Posted on 11/10/2016 9:15:28 AM PST by Morgana
National Public Radio was still in Obama Mode after the election on Wednesday morning, bringing on black author Attica Locke (who also writes for the Fox drama Empire) who rudely implied each and every Trump support is a racist. NPR Morning Edition anchor David Greene politely suggested not every one, but Locke refysed to admit there was a single non-racist: “I’m out with that.”
NPR was a bit sick in headlining this “Novelist Adds Fresh Perspective To Election Result Spin,” as if accusing whites of racism is in any way fresh:
DAVID GREENE: The Clinton campaign was very worried about African-American turnout. It seems like there was – the campaign really underperformed, especially compared to the turnout that Barack Obama saw. Do you think African-Americans failed to turn out for Hillary Clinton?
ATTICA LOCKE: God, no. And I will daily stop that narrative. More white women showed up for Donald Trump than showed up for Hillary. So I wouldn’t say that any way black folks underperformed. I would say white race races over-performed.
GREENE: And we should be careful here because there are many Trump supporters who I’ve spoken to over the years who would not consider themselves racists.
LOCKE: You know what though, David? I’m out with that. There’s a part of me that honestly feels like that level of politeness, where we’re not calling things what they are, is how we will never get forward. The fact of the matter is that you have to at best be able to tolerate racism in your president.
GREENE: OK. I’m afraid we’re out of time.
Locke then went on Twitter to promote her taxpayer-funded radio rant: “Me on the election on NPR. The ‘R’ word is the new ‘N’ word, I guess. Why are folks afraid to say racist?”
Before that bitter ending, Locke suggested the vote for Trump proved white America was never comfortable with a black president:
LOCKE: The incredible optimism I felt on the other side of Obama is dashed, that this really is a sense that this is a backlash to that. That there is a large segment of the population for whom having a black president was such an assault on their identity. That their reaction to it has no reason. It makes no logical sense.
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GREENE: You really see this as a lot of Americans saying we weren’t ready for a black president, did not want a black president? What exactly are you saying?
LOCKE: I think of it through the level of the psyche, I think in the sense that we are still in a patriarchy. Goodness gracious, didn’t we see that yesterday? In the sense that the president is, like, the — a father of the nation or a man that we’re meant to look up to. I think there’s a large segment of white folks who could not take that, the idea that this person was above them in some way. I think it was very dislocating in terms of their sense of identity.
GREENE: I’m struck because I spoke to many white voters back in 2008, some of whom even talked about being former racists and overcoming that…
LOCKE: (Laughter).
GREENE: …Who were drawn to Barack Obama and reached a comfort level with him. And what changed over eight years?
LOCKE: Well, first of
all, the man’s presidency has been poisoned, you know, frankly, by voices from Fox News, by a Congress that would not engage with him, by Donald Trump himself claiming the president was not a citizen, you know. So clearly that starts to rub away at a foundational understanding of who Barack Obama really is and what he has really done for eight years. I don’t think that certain people can quite even see it, if that makes any sense.
No. It doesn’t make any sense. Why couldn’t anyone actually oppose Obama — on ideological grounds — without being a racist?
NPR is simply a liberal’s way of looking at his own as....er....Obamahole.
They are irreverent, as is the rest of the MSM.
so....60 million voters are all racists?
Good, Democrats. You stick with that one!
This guy is on our payroll.
But he can’t be fired.
wITH NEARLY 20T in debt, and this kind of cr@p. Isn’t it time to REALLY defund NPR?/
Could that happen please?
Long past time to defund public radio/TV......
They are making sure (as Obama has already done) that we all WILL BE.
From Attica Locke: “Me on the election on NPR. The ‘R’ word is the new ‘N’ word, I guess. Why are folks afraid to say racist?”
Wow, where has she been?? That’s the word that has been in every headline and story about people who disagree/disagreed with ANYTHING Obama and the Dems wanted to do. She must have been living under a rock for the last 8 years. SMH
Whatever,
This sentiment is why you lost.
People are people and most people are decent with good intentions whether you agree with them politically or not.
Keep up that narrative though, seems to be really working for you.
I mean, fair is fair, right?
NPR...public supported ass wipe radio.
You know, NPR receives taxpayer funding, and with a $20 TRILLION deficit, I think it could be a good place to start "belt tightening". I don't have to pay my tax dollars to be insulted, I can get that for free.
All those nasty racist Trump voters voted against that nice black lady Hillary Clinton.
As far as I am concerned, we should start saying that any Black who does not support president elect Trump is a racist. What other reason can it be, they are black and he is white. Isn’t that the same reasoning we got when we didn’t support the socialist Obama.
Racist against WHOM? You mean SEXIST?
Your statement is illogical as the MSM is completely secular but that does not track for this thread. Perhaps you mean 'irrelevant'?
Yeah, but they are an EXPENSIVE portion of the MSM! No matter how small the percentage of my tax dollar that finances PBS / CFPB etc., it is too much when that network is doctrinaire LEFT. These are the people who threw out Juan Williams for being politically incorrect!
Mr Trump, here is a DEFUND opportunity!
But the 99.9% In DC who voted for Obama aren’t racists/s
To late. Blacks already said white are racists merely for being white. Seems being black is racist.
Say...NPR is funded by the government isn’t it. It would be a shame if they forgot that line item in the budget next year.
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