Feckless Farrow Frets: Does Black Director Count Toward 'Diversity' Given He's British?

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Reading the transcript isn't enough. Roll the video, listen carefully, and at the end you'll catch Ronan Farrow's nervous little laugh as he asks an African-American guest whether, in assessing movie-industry diversity, it "matters" that the black director whose film has been nominated for an Oscar is British.

Such are the PC pitfalls once one wades into the bog of diversity bean-counting. But beyond the specific subject matter, Farrow's teensy twitter suggests, as other critics have noted, as here and here, how young and unsure of himself is the young man MSNBC hopes to make a star.

View the video here.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Ronan wades into the bog of diversity bean-counting. Ping to Today show list.

[mkboyce]

Newsflash, Ronan. Black is black. Dumb is dumb.

[GraceG]

I have met liberals who actually think that most British folks of African descent are not actually “Black” or that they are “sell-outs” because they don’t embrace inner city gangster ghetto culure.

[ken5050]

FYI: Merriam-Webster defines "farrow" as a litter of swine

Apt, eh?

[Mikey_1962]

Wow.
Black but not of slave heritage.
How to put your thumb on the scales of justice in this case.
He must be racist.

[TexasCajun]

Revealed: Mia Farrow's son Ronan 'has dated both men and women - but he refuses to label himself gay, straight or bisexual'

[TexasCajun]

Is Satchel Ronan O’Sullivan Farrow a racist for not using his birth name because he was named after a famous BLACK baseball player?

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[Red Badger]

He’s insulting to pigs...................

[Tulane]

Ronan should immediately give up his job to an underprivileged minority.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

No, Furrow, it only counts if he plays a round of Knockout King on your empty noggin.

[mykroar]

Ladies and gentlemen - I give you this year’s winner of the Walter Cronkite award!!

[kaboom]

Black is black

Not in baseball.

[miss marmelstein]

This kid is giving nepotism a bad name.

[Rich21IE]

His appearance reminds me of Damian, son of Satan.

[ZULU]

Only if he speaks ebonics.

[TigersEye]

Do British fags count as real fags, Ronan? I’m sure you know.

[JimRed]

Unless he’s a whitey hating Marxist racist lunatic, he’s not AUTHENTICALLY black!