Fox host Bill O’Reilly insisted Wednesday that despite President Obama’s ongoing focus on racial problems in America, there is no widespread race problem in the country.
“You’re always going to have terrible incidents like Ferguson, Baltimore and Charleston. But every stat and poll says the same thing: There is not an epidemic of racism in the United States of America,” he said. “That’s the truth and the liars who distort the record are on notice; you will be held to account.”
O’Reilly conceded that the country has “racist elements within it,” but said it’s incorrect to paint the entire country as a hotbed of racial tension.
“It is an amazing thing to watch. America has gone from being the land of the free and the home of the brave to a country dominated by white supremacy,” the longtime Fox anchor said, mocking people who say the United States still has some work to do in race relations department.
“No longer is it white privilege. Now it’s supremacy, the allegation that white Americans are actively trying to keep black Americans down,” he steamed. “That is what the far left is putting out there, largely unchallenged by a cowardly media. You hear the insane rhetoric on cable news nearly every night. It is an outrageous Tower of Babel.”
As he has argued in the past, O’Reilly repeated his theory that left-wing forces are attempting to demoralize and tear down the country by falsely and unfairly suggesting that the country has a racism problem.
“The truth is there is no organized effort to harm black people by white people. That does not exist in America,” he said. “The real racism is looking away from what is really harming black Americans, the root cause of poverty.”
The real causes of the African-American community’s woes, according to the Fox host, are the dissolution of the black family and an education system that treats white and black students differently.
“In many schools, if black students misbehave or fail, nothing is done. Authorities either look away or socially promote them,” he said. “That is racism. All American students should be treated the same.”
He added of past injustices, “And the excuse that slavery, Jim Crow and other historical injustices should now define how black citizens are treated is insane. Barack Obama, a poor boy of mixed race, rose up with little parental help and became the president of the United States.”
O’Reilly cited 2016 GOP Republicans presidential candidates Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, who is Indian-American, and Ben Carson, who is African-American, as success stories.
“And far-left smear merchants have the nerve to say that America is a white supremacist nation,” an increasingly agitated O’Reilly said. “And the press does nothing about that? And Fox News is attacked when we report the truth? Well you want a war, you got a war.”
Channeling his best Howard Beale impression, the Fox host continued, saying, “I’m not going to sit here and take this garbage any longer. People who lie, who run their country down, who are racist themselves, are going to be called out on ‘The Factor.'”
“In the real world, America remains the country that provides the most opportunity to the most people. That’s why millions of folks are trying to get in here, many of them people of color,” he added.
