http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/22/1395587/-Chuck-Todd-apologizes-for-black-killers-video?detail=email
Chuck Todd and the producers of Meet the Press are scrambling to make amends for an epic screw-up Sunday, in which they ran a segment about gun violence featuring only black criminals ... days after and during a discussion of a racist mass murder involving a white killer and black victims. Todd introduced the segment by noting that it had been planned ahead of the massacre in Charleston, then, in the face of criticism, gave an intro to the segment trying to make things right:
The circumstances you are about to see are very different from the racist violence in Charleston. In this case the inmates are African-American that you’ll hear from. But their lessons remain important. We simply ask you to look at this as a colorblind issue that’s about simply gun violence.
Not. Good. Enough. "Let us show you a series of black men talking about their past crimes and you can just see it as colorblind. Go ahead, we won't stop you."
Todd took another crack at it Monday morning, tweeting that "We’ve heard you. We clearly got it wrong and we are sorry."
Being sorry is all very well. Getting it right, or at least not quite so egregiously wrong, would be better.
in today's climate of racial light shining it's hard to except they were not aware of the insensitive implications that video brings to the table it serves more to reinforce those already stricken with decades of a scare mongering of Black men.
saying it was planned before the massacre makes it all the more reprehensible as it shows they had time to consider the ramifications because the issue was already out there do to recent killings by White cops and time to reconsider after it happened and obviously at no time did NBC or COMCAST think it inappropriate enough to pull getting to the point where we have to wonder do any lives matter anymore???????
