B-, bu-, b-, but Debbie, but Debbie, . . .

They told us that,–, I mean,–, wasn’t she, . . .

I mean, I never heard of this woman until one of the Clinton inaugurations, and, and, and, . . .

they told us she was this brilliant and creative,–, . . .

and, and, and, that,– . . .

well, they said that she, that her writing was the most creative, enlightening, brilliant, and that she was, was, like, some kind of goddess in America. I mean, ever since that inauguration, she’s been lauded as though she were, . . .

I’m, I can’t even form words on paper, and that’s bad, Debbie. I’m woefully inarticulate in person, but I’m pretty good with the written (typed) word, . . .

usually. But you’ve got me, I mean, you’ve destroyed a myth. You’re destroying everything the, the, . . .

OH!!! That’s right, that the LAMESTREAM MEDIA has ever told me. Oh, okay, whew!!! Got it now. Debbie The Destroyer. ROTFLMAO!!!

Hmmmmmmm. Maybe Debbie’s web site should be called . . .

D(estroying)
A(merican)
M(yths)
N(ow)

Debbie, you SURE she wasn’t one of the most brilliant Americans ever?!?!?!!!!

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!

Alfredo from Puerto Rico on May 28, 2014 at 11:36 am

ERSTE!

first post two days in a row, baby….

kirche61 on May 28, 2014 at 11:44 am

This is the proper eulogy that Maya Angelou ys’v deserves.

Realist Soul on May 28, 2014 at 12:04 pm

In the black community Dr. Ben Carson, the best pediatric neurosurgeon in the world, and Clarence Thomas are vilified but this piece of garbage was treated as the second coming of Bill Shakespeare. In fact, the classics were dropped so students could read this woman’s written vomit.

Jonathan e. Grant on May 28, 2014 at 12:13 pm

thanks for illuminating the REAL USA/Israel-hating/Jew hating cultural butt sniffer that she was…

HK on May 28, 2014 at 12:21 pm

Of course this piece is all about how she overcame but it does mention the seamier side of her life before fame. And if you’d read her, even if only to be able to dissect her fame intelligently, you’d know it anyway. She didn’t hide it.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/maya-angelou-dead-celebrated-author-poet-dies-age-86-article-1.1808082

Meira on May 28, 2014 at 12:23 pm

Are there any heralded Black people that is propped up before, that you people (i.e conservative and contributors to this site) you don’t hate. Are there any?

So far I’ve seen Rot in hell for Mandela, then some activist no one knew, and now Maya A.

Interesting very interesting. Personally I couldn’t get into Maya A poetry, thought it to be too soft, I liked Nikki Giovanni ( and this is in context to the times, people).

Did this woman write anti jewish poetry?

BD: You are fairly new to this site. I’ve praised many courageous Black Americans on this site. Here are just a few:

DS

Big D on May 28, 2014 at 12:54 pm

Was born in Saint Louis (very segregated at the time) in the 1930s and was reared in Jim Crow Arkansas during the Great Depression. America was still quite segregated and racist in the 1960s. It is difficult to blame her for viewing Africa as a potential improvement.

America has become a much better place for black Americans who receive an education or learn a trade, work hard, obey the law and don’t have children out of wedlock, with most of that progress occurring after the mid-1980s, which is when a large black middle/professional class finally emerged for the first time. (No need to debate this point as it was conceded by Rush Limbaugh, among others).

Blacks who came of age in America before the 1980s, and especially before Brown versus Board of Education and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (before which there was no pretense of equality for blacks … blacks were simply second class citizens and expected to know it and act like it OR ELSE). So for a black person to be “anti-American” and completely without bitterness or resentment against white people in that era would be entirely understandable. Were blacks supposed to embrace Jim Crow? Or places where Jim Crow technically wasn’t in place but economic, housing, educational etc. segregation and discrimination were just as bad? Because if you were in Arkansas, Missouri, Chicago, that was “America” for you, so being against it was actually being FOR your own best interests. Jim Crow and pervasive discrimination was not in the interests of black Americans and it would have been foolish to pretend otherwise. And it is unreasonable to expect blacks to have been treated in that manner by America (not fringe, marginal groups mind you, but mainstream America) without having any bitterness or resentment towards the people who behaved towards them in this way.

Yes, “Angelou” was a Marxist, as were not a few blacks at the time. But here is the funny part: the economic and political restrictions imposed on blacks at the time were not that different from Marxism. Blacks could not vote, serve on juries, hold elected office, were locked out of the mainstream economy for the most part (making private ownership of property and access to capital unattainable) and in many cases did not even enjoy freedom of movement. Many of the most ardent opponents of communism were segregationists who were absolutely terrified of being forced to live under such a system themselves but were very willing to impose a similar system on their own fellow citizens.

If nothing else, “Maya Angelou” was only guilty of feeling the same way about whites as they obviously felt about her. It makes no sense to condemn one without condemning the other. Obviously, blacks who did not live through the era when legal and de facto Jim Crow dominated America are not justified in having the resentments that the prior generation did against the people who treated them that way and the country that those people built. But for the people who did have to experience that awful time, how else were they supposed to feel?

Angelou was not a Christian, so she rejected the idea that she should turn the other cheek and love her enemies. Instead, she treated and viewed the segregationists and bigots – which again were pretty much the vast majority of the population of America considering that she was in her mid-30s when the Civil Rights Act passed! – the same way as she was treated and viewed. So if anyone has any reason why Angelou should have done anything else but hate the people who most certainly did hate her, please provide it. Incidentally, lots of blacks abandoned Christianity for Black Panther, Nation of Islam, Afrocentric and other movements during that era precisely because they rejected the idea that they were supposed to have “turn the other cheek” and “love those who hate you” stances towards the segregationists and other bigots just as did Malcolm X and Angelou. That is entirely understandable, and the only surprise is that many, many more blacks didn’t.

dissenter on May 28, 2014 at 12:56 pm

Incidentally dissenter, it was stupid white liberals like yourself who made Angelou rich, not her fellow blacks.

Jonathan e. Grant on May 28, 2014 at 1:09 pm

Of course whenever this Debbie Schlussel person dies all anyone will say is “Who?”

You people suck on May 28, 2014 at 1:11 pm

Any bets on whether or not Obama orders her body to lie in state in the Capitol building? After all she WAS America’s “poet laureate.” And as we know the Prez has never met a race-baiter he didn’t like.

Sean M on May 28, 2014 at 1:21 pm

you people are pieces of shit
fuck each and every single one of you

jimmy on May 28, 2014 at 1:57 pm

I cried when my beautiful 8th grade daughter brought home Maya Angelou’s trashy novel, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings. Its the story of a truly miserable life complete with GRAPHIC descriptions of the child, Maya, being raped by an adult male, her mothers boyfriend. I demanded a new book from the teacher (they thought I was the nut job). When I heard of her passing I only felt relief she’s no longer in pain. Its disgusting how liberals love to put misery on parade and then give rewards for the spectacle. Thanks, Debbie for the brutal truth about this national lie.

Sammamish Mom on May 28, 2014 at 2:15 pm

I maybe wrong but I think she spoke at the Million Man March; a vile and racist event inline with a KKK rally. If a white person spoke at a KKK rally would everyone say, “oh well”. She got away with her carp for the same reason BHO is lauded.

M: You must’ve missed it, but I wrote about her speaking at the Million Man March in this very column. DS

Mike on May 28, 2014 at 2:34 pm

@ DS. Lol, if I thought you to be racist I’d just say so and then avoid your site, however that’s not the case. I will check out your links you provided, that is why I asked the question because since I’ve been on coming to this site I’ve only read rot in hell about the political black deceased. Surely there are some did right by you, now I know.

As far as Nikki G, I’m familiar with the poem that you posted and as I stated its all in context with the times. This was written in the 60’s. Have you read any of her poetry from the 70’s 80’s, its all lovey dove light hearted stuff. Times changed. So did her content.

It puzzles me how people cannot see things from the point of view of the trampled only from the view of the trampolee. It such an limited point of view and it shows in many of the responses that show up on these articles.

BigD on May 28, 2014 at 2:44 pm

Ben Carson may be a good doctor, but he’s not deserving of the votes of conservatives. When he isn’t praising affirmative action, he is writing about the importance of, uh, compromise.

Little Al on May 28, 2014 at 2:51 pm

Thank you for writing the truth. The same “intellectuals” that think Angelou was brilliant, are the same that think cow dung smeared on a portrait of Jesus is art.

Jane on May 28, 2014 at 2:57 pm

And of course, I meant that the Commies SUPPORTED Henry Wallace’s campaign.

Little Al on May 28, 2014 at 3:16 pm

And even for those crestfallen intellectuals, Communism was far from inevitable. Richard Wright, for instance, was eventually able to see the horror of Communism. Ralph Bunche, after a brief flirtation with Communist Front groups in the 30s, also rejected it.

Little Al on May 28, 2014 at 3:19 pm

“Maya Angelou, Rot In Hell.”

Amen.

DS_ROCKS! on May 28, 2014 at 3:20 pm

And, Dissenter, you are also conflating the 60s and 30s, a real demagogic technique. There were many differences between these two decades, and your jumbling them together is trying to take advantage of the failure of our educational system to teach the evils of Communism, and the fact that racial conditions, even in the 30s were not, excuse me, all Black and White.

Little Al on May 28, 2014 at 3:22 pm

So sad. I had all their albums too.

#1 VATO on May 28, 2014 at 3:31 pm

I just KNEW DS was gonna write about this affirmative action “poet”. A few years back when Molly Ivins died, she was also deified by the ignorant media.

FriscoKid on May 28, 2014 at 3:42 pm

Debbie –

At the end of your tweet you wrote, “RIP Maya Angelou”.

Didn’t you mean RIH?

TF: Well, that was a trending term, so I put it in so people would read the tweet. Definitely, I meant RIH. DS

Toby Flenderson on May 28, 2014 at 4:02 pm

Maya Angelou and her writing will be long remembered and revered when you and your vile screeds are nothing but poisoned dust.

Jan on May 28, 2014 at 4:29 pm

And compromise? It needs to be approached concretely. WHAT compromise? If it is not spelled out, as with Carson, I fear the worst.

Little Al on May 28, 2014 at 4:41 pm

You are a terrible person, and an even worse writer. You will never be a quarter of the writer that Maya Angelou was. Grow up and learn some compassion.

You people are paranoid maniacs. Get a grip- not everyone is out to get you and destroy your white-centric existence. Did you ever think that she wanted to leave America because of frenzied people like you, who demean her being at every turn? Do you even think for a fraction of a second that you understand what it’s like being an African American? Quit watching Fox News and get out into the world. You might actually learn something instead of letting yourself be brainwashed.

I feel sorry for you- it must be hard carrying around so much hatred in your heart.
Maya Angelou, on the other hand, only had love.

Alicia on May 28, 2014 at 4:53 pm

Alicia has the wordiness of someone who has not quite mastered the English language. The floweriness, in a sense, of someone not quite comfortable with refined language.

What is the difference between ‘her’ and ‘her being’? Not much, except for the rhetorical flourish of adding the word ‘being’ because Alicia is not quite sure that her content can stand on its own without embellishment. Same thing with ‘white’ and ‘white-centric’. Empty embellishment.

So, if I were Alicia, I would be somewhat cautious in attacking Debbie’s writing. Alicia’s is nothing to write home about. And for someone who advocates compassion, where does ‘paranoid maniacs’ fit in?

Little Al on May 28, 2014 at 5:06 pm

She in a very large and eternally hot room inhabited forever by fellow leftists such as Ted Kennedy, Malcolm X, Tip O’Neill, Adolph Hitler, Frances Perkins, W.E.B DuBois, Joseph Stalin, Edward R. Murrow, John L. Lewis, Karl Marx, Nelson Mandela, Mao Tse Tung, Robert C. Byrd, Margaret Sanger, Osama Bin Laden and many others who have brazenly served satan.

Megaman on May 28, 2014 at 5:17 pm

MA: “Hillary Clinton, a wife a mother…that’s my girl.”

(Well, until that black dude came along.)

Ouch!

Tim Robbins on May 28, 2014 at 5:29 pm

You’re the worst human being who’s ever walked the planet and make me ashamed to say I’m Jewish. I sincerely hope when you’re sick and your life is waning you remember how you acted and you know the fear that people will take pleasure at your passing. You’re everything wrong the world.

Adam Tremaine on May 28, 2014 at 5:32 pm

keith olbermann is not a Jew

HK on May 28, 2014 at 6:07 pm

Adam Tremaine’s Summary

I also have a dog named Max. He likes to bark.

skzion on May 28, 2014 at 6:31 pm

Ah…the scathing jealousy from a pale woman who’ll never be recognized. I didn’t care for Angelou’s work, but this lady just sounds like the KKK grand wizard’s white-trash wife. Which she probably is.

JCS on May 28, 2014 at 6:33 pm

Gee, Debi Hussel (or whatever your name is), looks like you have 1,000 fans on Facebook and Maya Angelou has over 5,000,000 fans. Certainly your “blogging” (with such wit, depth, learning, and precise grammatical style)will land you in future literary anthologies. Seems like your claim to fame is male conservative whack-jobs whacking over photos of your chubby, bleach-blond, photo-shopped, 50 year old face. Don’t let all of this global fame go to your head, Deb!

RCR on May 28, 2014 at 7:30 pm

About that quote . . .
“As she wrote in “The Heart of a Woman” (but only her gynecologist actually knows for sure if that was actually a woman)”
. . . I couldn’t agree more, as Ms. Angelou’s voice did sound almost like a drag queen (especially of the Harvey Fierstein variety). Never mind that her “poetry,” as has been noted, sucked big-time. “It flies,” indeed. More like “Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas.”

I also couldn’t help but notice how many of the anti-white, Jew-hating, HAMAS-supporting contingent have crawled out of the woodwork and gone full Alinsky in (and whilst) trying to defend this latest offering of worm food.

ConcernedPatriot on May 28, 2014 at 7:42 pm

Oprah said that old racists just need to die. With the death of a hateful black racist like Maya Angelou, Oprah got her wish!

Samantha on May 28, 2014 at 8:15 pm

Obama supporter dies.

She wasn’t a Poet
and she didn’t know it.
She didn’t like to make things rhyme
Like good poets do all the time.

One of the most Racist Blacks that was on earth.
She hated America, Loved Muslims, Hated Israel, Loved Gays.
She’s gone and will be forgotten by good people
Will Oprah be next?

C. T. Hockenbury on May 28, 2014 at 8:24 pm

Debbie, thanks again, for showing me who the REAL Maya Angelou was. I am also glad that I never had to read her poetry and her other writings when I was in high school and college.

I never could understand what made her so famous. I was thinking maybe because her interview with Oprah or because big name liberals that kept tauting her all the time? I was once read some of her work just to see what the hoopla was all about. I will admit that when I read her poetry it was like a big HUH? I remember reading poetry in high school and college and those works were a lot better than what she wrote. Maybe because the authors of those poems wrote in a way that connected with me and Maya’s writings did not.

I never knew of Maya’s radical politics since everytime she is shown on television by the liberal media outlets, she is shown as this lovingly, grandmotherly type woman that makes everyone feel comfortable. I am glad that I will not be reading anymore of her work especially reading your article Debbie on this woman.

Mario on May 28, 2014 at 8:59 pm

Stupid article.

You Guys Are Stupid on May 28, 2014 at 9:39 pm

I think we have a new term. Reverse race baiting. Congratulations, you self-righteous cunt.

Adam Social on May 28, 2014 at 9:54 pm

Hmmmmmm, typical troll action happening here. I can guarantee that none of the trolls here would want to walk a mile in my shoes, my blond haired, blue eyed, old, white, irrelevant, narrow minded, bigoted, Christian conservative shoes. You could not touch me out in the fields clearing land as I head toward age 58, in a climate I’m genetically unsuited for. Nor would you want to tag along when I grab everything I can off the trees to eat or make juice and other beverages out of, also while trying to put together one high protein, high carb meal a day in an effort to keep my supermarket bill at four bucks a day.

All talk, try living a really difficult life, especially when you’re old and damaged. Oh, and try six and a half hour nonstop snow shoveling and ice chopping sessions, without a break except to pee in the 25 degree weather I was working in, because the family didn’t want me trampling the mess in and out of the house, until I was finished and could take my boots off before coming in. I did stuff like that on my last trip to the states, did that exact routine twice, and a lot more, like scrubbing floors on my hands and knees, cleaning toilets and urinals, you get da pitcha, that’s what I do for my meager living. Yeah, try stuff like that, trolls. Amazing how trolls pop up to talk crap.

But I’m not bragging, because I give all the glory to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.

Now that I’ve introduced myself to the trolls and whomever else thinks me a racist, as I was the first to post on this thread, or whoever thinks Debbie or any of the other regulars are racists, I also probably know more about blacks who have TRULY contributed to this “once great republic” and carried themselves with more dignity than has been displayed here than ANY of the trolls.

Try reading up a little on . . .

George Washington Carver
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Ray Charles.

Now get off this web site, and come back when you have learned some manners, critical thinking, and about blacks who have contributed something REAL to America. You should start with Mr. Carver, as his massive body of work is still affecting the lives of most, if not all Americans, in a positive way to this very day.

Howzat for a racist?

Alfredo from Puerto Rico on May 28, 2014 at 10:53 pm

I have nothing against Maya Angelou however:

Oprah
Obama and his Mrs. Need to go!!!!!!!!

Also Hillary please go far far far away I’ve had enough of you from 20 something to 42. You do nothing for the female responsibilities into providing for myself in the socioeconomic climates your fascism puts white single women in. Now go away foolish !!!!

my oh my on May 28, 2014 at 11:31 pm

I have nothing to contribute to this thread except for 2 things:

1. Canadian mass media has been fawning over Maya Angelou quite a bit. Of course, a couple of weeks ago, we were fawning over our own Maya named Farley Mowat. Disclosure: when my dad (z”l) had his restaurant, Mowat was one of his best customers (judging by the bar tab). Even gave out an autographed copy of “A Whale For The Killing”. Of course, many of us could relate to him than to Maya Angelou. But that’s my opinion.

2. I was never exposed to Angelou’s work while I was in high school, so by rights, I should have no opinion on someone I neither know or recognize. Still, Maya who?

Thatisall.

The Reverend Jacques on May 29, 2014 at 3:30 am

hey Debbie Schlussel, since you got such a foul mouth, how about you come over here and suck this dick. i want it sloppy with lots of spit. then use all that goo to lube your ass cause imma go anal.

DebbieSchlussellovesfatcocksinhermouth on May 29, 2014 at 5:23 am

Liberals understand that the conservative press and spokespeople, in general, are unable or unwilling to respond to two types of liberal campaigns that do the most to promote left-wing ideas: anniversaries and obituaries. With the rabble-rousers and traitors of the 60s getting older, and with the despicable events of the 60s nearing or reaching 50th (I’m not going to say ‘golden’) anniversaries, these types of commemorations are becoming more and more common, and it is foolish not to believe that liberals in Government, the press, and in the universities give a lot of consideration to how best to use these opportunities.

As in the case of Mandela, the press, as far as I know, with the exception of this site has been gushing with praise. Although you can do Google searches to find out the truth about Angelou, you have to be quite diligent in order to do this. The major articles, even from traditionally conservative sites unflattering issues virtually entirely with Angelou, and soft-pedal them with Mandela.

The publicized anniversary occasions only mark events that can cast traditional American values in a bad light, for instance how presumably racist, sexist or homophobic our traditions are. We saw anniversary celebrations of the Port Urine statement, a number of whose authors and supporters would wind up as terrorists and/or traitors, the 1963 March on Washington, one year before the major riots (yes, there were some smaller ones, even in 1963), and so on. Wait until the anniversary of the Stonewall events.

In order not to further lose propaganda ground, given the barrage of anniversary and obituary propaganda, conservatives have to be able to respond effectively, as Debbie does, and tell the truth about these people and events. Otherwise, an alternate, and false tradition becomes the canon.

This standard should also, really, become a test for Republican candidates, at least on a national basis. The fact that they would all, at least as far as I know, fail this test goes a long way in explaining why the Republican Party does not effectively counter this country’s rush towards the Left.

Little Al on May 29, 2014 at 6:31 am

Found this page after searching for “Conservative butthurt at its finest.”
Dang, it must suck to be so rich, yet so miserable and sad.
Oh well, off to go enjoy life, particularly, not being a racist turd! Kthxbai!

Marie on May 29, 2014 at 9:26 am

Thank you Debbie for putting on paper, or in this case on the internet, exactly how so many Conservative Republican Americans feel and for letting like mined people comment below. I’m often asked why are more African-Americans and Hispanics not republican; I give a litany of reasons, but thanks to you, I can now just point to your writings and the comments that follow and say see here is what they think of us and our most revered educators, leaders and commentators. Please read her work and come back and ask me instead, why are there any African-Americans or Hispanic republicans.

Geoffinkc on May 29, 2014 at 9:51 am

Only a matter of time before:

Streets and buildinbgs galore (re)named after her,

Commemorative stamps

A one-sided, leftist movie of her life, where 99.9% of Whites and Jews are demonized and slandered, and 99.9% of Blacks are saints, and she is glorified as America’s greatest poet,and one of the greatest Americans,EVER.

CharlesMartel on May 29, 2014 at 11:03 am

That’s right, Mr. Martel, on all counts. Just as The Great StainMaker, whom the late Bob Grant on more than one occasion referred to as the most successful phony he’d ever seen, became one of the “greatest presidents” in American history, this woman will be portrayed in the same light.

It’s too bad the trolls, including the two who popped up while I was asleep, don’t understand anything but insults and their leftist agenda. They can’t truly discuss anything, and they’ve never acquired true wisdom, which leads to humility, which leads to poise. That’s why I went in to my shpiel above about my life. When you have a life like mine, and your day is over, you have a beat up body, and no time or mind for anything but seriousness.

What these trolls do is hear the call go out on Facebook or Twitter to attack, because there’s “racism” afoot and without much in the way of constructive thought processes, come here and put up their vile comments.

Hey trolls, you like to swarm. Let’s play a game called Fun With Fire Ants. You come down here to PR, and if you can find me, I’ll lead you to these fun little insects called Fire Ants. I won’t tell you until you’re on top of them, then let’s see what happens to you when you’re swarmed and being bitten. Happened to me? Oh, yeah, plenty, including one time when my hands didn’t work right for three days.

You trolls have little minds, and even those among you who do have education and intelligence, are nothing but oxygen wasting Satan worshipers. The reason I say that is because you bring nothing but negativity. That IS going to catch up to you some day. I know what you’re saying, look at the little Christian boy, telling us how God is going to repay us for our clever wisecracks and insults. And then you yuck it up, feeling safe behind your keyboards.

Keep on feeling safe, because your comeuppance IS coming. Easy to laugh now, in the Wiseacre Society that has unfortunately developed in large part as a result of the mistakes made by my generation, The Baby Boomers. Easy to be a wise ass or a tough guy behind a keyboard. It won’t last forever.

Alfredo from Puerto Rico on May 29, 2014 at 11:24 am