Posted on 03/19/2011 9:11:21 AM PDT by blam
JUAN WILLIAMS: I Get Nervous Walking Past Young Black Men
Steven Loeb
Mar. 19, 2011, 10:15 AM
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The most interesting part of the interview came at the end with this exchange, especially since it seemed to come out of nowhere:
Helmand: "I happen to agree with Schiller that your comments were bigoted. I think that if I were to say that I clutch my purse every time I walk by a black man that might resonate with a lot of Americans. It might be the truth but it's a bigoted statement. I certainly wouldn't have fired you but I do think there was some truth in that video that we don't get to talk about because we are afraid to have actual discourse in this country."
Williams: "I can't believe that you just said that. You think that simply saying what you think is evidence of bigotry that all of a sudden it's as if you were walking by a black man that would mean if you were bigoted if you were somewhat nervous. Let me just tell you, with the amount of black on black crime in America, I get nervous and I'm a black man. So, I mean, wait a second..."
Helmand: "There we go again, Juan. I would find that to be racial profiling that's a bigoted comment."
Williams: "That's a bigoted comment?"
Helmand: "Yes it is. Just like your comment about Muslims."
Williams: "I'm the father of black young men and I'm saying that if you saw a couple guys walking around looking like thugs down the street late at night, you're saying 'Oh, I'm not going to think it through.' Caroline, I think you are way off base."
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NPR woulda fired him over this one.
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PC progressivism = termial stupidity.
I like Juan. With age has come wisdom and that isn’t always the case.
Hahahaha...
“Why does Juan hate black people?”
Uh oh, lol. There is hope. I understand his son is a Republican.
Would it be bigoted to get nervous around a group of pit bulls that hadn’t declared their overt friendliness? You have to assess the odds until you have more info.
libtards can't handle the truth
“Dr” Helmand went full moonbat.
Koch bros and racist tea partiers oh my.
Welcome to the real world, Juan. We’re glad you’re here.
Liberals have NO street smarts. They won't even admit that street smarts are desirable.
Political Correctness forces them to deny the truth. It's a form of cognitive dissonance.
Juan may be a liberal, but at least he is honset
I respect him because of that alone
I disagree with him a lot, but I don’t doiblt his sincereity
I wish he would run for office as a democrat. If we have to have democrats, I would rater they were all like Juan Williams (Although I would greatly prefer Walter Wiliams)
I remember a comedy bit from a black comedian who said he and a friend were walking down the street and a white couple hunched over their possessions and crossed the street to avoid them.
He said they were so insulted that they robbed them.
How someone can willfully walk into danger in some misguided effort to prove they are ‘enlightened’ is beyond me.
They're like that man and his girlfriend that liked to camp out with the Kodiak bears in Alaska and ended up as lunch and then (since bears do crap in the woods) crap.
Brainwashed naivete.
“Respectable” conservatives exist to allow them to get away with it.
This is not bigotry, but common sense.
People are, and should be, judged by their clothing and appearance, their location, time of day, carriage, language and non-verbal behavior.
For example, ask Juan Williams the question, “What if he was on a mostly empty city street at night, and he sees a group of young black men, *who are wearing business suits and ties*, would he be intimidated by them?”
“Or how about a group of more casually dressed, but still politely looking black men in a suburban mall, standing around and talking, with bright lighting?”
Then ask him how he feels, seeing a group of young black men, dressed in “street clothes”, with accessories common among the lower classes, their language loud and peppered with ghetto talk and obscenities, and when they see Mr. Williams they get quiet, and stare at him like a pride of lions stares at a gazelle.
He would be insane to *not* imagine this merry band as a potential threat.
A mug shot... perhaps she has not been mugged yet?
He has his place, that is for sure. He has some decent values and he can explain the left's position in a way I can usually understand. It helps me pinpoint the specific flaw in the argument and thinking of liberals on any given topic.
Many other lefties give their opinion and get irate when you ask questions of substance.
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