marc93lx

Don't know if this has been posted before but I got it in a email today and thought it was worth sharing.

83 YEAR OLD ANDY ROONEY'S OPINION

"I like big cars, big boats, big motorcycles, big houses and big
campfires. I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not
some governmental stooge with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away
to crack addicts for squirting out babies. Guns do not make you a
killer.* I think killing makes you a killer.* You can kill someone with
a baseball bat or a car, but no one is trying to ban you from driving to
the ball game. I believe they are called the Boy Scouts for a reason,
that is why there are no girls allowed. Girls belong in the Girl Scouts!
I think that if you feel homosexuality is wrong, it is not a phobia, it
is an opinion. I don't think being a minority makes you a victim of
anything except numbers. The only things I can think of that are truly
discriminatory are things like the United Negro College Fund, Jet
Magazine, Black Entertainment Television, and Miss Black America. Try to
have things like the United Caucasian College Fund,* Cloud Magazine,
White Entertainment Television, or Miss White America and see what
happens. Jesse Jackson will be knocking down your door. I have the right
"NOT" to be tolerant of others because they are different, weird, or
tick me off.* When 70% of the people who get arrested are black, in
cities where 70% of the population is black, that is not racial
profiling, it is the law of statistics. I know what sex is, and there
are not varying degrees of it. If I received sex from one of my
subordinates in my office, it wouldn't be a private matter or my
personal business. I would be FIRED immediately! I believe that if you
are selling me a milk shake, a pack of cigarettes, a newspaper or a
hotel room, you must do it in English! As a matter of fact, if you want
to be an American citizen you should have to speak English! My father
and grandfather shouldn't have had to die in vain so you can leave the
countries you were born in to come over and disrespect ours. I think the
police should have every right to shoot your sorry *** if you threaten
them after they tell you to stop. If you can't understand the word
"freeze" or "stop" in English, see the above lines. I feel much safer
letting a machine with no political affiliation recount votes when
needed. I know what the definition of lying is. I don't think just
because you were not born in this country, you are qualified for any
special loan programs, government sponsored! bank loans or tax breaks,
etc., so you can open a hotel, coffee shop, trinket store, or any other
business. We did not go to the aid of certain foreign countries and risk
our lives in wars to defend their freedoms so that decades later they
could come over here and tell us our constitution is a living document
and open to their interpretations. I don't hate the rich. I don't pity
the poor. I know wrestling is fake, but so are movies and television,
and that doesn't stop you from watching them. I believe a
self-righteous liberal or conservative with a cause is more dangerous
than a Hell's Angel with an attitude. I think Bill Gates has every right
to keep every penny he made and continue to make more. If it ticks you
off, go and invent the next operating system that's better and put your
name on the building. Ask your buddy that invented the Internet to help
you. It doesn't take a whole village to raise a child right, but it does
take a parent to stand up to the kids and smack their little asses when
necessary and say "NO." I think tattoos and piercing are fine if you
want them, but please don't pretend they are a political statement. And
Please stay home until that new lip ring heals, I don't want to look at
your ugly infected mouth as you serve me french fries! I am sick of
"Political Correctness" and of all the suck ups that go along with it. I
know a lot of black people, and not a single one of them is born in
Africa, so how can they be "African-Americans"? Besides, Africa is a
continent. I don't go around saying I am a European-American because my
great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather was from Europe. I
am proud to be from America and nowhere else. And if you don't like my
point of view, tough!"

GerardPRO5

I highly doubt Andy Rooney wrote this.

I've never seen it before. I can't vouch for it's legitimacy. But, if Andy Rooney didn't write this, don't credit (or discredit) Andy Rooney.

I believe this was written by a very closed-minded, very afraid, very racist individual.

America is a melting pot of different cultures, different races, different beliefs, and different languages.

To say that BET is discriminatory would be to say that our Constitution and our First Amendment is wrong.

I agree and disagree with his points of view...and again, it is just an opinion.

JJB

not Rooney's work...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/satire/rooney.asp

heck a search for it on Google comes up with a version that makes the exact same statement, but about Canada.