[farmfriend]

This was not the first racially incesitive comment I've heard O'Reilly make. He was talking to a gal about drug testing welfare recipients. His contention was that we should test them all and hers was that only ones meeting certain criteria should be tested. He then commented that we would have to engage in racial profiling in order to do that, leaving the impression that blacks would meet the criteria more often so we would then start targeting blacks if we were going after drug users. The overall assumption was that welfare people are drug users and that the majority of those were black. I like O'Reilly but have always felt he was a bit of a prude when it came to sex issues. This took me by surprise though.

[sinkspur]

The overall assumption was that welfare people are drug users and that the majority of those were black.

I suspect this is more than assumption.

[MEGoody]

"His contention was that we should test them all and hers was that only ones meeting certain criteria should be tested. He then commented that we would have to engage in racial profiling in order to do that."

That's not a racist comment. It's simply the truth.