CNN’s Don Lemon forcefully responded to Donald’t Trump’s attacks on him and NBA megastar LeBron James — noting that “referring to African-Americans as dumb is one of the oldest canards of racism in this country.” MUST WATCH (and if you like it, social media it!)
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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.