I just read the transcribed parts of the article, didn’t watch the video. From the transcript, I think just about anyone could have asked those conventional wisdom questions, but Jesse Jackson is still very insightful and eloquent.
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That is all a lot of these agitators know how to do: explode and destroy other people’s property. They obviously have a lot of time on their hands to do this type of repetitive activity.
Yeh! tell us more, you incorrigible imbecile. When is CNN going to relieve us of this sorry excuse of a “junk” bite advocate( aka reporter)?
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only a black man who thinks he is white would be “confused” about civil rights
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They sent Don Lemon to Ferguson? My first thought was nobody deserves that, not even Ferguson.
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Maybe, just maybe, having all these news vans show up to provide live “coverage and analysis” is influencing events on the ground. I was taught early on in science class that quite often observing a phenomenon causes the phenomenon to behave differently.
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I get so annoyed when people invoke MLK and have zero understanding of the man:
Letter from a Birmingham Jail 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King:
You deplore the demonstrations taking place in Birmingham. But your statement, I am sorry to say, fails to express a similar concern for the conditions that brought about the demonstrations. I am sure that none of you would want to rest content with the superficial kind of social analysis that deals merely with effects and does not grapple with underlying causes. It is unfortunate that demonstrations are taking place in Birmingham, but it is even more unfortunate that the city’s white power structure left the Negro community with no alternative.
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When I see CNN, I change the channel.
Seems Don Lemon is just about ready for his move to FOX.
Don Lemon is the stupidest fucking person working at CNN. And that’s saying something. I’m surprised he didn’t blame the looting on the black hole that swallowed up that airliner.
Tell you what—I’ll apologize for the far more serious problem of clueless imbecility rampant among straight white people, including and especially men, and then we can just shake our heads at the human race in general. It just never has worked up to its potential, like I used to hear in school all the time, and at this rate maybe it never will.
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I get my TV from an antenna on the roof or streamed off the 'net. So, I am blissfully ignorant of what a Don Lemon is. But from reading everyone’s comments, Mr. Lemon appears just blissfully ignorant. I also don’t know what a Kardashian is, either. And, I like it that way!
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Dispiriting to see how deeply the stupid narrative has taken hold. How a grand jury can be made into the only kind of trial a cop will ever get in St. Louis. No cross-examination or presentation of the case against as well as for. Why was the release done at 6:00 pm? Was the intent to provoke riots and looting, more easily done in the dark? With all the police there, where were they deployed? At the border of Whiteland, but businesses in the black areas were left unprotected.
But go ahead, Don, exhibit your ignorance. No excuse for torching a car, but this travesty is the Law.
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Don Lemon- he’s the teeth guy, right?
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Lemon might be an idiot, but in this case he may have been using the cable news default of asking a question intended to sew controversy, one of those, “What do you say to those who say the earth is flat? Don’t they have a right to their belief?” A great way to fill air time, keep people coming back, without giving them anything of value.
That said, how can I get that job? I’m not black, but I can ask inane questions too, and I don’t look bad on camera.
From Bernard Shaw to Don Lemon. There’s a lesson in this somewhere.
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“Bad doers”? Really? Why didn’t he just go all the way and call them “evildoers”?
He seems to have no concept of cause and effect. What an idiot.
Funny how that “if you’re going to ____, you deserve to get ____” argument only goes one way, when the people on one side are brown or hippies or people otherwise protesting bad treatment and social injustice.
(Translation: violence doesn’t seem to injure the cause of the police state, somehow!)
“Confused Don Lemon”
That’s just fucking redundant at this point.
Good point.
I’ll be happy to be corrected, but it always seemed to me that Dr. King’s principle of non-violence was not for both sides - it was specifically intended to provoke violence from the other side against non-violent protests. I was always struck by how much courage that took.
Maybe that’s too cynical, but it seems to fit, and have the desired effect. Seems to me if the authorities had not over reacted so violently with the teevee cameras rolling we’d still have segregated lunch counters.
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