This racist event is bad enough. But I am also amazed at the silence of the women’s movement. Where is the outrage? I guess it is okay for a black man to verbally abuse a black woman? There was more outcry over the Komem organization denying 500 thousand dollars to Planned Parenthood, then over this outrage. I suppose we could just bury this story and forget the talk show host. However, wrong is wrong and this is wrong. Another amazing thing is reading the comments made by viewers of this article. They seemed to me to laugh this off, to excuse the behavior as idiotic or stupid but not racist. Is it because it is not politically or socially safe to name this guy what he is, namely, a racist? Of course he could have done all of this for effect in order to catapult himself into headlines and take his tiny radio program stellar. Nonetheless, this kind of hate speech and verbal abuse is shown for what it is, violence parading as outrage. It must not be rewarded.
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