In case you’re keeping score, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry said this weekend that using the term “Hard Worker” is considered offensive and racist.
While Perry and guest Alfonso Aguilar discussed speaker Paul Ryan, the MSNBC host cautioned that using the phrase “hard worker” might be offensive to African-Americans, because it could remind them that their ancestors may have been slaves.
Perry said, “I just want to pause on one thing because I don’t disagree with you that I actually think Mr. Ryan is a great choice for this role, but I want us to be super careful when we use the language ‘hard worker.'”
“I actually keep an image of folks working in cotton fields on my office wall because it is a reminder about what hard work looks like.”
Perry gained notoriety when she decided to wear tampons as earrings in 2013 in support of protesters that were attempting to throw tampons at Texas pro-life lawmakers.
You can see the video of Perry claiming hard workers is a racist term below:
I actually picked cotton in my younger days, and it IS hard work. But I don’t believe a person is being racist if he/she refers to me as being a hard worker. I would, and do, take it as a compliment because I am a hard worker!!!!!! She is just looking for her status as an “educated” person to be noted.
she may consider herself to be Educated, but she is what us simple folk refer to as being book smart and common sense stupid.
You nailed it !!!!b Thanks
The perfect liberal picture of an imbecile
Actually instead of her education showing, I believe she was showing her ignorance.
I guess I’m kind of thankful that I am living in the Golden Years and won’t be around much longer to hear such non-sense coming out of the mouths of such educated dumb asses. Hard work is good for you. I know, I have been there. Working in Tobacco Fields as a youngster from sunrise to sunset. I guess before I’m put away, the term work will
be a no no, as it may offended. What a world we live with these morons.
Ralph: I ECHO your statement: Everyone is so touchy now with Political Correctness:
Beats “hardly working.”
Is there any conversation safe from the racist card being played ?
Exactly. too much and really absurd.
Jus another liberal caught with her pants down . . . and she probably doesn’t even realize how ridiculous she sounded.
These people continually show their lack of good common sense , of course hard word is offensive to lazy welfare dependent people.
Right on – well said!
That’s what I thought: the term, Hard Work, is racist because most blacks don’t work; I think all that laying around, being supported by the taxpayers has given them thin skin. Along with a sense of entitlement to taxpayer money, they have also grown entitled to never having to feel the slightest insult, which now has evolved to include imagined insults. Must be nice…to be able to be supported and feel revered at the same time.
I wonder if she has ever used the words “I’m starving!” If so, I’m quite sure she’s NEVER been starving. Hungry, sure, but starving? I take offense to her ever using THOSE words in the future as my father lived through WWII in Europe truly knows what “starving” is. She needs to just shut her pie hole.
Looks like one of those tampons
has gotten inside her head cause
she has cotton on the brain with
comments recently stated.
another self serving elitist on
a liberal network.
Am an 80 yrs old hard worker, Hispanic. Work half time now, but full time for nearly 60 yrs !
Proud to be a hard worker. Some people cannot help pulling the race card over everything !
EVERYTHING said is offensive to somebody out there! If your skin is that thin, it is time for you to throw in the towel, if you are not willing to do that, SHUT UP!!!
Sounds like she is embarrassed because she isn’t a hard worker.
The funny part is she said they may have been a slave? Well guess what a lot of whites were slaves The issue is picking cotton! Hard work! Well I did this when I was a child and of the many years I never saw anyone but whites in the field. Only the last few years we saw some Mexican’s working in the field just around the time cotton picking machines started to become poplar. I will tell you it was work but not hard work. Only paid around $3:00 a day for me but it was out side work and nice when you found a shade. Nothing wrong with work only people who never worked think it is wrong. I worked bricklaying, Carpenter and concrete placement and these three were harder work! I have watched your show and you find anger and truth in falseness. You are paid to complain but from the looks of you and your culture you had money and a very good education. Bet you never worked in the factories another hard work!
I recently retired and proudly wore the badge of ‘hard worker’ for ALL of my working career. Maybe more should try working!! This is very offensive to one who is and has been paying my ‘hard earned’ money through taxes so many can sit and do nothing but complain about what we are saying/doing wrong these days.
She “work” at MSNBC ? therefore she don’t do s….t and that hurt !!!
This is a prime example of the powers that be trying to make everyone fight each other. Soon you will be afraid to say anything which is what they want. No freedom of SPEECH.
I am first generation Italian-American and most of relatives were immigrants. None of them would even consider taking welfare or food stamps. My father was a rag and bone man and my mother was a maid to a family of six. Almost everyone I knew was hard working and never complained about their status or station in life. As a pre-teen, I used to go from dump site to dump site with my two wheeled cart picking junk and scrap metals to bring to the “junkyard” dealers. I picked strawberries eight hours a day, with much of the picking while on my knees. When we moved from Boston to a village in the countryside, we had no electricity in our two-room farmhouse. Neighbors brought us cables to take electricity from their lines. On week-ends, all our relatives came to our home and together built a seven room home for us, as well as digging a well to enable us to have running water. At 4pm on Sunday afternoon, everyone cleaned up, out came the musical instruments, the pasta and red wine, amidst laughter and singing. None of us had any money, but we had a great positive attitude and a sense of personal responsibility. We never wasted a scrap of food and all our clothes were hand-me-downs or “irregulars”. We worked HARD to survive, never complained and somehow knew that life would be much better if we continued to “work hard” and be positive against difficult odds. So, Ms Perry, just keep looking at your cotton field reminder of “hard work” and bemoan the fact that life was tough. Be reminded, however, that we all experienced hard work, but many of us rose above the difficulties and racial overtones and coped with any and all difficulties with a proper perspective and the inner knowledge that there was a better life ahead. I lectured at a university, became an American diplomat during the “cold war”, was an advisor to two presidents of a large Muslim nation (I am a Catholic) and although, many considered it “hard work”, I looked forward to it each and every day. Grow up, young lady, do not think in a negative manner and get off your soapbox if you are unable to provide positive solutions to the alleviation of “hard work.”
Well Done!
That woman is a stupid little no hard working rich girl. Her kind are racist big time. Give me a Break.
This is typical of the kind of claptrap you hear these days. This woman is obviously an idiot, who doesn’t deserve a hearing from anybody. I own a farm, and I like to get out there and work hard. As a result, I maintain that I am in better shape than most people my age. I look at those with the office jobs and thank my lucky stars that I didn’t get caught in that trap. If I had, I would probably already have died of a heart attack, cancer or some other dreaded disease.