"Shoving a sign with the n-word in all caps in our faces for the supposed purpose of pushing the conversation about the Confederate flag and racism forward is beyond insensitive. It’s lazy. And gimmicky. And adds nothing to the conversation about systemic and cultural racism plaguing the country. Everyone knows the n-word is offensive.
What annoys me even more is that Lemon, as Taffy Brodesser-Akner describes in her
May 2015 GQ profile, is totally fine with being wrong. “This is Don Lemon, after all,” she writes. He “[declared] on the scene at Ferguson that there's the smell of marijuana in the air, ‘obviously.’ This is the guy who asked if a black hole could be responsible for the disappearance of Flight MH370; who asked one of Bill Cosby's alleged rape victims why she didn't stop the attack by, as he put it, ‘the using of the teeth.’”
Lemon uses these antics because he thrives on conflict, being called wrong, and being that one crazy Negro everyone loves to hate. It’s also proven to attract viewers."
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/langston-hughes-warned-us-about-trolls-don-lemon
I love this title. We see you.
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