Posted on 08/30/2012 8:44:07 AM PDT by kristinn
Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman who was assaulted with peanuts and called an animal by two attendees at the Republican National Convention, told Journal-isms on Thursday that "I hate that it happened, but I'm not surprised at all."
Carroll, who agreed to be named for the first time, said she does not want her situation to be used for political advantage. "This situation could happen to me at the Democratic convention or standing on the street corner. Racism is a global issue," she said by telephone from Tampa.
Carroll said no one took the names of the attendees who threw peanuts at her Tuesday on the convention floor and told her, "This is what we feed animals." She alerted fellow camera operators, producers and CNN security. The head of the delegation she was not certain of the state told her the perpetrators must have been alternates, not delegates.
But Carroll, 34, said that as an Alabama native, she was not surprised. "This is Florida, and I'm from the Deep South," she said. "You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don't think I should do."
Carroll noted of the Republican convention, "There are not that many black women there."
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The perps were also wearing cotton shirts, an obvious racist coded message.
Um, no, Patricia. You'd have to be a member of an honor guard for it to happen at a DemocRAT convention, and it would be spit not peanuts sent your way.
Sure honey. I might have been born at night, but it wasn't last night.
"This is Florida, and I'm from the Deep South," she said. "You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don't think I should do."
Didn't take you long to play the race card did it?
Since the so called perps were thrown out I’m not sure what the story line is.
Without condoning the incident, I wouldn’t be surprised if it had less to do with being a black woman and more to do with being a CNN camera person.
No, not at all.
This woman is a journalist - and black and we're suppose to believe she didn't understand taking names might matter? How long has she been a journalist? Has the same thing happened to a NBC reporter?
bravo sierra - a ***camerawoman*** and there are no pictures??? people ejected, but no names or id???
agree 100% with others here, it either never happened, or were RAT plants.
We agree....I just get tired of having stoooopid folks throw out the racist card every 5 seconds
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