With the assploding irony being Robin Roberts is black.
Via Newsbusters:
Brian Maloney at The Radio Equalizer is amazed at how Rosie O’Donnell can find racism in a black ABC anchor asking singer Chris Brown about his felony assault case against his then-girlfriend (and fellow music star) Rihanna. Racism trumped feminism:
O’DONNELL: I can name twenty-five stars who trash dressing rooms, who trash hotel rooms. I just don’t know why this kid seems to be held to a different standard than anyone else.
JANETTE BARBER (executive producer): I can’t help but go, is there a racist thing here, because —
O’DONNELL: I totally think there is, and I also think it’s why he felt he was safer with Robin Roberts.
BARBER: . . . I was thinking of Kanye West. Is he the one that they wouldn’t let get over the thing at the music awards–
O’DONNELL: With Taylor Swift.
BARBER: Wasn’t there a thing a few months ago where they wouldn’t let him get past that, either?
O’DONNELL: . . . With Matt Lauer.
BARBER: Black rappers are not allowed to be angry and then recover from it?
O’DONNELL: Well, I do think that there is a societal paradigm in which you have to be an angel or a thug if you’re a black male.