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This morning on his radio talk show, Neil Boortz was defending racial profiling, claiming that blacks commit most of the crime in this country. He kept referring to black crime as a "800lb elephant in the room", but at one point he must have had a Freudian slip and showed his true feelings, calling it the "8000lb gorilla in the room"
When is this racist fuck going to be driven off the air?
chelsea0011
(10,115 posts)without regard to race. It is a money thing. It is also why few have been tried for bringing down the government financial institutions. It is a money thing.
Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,939 posts)Any *serious* race-related discussion of crime and punishment in this country needs to address economic factors, police discrimination, disparity in sentencing, and a host of other issues. Boortz is merely pandering to an audience that will never look beyond the raw numbers.
yardwork
(61,622 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)n2doc
(47,953 posts)NOLALady
(4,003 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)What a racist asshole - Boortz is to racism what Limbaugh is to sexism.
MerryBlooms
(11,770 posts)He gave it a little thought, ran it by someone at the station during a break and then got the ok. Boortz and his ilk have never hidden their racism, but since FOX news props them up, they're definitely bolder.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and he loves to poke at the hornet's nest that is black Atlanta...he's been pushing the
"blacks-are-dumb-lazy-criminal-lowlifes" meme as long as he's been on the air
Quantess
(27,630 posts)like the standard phrase
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)Pretty sure he was thinking "gorilla" every time he said "elephant" - and then the one time, he slipped up and said what he was really thinking.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)had African Americans and their ceo's.