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 they ever set fire to a CVS? But I wonder, would she? Has she ever?
http://www.alternet.org/...
Did she or anyone else at CNN use the "T"-Word when the Denver Broncos won the Superbowl and this happened? (1998)
Or when the San Francisco Giants won the World Series, again? (2012)
Or the Vancouver Canucks Lost the Stanley Cup? (2011)
Or the University of Kentucky Wildcats Won? (2012)
Or the Boston Red Sox Won? Three. Seperate. Times. (2004)
Or the West Virginia University Mountaineers Won? (2014)
Or when Penn State Fired Coach Joe Paterno for Looking the Other Way While His Assistant Coach Sexually Molested Children? (2011)
Or when Lane Kiffin Decided He Didn't Want to Coach for the University of Tennessee Anymore? (2010)
Or when a Surfing Competition Takes Place in Huntington Beach? (1986, 2013)
Or when Disco Happens in Chicago? (1979)
Or they have a Pumpkin Festival in New Hampshire? (2014)
Just doing a quick
google search and I come up blank on all those where Erin Burnett is concerned. However I did find a link where she debated whether ISIS were a "
Gang of Thugs or the Taliban on Steroids?"
But that's pretty much about it. All these Riots and not a single "Thug" among them?
Amazing. I wonder exactly how that happened? Could there be something significantly different about all these Riots, and the Riots in Baltimore? Hmmm....
Vyan