What do you do when you’re an African-American who is a cable new anchor discussing Donald Trump’s (latest) racist comments calling Haiti and Africa “shithole” countries and a conservative talk show host uses a word to characterize you that is a…racist stereotype?
If you go by how some of the media has behaved since Trump came down that elevator, you might ignore it. CNN’s Don Lemon decided to give him one more chance, then cut his mic off. Which was not a big loss to intelligent discussion.
Here’s the segment.
And here’s an earlier part of the discussion:
And CNN commentator Anna Navarro (a Republican) didn’t mince words in condemning Trump’s comments, either:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.