NPR Brings on Black Writer to Say Every Trump Voter Is a Racist

Life News ^ | November 10, 2016 | Tim Graham

[Morgana]

National Public Radio was still in Obama Mode after the election on Wednesday morning, bringing on black author Attica Locke (who also writes for the Fox drama Empire) who rudely implied each and every Trump support is a racist. NPR Morning Edition anchor David Greene politely suggested not every one, but Locke refysed to admit there was a single non-racist: “I’m out with that.”

NPR was a bit sick in headlining this “Novelist Adds Fresh Perspective To Election Result Spin,” as if accusing whites of racism is in any way fresh:

DAVID GREENE: The Clinton campaign was very worried about African-American turnout. It seems like there was – the campaign really underperformed, especially compared to the turnout that Barack Obama saw. Do you think African-Americans failed to turn out for Hillary Clinton?

ATTICA LOCKE: God, no. And I will daily stop that narrative. More white women showed up for Donald Trump than showed up for Hillary. So I wouldn’t say that any way black folks underperformed. I would say white race races over-performed.

GREENE: And we should be careful here because there are many Trump supporters who I’ve spoken to over the years who would not consider themselves racists.

LOCKE: You know what though, David? I’m out with that. There’s a part of me that honestly feels like that level of politeness, where we’re not calling things what they are, is how we will never get forward. The fact of the matter is that you have to at best be able to tolerate racism in your president.

GREENE: OK. I’m afraid we’re out of time.

Locke then went on Twitter to promote her taxpayer-funded radio rant: “Me on the election on NPR. The ‘R’ word is the new ‘N’ word, I guess. Why are folks afraid to say racist?”

Before that bitter ending, Locke suggested the vote for Trump proved white America was never comfortable with a black president:

LOCKE: The incredible optimism I felt on the other side of Obama is dashed, that this really is a sense that this is a backlash to that. That there is a large segment of the population for whom having a black president was such an assault on their identity. That their reaction to it has no reason. It makes no logical sense.

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GREENE: You really see this as a lot of Americans saying we weren’t ready for a black president, did not want a black president? What exactly are you saying?

LOCKE: I think of it through the level of the psyche, I think in the sense that we are still in a patriarchy. Goodness gracious, didn’t we see that yesterday? In the sense that the president is, like, the — a father of the nation or a man that we’re meant to look up to. I think there’s a large segment of white folks who could not take that, the idea that this person was above them in some way. I think it was very dislocating in terms of their sense of identity.

GREENE: I’m struck because I spoke to many white voters back in 2008, some of whom even talked about being former racists and overcoming that…

LOCKE: (Laughter).

GREENE: …Who were drawn to Barack Obama and reached a comfort level with him. And what changed over eight years?

LOCKE: Well, first of

all, the man’s presidency has been poisoned, you know, frankly, by voices from Fox News, by a Congress that would not engage with him, by Donald Trump himself claiming the president was not a citizen, you know. So clearly that starts to rub away at a foundational understanding of who Barack Obama really is and what he has really done for eight years. I don’t think that certain people can quite even see it, if that makes any sense.

No. It doesn’t make any sense. Why couldn’t anyone actually oppose Obama — on ideological grounds — without being a racist?

[joshua c]

Attica Locke is a bigot.

[Junk Silver]

On January 21, 2017 I want these sniveling treasonous arrogant slimebalms defunded once and for all!

Unfortunately my spouse listens to this drivel, and I’ve had to put up with hearing countless anti-Trump distortions and lies all the while knowing my tax dollars were helping to pay for it.

Looks like you’ll have to sell a few more tote-bags, NPR weasels!

[bk1000]

To the author: I don’t take issue with your color as much as your stupidity.

[Parley Baer]

Defund NPR.

[5yearlurker]

I was listening to NPR election news and actually heard this exchange. Attica is a woman and a nutjob. She was getting worked up to even more vitriol when David Green cut her off saying “sorry we’re out of time”.

So Attica was making even NPR uncomfortable with her racist spew.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Defund NPR and give Sesame Street to the highest bidder.

[poinq]

This is a large issue. Many reasonable people only listen to NPR and MSNBC. Those two channels have been telling the world that Americans, Trump supporters, whites, republicans, southerners, mid-westerners, and people who do not live in big cities, are all racists, stupid and uneducated.

These people don’t get outside their own bubbles. If they would read press from other countries or Fox or local papers, they would get another point of view. We should all worry about becoming like them. We should know the other side. And we should be open minded enough to identify when they really do have a good point, as rare as it is.

[poinq]

This is a large issue. Many reasonable people only listen to NPR and MSNBC. Those two channels have been telling the world that Americans, Trump supporters, whites, republicans, southerners, mid-westerners, and people who do not live in big cities, are all racists, stupid and uneducated.

These people don’t get outside their own bubbles. If they would read press from other countries or Fox or local papers, they would get another point of view. We should all worry about becoming like them. We should know the other side. And we should be open minded enough to identify when they really do have a good point, as rare as it is.

[windsorknot]

Why are folks afraid to say racist?”

If only. The word "racist" has been rendered meaningless by Progs who overuse and misapply it. They can kiss my "white-privileged" a--.

[HangUpNow]

Look -- 75% of Black America considers themselves part of 0bama's Army of 'Kill-Whitey'. Anyone who discounts this sentiment is only deluding themselves.

The notion and meme that 0bama's subversive Presidency has been "poisoned" by Whitey is designed to be energizing fodder for "poisoning" and sabotaging Trump's Presidency as retribution and revenge. We now live in VERY dangerous times.

NPR needs to be de-funded of ALL government support and declared a hate group by conservative pro-America versions of the SPLC and ACLU.

[bankwalker]

give Sesame Street to the highest bidder

sesame street is where the indoctrination begins - destroy it.

[windsorknot]

To the author: I don’t take issue with your color as much as your stupidity.

I also take exception to his bigotry which has become acceptable when directed at those who are "melanin challenged".

[zzwhale]

defund NPR

[jonrick46]

""You know, NPR receives taxpayer funding . . . "

That taxpayer funding comes from the parent corporation, the Corporation of Public Broadcasting, which is totally funded by the Federal government and state and local governments. The first thing I noticed is the difficulty to get figures in dollars of their government support. I get NPR pie charts like below:

After more digging, I did get the dollar amounts from the Corporation of Public Broadcasting:

:

You can find the above pie chart here:

http://www.cpb.org/aboutcpb/financials/budget/

Mark Browning, at The American Thinker, calculated NPR’s taxpayer subsidy numbers based on figures publicly available on NPR’s own website. Here is his piece in American Thinker:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2010/10/how_public_is_nprs_funding.html

Browning estimates that NPR’s 900 member stations receive approximately 41 percent of their funding directly or indirectly from taxpayers, primarily through tax deductions, grants from government-funded universities and direct grants by federal, state and local governments.

NPR receives $180 million each year in funding. Forty one percent of that funding represents $73 million from taxpayers. From the above colorful pie chart, $73 million seems low. How much tax payer money is being diverted to NPR remains an question to be left up to the money experts. From what I see above, it is $99.12 million ($69.30 million + $22.83 million + $6.99 million = $99.12 million).

Finally, much of that taxpayer money is given to Democrats to finance their elections. It is a payoff scheme to insure further government funding using the usual shell game to hide the pea.

[mombonn]

I voted for, and worked for, Alan Keyes. I sent money to Herman Cain and Dr. Ben Carson, and was prepared to vote for them as well until they dropped out of the race.

The only opportunity I passed up was to vote for the current resident of the WH.

Guess 3 out of 4 doesn’t matter.

[Chaguito]

These numbskulls just keep repeating this crap about “white America not being comfortable with a black president,” as if saying it makes it true.

The same middle America that elected Trump needs to lift its voice over and over to state the opposite and the obvious.

[Joe Boucher]

Evening Morgana,
Here’s hoping President Trump stops public funding for npr.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Defund NPR, ASAFP.

[Da Coyote]

Indeed you are correct. Methinks the self-correct took charge when I typed irrelevant.

And indeed, you are correct that they are expensive. As you probably agree, if they cannot pay for themselves, they should not exist at all.

[The Sons of Liberty]

Interesting and very informative. Thanks.