I tend not to reveal personal details about myself, but apparently some of you think that my personal story is relevant. My father is from Jamaica, my mother from Harlem where I was born and raised. Is that black enough for ya?
And if it isn’t, y’all can kiss my fine black ass.
ETA: Nothing. This post was flagged and I really don’t give a rip.
Hahahaha; maybe, but probably no.
Quite.
Hurricane denier?
These people are pretty worked up against all the media. The Secret Service once escorted Katy Tur out of a Trump rally (as in protecting her, not forcing her to leave) because the aggressiveness toward her made them that concerned. There’ve been plenty of other incidents where race wasn’t a factor. Not saying it wasn’t here, but it wasn’t necessarily IMHO.
So I’ve got some brown friends that live in an apartment building in a heavily white community.
People occasionally see them on the elevator or wherever and stop them to report things like that the garbage chute is full.
I don’t need reporting to know that that’s racism, because that same person would never even think to approach me with the same question.
It’s reasonable to assume that the crew kept the cameras rolling, even as the network feed switched to another talking head.
This was after the hurricane passed, and the guy can clearly be heard saying “report this accurately” in an angry voice. So, no, this isn’t a reason…it’s really as simple as a case of a white guy who thought he was privileged to yell at a Black reporter and demand he tell the story the way the white guy wanted.
And, generalizations aren’t at play here, it’s obvious this guy thinks like that…really, angry white man in a pickup wearing a cowboy hat runs across the beach to accost a Black man just doing his job, and you want to argue that pointing out how his behavior has been common (for centuries) among white men has no relevance to his behavior? Come on, man.
His reporting did seem pretty accurate from where I sit.
So, he might have been warning Brewster to be careful or to get off the beach, in this weather; yes?
See my post above below. I’m more than well acquainted with racism and how to discern it.
We have no evidence in the story as presented to justify the headline and the racial gratuity embedded in the story.
The End.
Well now that that’s settled, should we debate “waddles?”
It looks like the guy was angry about “accuracy in the media” and Shaquille and crew just happened to be the convenient targets for his rant. I think he would have gone off on anyone standing there. He saw MSNBC and he saw LIBERAL MEDIA!!!
He prefers a racist republican president to draw nice lines on a weather map with his Sharpie. That’s the kind of “accuracy” angry old white guy in his white truck will
support.
I have insufficient data to answer that.
That’s 'cuz you’re looking through your free spectacles provided by Obama.
Not much to debate there. Clear mis-use of the word. Waddling requires walking, which means one foot on the ground at all times. His jumbling jog from the truck definitely didn’t count as walking, therefore no waddling.
He said the mail was getting delivered. Pretty, uh, anodyne stuff. But these buzz-bombs have it in their heads that all reporters lie and lie and lie all the time, and they’re capable of near-instant rages over that or any other political nonsense they believe. They’re as familiar as a species of bird by now. Some years ago a dude did it to me at a township meeting. Came up and asked me what the deal was with this one tiny matter, I told him, and then he told me to report it accurately and walked away before I could tell him that a) I would do so as I always did because I was a professional and b) that I never walked up to the parts counter at Pep Boys and told him how to do his job so I’d appreciate his minding his own goddamn business from then on.
Lumbering? Galumphing? Shambolic parambulating?
Okay, Mr. Roget.
Yeah, no mention of climate change.