Don Lemons quote:
So we have to stop demonizing people, that is unless they are white people, then it’s ok.So, we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on -- you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no white guy ban.”
Don Lemon then defends his statement:
I have no problem with his statement of facts, another fact is that white men make up the majority of serial killers. Where I take issue is the racist sentiment in stating “ There is no white guy ban”. Even if I were to take his sources at face value (there are other sources of dispute), it’s still of no consequence. Simply put white is not an ideology, and to categorize a racial group as an ideology is racist. He could have said right wing, left wing, nazi or whatever, but he didn't. He attached a racial profile to an ideology(which there are many different reasons for these terrorist acts) Furthermore to impose a ban (whatever his motive) on a racial group is racist. I would have to wonder how a ban would be effected in a country where the majority of males happen to be white, and how this racist sentiment would work.“So people who were angered about what I said are missing the entire point,” Lemon said about his earlier statements. “We don’t need to worry about people who are thousands of miles away. The biggest threats are homegrown. The facts prove that.”
What if Sean Hannity of Fox news were to say something of the same sort:
So, we have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest murder and rape threat in this country is black men, and we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on -- you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no black guy ban.”
What then if Sean Hannity were to defend such a statement:
“So people who were angered about what I said are missing the entire point,” Hannity said about his earlier statements. “We don’t need to worry about people who are thousands of miles away. The biggest threats are homegrown. The facts prove that.”
Is there anyone who believes that the alphabet news media (ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, etc. etc.) wouldn’t be running a 24hr cycle showing Hannity’s racist remark? Of course the politicians would weigh in on such a statement and rightly calling it disgusting, hateful etc. etc.
Lemon says that people are missing the point, but it is Lemon and CNN are missing the point. It’s not about the statistics! It’s about his racist motivated statement that there should be a ban (of some sort) against a group of people based on race, a “white guy ban”. Is any of the alphabet media calling this racist out?
Am I wrong on this, if so explain how this isn’t racist and why it’s ok to dehumanize a group of people based on their race.