Hate Radio

In Hate Radio, author Patricia Williams talks about some of the underlying fears that racist talk shows prey on. An example she gives is "...grown people sitting around scaring themselves to death with fantasies of black feminist Mexican able-bodied gay soldiers earning $100,000 a year on welfare..." It is a ridiculous fear that sensible people don't typically have, but because of talk shows like Rush Limbaugh, they impregnate the minds of the ignorant with these types of images who readily soak it up and accept this as something that happens on a daily basis. A generalized contempt these shows express is that minorities are less intelligent than Caucasians and that many believe blacks are "lazy, violent, welfare-dependent, and unpatriotic." I agree with Williams and the point that she is trying to make. Right-wing talk shows, for the most part, spew hatred and contempt for anyone and anything that is different from the typical, white norm in society. These shows only hurt our country and our people by preaching hatred of others and fill people's heads with nonsense. There is no sort of positive impact on listeners from what I've heard listening from some of these shows. The hosts are only trying to move backwards in time to when segregation and hatred were commonly accpeted and practiced. In today's world Americans can't afford to be biggoted towards other people because America itself is very diversified.