Cal Thomas makes racist comments about black women on fox!

There is no question that Michelle Obama has been labeled as an angry black woman by the right. Almost all of the attacks have come from Fox News. The attacks on Michelle Obama by the right are symptomatic of a larger problem. Below is a perfect illustration of how the right sees black women.

According to Cal Thomas of Fox News, the only black women we see on the nightly news are angry women- women who have just had a son shot in a drive by.

"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."

After making these statements, Thomas received no disagreement from his Fox cohort, Jim Pinkerton.

These statements must be condemned in order to break the racist agenda put forth by the right and fox news.

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JANE HALL, AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: I think one way that people who are going to try to defeat Obama is to somehow prove he’s other - he’s not one of us. 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. I don’t think John McCain will sanction it. I think McCain - it’s my opinion he will generally try…

SCOTT: But he won’t be able to control it.

HALL: I think McCain genuinely doesn’t want this kind of campaign, but I think that may be the only, and ugliest way, to go after Obama and people are going to use it.

SCOTT: What do you think, Jim?

JIM PINKERTON, “AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE”: Oh, I don’t know. I’m kind of curious about Obama, where he lived, what he’s done and what he believed. The people that surround Obama so far, Reverend Wright, Father Pfleger, Tony Rezko, these people don’t exactly satisfy all your concerns, do they, about who he is and what he stands for and so on.

I think this is entirely legitimate. I think Jane and Jonathan are right. The McCain campaign will stay away from it. As Rich Lowry pointed out, he’s so honor-bound, he’s going to lose trying to win this election. That’s his choice.

But I think the American people deserve a thorough examination of everything about her, especially when they know the MSM are giving her the Jackie Kennedy treatment, trying to just sail her off into Camelot.

THOMAS: I want to pick up on something that Jane said about the angry black woman. Look at the image of angry black women on television. Politically you have Maxine Waters of California, liberal Democrat. She’s always angry every time she gets on television. Cynthia McKinney, another angry black woman. 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.

(CROSSTALK)

PINKERTON: Oprah Winfrey.

THOMAS: Oprah Winfrey. Yes, there you go, Oprah Winfrey.

HALL: I wasn’t endorsing that concept that some people are going to go after her.

MARTIN: What’s so fascinating here in that we’re having this conversation right now. This is the constant cable chatter.