We posted a prior story on the director’s effort to talk race relations. Here’s more of his speech. He throws cops completely under the bus. But if ‘everyone’s a little bit racist’ doesn’t that mean no one really is?
WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey waded into the volatile issue of police-community relations Thursday by saying the “hard truth” of life and law enforcement is: “Everyone’s a little bit racist.”
The reference to the hit Broadway song came during a rare and sweeping talk about race relations between police and communities in the aftermath of controversial shootings.
“Many people in our white-majority culture have unconscious racial biases and react differently to a white face than a black face,” Comey said in a speech at Georgetown University.
“We all — white and black — carry various biases around with us.
“I am reminded of the song ‘Everyone’s a Little Bit Racist’ from the Broadway hit Avenue Q.”