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Brilliant Analysis by Fellow Prog: Top 15 Overrated Honkeys

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Incredibly inciteful insightful Prog Columbia University educator, Marc Lamont Hill, has graced us with his words describing the 15 most useless overrated white people in the history of Western Civilization. I believe with the numerous astute Prog political observers who share their propaganda collective observations here, we could help Mr. Hill compile a more thorough list of useless overrated white people.

Here is glorious educator Hill's list and astute descriptions of shamefully overrated 'white people':

Elvis Presley - Elvis didn't write his own songs (despite taking credit for them), barely played the guitar, and was a worse actor than the entire cast of Belly. Despite being a cheap facsimile of Little Richard, he is still known as the "King of Rock 'n Roll." Only in America...

Ronald Reagan - You can't have a conversation with a Republican without hearing Reagan's name invoked as the patron saint of American politics. As a result, Ronald Reagan moves closer and closer to the Mount Rushmore of our public imagination with each passing year. How easily we forget that Reagan was largely responsible for shutting down mental hospitals, bloating the military, shrinking benefits for the needy, sparking mass incarceration, and declaring ketchup a vegetable for our children's school lunches.

Justin Bieber - Sure, the kid can sing and dance. But is he better than dozens of black R&B singers? Nope.

Donald Trump - The Donald was always obnoxious, but he dipped to new lows this year by jumping on the Birther train. But that alone doesn't make him overrated. Just racist and dumb. No, Trump is overrated because people actually look to the self-important hack for legitimate political insight. The only thing more inflated than Trump's intellectual value is his net-worth, which is nothing close to the "many billions" he alleges.

Prince Harry - The Tito Jackson of the Royal Family. Prince Harry is something like the 234th heir to the throne, yet the media talks about him as if he were Prince Charles himself. I guess if we realized how unimportant he was, his ridiculous antics would be less newsworthy.

Tim Tebow - At best, Tebow is a 2nd or 3rd string player. Sure, he's led his team to some amazing 4th quarter come-from-behind victories. But that's usually because his crappy play over the first 3 quarters put his team behind. Tebow's celebrity -- despite the fact that he couldn't beat out mediocre Mark Sanchez for a starting spot -- proves an old football axiom: Black men throw interceptions; White men are "gunslingers."

President Obama's Economic Team - Despite wolf cries from the Right that President Obama is organizing a socialist revolution, the President's economic advisors are living proof that he's far from a Fabianist. Rather than delivering on the change that many people expected -- and that the Obama Administration continues to trumpet as fact against all evidence to the contrary -- Obama's closest economic advisors have continued to push forward a business-as-usual strategy that continues to reward big business, stimulate the wealthy, undermine fair trade, and deny the possibility of living wages for poor people around the globe.

William Shakespeare - There's no doubt that Shakespeare has a rightful place in the Western literary canon. Unfortunately, thanks to sycophantic critics and narrow-minded educational systems, Shakespeare is the only person who seems to matter to the average person. Billy's hulking presence in the Western literary imagination has led to the marginalization of other incredible writers of his era, such as Kyd, Middleton and Webster, whose work merits equal if not greater attention. Also, as a result of his deification, we ignore the fact that many aspects of Shakespeare's work -- such as the writing in Hamlet or the generally narrow range of female roles in his plays -- just aren't that awesome.

Babe Ruth - While there is no doubt that Babe Ruth was the most dominant player of his era, he was also the beneficiary of smaller playing fields and a segregated league. It may be cliché to say, but there's little doubt that Ruth would have lower career numbers if he had been forced to face Satchel Paige and his peers on a regular basis. Nevertheless, The Babe, rather than Hank Aaron or Willie Mays, continues to be the most celebrated figure in the history of the sport.

Kate Middleton - Almost no one get more media attention (and Huffington Post traffic) than Prince William's wife. What does she do again?

Joel Osteen - The only preacher in America who can give an entire sermon without referencing a bible. Somehow, Osteen has convinced the world that he is a legitimate theologian rather than a schmaltzy self-help salesmen in pastor's clothing.

The Whole NHL (except Wayne Simmonds) - Has anyone noticed that the whole season is about to be canceled? Nope, didn't think so.

Bill Clinton - Despite bombing Africa and the Middle East regularly, approving the Welfare Reform Bill, Prison Litigation Reform Act, and "three strikes" legislation, Black folk regularly regard Clinton as a messianic figure. He may have been better than Bush, but Slick Willie was far from a savior.

Eminem - Without question, Marshall Mathers is a dope MC. His first two LPs (particularly the second) will go down as classics and his latest releases, Recovery and Bad Meets Evil, are some of the best albums in recent years. Still, the "genius" and "greatest of all time" labels are too quickly attached to Em at the expense of more significant old school rappers like Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane, as well as contemporaries like Black Thought, Kool Keith, Jean Grae and Pharoah Monche.

Bill Walton - More than any other player in the history of the NBA, Walton embodies hyperbole. In his current role as an announcer, Walton routinely refers to at least eight different players as the "best player in the league, bar none" and refers to routine turnovers as "the worst play in the history of Western civilization." As a player, Walton put together one of the greatest college careers in NCAA history and led Portland to a championship. Still, a career full of recurring injuries and his sixth-man role in Boston make Walton's placement on the NBA's 50 Greatest Players list dubious at best.

Sarah Palin - Although her political career is likely over, Palin continues to be a powerbroker among Right wing extremists. Despite her lack of knowledge of policy or strategy, Palin is still a go-to pundit on conservative media outlets. No one destroys the myth of white supremacy more effectively than Sarah Palin.


Who would you add to the list?

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Does half white get full credit?Austropiithicanthropus aka Arnold Schwartzenegger must certainly qualify.He is currently recuperating from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the foot, and could have a high heel shoe jammed and his rectal orifice, either of these things individually would cause anyone to limp.
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Well, the premise is flawed. ALL white people are overrated to begin with, which is why "points" are deducted when it comes to college admissions and job interviews. To try to quantify which white people should have lower value than others is either just a fun exercise in ebo-semantics, or would require the more mind-numbing process of adding negative numbers, which is way too hard. Anything less than zero (all white people) is Bush's fault anyway, so why bother. Forward!

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[PROG OFF ]

I'd say the most overrated honky of all times is Che Guevara - although some may say the right nomenclature here is "white Hispanic"...

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This guy is a writer, not a reader.

Russian joke:

Chukchi decides to become a writer, and goes to the Soviet League of Writers to register. They ask him,
-- Have you read Tolstoy?
-- No.
-- Have you read Chekhov?
-- No.
-- Have you read Gogol?
-- Chukchi writer, not reader.

Same way, this fellow prog is writer, author, professor, lecturer, intellectual.

They call it "the euphemism treadmill". It's no longer only euphemisms now.

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Swap white with black in all of his writing, and see how it looks.

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As a professor emeritus of Revistory (revisionist history) who has held tenured positions at several respected universities worldwide, I must admit that I'd never heard of Marc Lamont Hill until today.
I found Hill's “Huff” piece, on overrated white people, so uproariously funny, that I wanted to make him more-equal than other proles, so I called in a few lackeys to conduct some research on him – my patronage knows no bounds.
I was still smiling to myself many hours later, when my crack team of investigators brought me their findings. That's where the humor died, dear comrades. Such a pity.
It turns out that Professor Hill is a bigot; yes, a bigot. Who would ever have guessed that the author of such a hilarious critique of European colonial hegemony might also be a homophobe?
The pages of the monthly journal Underwhelming Scholarship are rife with Hill's intolerant invective. Take, for example, the following articles that Hill authored:
• “Tebowing is a Faggot Thing.”
• “The King of Sodom: Presley Partied Too Hard at the County Jail.”
I knew, prima facie, that these must be ironic titles, or so I hoped them to be. But, when I perused the content, I soon discovered that they were the product of bona fide bigotry.
I wish that Hill's ignominy ended there, dear comrades. But his intolerance has spoiled the discourse of other periodicals, including Descent, which published his screed, “Who Cheats More: Jews or Asians?”
Next, I turned to a past issue of Borders Transgressed and, to my horror, I found Hill's article on immigration: “What Hispanic Work Ethic?: You Should See My House After Maria Supposedly Cleaned It.”
Needless to say, all bigots must be purged. Especially KKKolumbus!

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I dislike the honkeys with the hats, wait a minute I am a honkey!!!

Still no help assigned, any help is better than no help.


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How about this Chukchi writer comrade is just envious of those dead and living white people?

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Kommissar Schweinhund wrote:Who would you add to the list?

Did somebody say Liszt?

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Speaking of overrated Dead White European Males (DWEM™), Aristotle was a honky.

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And the list of the so-called "honky heroes" never ends...

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Gosh, this man is so politically correct. The masses should not be free to pay attention to whom they wish to pay attention to, they should be required to pay attention to those whom our esteemed elites deem worthy of being paid attention to! Whether it be the size of their sodas, where and how to spend their money or to whom they pay attention to, the masses are NOT qualified to make their own decisions and need direction from over-educated self-anointed geniuses (genii?) to direct them. This will leave the masses FREE to.... well, whatever is left for them to do with their lives, perhaps drink brake fluid and die early as in the glorious USSR!


 
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