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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 05:41 PM Original message |
MSNBC should phase out its all-white lineup and have all its primetime shows hosted by blacks |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. I would encourage bringing in one or more hosts of color, but why ALL? |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. Really? What's racist about this suggesttion? |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 09:56 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Replace them all....really? |
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RichGirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 10:10 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. Nobody should be hired based on race, sexual orientation or sex...PERIOD. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 12:13 AM Response to Reply #15 |
18. is there something about "should be" that you misunderstand....it is time for white progressives to |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 02:28 AM Response to Reply #18 |
20. Without white progressives, Obama wouldn't be President |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 08:42 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. He wouldn't be president without progressives, period |
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Dennis Donovan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:04 PM Response to Original message |
3. Isn't this your second post suggesting such a thing? |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:07 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. No - my earlier post suggested they replace KO with a black host |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 04:39 PM Response to Reply #5 |
29. and after more thought, that suggestion was recast as merely a thought experiment... |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. I don't care what color they are; I just want liberal fireballs. |
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DesertFlower (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. i don't understand the logic. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:11 PM Response to Original message |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:14 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. You're right - it might drive some white viewers away |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 08:50 AM Response to Reply #9 |
22. Let's see: replace Rachel with Ron Christie and then hope for the Conservative attitude takes root |
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Donald Ian Rankin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 11:01 AM Response to Reply #9 |
32. I think demographics make that unlikely. |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 11:46 AM Response to Reply #32 |
33. I don't agree that such a shift would be impossible - or even difficult |
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BadDog40 (138 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
10. Liberals are all colors, get over yourself |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:20 PM Response to Original message |
11. Isn't that racist? |
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MadBadger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:21 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. The OP will say that she can stay, but when she moves on, hire a black person |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
13. Besides being the ultimate shameful pandering, it's completely stupid. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 10:16 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. replacing Rachel with a JC Watts, an Alan Keys or an Allen West type |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 08:53 AM Response to Reply #13 |
23. So, only whites have been hired to host primetime because they're the best qualified? |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 09:05 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. As opposed to being phased out (disqualified ) because they are not black enough for you? |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Now you're just being silly |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 02:06 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Odd, I didn't find anything in your OP to suggest being progressive was a key critieria at all |
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totodeinhere (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jan-22-11 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
17. What about having some Hispanic, Native American, and Asian hosts as well? |
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golfguru (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 01:22 AM Response to Original message |
19. I support replacing KO with a black American. |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 09:54 AM Response to Original message |
26. Of course I don't really think MSNBC should do this. It was a thought experiment. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
27. it would be a powerful statement...a powerfully racisti statement |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jan-23-11 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
30. They are white channels |
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Empowerer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 08:26 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. They are "white channels" because the audience seems to have no problem with it |
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cherokeeprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jan-24-11 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
34. I'm curious about what kind of "powerful statement" you think it would make. |
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