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White TV anchor fired after racial comments fights back with discrimination lawsuit
Washington Post ^ | 6/21/2016 | Katie Mettler

Posted on 06/21/2016 6:24:32 AM PDT by orchestra

In March, a white award-winning broadcast news anchor in Pittsburgh posted on her professional Facebook page what she claimed was a heartfelt call to action on the perceived black-on-black crime epidemic in the United States, particularly in the city she’d covered for almost 20 years.

The post came two weeks after she covered a mass shooting at a backyard barbecue that left four people injured and six dead, including a pregnant woman, in Wilkinsburg, a majority black borough. The district attorney called the heinous crime calculated, planned and one of the “most brutal” he had seen in his 18-year tenure.

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1 posted on 06/21/2016 6:24:32 AM PDT by orchestra
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To: orchestra

Most of us know better than get between TWO blacks fighting. She foolishly got between ALL blacks fighting. Bless her heart...


2 posted on 06/21/2016 6:28:35 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: orchestra

Things like this remind me of that play, “The Crucible”.


3 posted on 06/21/2016 6:28:48 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: orchestra
Yet another victim of our PC-ness in this country. The fact that she posted it on her own facebook account rather than saying it on the air makes me think she should win her case. People can read just about anything these days and turn it into a racist comment.

The facts remain: the number of black-on-black murders in this country is way out of proportion to their relative share of the population. And finger-point as much as you want, blacks have an internal problem that they not only refuse to fix, they won't even admit it exists. To me, it's the breakdown of the black family that is the root of the problem and it's augmented by a system of welfare and other transfer payments that encourages fathers not to be present in the home. Until blacks admit they need to fix the problem, there is no end in sight.

4 posted on 06/21/2016 6:33:35 AM PDT by econjack (I'm not bossy...I just know what you should be doing.)
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To: orchestra

Funny how almost all the outrage was focused on Bell (a white woman) while the actual murders were shrugged off.


5 posted on 06/21/2016 6:34:33 AM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: orchestra

Whitey is not allowed to say anything about blacks and their epidemic of violence. Because Whitey is always blamed for it, even if Whitey is innocent.


6 posted on 06/21/2016 6:35:06 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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To: orchestra
Everyone is suppose to pretend that Blacks aren't violent as we HAVE to pretend that terrorists aren't Muslim.

The truth is unimportant these days.

7 posted on 06/21/2016 6:36:13 AM PDT by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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blacks have an internal problem that they not only refuse to fix, they won't even admit it exists

Black commedian last weekend on TV joking about how great Obama is as a president. The underlying tone was, yeah he is a eff up, and its part of our culture.

No way I say become a success like I did through hard work.

OK stop laughing at me please.

8 posted on 06/21/2016 6:43:42 AM PDT by Uversabound (Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
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To: orchestra

This story underscores why the description of perps as ‘Amish’ is used here so much.


9 posted on 06/21/2016 6:53:08 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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If the reporter had posted on her Facebook page a heartfelt call to action on the perceived Amish-on-Amish crime epidemic in the United States, no one would have raised a peep! Not even the Amish.

Comments about the racist hatred and hypocrisy and the moral abyss of black culture are verboten.

10 posted on 06/21/2016 7:11:43 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: orchestra

“..posted on her professional Facebook page”

This was not her “personal” page, she was representing her employer here. Without prior approval, she shouldn’t have stated their position for them.


11 posted on 06/21/2016 7:39:36 AM PDT by Fireone (The future must belong to those who tell the truth about Islam.)
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To: orchestra
“… They are young black men, likely in their teens or in their early 20s. They have multiple siblings from multiple fathers and their mothers work multiple jobs. These boys have been in the system before. They’ve grown up there. They know the police. They’ve been arrested.”

Too much truth for the left to handle.

12 posted on 06/21/2016 7:41:17 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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To: libertylover

Inconvenient truth for the left. Too bad they can’t explain it away...


13 posted on 06/21/2016 7:45:25 AM PDT by orchestra ((And there were also two other, malefactors, led with him to be put to death.))
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To: orchestra

Well, was she right? Were the murderers black and in their late teens to 20s?

If so - then slam dunk case. She was right. She used her years of journalistic experience to pull together the facts and make the correct conclusion. Rather than being fired, she should win another Emmy and get a promotion for showing foresight and investigative excellence!


14 posted on 06/21/2016 7:59:19 AM PDT by Shanghai Dan
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To: orchestra

She’s a good reporter!!


15 posted on 06/21/2016 8:03:59 AM PDT by GregB (Prayers for Griffin.)
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To: blam
Everyone is suppose to pretend that Blacks aren't violent as we HAVE to pretend that terrorists aren't Muslim.

The truth is unimportant these days.

Exactly. +1

16 posted on 06/21/2016 8:10:10 AM PDT by Canedawg (Make America Great Again)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Clearly, this lawsuit is microaggression on behalf of the racist homophobic climate-destroying capitalist patriarchy.

17 posted on 06/21/2016 12:15:40 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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The only reason the ComPost would be publishing this now is, they’re working a gun confiscation angle.

Racist News Anchor Wendy Bell: I Was Fired For Being A White Lady!
By Robyn Pennacchia
June 21, 2016
http://wonkette.com/603221/racist-news-anchor-wendy-bell-i-was-fired-for-being-a-white-lady

Wendy Bell: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
http://heavy.com/news/2016/03/wendy-bell-wtae-pittsburgh-news-anchor-fired-racist-facebook-post-wilkinsburg-shooting-photos-age-bio-husband-family/

Why “Well-Meaning” White People Like WTAE-TV’s Wendy Bell, The White Privilege Turducken, Are The Worst
Damon Young, 3/23/16
http://verysmartbrothas.com/why-well-meaning-white-people-like-wtae-tvs-wendy-bell-the-white-privilege-turducken-are-the-worst/

Award-winning anchorwoman apologizes for ‘racist’ Facebook post alluding to the identities of murderers saying ‘you needn’t be a criminal profiler to draw a mental sketch of the killers... they’re black’
By Associated Press and Dailymail.com Reporter
Published: 20:42 EST, 23 March 2016
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3507140/White-Pittsburgh-anchorwoman-makes-racist-Facebook-post-saying-unidentified-killers-young-black-men-apologizes.html


18 posted on 06/21/2016 12:22:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: orchestra

Noticing.

She noticed while white. Not permitted. Job loss inevitable. Further punishment likely.

Should some violence befall her, well, she deserved it. She noticed.


19 posted on 06/21/2016 12:23:33 PM PDT by Jim Noble (The polls can have a strong influence on the weak-minded)
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To: orchestra; Maine Mariner; flaglady47; pax_et_bonum; seekthetruth; seenenuf; danamco; entropy12; ...
I sympathize with her, but I can't help posting two maxims that American professionals in any walk of life today cannot seem to learn:

(1)... stay off Facebook and (2)...nothing good ever happens after midnight in a bar or nightclub.

Leni

20 posted on 06/21/2016 1:17:25 PM PDT by MinuteGal ( GO, TRUMP, GO !!!....Plus....Boycott Target !!!)
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