Fox News host Banderas called Obama a "Halfrican"

2008-02-20 09:42:21

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(T)eflon(S)hadow: R.I.P. Neda; +456|7194|Grapevine, TX

So I'm sitting at work, and a black guy tells me about this story he knows about. We are all laughing about this... must get back to work You just gotta laugh at the humor

mediamatters.org wrote:
On the February 10 edition of Fox News' Red Eye, Fox News host Julie Banderas referred to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) as a "Halfrican." Obama is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas. Host Greg Gutfeld asked Banderas, who said she is of Colombian descent, "Do minorities hate other minorities?" Banderas responded: "I have something in common with Obama, and I don't even know what the big deal is. He's a Halfrican anyway, so I'm not really quite sure why the Asians and the Hispanics have no -- you know, have a problem with him."

Banderas hosts The Big Story Weekend on Fox News and regularly guest-hosts other programs on the network. Conservative media figures such as radio hosts Rush Limbaugh and Brian Sussman have also used the term "Halfrican" to describe Obama. Sussman later apologized for using the term.

From the February 10 edition of Fox News' Red Eye:

GREG GUTFELD (host): Now check out this, there's a white guy in this actually doing a black power salute somewhere. There it is. I mean, what are you doing?

[crosstalk]

GUTFELD: I don't know who he is. I don't know who that is. Greg Wilson, do you know who that is?

WILSON: I have no idea who that is. You know, personally, I was offended that it was in black-and-white.

GUTFELD: Really?

BILL SCHULZ (Fox News contributor): I think we're past that, you're right.

WILSON: I was like, what about the Mexican vote? What about the Asian votes? It's just for blacks and whites?

BANDERAS: That's why they didn't vote for him.

GUTFELD: That's true, I was going to get to that. They really - apparently that was the - do minorities hate other minorities? You're a minority.

BANDERAS: Latinos and Asians --

SCHULZ: Half of her.

BANDERAS: Well, because I think it's a -- well, I have something in common with Obama, and I don't even know what the big deal is. He's a Halfrican anyway, so I'm not really quite sure why the Asians and the Hispanics have no -- you know, have a problem with him.

SCHULZ: What does that make you? A Halombian?

BANDERAS: A Halfrilombian. A Halfricanlombian.

GUTFELD: What are you?

SCHULZ: Colombian.

BANDERAS: I'm half Colombian, half American.

SCHULZ: Greg, we all know she's Colombian.

https://tvnewsroom.co.uk/images/tn/juliebanderas.jpg

HOT Halfrilombian-Halfricanlombian z

2008-02-20 09:44:45

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usmarine: Banned; +2,785|7126

Well we call Tiger Woods black when he is 1/4 African American.

2008-02-20 09:46:57

#3

Mitch: 16 more years; +877|6890|South Florida

lmao Halfrican!
thats ingenius

15 more years! 15 more years!

2008-02-20 09:48:50

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Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|6902|Long Island, New York

Mitch wrote:
lmao Halfrican!
thats ingenius

so is spelling it right

Derek Jeter's half black...what do we consider him? Black. As USM said, Tiger Woods is only 1/4th black (or something like that) and we consider him black too.

2008-02-20 09:50:42

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GuliblGuy: Zulu son, what!?!; +79|7150|Anaheim, CA

Actually Tiger was drafted by the Asians . . .

2008-02-20 09:56:58

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GuliblGuy: Zulu son, what!?!; +79|7150|Anaheim, CA

WTF noobs. I JUST watched it before I posted it too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9RkBeFHQ4s

Edit: Oh they disabled embedding.

Last edited by GuliblGuy (2008-02-20 09:58:07)

2008-02-20 11:05:44

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Doctor Strangelove: Real Battlefield Veterinarian.; +1,758|6833

Obama has more money than I ever will, a mom who is from Kansas and is a presidential front-runner.

He's whiter than I am.

2008-02-20 11:44:04

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usmarine: Banned; +2,785|7126

Is he not half and half?

2008-02-20 11:48:41

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OrangeHound: Busy doing highfalutin adminy stuff ...; +1,335|7014|Washington DC

usmarine wrote:
Is he not half and half?

In all likelihood, Obama is more white than black. A recent DNA study of African Americans by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. showed that few are "pure" African, but that they are a mix of white, black, asian, etc. I think the average black American is something like 15% white.

Gates, who is a champion of black causes in America, discovered to his surprise that he was 50% white.

2008-02-20 11:50:42

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.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6818|The Twilight Zone

So Obama is at least 51% black? He looks more black to me.

https://www.shrani.si/f/3H/7h/45GTw71U/untitled-1.png

2008-02-20 11:54:28

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GunSlinger OIF II: Banned.; +1,860|7008

race and color shouldnt even be noticed in 2008

2008-02-20 11:54:59

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D6717C: Anger is a gift; +174|6997|Sin City

usmarine wrote:
Well we call Tiger Woods black when he is 1/4 African American.

Tiger is "Blackineese"

2008-02-20 11:56:38

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.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6818|The Twilight Zone

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
race and color shouldnt even be noticed in 2008

People can still see in 2008.

2008-02-20 11:57:28

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Master*: Banned; +416|6859|United States

OrangeHound wrote:
usmarine wrote:
Is he not half and half?
In all likelihood, Obama is more white than black. A recent DNA study of African Americans by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. showed that few are "pure" African, but that they are a mix of white, black, asian, etc. I think the average black American is something like 15% white.

Gates, who is a champion of black causes in America, discovered to his surprise that he was 50% white.

People are still stuck on that backwards ideology of the one drop rule (if you have any black in you you are 100% black no matter what).
People call me black but I actually have traces of White, Indian and Asian ancestry.

Its not about the skin, its whats behind it that counts.

Last edited by Master* (2008-02-20 11:58:57)

2008-02-20 11:57:41

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GunSlinger OIF II: Banned.; +1,860|7008

.Sup wrote:
GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
race and color shouldnt even be noticed in 2008
People can still see in 2008.

you sure? link? source? I dont believe you.

2008-02-20 12:04:55

#16

(T)eflon(S)hadow: R.I.P. Neda; +456|7194|Grapevine, TX

I posted for the humor guys...

She wasnt being a racist, ffs.

2008-02-20 12:11:04

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GunSlinger OIF II: Banned.; +1,860|7008

(T)eflon(S)hadow wrote:
I posted for the humor guys...

She wasnt being a racist, ffs.

I just dont like the idea that race is still such an important category to so many people.

2008-02-20 12:12:56

#18

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6818|The Twilight Zone

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
(T)eflon(S)hadow wrote:
I posted for the humor guys...

She wasnt being a racist, ffs.
I just dont like the idea that race is still such an important category to so many people.

Its not important but we can't pretend that different don't races exist.

2008-02-20 12:15:44

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GunSlinger OIF II: Banned.; +1,860|7008

.Sup wrote:
GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
(T)eflon(S)hadow wrote:
I posted for the humor guys...

She wasnt being a racist, ffs.
I just dont like the idea that race is still such an important category to so many people.
Its not important but we can't pretend that different don't races exist.

differences dont exist in the races?

I dont think so. I believe people are a product of their environment.

2008-02-20 12:16:08

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usmarine: Banned; +2,785|7126

mexican

2008-02-20 12:16:54

#21

Master*: Banned; +416|6859|United States

usmarine wrote:
mexican

no u

2008-02-20 12:21:06

#22

GunSlinger OIF II: Banned.; +1,860|7008

youre all a bunch of mexicans

2008-02-20 12:21:45

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usmarine: Banned; +2,785|7126

GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
youre all a bunch of mexicans

I'm a germasiclianmickacan

Last edited by usmarine (2008-02-20 12:22:09)

2008-02-20 12:23:06

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GunSlinger OIF II: Banned.; +1,860|7008

is your name pedro?

2008-02-20 12:23:44

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SgtSlutter: Banned; +550|7002|Amsterdam, NY

usmarine wrote:
GunSlinger OIF II wrote:
youre all a bunch of mexicans
I'm a germasiclianmickacan

mexican

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