I never liked this c00n on any racial issues, then along with the fact that he is a fakkit, this c00n shouldn't be involved in anything surrounding Black Community Issues, until he returns back to normal..........
http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/02...ain-why-he-may-have-lost-the-black-community/
1.
Racially Charged Generalizations of the People of Ferguson
Don Lemon sparked outrage all throughout his reporting of Ferguson, Missouri, but nothing stood out quite as much as his comment that there was an obvious scent of marijuana in the air.
“Obviously, there is the smell of marijuana in the air,” the CNN reporter said during the live coverage.
Immediately, social media users and prominent Black figures slammed Lemon for the racist and inaccurate generalization against his own race.
Russell Simmons tweeted, “Anderson Cooper/CNN reporters putting this in perspective “almost everyone is peaceful”…Don lemon “obviously I smell Marijuana” wtf.”
Others shared images of charts and statistics to remind Lemon, along with their own followers, that nothing about a marijuana smell should be “obvious” or expected simply because someone is in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Studies show that white people and Black people actually use marijuana at roughly the same rate, and young white people tend to use it more than young Black people.
2.
His Shouting Match with Hip-Hop Star Talib Kweli Over White Supremacy Ruling Media
In another disastrous report from Ferguson, Don Lemon hosted a chaotic interview with hip-hop star and activist Talib Kweli after he tried to explain why the media’s coverage of Ferguson wasn’t accurate. Kweli made it clear that he didn’t believe the news reporters had malice intentions but that the white supremacy that runs the media industry resulted in skewed headlines that suggested protesters were the ones antagonizing police officers. In the middle of Kweli trying to make his point, Lemon interrupts him several times, which ultimately resulted in a shouting match between the two. The fact that he got into the argument wasn’t necessarily the biggest issue. The part that was the most problematic was the simple fact that Lemon was defending the coded language being used by mainstream media, CNN included, in order to portray a majority of peaceful protesters as out-of-control rioters.
3.
His Support for Respectability Politics
Back in 2013, Lemon listed five ways the Black community could start earning more respect and ultimately have a better chance at gaining equality in America. Among the reasons were to stop sagging their pants and stop saying the N-word. Immediately, the news anchor was chastised for his endorsement of failed respectability politics. Many argued that while they didn’t like “seeing kids wearing sagging pants and using the N-word either,” they also were well aware that “that’s not the real issue.” As BuzzFeedcontributor Jesse Taylor explained, “Telling the ‘black community’ what it needs to do in order to become respectable isn’t brave truth-telling. It’s a way to shame black people into shutting up about the actual issues they face.” One reporter even pointed to the death of Jonathan Ferrell as a clear example of why respectability politics not only don’t work but also stem from racially charged generalizations about the Black community.
“Jonathan Ferrell did everything ‘right,’ ” The Nation’s Mychal Denzel Smith wrote of the 24-year-old former Florida A&M football player who was fatally shot multiple times by a police officer while he was looking for help after a car accident. “He got an education. He worked hard. He was engaged to be married. His crime was being in a car crash and seeking help. In the process, he was profiled as a burglar, shot and killed. No one sought to protect, serve or even listen to him. He had his humanity erased even after doing it all the ‘right’ way.”
4.
Defending Stop-and-Frisk Policies
From government officials to scientific studies and surveys, there have been more than enough sources to conclude that stop-and-frisk policies disproportionately target the Black community, but Don Lemon is still backing the policies. Lemon suggested that Black people wouldn’t mind stop-and-frisk policies if more officers remembered to ask for permission first. He also accused critics of the law of not wanting to be inconvenienced by police officers who are simply trying to protect them. “Would you rather be politically correct or safe and alive,” he asked those against stop-and-frisk.
One data analyst, Evan DeFilippis, who has crunched many numbers dealing with the impact stop-and-frisk has on the Black community, explained, “Asking whether stop-and-frisk is effective is a little bit like asking whether or not kicking a door in is an effective way to get into a house. You may get through the door, but you could have just knocked.”
5.
Blaming Black People for White People Using the N-Word
According to Lemon, Black people are not only responsible for the oppression they endure at the hands of white people, but they are also responsible for white people’s actions — specifically their use of the N-word. When a video of Justin Bieber hit the Web and revealed the pop star using the N-word, Lemon’s response was unbelievable for many. Lemon insisted that Black people were at fault. “Clearly Justin Bieber, a young man who by the way, has immersed himself in Black, Hip Hop culture should not be saying the n-word,” Lemon wrote in an article for BlackAmericaWeb. “So the question is, if you want people like Justin Bieber to stop using it and to stop making excuses for using it, shouldn’t you do the same?” Twitter users reacted quickly with sarcastic questions for Lemon: “Wasn’t slavery just an unpaid internship? Shouldn’t we change our perspective?” “Isn’t the death of children a small price to pay for the profits made off gun sales?” “Should reparations include a service charge for that free boat ride from Africa.”
The Root also slammed the news anchor writing, “Here’s the truth of the matter: The usage of the n-word existed long before hip-hop and rap music. Black people didn’t invent the word, so if all of a sudden black people stopped using the n-word among themselves, guess what? Racist white people would still use it.”
6.
Defending KTLA Reporter Who Didn’t Really Know Who Samuel L. Jackson Was
There were many problems with the fact that KTLA reporter Sam Rubin mistook Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne during a live interview. After explaining that he had no problem telling people who mistook him for journalist and former CNN anchor T.J. Holmes that he’s “the other Black guy,” Lemon suggested that Rubin wasn’t in the wrong because “people really do look alike.” Many people pointed out that the problem isn’t just about the debate over their similarities but the simple fact that Rubin didn’t seem to have enough respect for an iconic Black actor to do his homework and figure out that it was Fishburne in a particular Super Bowl ad, not Jackson.
7.
Even More Racist Generalizations
Lemon, winner of a “worst in journalism” award by the Columbia Journalism Review, not only made generalizations about the Black community, but he also made generalizations about other races as well. One of the most recent examples comes from an interview he did with Muslim-American human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar. During the interview, he asked Iftikhar if he supported ISIS. It was a question stemming from racist assumptions about Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent. “Wait, did you just ask me if I supported ISIS,” he asked Lemon. The anchor skated past the embarrassing incident without further question, but Iftikhar wasn’t done. He wrote a post in The Islamic Monthly explaining that he thought he “misheard” Lemon because “surely there was no respectable journalist in the world who would ask a Muslim human rights lawyer whether he supports an organization which violates human rights each and every day.”
http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/02...ain-why-he-may-have-lost-the-black-community/
1.
Racially Charged Generalizations of the People of Ferguson
Don Lemon sparked outrage all throughout his reporting of Ferguson, Missouri, but nothing stood out quite as much as his comment that there was an obvious scent of marijuana in the air.
“Obviously, there is the smell of marijuana in the air,” the CNN reporter said during the live coverage.
Immediately, social media users and prominent Black figures slammed Lemon for the racist and inaccurate generalization against his own race.
Russell Simmons tweeted, “Anderson Cooper/CNN reporters putting this in perspective “almost everyone is peaceful”…Don lemon “obviously I smell Marijuana” wtf.”
Others shared images of charts and statistics to remind Lemon, along with their own followers, that nothing about a marijuana smell should be “obvious” or expected simply because someone is in a predominantly Black neighborhood. Studies show that white people and Black people actually use marijuana at roughly the same rate, and young white people tend to use it more than young Black people.
2.
His Shouting Match with Hip-Hop Star Talib Kweli Over White Supremacy Ruling Media
In another disastrous report from Ferguson, Don Lemon hosted a chaotic interview with hip-hop star and activist Talib Kweli after he tried to explain why the media’s coverage of Ferguson wasn’t accurate. Kweli made it clear that he didn’t believe the news reporters had malice intentions but that the white supremacy that runs the media industry resulted in skewed headlines that suggested protesters were the ones antagonizing police officers. In the middle of Kweli trying to make his point, Lemon interrupts him several times, which ultimately resulted in a shouting match between the two. The fact that he got into the argument wasn’t necessarily the biggest issue. The part that was the most problematic was the simple fact that Lemon was defending the coded language being used by mainstream media, CNN included, in order to portray a majority of peaceful protesters as out-of-control rioters.
3.
His Support for Respectability Politics
Back in 2013, Lemon listed five ways the Black community could start earning more respect and ultimately have a better chance at gaining equality in America. Among the reasons were to stop sagging their pants and stop saying the N-word. Immediately, the news anchor was chastised for his endorsement of failed respectability politics. Many argued that while they didn’t like “seeing kids wearing sagging pants and using the N-word either,” they also were well aware that “that’s not the real issue.” As BuzzFeedcontributor Jesse Taylor explained, “Telling the ‘black community’ what it needs to do in order to become respectable isn’t brave truth-telling. It’s a way to shame black people into shutting up about the actual issues they face.” One reporter even pointed to the death of Jonathan Ferrell as a clear example of why respectability politics not only don’t work but also stem from racially charged generalizations about the Black community.
“Jonathan Ferrell did everything ‘right,’ ” The Nation’s Mychal Denzel Smith wrote of the 24-year-old former Florida A&M football player who was fatally shot multiple times by a police officer while he was looking for help after a car accident. “He got an education. He worked hard. He was engaged to be married. His crime was being in a car crash and seeking help. In the process, he was profiled as a burglar, shot and killed. No one sought to protect, serve or even listen to him. He had his humanity erased even after doing it all the ‘right’ way.”
4.
Defending Stop-and-Frisk Policies
From government officials to scientific studies and surveys, there have been more than enough sources to conclude that stop-and-frisk policies disproportionately target the Black community, but Don Lemon is still backing the policies. Lemon suggested that Black people wouldn’t mind stop-and-frisk policies if more officers remembered to ask for permission first. He also accused critics of the law of not wanting to be inconvenienced by police officers who are simply trying to protect them. “Would you rather be politically correct or safe and alive,” he asked those against stop-and-frisk.
One data analyst, Evan DeFilippis, who has crunched many numbers dealing with the impact stop-and-frisk has on the Black community, explained, “Asking whether stop-and-frisk is effective is a little bit like asking whether or not kicking a door in is an effective way to get into a house. You may get through the door, but you could have just knocked.”
5.
Blaming Black People for White People Using the N-Word
According to Lemon, Black people are not only responsible for the oppression they endure at the hands of white people, but they are also responsible for white people’s actions — specifically their use of the N-word. When a video of Justin Bieber hit the Web and revealed the pop star using the N-word, Lemon’s response was unbelievable for many. Lemon insisted that Black people were at fault. “Clearly Justin Bieber, a young man who by the way, has immersed himself in Black, Hip Hop culture should not be saying the n-word,” Lemon wrote in an article for BlackAmericaWeb. “So the question is, if you want people like Justin Bieber to stop using it and to stop making excuses for using it, shouldn’t you do the same?” Twitter users reacted quickly with sarcastic questions for Lemon: “Wasn’t slavery just an unpaid internship? Shouldn’t we change our perspective?” “Isn’t the death of children a small price to pay for the profits made off gun sales?” “Should reparations include a service charge for that free boat ride from Africa.”
The Root also slammed the news anchor writing, “Here’s the truth of the matter: The usage of the n-word existed long before hip-hop and rap music. Black people didn’t invent the word, so if all of a sudden black people stopped using the n-word among themselves, guess what? Racist white people would still use it.”
6.
Defending KTLA Reporter Who Didn’t Really Know Who Samuel L. Jackson Was
There were many problems with the fact that KTLA reporter Sam Rubin mistook Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne during a live interview. After explaining that he had no problem telling people who mistook him for journalist and former CNN anchor T.J. Holmes that he’s “the other Black guy,” Lemon suggested that Rubin wasn’t in the wrong because “people really do look alike.” Many people pointed out that the problem isn’t just about the debate over their similarities but the simple fact that Rubin didn’t seem to have enough respect for an iconic Black actor to do his homework and figure out that it was Fishburne in a particular Super Bowl ad, not Jackson.
7.
Even More Racist Generalizations
Lemon, winner of a “worst in journalism” award by the Columbia Journalism Review, not only made generalizations about the Black community, but he also made generalizations about other races as well. One of the most recent examples comes from an interview he did with Muslim-American human rights lawyer Arsalan Iftikhar. During the interview, he asked Iftikhar if he supported ISIS. It was a question stemming from racist assumptions about Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent. “Wait, did you just ask me if I supported ISIS,” he asked Lemon. The anchor skated past the embarrassing incident without further question, but Iftikhar wasn’t done. He wrote a post in The Islamic Monthly explaining that he thought he “misheard” Lemon because “surely there was no respectable journalist in the world who would ask a Muslim human rights lawyer whether he supports an organization which violates human rights each and every day.”
