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News: CNN Anchor wants to bring back racist term
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CNN Anchor wants to bring back racist term
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CNN anchor Don Lemon backed up his criticisms of the African-American community on Sunday, telling guest LZ Granderson he was reclaiming the label of “Uncle Tom,” classically used to describe a Black man who is subservient to whites.
“I’m taking that word back,” Lemon said to Granderson. “I’m being called an ‘Uncle Tom’ so much, I’m taking that word back. I’m gonna get the ‘Uncle Tom’ award.”
Lemon made the remarks in an allusion to the online criticism he drew for his Saturday commentary saying Fox News anchor Bill O’Reilly “doesn’t go far enough” in chiding African-Americans, before suggesting that young Black males should stop wearing sagging pants.
“What is wrong with telling people to dress appropriately?” Lemon asked Granderson and conservative commentator Ana Navarro on Sunday. “These are things that I said [Saturday] that my mom taught me in kindergarten, that parents tell their kids in kindergarten. Dress nicely, speak well, speak appropriately.”
Lemon’s commentary was derided across social media, with the mocking #DonLemonLogic gaining traction. Lemon also addressed the controversy on Twitter, writing that it was not about racism, but “about bettering oneself in spite of. ie, abused woman at some point has to leave abuser.”
Lemon also re-posted an encouraging message from Fox News host Geraldo Rivera, who was himself derided in March 2012 for blaming the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on his choice to wear a hooded sweatshirt the night he was pursued, shot and killed by former neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman. Zimmerman was acquitted of second-degree murder charges on July 13, 2013.
“I was amazed when I retweeted it that I got so much Twitter hate,” Navarro told Lemon about the furor surrounding his remarks on Saturday. “There’s people who call you in to schools, Don, and call you in to go speak to youth, and to groups, and tell them how you succeed. We are here on this panel — three minorities, two African-Americans, one Latino — who have succeeded. There’s advice to be given. Success is not going to be reached by not speaking English correctly, though I do have an accent and I do butcher it now and then.”
Lemon also cited his own past coverage of the Zimmerman trial, as well as a stand-alone special program he hosted concerning the use of the “N-word” in American culture, and alluding to his July 20 argument with conservative Ben Ferguson regarding white privilege.
“Did I not have those conversations on the air about privilege and about racism and about profiling and about having been profiled?” Lemon asked his guests.
“You absolutely did,” Navarro affirmed, before misidentifying who the defendant was in that trial. “I think the Trayvon Martin trial is an opportunity for us to have the deep discussions we need to have. Let’s not talk about each other, let’s talk to each other and also within our own groups.”
Granderson told Lemon that, while has taught his son that the use of terms like the “N-word” had to be viewed through different contexts, he did not pretend that there were not ramifications to using it in a social setting.
“You’re not gonna get hired for a high-power position job, you likely are not gonna be accepted at some prestigious university,” Granderson said. “I severely doubt you’d be able to get a decent date with anyone worth loving if you spend your entire time dropping the ‘N-word’ and you can’t keep your hands up.”
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Read more at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/2...cle-tom-award/
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Oh no.
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Wow.
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Telling people to dress appropriately at the right situations is fine, but not adding this racist ish. 
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Don is huge in addressing racism and homophobia being that he is both black and gay and I applaud him for that. But sometimes he is a little much. Still one of my favs on CNN with Anderson Cooper when I do watch it.
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If you think how young Black males dress is at the root of the problem, you are stUpID and deserve to be dragged.
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A Black boy is racially profiled and murdered.
Oh no, let's not decrease the stigma surrounding 'hoodlum attire'. Let's not denounce the racists who profile and kill Black men. 
LET'S TELL BLACK PEOPLE TO STOP DRESSING LIKE ******! There is NO way an anti-Black racist will target a Black man dressed in a suit and tie!
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Originally posted by LP54
Don is huge in addressing racism and homophobia being that he is both black and gay and I applaud him for that. But sometimes he is a little much. Still one of my favs on CNN with Anderson Cooper when I do watch it.
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Wait I didn't know he was gay.
I had a feeling but never attempted to google it.
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Don Lemon is awesome. He's black. He's openly gay. He's smart. And he's got a different perspective. I love him
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I've seen hundreds of white guys sagging their pants, he should have a go at them as well.
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Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR
A Black boy is racially profiled and murdered.
Oh no, let's not decrease the stigma surrounding 'hoodlum attire'. Let's not denounce the racists who profile and kill Black men.
LET'S TELL BLACK PEOPLE TO STOP DRESSING LIKE ******! There is NO way an anti-Black racist will target a Black man dressed in a suit and tie! |
DRAG IT!!!!
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I said it once and I'll say it again, blacks, we get judged by the worse of us.
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Originally posted by BLaCKPoWeR
A Black boy is racially profiled and murdered.
Oh no, let's not decrease the stigma surrounding 'hoodlum attire'. Let's not denounce the racists who profile and kill Black men.
LET'S TELL BLACK PEOPLE TO STOP DRESSING LIKE ******! There is NO way an anti-Black racist will target a Black man dressed in a suit and tie! |
He's talking about getting ahead in life and making it in society. In that news clip, he also talked about how he had to wear suits and dress right to be taken seriously, but as a result he's successful.
why are people hating on him for speaking the truth.
If you think about it, model minorities like the Asians currently, and the Jewish and the Irish in the past, managed to break ahead and get to the top of the food chain by blending in and working hard. If there was really so much "white power" stuff, you wouldn't have Asian people being the highest earning race in America. And you wouldn't have any successful black people at all.
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
He's talking about getting ahead in life and making it in society. In that news clip, he also talked about how he had to wear suits and dress right to be taken seriously, but as a result he's successful.
why are people hating on him for speaking the truth.
If you think about it, model minorities like the Asians currently, and the Jewish and the Irish in the past, managed to break ahead and get to the top of the food chain by blending in and working hard. If there was really so much "white power" stuff, you wouldn't have Asian people being the highest earning race in America. And you wouldn't have any successful black people at all.
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did I say something wrong 
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
He's talking about getting ahead in life and making it in society. In that news clip, he also talked about how he had to wear suits and dress right to be taken seriously, but as a result he's successful.
why are people hating on him for speaking the truth.
If you think about it, model minorities like the Asians currently, and the Jewish and the Irish in the past, managed to break ahead and get to the top of the food chain by blending in and working hard. If there was really so much "white power" stuff, you wouldn't have Asian people being the highest earning race in America. And you wouldn't have any successful black people at all. |
I would love to see where you pulled that Asian statistic from, the power in America has always been and is with whites. And don't you see how the necessity to assimilate into whiteness is in itself supporting white power and white supremacy?
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Originally posted by TikiMiss
He's talking about getting ahead in life and making it in society. In that news clip, he also talked about how he had to wear suits and dress right to be taken seriously, but as a result he's successful.
why are people hating on him for speaking the truth.
If you think about it, model minorities like the Asians currently, and the Jewish and the Irish in the past, managed to break ahead and get to the top of the food chain by blending in and working hard. If there was really so much "white power" stuff, you wouldn't have Asian people being the highest earning race in America. And you wouldn't have any successful black people at all. |
 . I'm to busy for this, someone call Arking.
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I just clocked that he said the Irish are at the top of the food chain
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Originally posted by GreasyBruce
I would love to see where you pulled that Asian statistic from, the power in America has always been and is with whites. And don't you see how the necessity to assimilate into whiteness is in itself supporting white power and white supremacy?
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...811707050.html
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Half of Asians have a college degree, compared with 30% for all Americans, and their median annual household income is $66,000, versus $49,000 for Americans as a whole.
Asians are more likely than the overall U.S. population to be married, or to live in a multigenerational household, and their children are more likely to be raised in a two-parent home, the report says.
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"Asians exceed Americans on educational credentials and socioeconomic markers of success despite being predominantly first-generation immigrants," Mr. Taylor said. He added this sets Asians, three quarters of whom are foreign-born, apart from previous waves of immigrants.
Immigration from Asia has picked up in recent years, with Asians displacing Hispanics from the top spot. In 2007, about 540,000 Hispanics came to the U.S., compared with 390,000 Asians. In 2010, about 36% of new immigrants were Asian, against 31% who were Hispanic.
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On average they earn more than white families and are better educated to boot. And most of them are first-generation, meaning either they were born in Asia, or they are the first generation to be born in the United States.
And Asians make up 6% of the population, but roughly 25-30% of the population at Ivy League and Elite Universities, including 50%+ at the University of California Berkeley.
food for thought. I find it fascinating that Chinese, Indian, Japanese, etc people can maintain their own cultures, but still assimilate so well.
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I just clocked that he said the Irish are at the top of the food chain |
or they're not driving taxis and selling potatoes like they use to I meant to say they are basically just white people now, instead of being seen as a lower minority.
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