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Black FOX Staffers Complained About Racism At Network Known for Being Racist
White nationalism is part of FOX News’ business plan
I normally sympathize with Black people who are victims of racial discrimination but there are certain occasions … For example, it’s hard to sympathize with a Black person who knowingly goes to work for a racist organization, and then complains about it being racist. That’s like getting a lion as a pet and getting angry when it tries to eat you. It’s what lions do.
And this is one of the current scandals du jour at FOX News. (There’s also the issue of Sex Scandal 2.0 and former anchor Ed Henry’s rape accusation, but I’ll tackle that in another column.) Just before neo-Nazi Tucker Carlson was revealed to have employed a racist incel for four years, several African American FOX News staffers held a heated meeting with senior management. They complained about the network’s tolerance of Carlson’s comments and other racially offensive stories.
“Four days after Fox News aired a particularly tone-deaf graphic connecting the…