MSNBC racist joke against Mitt Romney's family

Melissa Harris-Perry decided it was fine to make racial slurs towards Mitt Romney's family and their black grandson in particular. The show started singing "one of these things is not like the other" at one point.

She has apologized and he accepted, but where was the fucking backlash from Jesse and Al?

MSNBC reinstated her today. If she was a white woman who slammed Obama in a racial way, she would be out of a damn job and probably would never work in media again.



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I can't make myself care about this.

 

Cause it was a black person being racist?

Funny how that works

 

No, that's not it at all.

 

It was funny. It would have been funny if it was a black family with an adopted white baby. She, nor MSNBC, should feel the need to apologize.

Unfortunately, professional hypersensitives have so polluted the inter-racial dialogue in this country, people actually choose to be offended by stuff like this.

 

For the record, I thought it was funny as well.

I just can't seem to get over the complete double standard in this country when it comes to race

 

I'm missing the "double standard" part.

She got called out for making a racist joke and apologized for it.

 

And the backlash from Jesse and Al? the NAACP going after her like they did Phil Robertson for saying he never saw black people complaining when they were picking cotton? Him suspended indefinitely, her getting her job back. It's complete bullshit.

I have ZERO problem with what she said, but if you are going to do it to one, you have to do it to all

 

Perhaps there was little outrage because rich, white politicians are not a historically oppressed, underrepresented minority.

BTW, in spite of Phil Robertson's anti-gay statements, he was not suspended indefinitely. He was reinstated without missing any filming or having his pay docked in any way.

BNM

 

So it's ok to slam Romney and white people in 2013-14 because we were not oppressed decades ago?

Underrepresented minority? I guess Barry doesn't represent black people?

 

Oh please, nobody got "slammed" in that clip. She apologized, he accepted, end of story.

BNM

 

I don't understand what "racial slur" was used. I can't find "one of these things is not like the other" on this list.

 

The word "slur" has been defined down so far that even mentioning race can be construed as a "slur."

Stupid hypersensitivity industry...

 

Really? A country that allowed slavery at one point and you can't understand the double standard in this country. Has there ever not been a double standard in this country when it comes to women and people of color?

 

So again, it's ok for a balck w?oman to make fun of and mock the Romney family in a racial manner because decades ago people had slaves....right

 

White people make dumb racial comments all the time, apologize and it still causes a shit storm. Why does this get to be the end of the story.....because she's black?

 

Or maybe because what she said really wasn't all that offensive. She didn't use any racial slurs. It's not like she put on a hood and burned a cross on the Romney's front lawn.

BNM

 

So, you weren't offended by her comments...

but, you're offended that others aren't offended?

There's your double standard.

BNM