Running racism in America thread

"Objection, your honor. Speculation."

 

This could be a proximate cause: Chris Curtis explains why he decided to talk about his alcoholism on 'Kirk & Callahan'

 

Alcoholism doesn't turn you into a racist.

 

No but sometimes it causes a mushy brain to conflate people, places, things.

What's his history as a racist?

 

Calling someone of Asian descent a nip.

 

We are approaching the ethics in gaming journalism level of excuses. He said something mildly racist which he thought was funny. Then concocted an implausible excuse instead of owning up to it.

 

Again, "My alcoholism renders me incapable of doing my job," isn't much of a defense.

It's a live radio show, and he's being paid - handsomely, one assumes - to meet the minimum performance standard required of someone speaking on live radio.

Boston sports talk radio, racist or sexist?

Your honor, I beseech you!

 

I saw something yesterday that really crystallized the issue for me (and it wasn’t discussing talk radio at all.)

“White people look at racism as a matter of intent and not impact.”

 

Yet we have those who cross to the other side of the street when a black person is walking toward them because of something they saw another black person do on the news.

 

Makes sense seeing as how nothing racially motivated ever happened in the Old North State.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_1898

 

This is dead on for a number of topics, including race. That’s how we get the mealy mouthed “sorry if I offended someone” non-apologies.