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Tavis Smiley Explains Why Garner And Ferguson Point To ‘Open Season’ On Black Lives

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on December 03, 2014 · Flag

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If you’ve watched Fox News since the news tonight, you must surely know that the hosts are adamantly arguing that the police killings of unarmed Eric Garner and Michael Brown have nothing to do with race. Or each other. Tonight, Tavis Smiley visited The O’Reilly Factor and vehemently argued the other side.

O’Reilly, like just about every other host I saw today, called Garner’s death – and the failure of the grand jury to indict police officer Daniel Pantaleo - “very troubling.” But, O’Reilly insisted, “I think this would have happened to a white guy doing the same thing, I don’t think it had to do with skin color. I think it had to do with poor judgment.”

Smiley argued that that was speculation. “There’s a pattern here and you are too smart,” he told O’Reilly, not to see it.

But O’Reilly dismissed the “pattern” by calling it “minuscule.”

“Tell the parents of these precious young children that it’s minuscule …If it were your child, you would not call this minuscule,” Smiley shot back. “Do you not see a pattern here where black life is being devalued here?”

No, O’Reilly didn’t.

Smiley said that in the age of Obama, what’s supposed to a post-racial society, it is now “open season, hunting season on black men.”

Watch it below, from tonight’s The O’Reilly Factor.


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Aria Prescott commented 2014-12-04 12:52:11 -0500 · Flag
If O’Reilly really thinks race isn’t a factor in this, how come his tone pulled a complete 180 when it went from the black victim to the white shooter? How come he whitesplained the crime? How come his butt monkey Watters ran over a dozen reverse Trayvons, just to say “White people are civil about this!”-And was allowed to skate?

This is why I rank O’Reilly 4th in the network’s racism- Because unlike Hannity, Kelly, and a Gutfeld/Bolling tie for third… O’Reilly genuinely doesn’t seem to know how racist he is. Watters does, and he clearly enjoys every second of it, because he’s off the charts. But O’Reilly himself?

I think he reads one of those lines you’d find on a site like Stormfront where they say “It isn’t racism, it’s logic!” -And believes them. I really do.
Sandman2 commented 2014-12-04 12:11:42 -0500 · Flag
Ted Nugent once opined that if Pres. Obama was re-elected, He, Ted Nugent, would be dead or in jail. Nugent was implying that he would be dead or in jail because he would likely be compelled to assassinate the re-elected black guy.
Considering how lackluster the Secret Service is protecting the first black President and adding in the inability of Grand Juries to see anything wrong with whites murdering blacks; I’m guessing that the “Nuge” and thousands of other racists are rethinking whether or not they would be in trouble for assassinating the black guy in the "White"house. They just want their country back as they so often say.
Viva Valdez commented 2014-12-04 11:39:43 -0500 · Flag
A few people from this country contract Ebola and we need to shut down all travel, black men not committing crimes getting killed for years, minuscule problem
Richard Santalone commented 2014-12-04 11:32:50 -0500 · Flag
@ john howard I agree with you 100% John — but alas, because I used to live in Rep. Peter King’s district (i.e. on Long Island in Seaford, NY) I feel it’s my duty to state these two facts: First, due to gerrymandering over the last decade, King’s district is OVERWHELMINGLY REPUBLICAN. Second, the district is PREDOMINANTLY WHITE, especially the oceanfront portion that’s south of the “Mason Dixon Line” (i.e. Rt. 27, also known as Sunrise Highway).
truman commented 2014-12-04 09:33:14 -0500 · Flag
If two whites from Bildo’s home town on Long Island were executed by a black cop, Bildo would round up a lynch mob. It’s only miniscule if you don’t give a shit.
Warner Athey commented 2014-12-04 08:23:14 -0500 · Flag
I don’t think the two cases are connected at all. It does a disservice to the memory of Gardner to lump him in with Brown. Brown was a thug, a bully and a robber.
All Gardner did was sell a cigarette. If you are a smoker I am sure you have had someone bum a cigarette from you. What if you said OK, but these cigarette cost me money so that will be 50 cents.
Would that be such a major crime? Sending 6 cops to arrest someone for selling one cigarette is crazy. For something that small why not just send one cop to give him a summons to appear in court? They didn’t have to kill him.
Cruise ships come into New York every week. You can bring in a carton of cigarettes tax free. What if someone offered to buy them from you. You could get killed.
john howard commented 2014-12-04 06:17:20 -0500 · Flag
When the hell are the black communities going to grow a spine and start fighting back,atleast go to the voting booth, and please start with mrs. peter king, I wonder how he would feel if he saw some of his children being choke to death on vedio?
horticlutz van wink commented 2014-12-04 03:28:15 -0500 · Flag
http://time.com/3615896/fbi-police-justifiable-homicide-data/

i wonder where o’reilly got his statistics to prove what a miniscule problem police killing black people is. apparently the fbi can learn a thing or two from his ability to gather police data.
Warner Athey commented 2014-12-04 02:03:13 -0500 · Flag
I think it was good that Fox had Tavis Smiley on to discuss the Eric Gardner case. It is a tragedy that Gardner was killed. It was really over kill to send 6 cops to arrest a man for selling one cigarette. They should have just given him a ticket. I think most people can agree on that. There are various view points on how much race had to do with it. To the credit of Fox News they covered those various view points.
NewsHounds posted about Tavis Smiley Explains Why Garner And Ferguson Point To ‘Open Season’ On Black Lives on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2014-12-03 23:48:45 -0500
Fox is insisting that Garner is not connected to Brown and that neither have to do with race. Good luck with that.








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