MSNBC's Cross Slams ESPN's Sage Steele as a 'Stepin Fetchit Minstrel Show'

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

MSNBC's Tiffany Cross is a self-appointed "keeper of the [African-American] culture" and thus someone in a position to decide who is — and is not — an authentic "Black voice." Back in reality, one could deem her a racist for deciding whether fellow Black people are truly Black or instead treasonous to their race.

Saturday morning on her show The Cross Connection, her themes were ones of bitterness and jealousy. Cross dismissed the Blackness of people like Sage Steele, Van Jones, and Carlos Watson because they get financial support from wealthy whites and thus "have that gift of making white people feel comfortable."

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[hanamizu]

So, Tiff, is Obama really ‘black’? I mean he was raised by his white mother and her parents and some guy in Indonesia. His dad was black, but not an American black and he left little Barack and his mom.

And what about Kamala Harris? She too is half black and her dad wasn’t an American black either.

[ealgeone]

This woman is bitter.

Aren't all Lefties?

[SharpRightTurn]

Hey, Tiff—I don’t think you can claim to be authentically black with that culturally appropriated, white hairstyle.

You’re just another fraud and shake-down artist.

[pangaea6]

Her saying that right there is racist

[simpson96]

All things being equal, if she were white she would not have this job. Period. On some level, she knows this very well.