Chuck Todd just did an amazingly stupid and defacto racist thing on Meet the Press.
On Sunday’s edition of Meet the Press, Todd kicked off a discussion about gun control with a video of convicted murderers at Sing Sing Correctional Facility talking about how they wished they had never picked up a gun.
“The circumstances you are about to see are very different from the racist violence in Charleston,” Todd explained. “In this case, in the inmates are African-American that you’re going to hear from. But their lessons remain important.”
“And we simply ask you to look at this as a color-blind issue that’s about just simply gun violence,” he added.
There are just so many things wrong with this and it illustrates what I and other point out about the MAINSTREAM MEDIA: it covers for racists and racism.
First: most mass shootings ARE done by white men and the only reason he is talking about this TODAY is that we had ANOTHER mass murder committed by a white man.
Second: he asks people to be "color-blind". This is so offensive to me, I can't imagine how it will be to people even more impacted by all this. It is breathtaking in it's tone-deaf out-of-touchness.
But it's not really 'tone deaf": it is the intended product. This is what the MSM does. This is why racism isn't going away like it should: The MSM is rife with it and allows it to perpetuate.
And, to me, it seems this is exactly the tactic of racists trying to 'prove' they aren't racists.
This is bait and switch and "hey they do it too" all rolled into one.
This is disgusting, this is a full-on apologia for racism and Todd needs to be fired.
9:55 AM PT: Please loom at Armando's diary On Race there are no neutral observers for some better processing of this incident