The
Most Neglected And Despised ‘Minority Group’…By Bob “Sully” Sullivan, Host of “THE COALITION” on NEWSRADIO – 600
KOGO

DO YOU FEEL LIKE
YOU ARE DISCIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE YOU ARE OVER WEIGHT? DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THOSE THAT ARE OVERWEIGHT?

Sizeism

From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia

Size
discrimination or sizeism is
a form of discrimination
based upon a person's physical size, including but not limited to height and/or
weight.[1]
Sizeism usually refers to extremes in physical size, as in an extremely tall
person or an extremely skinny person.

The
largest "minority group" in the United States is not the Hispanics, nor Asians,
nor blacks.

It’s the
fatty’s. 

I can use
the “F” word [fatty] because I WAS one. As many of you know, I was but a
“taco-shy” of 400lbs a few years back…until I found the JOI of YOGA!

No, not the ‘traditional’ minorities
as it were, but instead, it is those Americans who are overweight and
obese.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE
YOU ARE DISCIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE YOU ARE OVER WEIGHT? DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THOSE THAT ARE OVERWEIGHT?

Weightism

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Weight
stigma, also known as
weightism, weight bias, and weight-based discrimination, is discrimination or
stereotyping based on one's weight, especially very large or thin people. The
term is a misnomer as the
stigma arises from the condition of being obese, or schadenfreude
arising from the suffering from the disease, and not the mass of the individual
stigmatized in this manner. Weight stigma reflects internalized attitudes
towards the obese that affects how these people—the targets of bias—are
treated

Here is the difference katz and
kittens - In
addition, being overweight is not an innate condition – no one is born to be
fat, like they are born with black skin, or blue eyes or curly hair.

No one WANTS to be obese and those
who are probably would not want to be associated with others of their own kind
under an unified political banner.

Is
this part of the WUSSIFICATION of the U.S.?

According
to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than one-third (35.7
percent) of U.S. adults were obese as of 2010; while almost 17 percent of youths
were obese. This means that there are at least 78 million obese adults and about
12.5 million obese children and adolescents in the country.

These figures do not even include
the millions of people in this country who are simply "overweight."

All told, the number of "fat"
Americans far surpasses those of any racial, ethnic or religious minority –
despite this, they have no voice in government, nor does any national politician
explicitly seek out their support.

Yet we really DO
discriminate.

While it is true that poor
minorities are disproportionately obese and overweight (i.e., the people many
politicians tend not to care much about anyway), rates are so high across all
racial and social classes that it puzzles me as to why they are not considered a
viable voting bloc, like the elderly or disabled are.

There are, however, a handful of
activist groups that seek to represent the rights of fat people – including The
National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) and the International
Size Acceptance Association (ISAA).

We had Roger Craigfast from the
National Association for the Acceptance of over Weight People (NAAWP) on air
today stating his side of the argument…

But it is unclear how many members
these organizations have (for example, the link to the NAAFA website leads to a
blank page), or if they conduct any active lobbying in Washington.

DO YOU FEEL LIKE
YOU ARE DISCIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE YOU ARE OVER WEIGHT? DO YOU FEEL THAT YOU
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST THOSE THAT ARE OVERWEIGHT?

Most
overweight U.S. adults likely identify themselves by another of their attributes
(black, white, Christian, Jewish, Republican, Democrat, wealthy businessman,
hunter, liberal, etc., that is, anything but "fat").

Over the past century, most of the
chief executives have been tall and slender. The last obese president was
William Howard Taft, but he left office 100 years ago, long before the age of
television and Internet.

While Chris Christie, New Jersey
Governor, has referred to his heft a number of occasions, I have never heard him
actually declare that he wanted to represent the interests and concerns of
overweight Americans. (He might be laughed at if he ever took such a
step).

High-profile celebrities who are fat
-- including Michael Moore, Oprah Winfrey and Rosie O’Donnell -- have also shied
away from any kind of "fat activism."

Consequently, at least 80 million
Americans (perhaps any more) have little or no voice in this country’s political
affairs.

So grab
another plate of nachos, pop that top button of your pants [like you did on
Thanksgiving,] ask for a seatbelt extender from the stewardess [yes, I still
call them that] and GIDDY

UP!