We are living in a Tom Wolfe novel, we’re just not paying royalties.
This video is almost too painful and hilarious. Congresswoman Corinne Brown is ranting about Trayvon’s death and a CNN reporter asks her if she’d be just as concerned about the murder of a white person.
Oh yeah, says Brown. And then she says there was a young white girl murdered recently that she was very concerned about. And then the CNN anchor abso-freakin-lutely drops the hammer on Brown’s poor noggin and leaves Brown crawling on the floor, trying to find her pride.
The CNN anchor asks: What was her name?
You’ve got to watch the reaction.
March 29, 2012 at 1:45 pm
I just want to say congratulations to that anchor for asking the best question ever and then maintaining her cool while Congresswoman Brown implodes mightily.
March 29, 2012 at 1:57 pm
Was the person that killed the white girl known and still walking the streets with his concealed weapon? Apple, meet orange. White people are treated differenlty than black people. Sad but true.
I'm so glad I was born White, I happened to have the right parents.
March 29, 2012 at 2:02 pm
Implodes mightily is aptly descriptive.
March 29, 2012 at 2:17 pm
I think this is disgraceful for all concerned. What passes for reporting these days is disgusting. Same for posturing from politicians. A plague on both their houses.
March 29, 2012 at 3:58 pm
This idiot unfortunately represents my area! Too bad we have too many other idiots voting her in!
March 29, 2012 at 4:10 pm
Anonymous, I don't know, ask Nichole Brown.
Ignorant-Redneck
March 29, 2012 at 7:19 pm
She is the "Conscious of the Congress"? I shudder and weep for my country.
March 29, 2012 at 7:34 pm
"Was the person that killed the white girl known and still walking the
streets …?" — 'Anonymous' @ 8:57
"Anonymous, I don't know, ask Nichole Brown." — 'Ignorant Redneck'
@ 11:10
Perfect. Absolutely perfect in its perfect perfection.
March 29, 2012 at 8:04 pm
Thanks for the video. That's probably the most hilarious thing I've seen all week…next to the unblessing of the highway in Florida…
March 29, 2012 at 8:29 pm
In the spirit of racial harmony and good vibes, I give you the blog Unamusement Park and the author's take on the whole white-privilege meme (my emphasis):
The racial disparities that should be there but aren’t
They do know Asians aren’t white, don’t they? So why does the Un-Fair Campaign ignore them?
According to the same American Community Survey (Table S1701), between 2006 and 2010, 24.1% of Asians residing in Duluth were living below the poverty line. Although the Asian rate appears to be higher than the white rate (17.6%), it is actually well within the margin of error (9.8 percentage points), because the Asian population is so low.
Furthermore (Table S2301), 62.4% of Asians (16 and over) were employed; the white rate is slightly lower (60.6%) but within the margin of error. Although the Un-Fair Campaign insists that this is the best measure of racial disparities in employment, for completeness we note that the Asian unemployment rate is higher than the white rate (12.9% versus 7.1%), but the difference is barely outside the margin of error; on the other hand, the Asian labor force is relatively larger than the white labor force (73.8% versus 65.4%), and that difference is barely within the margin of error.
Nationwide, between 2006 and 2010, the Asian poverty rate (11.3%) differed negligibly from the white poverty rate (11.1%). The Asian employment rate (66.3%, 16 and over) was significantly higher than the white employment rate (64.9%), the Asian labor force (61.7%) was significantly larger than the white labor force (60.1%), and the Asian unemployment rate (6.4%) was significantly lower than the white unemployment rate (6.8%).
As soon as we acknowledge that Asian people exist (and there are almost as many of them in Duluth as there are black people, and far more of them nationwide than there are American Indians), the Un-Fair Campaign’s “white privilege” narrative falls apart completely.
Are we expected to believe that Asians are benefiting from white privilege, too? Or perhaps it’s a uniquely Asian privilege?
But how are either of those possible when Asians are the smallest of the four racial groups we’ve looked at (in Duluth) and white privilege is supposedly derived from “a monoculture based on white northern European values, beliefs, practices and culture” — you know, “an overwhelmingly dominant white culture” where “white norms are dominant and considered ‘normal’”?
Read the rest here: http://unamusementpark.com/2012/03/motives-part-5-racial-disparities/
March 29, 2012 at 9:36 pm
Congresswoman Brown claims she ensured that the Jax police had enough money to investigate the unknown girls's death? Since when did Congress start budgeting for local investigations?
She talks about all of those rallies for the unknown girl. Were those covered non-stop on CNN? (The anchor should ponder that question). Did Bobby Rush wear his "Anonymous White Girl" hoodie to the floor of the House? Did Spike Lee call for a retributive strike against the assailant?
March 29, 2012 at 11:17 pm
By the way, her name was Somer Thompson. She lived in Orange Park (not Orange County), and her murderer was out in public for some time…don't know if he had a gun or not. He was white, too.
March 31, 2012 at 3:16 am
This is the same sort of gotcha journalism that drives Rick Santorum nuts.