Attacked Black CNN Camerawoman Speaks

The Root ^ | 8/30/2012 | Jenée Desmond-Harris

[castowell]

The black woman who was harassed by Republican National Convention attendees says "I know racism when I see it and when it's being thrown at me."

Everyone's been talking about the horrifying, is-this-seriously-happening-in-2012 incident at the Republican National Convention, in which two attendees threw nuts and taunts at an African-American CNN camerawoman, telling her "This is what we feed to the animals at the zoo." Everyone, that is, except the camerawoman herself.

[castowell]

I smell a Rat!

[ponygirl]

And it smells like desperation.

They. Have. Nothing. Else.

[SMARTY]

I wonder how much the DNC paid those guys to do that.

I have to think that is what happened, otherwise we’d have their names and party affiliation cast in our faces around the clock by now.

[PLD]

Pathetic liars...Lets see the proof...Can’t you fools come up with something real and besides who cares..

[jessduntno]

She was undoubtedly taunted by the same invisible people who spit on the Congress critters. A camerawoman assaulted and there’s no tape?

[TigerClaws]

From the stands. Ron Paul people were handing passes to Code Pink. Any photos??

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is so contrived it's hilarious.

Only a Left-wing zealot could come up with a caricature of a Republican saying something as dumb as this.

[skeeter]

“Everyone’s talking about it”. Hilarious.

[Kenton]

Yo, Tawana! Tell Rev’rund Sharpton we know he’s around here somewhere!

[Vigilanteman]

“Are you kidding me, Jamila?” She asked. “I’m from the Deep South! I know racism when I see it and when it’s being thrown at me. No black person would have done that!”

And I'm sure she is absolutely the final authority in stating what no black person would have done just like I am the final authority in stating what no Native American would have done.

[C. Edmund Wright]

It’s a good thing they were the older Republicans. The younger ones would have dragged her behind a pick up by chains......./sarc....

These people are caricatures of themselves....you would think it’s 1939 to hear them speak.

[RebelTex]

If the victim was a camerawoman, then why doesn’t she have film proof of the incident?

How does she know that the alleged perps were RNC members and not protesters stirring up trouble?

...just askin’.

[Positive]

I wonder why the camerawoman didn’t video the incident.

[trailz]

Next she’ll say they gave her a fat lip . . .

[C. Edmund Wright]

Of course, it could be she was attacked because she was CNN.....

[windsorknot]

This is what we feed to the animals at the zoo

Both attendees said the exact same thing? Did they say it in unison? Witnesses? Video?

[dfwgator]

Give me names of the peanut throwers, or else it didn’t happen.

[arrogantsob]

She was not attacked at all.

This is a RAT stunt.

[DaveInDallas]

Give me names of the peanut throwers, or else it didn’t happen.

You'll never hear them, because then it might be possible to track them down and see whether they donate to Dems.

[Jeff Head]

You mean they through “peanuts” at her and the CNN crew? Oh, the horror!

Peanut reacism is what it is for sure.