Posted on 01/16/2019 5:37:50 PM PST by Kaslin
Well, if you want to talk about a rake-stepping moment hitting CNN, there are many, but this one might be one of the worst and we’re not even 30 days into 2019. CNN’s Areva Martin did a radio interview on David Webb’s show on SiriusXM Tuesday and tried to criticize him for exercising white privilege; they were talking about applying for media jobs. There was only one problem: Webb is black. He’s a frequent guest on Fox News and a known conservative commentator. It’s a rather cringe-worthy moment (via WaPo):
“I’ve chosen to cross different parts of the media world, done the work so that I’m qualified to be in each one; I never considered my color the issue; I considered my qualifications the issue.”
Martin responds: “Well, David, that’s a whole other long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing, that people of color don’t have the privilege of.”
“How do I have the privilege of white privilege?” Webb asks.
“David, by virtue of being a white male you have white privilege. This whole long conversation, I don’t have time to get into — ”
Webb then interrupts her to let her know he’s a black man, causing Martin to take a pause.
“You see, you went to white privilege; this is the falsehood in this,” Webb replies. “You went immediately with an assumption. Your people, obviously, or you didn’t look.
Martin apologizes repeatedly for her false accusation, adding that “her people” gave her the wrong information.
This morning, Webb appeared on Fox and Friends to discuss the trip up.
“We were on the radio, which makes this really interesting to me,” said Webb.
“Forget tone, voice, being prepped, as I said to her, she immediately defaulted to an attack which is a false narrative. There is no such thing as white privilege, there is earned privilege in life that you work for, there are those who may have a form of privilege that they exert on others in the form of influence, but this is about more about what she said and the embarrassment and she should be – but the default to this easy, false narrative.”
When asked how she responded to the mix-up, Webb said, “Well she apologized. She, you know, you’re caught - what do you do. So she apologized but in that apology, she throws her team under the bus.”
He added that he would never throw his crew under the bus, but wondered who is giving out information that he’s a white guy.
What a lame excuse
That's the twelfth strike out this year for Martin, and there is clubhouse talk of sending her back down to the minors...
A concept judging by skin color is racist. But Democrats should be used to it since they were party of slavery.
Either that or Democrats are pitting whites as the new Jews, and if so then we really know what they hino of and want to do with white people. Democrats have a sick mentality
Did she go on to call him an Uncle Tom without skipping a beat? If not, she needs to up her game.
Huh?
ROTFL!!!
Well Said!
Saw this on several conservative TV shows last nite.
CLASSIC Kung Foo Paux by snowflake idiot.
And nice comparison, the left definitely wants to wipe out the all whites.
And many of the leftists that are pushing this are white.
They are asking for their leftists friends to kill them.
It’s sarcasm... It happens.
Actually the left, particularly the black left love using the term “white privilege” because it kills two birds with one insult....It demeans the person being accused of it and is a catch all excuse for the historic under-performance in society of minorities.
Imagine a world where the democrats didn’t have to import underperforming minorities from central america to swing elections. What will it take for real resistance? Hell, the French, whom everyone on FR accuse of cowardice, riot and die over high lettuce prices. We tend to sit around arguing about football players eating pizza while our country is being given away.
Imagine a world where the democrats didn’t have to import underperforming minorities from central america to swing elections. What will it take for real resistance? Hell, the French, whom everyone on FR accuse of cowardice, riot and die over high lettuce prices. We tend to sit around arguing about football players eating pizza while our country is being given away.
So she made a completely empty accusation based on...NOTHING!!
This is the tactic of racism. To accuse someone of great evil with no evidence whatsoever.
er put down was classic. There is no “white privilege” because there is no 100% white person. We are all of mixed heritage. As proof just look at Sen Warren, a woman of diverse ethnicity.
Frankly, I don’t think she based it on “nothing,” I bet she based it on HER racist assumption that David Webb must be white... since he doesn’t sound like “a brother.” Webb has a great speaking voice. Shame on her.
They didn’t give her wrong information, it is just her assumption and her attempt to reduce issues to stupid pc dogma; i.e., cultural Marxism.
Become a Conservative you instantly become White!
Well. The French have generally much more experience at mass insurrection against their own government. We only had a 4 year history of it.
She won’t get fired because she has “black privilege.”
It's Racism in its Ugly Form at CNN.
Webb: “There is no such thing as white privilege, there is earned privilege in life that you work for, ...”
Perfect.
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