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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
You are not over sensitive to it. It is a shocking level of open racism, but that is part of the point; the level of racism is so apparent and so ingrained that if you tried to clue that guy into what he was saying, he wouldn't follow along.
If you can be on national television on a broadcaster the size of fox entertainment and say something like that, what kind of inherent racism do the people of ferguson deal with in every police encounter?
When faced with the systemic nature of politicized racism in the us, it becomes impossible to ignore or give the benefit of the doubt to law enforcement in situations like this. The climate is too charged, the history is too significant and the impressions are too fresh.
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The guy in the interview was certainly not racist. He was questioning several other issues he had with Holder, but none that I found were racist. I have found nothing wrong with what Holder is doing - but I do not find the interview racist.