It’s been a while .. well, a few weeks .. since we’ve updated our “That’s Raaacist” file. To be quite honest, there have been so many quotes that have qualified lately that we’ve lost track. But this one seems so asinine, that we had to include in today’s Nuze. So here is our current list of things that are considered racist in this presidential campaign:
The latest occurrence happened on none other than MSNBC. A guest by the name of Mark Thompson told Lawrence O’Donnell that Romney referring to a black member of his entourage as someone is his “kitchen cabinet in Massachusetts” is culturally insensitive. Thompson said, “This might have been a small thing, but it’s important for people to understand. You cannot be culturally ignorant. He singled out one African-American who came with the 20 in his entourage as an African-American that was in his kitchen cabinet in Massachusetts, and he promised that he would remain in his kitchen cabinet if he was in the White House … To talk about being in the kitchen and not talk about an African-American actually being in your cabinet is really not a good metaphor to use with African-Americans.”
Good grief. Now I give Mark Thompson credit for at least recognizing it as a cultural issue, not a racial issue … though I didn’t hear the whole segment, so maybe it eventually got there to race (and that, my friends, is called prejudice!).
Neal Boortz chronicles his 42 years of talk radio in his book "Maybe I Should Just Shut Up and Go Away" Available on line and printed from Barnes and Noble and Amazon.
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