Bill O'Reilly isn't completely a bad man. I truly think he goes over-the-top for ratings and to sell books. For example, he's for gay rights -- he's even for gay adoption -- but thinks gay pride parades are too much. (Source) Hate the sin, love the sinner, perhaps. After all, though, if many homosexuals didn't still think that, to a certain degree, the world shames them, then would we really need a gay pride parade? If African Americans were completely equal in the eyes of society, would we need a Black History Month?

So what are we to make of his slightly racist joke at a fundraiser for inner-city schoolchildren? Hard to say. After all, I've made jokes like that with my friends. Yes, I have. It doesn't mean I'm a racist. I'm mocking the existence of the sterotype, not heralding it as truth. The laugh is that people would actually think something so ridiculous, and I'm careful that the context is not misinterpreted. That O'Reilly was speaking at such a fundraiser (for a group to which he has donated $60,000) makes it unfortunate, but not reprehensible.

Unless, of course, I'm proven wrong like I was when I forgave Trent Lott. Boy, was I freaking wrong.

We should really be pissed off at Rep. Barbara Cubin for saying that the entire black community is on drugs. Representative Cubin, on behalf of all socially conscious, tolerant Americans from coast to coast, get fucked.