"I've been called the n word more, over the last 72 hours, than I have my whole life."
Posted: 04/ 3/2012 11:35 am Updated: 04/ 3/2012 3:17 pm
Speaking to analyst Goldie Taylor, Lemon said he and Taylor were among some of the first journalists covering the tragedy. They agreed that they were obligated to handle the story carefully and "encourage responsibility" from viewers.
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He called some of the responses "disgusting" and "ridiculous." He read one tweet aloud: "Don Lemon, you are a racist. You are fixated on this one issue over and over. We want to hear the news, not your personal agenda. Go work for BET."
"That was the nice one," Lemon remarked. "He didn't call me the n-word."
Taylor said she has been met with similar responses for discussing the controversy. "I've been called the n word more, collectively, over the last 72 hours than I have my whole life," she said. "It is amazing to me what people will say with the anonymity of a tweet."
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see how these two and others have all this hateful racism spewed at them. It makes me sick and so sad. 
He is too good for CNN and seems frustrated working there.
On edit - I just emailed Current, so if one day you see Don Lemon there, remember where you heard about it first 
People will quit denying that racism still exists.
Although you have to dig pretty deep to find the bright side.
Hateful word. I was born in 1955, in a white state in a white town. (My loss).
My parental units were liberals so I was taught color was only skin deep, we are all the same, with thoughts and feelings, on the inside. I only saw black people, whom we called, negros or colored, because that was what was polite back then, on tv. I must have heard the n-word from other preschoolers in the neighborhood. By age 5, in a tiny town in the 50's, I had the run of several blocks around my house.
I confess at 4 or 5 we played, ring around the rosey. last one down isa n*gger baby. Latter it became ashes ashes, we all fall down. By 5, I understood it was a slur and nice kids shouldn't use it, because it was unkind, but also marked the user as, ignorant white trash.
And that is true today. It marks the one saying such a word as more than just uncouth but shamefully uneducated in their thinking and conduct. Poor, ignorant white trash, racist bully, bigots. I extend my middle finger at them in all my righteous indignation.
