She must not be aware that Obama himself called some of the rioters “thugs” and tripled down on it…
Via Newsbusters:
Former CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien appeared on Sunday’s Reliable Sources to add her name to the list of liberals who argue that calling the rioters in Baltimore “thugs” is just “a proxy, is a word we use instead of the N-word.”
O’Brien asserted she “can’t think of a situation where there’s ever been a headline or someone has called a white young person who is in the middle of a violent protest demonstration, whatever, a thug. We use it all the time when we’re talking about people in the inner city.”
For his part, guest host Frank Sesno noted that when he “looked the word up in a bunch of different dictionaries. In no place did I find a racial connection…and the African-American mayor of the city and the African-American president of the United States used the word.”
O’Brien responded by scolding those, including President Obama, of having a specific “agenda” when they chose to use the word “thug”:
Well, doesn’t necessarily mean that they don’t have a specific agenda in how they’re using it. When you talk about journalists, though, I think journalists shouldn’t have an agenda…And I think when you examine when the word is used, it’s used to describe the actions of people of color, specifically people who are in the inner city.