Ted Nugent refers to Indians as ‘Unclean Vermin’

Ted Nugent has a history of uttering racially charged rhetoric or outright racist crap.

 

Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.

It might have been better for white people, but it would have massively sucked for Blacks, Asians, or Indians.  This statement ignores the harm of slavery at best.  Or maybe he simply doesn’t care about anyone who isn’t white.

Washington Times columnist and National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent claimed  that gun owners will be the next Rosa Parks if President Obama issues an executive order confiscating guns.

While Vice President Joe Biden has suggested that the White House could take executive action on guns, no one in the administration has said that such action would involve gun confiscation. The administration has reportedly  previously considered executive action to ensure that more records of mental illness were included in the FBI’s background check system.

Despite the fact that gun confiscation is not floated by any serious politician (certainly not one with the ability to get such legislation enacted), Nugent, like many Americans, is deeply concerned about the impending efforts to “take our guns”. He was so worried that he made a comparison to the actions of Rosa Parks, which were pivotal in the Civil Rights Movement.  He’s made a false comparison in his efforts to seem like a demonized minority because gun owners are not a minority, nor have gun owners lost their rights, nor have they had their guns confiscated.  They haven’t been treated as subhuman animals who are 3/5’s of a human being, or denied the right to vote or hold public office.  Gun owners have not been subjected to mob beatings or lynching.  There is absolutely no comparison between Nugent’s completely unwarranted fears and the reality of being black in the United States prior to the Civil Rights Act (or since that time either).  To make a comparison is to point a middle finger to the efforts of many people who sought equality for African-Americans.

National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent published a column  on birther website WND alleging that if a Republican president had the same drone policy as the Obama administration, “Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the president are racist and bigoted.”

Belittling and mocking black people for the way they speak (which isn’t accurate to boot) is how you show disdain for them based on their race.  Nugent is proud to be a good old boy racist jackass.

 

Now he’s done it again.  In the wake of having one of his upcoming concerts cancelled, he has called an Idaho Indian tribe ‘unclean vermin’.

“The Motor City Madman” had been schedule to perform for Couer D’Alene Casino in Worley, Idaho on Aug. 4 until the Southern Poverty Law Center caught tribal officials by asking for a comment on Monday. Later that day, the performance had been canceled.

“I take it as a badge of honor that such unclean vermin are upset by me and my positive energy,” Nugent told Gannett Wisconsin Media on Tuesday. Put your heart and soul into everything you do and nobody can stop you. Sometimes you give the world the best you got and you get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you got anyway.”

“By all indicators, I don’t think they actually qualify as people, but there has always been a lunatic fringe of hateful, rotten, dishonest people that hate happy, successful people,” he continued. “I believe raising hell and demanding accountability from our elected employees is Job One for every American. I am simply doing my job.”

‘Positive energy’? What’s so positive about hating people because they’re different from you?He is saying, in no uncertain terms, that Indians are subhuman.  They aren’t deserving of the same rights he has.  I can’t tell you how much I despise this man and what he stands for.  He embodies much of what is wrong with the United States:  a far right authoritarian mindset that hates other racism, other genders, other sexualities, and other points of view.  He’s a seething pile of rage, and I with the media would stop giving him the time of day.

 


EDIT:  It has come to my attention that Nugent was not, in fact, referring to the American Indian group.  He was speaking of his detractors in another venue:

Ted Nugent, who performs Saturday at the Leach Amphitheater in Oshkosh, has a few words for critics calling for Waterfest organizers to cancel his show.

“I take it as a badge of honor that such unclean vermin are upset by me and my positive energy,” Nugent said in a recent interview with Gannett Wisconsin Media. “Put your heart and soul into everything you do and nobody can stop you. Sometimes you give the world the best you got and you get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you got anyway.”

I have chosen to leave the post as I originally composed it, with this disclaimer, in the interests of full disclosure and transparency.  Apologies for not sourcing this properly.

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Ted Nugent refers to Indians as ‘Unclean Vermin’
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