Posted by
Janet Shan
Glenn
Beck is being compared to Malcolm X by the Daily Beast's
Reihan
Salam saying his message was meant to terrify mainstream liberals
and shed politics for a message for spiritual uplife. Really? Glenn Beck
scare mainstream liberals? Wow that's a
stretch
of
Salam's
imagination. I think Malcolm X just did a 360 degree flip in his grave.
Here's an excerpt from the article:
Glenn Beck’s weekend speech was reminiscent of the
radical 1960s black separatist leader: Both terrify mainstream liberals
and shed politics for a message of spiritual uplift.
As hundreds of thousands gathered in Washington, D.C. for Glenn Beck’s
“Restoring Honor” rally, one couldn’t help but notice a powerful
nostalgia for an America that is slipping away. In her remarks to the
crowd,
Sarah Palin,
the former Alaska
governor and conservative folk hero,
said, “we must not fundamentally transform America, as some would want,”
a not-so-veiled reference to President Obama and his allies. Instead,
“we must restore America and restore her honor,” a message that
resonated with a crowd that by all accounts was overwhelmingly white and
Christian, with large numbers hailing from rural areas and small towns.
Palin, like Beck, was talking about a spiritual restoration, a return
to time-tested virtues that had been celebrated by the more homogeneous
America of the past, in which non-traditional families were stigmatized
and relatively rare, church attendance was far more common, and the
dominance of Anglo-Protestant culture was unquestioned.
But as most of those who attended Beck’s rally understand in their
bones, that world is gone. And President Obama, for all his efforts to
expand the reach of the federal government, has had very little to do
with this deep transformation. Rather, the country has long since been
transformed by powerful demographic and economic forces that very much
threaten what we might call Glenn Beck’s America.
Sorry, but I am having a hard time putting Glenn Beck in the shoes of
Malcolm X, who was a thoughtful and methodical man.
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