Adrianne Curry and Bill O'Reilly: Doing Their Part To Ease Racial Tension

It doesn't surprise me at all that Adrianne Curry, Top Model alum, is a real dumbass.

She isn't bright, as evidenced by the fact she married Peter Brady. When she was on America's Next Top Model, it was obvious that book smarts and common sense were foreign to her.

Now, she's in hot water because *SURPRISE!* she let loose a torrent of horribly ignorant statements about black folks on her myspace page. I'll give you a sample:

"Black people were slaves here once. You know what? That does suck some major balls, however, it is time to move the fuck on. So, I will no longer tune into BET. This is going to suck, but I do NOT like the idea of having a channel for only 1 race. In the year 2007 in a country that is supposed to be the most advanced and equal. This is unexceptable."

(You can peep the rest of this dumb broad's ramblings here)

No, what's unacceptable is that this heffa is a reality-show reject whose brain is probably half-dead from all the diet pills and numerous times she's stuck her finger down her throat. OK, that was mean.

I wish I could say this is the first time I've confronted such ignorant sentiments. It always amuses me how people who have little-to-no knowledge of history, culture or other races often want to chime in about racism like they're real "expert."

More than likely, her only exposure to black people is through BET and maybe a couple of the black people she met on the Top Model show. Just because minorities grow up in your orbit, doesn't mean you know shit about them.

Obviously, this broad is too stupid to realize that NBC, ABC, HBO, and pretty much most channels with the exception of TV One and BET are dedicated to "1 race"....um, the white race. I have no doubt she would never tell someone Jewish to "get over the Holocaust"...which is a whole 'otha rant I have. Nobody greets talking about or learning about the Holocaust with any resistance whatsoever, but bring up slavery and you will see eyes rolling, teeth sucking and a general exasperation. This isn't a game of who-had-it-worst, but the fact of the matter is slavery occurred on U.S. soil. The Holocaust did not. So the legacy of slavery is sharper and more intact for African Americans. The healing that needs to take place from that is still incomplete.

Anyway, I wish what the idiot-ass model said was the stupidest thing I heard all week. Unfortunately, Fox News guru/race baiter Bill O'Reilly successfully competed with Idiot Model for the Clueless White People award.

O'Reilly recently dipped his head into black culture. He ate dinner with Al Sharpton at Sylvia's in Harlem, which some consider a legendary soul food spot, and he went to an Anita Baker concert. Now before I get into what this fool said about his experiences with "us"...can you picture O'Reilly at an Anita Baker concert? Maybe it's because he's soul-less and evil, but can you picture O'Reilly swaying and singing along to "Caught Up In The Rapture" or "Soul's Inspiration?" Hells naw.

Anyway, this is what O'Reilly had to say about his Nigro experience:

"There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming, 'MF-er, I want more iced tea.' You know, I mean, everybody was -- it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."

(Go here for more of this ignorance.)

Imagine that, Bill. No bullets. Gold teeth. Black men yelling, "ey, yo, bitch, bring me some of 'dem hamhocks." He also expressed amazement that at Anita Baker's concert there men dressed in tuxedos and black people GASP behaving with class. Because shootings always occur at a Jean Luc Ponty, Baker or Patti Labelle gig.

Is he fucking serious?

That's some of the most racist rhetoric I ever heard come out anyone's mouth. I'm sure, for Bill, seeing black people behave appropriately was akin to catching the Holy Ghost. Now this fucker might have to change some of his race-baiting ways, since he's always using the most racially-charged language to connect with a disconnected white audience whose only brush with the Nigra community comes from watching his half-baked, racist-ass show.

This sort of leads me into discussing BET's hip-hop town hall meeting on Tuesday, which I must say was impressive overall. Bill's racist rhetoric only makes it more important that black people in entertainment be more morally responsible about the images they put out concerning black people.

Of course, there will always be a Bill O' Reilly somewhere in America. A lot of white people have no desire to know Nigras on a deeper level and are more than happy to derive their concept of blackness from 50 Cent, Soul Plane and Mo'Nique. But black culture has never been this mainstream before. White kids bump hip hop harder than any group in America. Hip hop is worldwide. So the music that was just for "us" about "us" is being put into the atmosphere in a whole different way.

I know I'm getting off on a tangent here, but black folks need to understand that our image is a precious thing. A lot of rappers and other entertainers are nothing more than modern-day minstrel coons, no better than Man Tan. The reason white kids eat up hip hop is because they constantly peddle a false identity of what we're really about, but it's so easy for white folks to believe. They believe we're all like Lil' Wayne and Trina. That's what they think. So it becomes a very vicious cycle. We put out ignorant shit, and they eat it up like it's Trix.

But if we do that, we can't bitch and complain about being stereotyped when so many of us are content to make fast and easy money off bullshit.

Neverthless, it's no excuse for the small minded-ness of Curry and O' Reilly. They might as well be wearing hoods.