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””
But you would think somebody would have caught it on their cellphone, don’cha think?
adults ignore that type of behavior.
otoh She seems like a racist who expected super ni&&er to show up and punch the guy out and start looting and burning the place to the ground.
sorry lady, your race card has been declined, grow up, people dont want to hear your crying about someone calling you a doo doo head.
Frankly, I don’t care if somebody did call her the n word. It ain’t like she’s never heard the word before because it’s about the most common word there is in the black community. And it’s going to probably be a bunch more of stuff like that going on because I think people are fed up with negroes. Blacks are in the process of destroying most of our large cities and they act like a bunch of damned animals so frankly I think you’re going to see more racism not less and I put that burden on blacks. They have brung it on themselves. I will dig out that officer Tatum YouTube video with all the black kids chimping out over some black hole over a song called pound City. It’s disgusting and they ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Now we've got a lot of things, a lot of racism in the world right now, Who's more racist? Black people or white people? Black people, you know why? Because we hate black people too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people REALLY don't like about black people.
-Chris Rock
She must be related to carlee Russell
Here is the Officer Tatum video: This is so filthy, it isn’t funny:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKjaOO9x020&t=107s
Another cool negro video:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5Bq8CzoIxT0
And, how come people need large capacity magazines!
I really no longer wish to live in a country with people like this. Especially since we know our government isn’t going to do anything about it, other than to encourage even more of it.
“I’ll take ‘Crap That Never Happened’ for $500, Alex”
At least they didn't toss bleach on her like poor Jussie had to endure....
It never happened.
It’s not hard to make it in anything you do regardless of skin color and gender unless your a white male.
Haven’t we already had enough of these unsubstantiated claims?
Jesse Somllet and Bubba Wallace come to mind.
Race of professional victims applying their trade.
Race of professional victims applying their trade.
Another fake hate crime.
Well said.
I’m calling BS. Another leftist liar.
“I’ll take “Things That Never Happened” for $200, Alex.”
I bet it all on “Things that Never Happened”.
She really screwed up by saying it happened twice. For after the first time she would have been recording the person so as to report on the incident and try to find out his identity. And the truth is, at a concert such as this, she would have had a videographer recording her entire experience so she could cut and edit the parts she wanted to go with the story. The fact that cameras weren’t rolling the entire time tells the story. She lied.
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