Posted on 07/23/2023 6:30:41 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
A reporter for Milwaukee, Wisconsin station WTMJ-TV said on Twitter that she fled the Country Thunder music festival Friday night after a male patron twice called her the ‘n-word’ and people laughed at her instead of helping. The reporter, Taylor Lumpkin, apparently has not posted any video of the incident nor any video from her time at the festival.
Jason Aldean, who has drawn criticism from the left for his song “Try That in a Small Town”, played the song during his headliner set at the festival Saturday night. Wisconsin Speaker of the State Assembly Robin Vos (R) tweeted his support of Aldean on Saturday
Lumpkin wrote on Twitter Friday night, “Went to cover this event tonight for a news story. Left humiliated after a guy ran up and yelled at me (unprovoked), and called me a N***** twice. No one helped. Everyone stared at me, and laughed. Do better people.”
Lumpkin’s tweet has over 1.2 million views. She thanked supporters on Saturday, saying, “Thank you all for the outpouring of love and support you have shown me. It means more to me than you will ever know. Being a black, female journalist in this industry is difficult. But knowing so many are in my corner, gives me the strength to keep going. Love always wins”
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported a statement by WTMJ vice president and general manager Joe Poss:
“We are appalled that one of our reporters was subjected to a racial slur while producing a news story. We stand against all forms of racism and have a core commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion,” Poss said. “What happened to Taylor Lumpkin at a music festival should not happen to anyone, anywhere. It is painful and heartbreaking when something awful like this occurs. Our focus right now is on supporting Taylor.”
The festival also drew criticism from Wisconsin Public Radio reporter Corrine Hess for a Confederate battle flag being flown, “Seems pretty tone deaf for the Kenosha News to run front page photo of a Confederate Flag with a headline saying “Setting up to have a really great time””
She looks like Orka’s (Opra) sister (hammerhead eyes)...
I can’t express how thankful I am that there’s no word in the English Lexicon that would turn me into a quivering, incapacitated, child.
In the unlikely event that this story is even slightly true and not another Jussie Smollett type false flag.....
Just imagine how many times she would have been called that at some rap / hip-hop festival.
So the called her a NAZI?
What?
Who called her a nabob?
Show yoursefs...
They said she was near!
“No one helped.”
Nitwit?
Could it have happened? Sure…
Did it? Color me skeptical.
Here a professional woman with a camera crew in tow and random folks just decided to arbitrarily throw out racial slurs, and everyone else in earshot laughed?!
“Wisconsin Reporter Says She Fled Country Thunder Music Festival After a Man Called Her the ‘N-Word’”
Narcissist?
1.2 million views?
That's a lot more people than know about this fake story than know that 4 White seniors were murdered by a black man, in GA, last week in a racially motivated attack.
Obvious bs from a leftist race baiting communist urinalist.
“I’ll take ‘Things that didn’t happen’ for $200 Alex...”
Dang it... I knew I should have scrolled down further.
We copied word for word...
Even if the alleged event is a hoax as usual, out of thousands of people at a public event it would be shocking if some tiny number were NOT racist (or sexist, homophobic, heterophobic, ad nauseum), and low down enough to demean some weak person with a racial slur.
“Nattering Nabob of Negativism”?
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