http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/04/29/1381059/-Carl-Stokes-to-CNN-s-Erin-Burnett-Thugs-Just-call-them-N-ggers-then?detail=email
The video title says that Baltimore City Councilman Carl Stokes "Explodes" when CNN's Erins Burnett asked him "Isn't 'Thugs' the right word to describe these [looters and rioters in Baltimore]?" Actually Carl was pretty calm as he de-Whitesplained what she really meant and was truly asking.
“No, it’s not the right word to call our children ‘thugs,'” Stokes said. “These are children who have been set aside, marginalized, who have not been engaged by us.”
“But how does that justify what they did?” Burnett countered. “That’s a sense of right and wrong. They know it’s wrong to steal and burn down a CVS and an old persons’ home. I mean, come on.”
“Come on? Just call them n*ggers. Just call them n*ggers,” Stokes told her. “No, we don’t have to call them by names such as that. We don’t have to do that. That is exactly what we’ve sent them to. When you say, ‘Come on,’ come on what? You wouldn’t call your child a thug if they should do something that would not be what you expect them to do.”
To which Burnett responded that she [hoped she] would call her own child a "Thug" if he every set fire to a CVS? But I wonder, would she? Has she ever?
what we see here is the dismissal and reach for the word that is most damning she has about as much awareness of Black like as racist rush yet instead of seeing his point that to criticize and name by categorizing and putting into a box even with parental reassurance that's not the case they see what and how they are portrayed on TV in the news is their reality and it just relegates them to that which right wing America decides they belong then defund programs that help under fund those they can't out right abolish and than start the cycle again see you at the next riot.
