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RandySF

(58,763 posts)
Sat May 30, 2015, 08:32 PM May 2015

Conservative broadcaster ‘whitesplains’ to caller the media has turned him into an ‘angry black man’

A black listener, calling into a conservative Christian radio show, received a condescending lecture from the white female host who told him that the media was to blame for turning him into an “angry black man.”

Sandy Rios, director of governmental affairs for the American Family Association and host of a daily radio program, began her program by defending comments made by Fox’s Sean Hannity, who said race relations in the U.S. have eroded under President Obama.

In audio captured by Right Wing Watch, a caller identifying himself as Charles took issue with the comments made by Rios and Hannity, pointing out increased violence against the black community, while drawing attention to the recent acquittal of a Cleveland cop in the 2012 shooting on an unarmed black couple.

“Unfortunately, sisters and brothers like yourselves and others just don’t get it as it pertains to basically to black America and the history of black America with regards to America,” Charles told Rios. “I get so discouraged when I hear you guys talk about the current situation with policing and black America.”

Rios interrupted Charles, telling him that she didn’t believe all the “facts” were in on the shooting that took place three years ago and had already gone to trial. She went on to say that he was being duped by “people who want to whip the black community into a frenzy by misrepresenting facts.”

“I know how this works. Maybe you don’t. But I tell you there are people that benefit from twisting the story ever so slightly to get you whipped into a rage,” Rios explained before adding, “Look, ABC doesn’t care about giving you the whole story, neither does CBS, because they want you to be an angry black man. Do you understand that?”


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/05/conservative-broadcaster-whitesplains-to-caller-the-media-has-turned-him-into-an-angry-black-man/

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Conservative broadcaster ‘whitesplains’ to caller the media has turned him into an ‘angry black man’ (Original Post) RandySF May 2015 OP
Not slavery, not Jim Crow segregation, but the media makes black folks angry. muntrv May 2015 #1
And not the thousand social slights they have to endure every day Warpy May 2015 #2
Condescension like that would sure as hell make me an angry black man tularetom May 2015 #3
Come on, black America... awoke_in_2003 May 2015 #4
We are just so stupid and gullible!1 Whatever would we do without these good people SPLAINING Number23 May 2015 #5

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
2. And not the thousand social slights they have to endure every day
Sat May 30, 2015, 08:53 PM
May 2015

from sales clerks waiting on white customers first to having cops stop and frisk them, it's the media.

I'm Irish white, fish belly white, and even I know she's full of shit.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
3. Condescension like that would sure as hell make me an angry black man
Sat May 30, 2015, 09:01 PM
May 2015

And I'm actually a fairly calm white man.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
4. Come on, black America...
Sat May 30, 2015, 09:11 PM
May 2015

who are you going to believe- Shawn Hannity or what happens every day in front of your lying eyes?

Number23

(24,544 posts)
5. We are just so stupid and gullible!1 Whatever would we do without these good people SPLAINING
Sat May 30, 2015, 09:32 PM
May 2015

everything to us??one?!

I know I should be sobbing in gratitude to all of these good people. But this seems to articulate my feelings even better:

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