Ted Nugent, Racist Asshole of the Year, January 2014

by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)

We had more than 10 finalists for Racist Asshole of the Year, but the votes are in, and it was never close. Ted Nugent is the Racist Asshole of the Year:

Ted Nugent, 37% Rush Limbaugh, 16% Sarah Palin, 10% Phil Robertson, 5% Rand Paul, 5% Rick Snyder, 5% (write-in!) Paula Deen, 3% Don Yelton, 3% Megyn Kelly, 3% Richard Cohen, 2% Dinesh D'Souza, 1% Justine Sacco, 1%

Everyone else had less than 1%. Rick Snyder was a surprise– not only was he a write-in, but he hadn’t even been mentioned.

And Ted Nugent really deserves the title this year. He put managed to say racially offensive things all year long, and he didn’t even let Martin Luther King Day pass without finding more racist things to say– he took ranted about how one example of bad parenting represented “the tip of the black gangster iceberg”.

Within the last year he claimed that racism ended in the 1960s and 1970s, and then went on to say said black people could “fix the black problem if they would put their heart and soul into being honest, law-abiding citizens.” And then went on to say that they should “get an alarm clock.” If that’s not racist, I don’t know what is.

After the George Zimmerman verdict, he would say that “Trayvon got justice”.For what, Ted? Walking unarmed through his own neighborhood? Armed with only Skittles? For that he should be kiled?

He even called himself “Rosa Parks with a Gibson”. What exactly has he done to compare himslef with Rosa Parks remains unanswered.

He’s not some passive racist or racist apologist either. He actively takes it upon himself to insult African Americans. It’s not that some racist did something and he said nothing, or made excuses, or that he’s indifferent to the plight of minorities. He feels he must speak out and condemn the entire race over one anecdote or things that may not even be true.

Racism is more than just terrorizing African Americans in the middle of the night with murder and beatings, or making laws to keep them from voting or having the right to go to any public school. It also includes making generalizations about an entire race as though everyone were all the same, and denigrating them as a group rather than treating them as individuals. And when you understand that, then it’s pretty clear that racism didn’t end in the 1970s, but continues on with Ted Nugent leading the pack.

And people can’t just ignore Ted Nugent as an ignorant racist, but he is relevant– he has a column in WND, appears on radio, is on the board of the NRA, and was the guest of Rep. Steve Stockman to last year’s State of the Union Address.

So you, Mr. Nugent, shall be our yardstick for racist asshole for the next year. You’ve earned it.

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