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Geraldo Rivera Attacks LeBron James’ ‘I Can’t Breathe’ Shirt

Posted by Ellen -7835.60pc on December 11, 2014 · Flag

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In the middle of a Hannity panel whitesplaining about black crime, Geraldo Rivera decided to lecture LeBron James about what his shirt should have said instead of “I can’t breathe.” Rivera scolded, “There is a kind of urban suicide happening here that has to be dealt with.”

Unless you consider the half-Puerto Rican Rivera a person of color (despite his racial attacks on Trayvon Martin), the Hannity show panel was all white: Fox Business’ Dagen McDowell was another panelist and, perhaps to balance out the half-Puerto Rican element, we had Bernard McGuirk, of  “nappy-headed ho” infamy.

Plus, Sean Hannity. He announced at the beginning of the segment, “We’ve had all these high-profile incidents but the 90% …of deaths and crime, it’s black-on-black crime.”

That prompted Hannity to play a lengthy clip of Blacks Behaving Badly. He insisted it was “only one example” and “I don’t want people to interpret it as characterizing any one community but it is a big problem. Let’s watch this one example.”

It just so happens that Hannity re-played a clip from “this one example” later in this one segment. He also played another example of an African American man lunging at police in a New York synagogue, causing the police to shoot and kill him in what was presented as a justified killing.

McDowell announced that the reason African Americans get (overly) concerned about police killings is because it’s “easier to go after the police officers” rather than have “the entire community …take responsibility for what’s happening.”

Rivera said he saw LeBron James wearing his “I can’t breathe” shirt when he was in New York, referencing Eric Garner’s choking death at the hands of the NYC police. And Rivera couldn’t help but think that James’ shirt should have said something different:

RIVERA: I wondered to myself, what if LeBron James instead had a shirt, “Be a better father to your son.” “Raise your children.”

Those difficult issues are not being dealt with by the black community because they are so complex. They are so deep-rooted. They are really so profoundly troubling that they don’t want to try and it is a victimization mentality that says, "We can only motivate when we are the victims." It goes in keeping with everything that’s happened in the black community and the generations preceding.

It’s easy to demonstrate and be outraged when we are the victims. "Look what they are doing to us," rather than "Look what we are doing to ourselves." There is a kind of urban suicide happening here that has to be dealt with.

McGuirk had some words of white wisdom for black people, too:

MCGUIRK: These are inconvenient truths that they obviously don’t want to talk about. This is the honest conversation about race that Rudy Giuliani’s trying to have, that Charles Barkley was trying to have. He got slapped around a lot for it, unlike Bolshevik Bill de Blasio who cites this academia-inspired gobbledygook.

Unlike McGuirk, or anyone else on the panel as a matter of fact, de Blasio has an African American family and can speak from personal experience.

So who’s really talking gobbledygook?

Watch it below from last night's Hannity.

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scooter commented 2014-12-11 19:47:00 -0500 · Flag
Sean Hannity is an abomination. He is the most seditious treasonous bastard there is on FOX. During the CLiven Bundy business he was actively fomenting armed rebellion against the government. The man should be prosecuted, convicted, and thrown into a deep dark hole filled with rats for company.
Aria Prescott commented 2014-12-11 13:34:05 -0500 · Flag
@erich: My thoughts exactly. For a group that wants to talk about phony victim complexes, Fox sure could do with some extra room to speak.

And seriously? Geraldo needs to stop trying to be black people’s fashion police. It’s becoming too easy a joke.
Richard Santalone commented 2014-12-11 12:03:41 -0500 · Flag
@ Bemused Naturally. He’s been doing that from the moment he signed Jabba the Ailes’s employment contract on the dotted line and CEASED TO BE A REAL JOURNALIST like he was when he was at ABC.
Sandman2 commented 2014-12-11 11:29:37 -0500 · Flag
Would Geraldo and the panel have preferred if LeBron James wore a more honest shirt that said “Put your hands down-your white”
truman commented 2014-12-11 10:40:07 -0500 · Flag
Whorealdo whined: “If only these unarmed young black men would stop provoking us by wearing a hoodie or selling cigarettes on a street corner.”
Bemused commented 2014-12-11 09:41:29 -0500 · Flag
Geraldo supports the upperdog: how very un American of him.
Erich Pomfret commented 2014-12-11 09:30:08 -0500 · Flag
Geraldo said: “We can only motivate when we are the victims,” and with those 9 simple words, exposed the core philosophy of Fox world.
LauraJane commented 2014-12-11 09:26:32 -0500 · Flag
I could not believe the blatant just blatant racism of running video of a street fight involving African Americans. I felt I was watching one of the paid Victorian tours of Bedlam Asylum where people would gawk at “those deviants” to make those paying feel more superior. I actually wanted to vomit. This should get big coverage for its sheer viciousness. I still cannot believe my own eyes. Hannity should be publicly shamed along with the rest of them that acquiesed on that panel.








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