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Ex-CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien: Network exec told her to only have the 'right kind' of black guests
Fox News ^ | June 14 2020 | Joseph A. Wulfsohn

Posted on 06/14/2020 10:55:07 AM PDT by knighthawk

Former CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien made stunning claims on Saturday that a network exec once told her she could only have the "right kind" of black guests on her show.

Reacting to the controversy that has rocked ABC News over the weekend, O'Brien reflected on her time at CNN and indicated that a network executive discouraged her to sit down with black radio host Roland Martin.

"This is an interesting read. Reminds me of the CNN exec who told me: 'Roland Martin isn’t the ‘right kind of’ Black person.' She didn’t want me to book him on my show. L," O'Brien tweeted.

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To: knighthawk

What kind of parents name their daughter after a prison?


21 posted on 06/14/2020 11:34:46 AM PDT by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth)
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To: cgbg
One of the dirty little secrets of racism is the prejudice of light skinned blacks against dark skinned blacks.

It's not just 'light and dark - there are names for the various shades between dark and light... It's the same with many other non-white cultures. They rate the 'whitest' among them as more desirable. Then they project that silliness on to us.

It's sad... and wrong.

22 posted on 06/14/2020 11:35:10 AM PDT by GOPJ (Blacks slaughter each other and it's 'gun violence'. A cop kills a black person and it's 'murder'..)
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To: clintonh8r

[[What kind of parents name their daughter after a prison?]]

Mr & Mrs Rikers?


23 posted on 06/14/2020 11:39:36 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: knighthawk
THIS IS CNNLIES

RACIST "NEWS"

THISis-CNN

24 posted on 06/14/2020 11:40:26 AM PDT by timestax
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To: dfwgator

Even when it was right in front of me, I had to look twice to see the obvious. Does that mean I’m not a racist?


25 posted on 06/14/2020 11:40:55 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

No, it does not.In today’ climate, everything and anything is racists.


26 posted on 06/14/2020 11:45:43 AM PDT by sport
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To: clintonh8r

It refers to Maria de la Soledad, our lady of solitude.


27 posted on 06/14/2020 11:47:09 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: cgbg
"One of the dirty little secrets of racism is the prejudice of light skinned blacks against dark skinned blacks."

That's been going on for ages. The house slaves looked down on the field slaves...felt superior to them. And in the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Infantry Regiments during the Civil War, the free black men who served in those units had no use for the contraband regiments who were organized by the likes of Colonel James Montgomery, and Lt. Colonel James Beecher who organized the 1st North Carolina Colored Infantry, later known as the 35th Regiment, United States Colored Infantry. The men of the 54th and 55th looked down their noses at those regiments. The thing is that there were runaway slaves in both of those units, but none of the men could admit to it, and had to lie to take the oath upon joining.

28 posted on 06/14/2020 11:47:43 AM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: knighthawk

‘right’ kind meaning liberals, of course


29 posted on 06/14/2020 11:49:51 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: cgbg; cherry
One of the dirty little secrets of racism is the prejudice of light skinned blacks against dark skinned blacks.

Years ago I heard an lower-level employee grumbling about the "light-skineded" [sic] upper-level manager.

A book of local history has pictures (1940s-'50s) of a black ladies' charitable society. Almost all of the women were very, very light. Where were the medium- and dark-complected women?

30 posted on 06/14/2020 11:52:07 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: knighthawk
The most racist individuals I've met in my life were Leftists.

I'm not at all surprised with CNN executives, for them it's about Leftist narcissism and the money they desire to feed such narcissism.

31 posted on 06/14/2020 11:52:31 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: dfwgator

LOL....WOW, had never seen that before.

Wonder if it was intentional.


32 posted on 06/14/2020 11:55:18 AM PDT by traderrob6
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To: Corporate Law

ping


33 posted on 06/14/2020 11:58:26 AM PDT by timestax
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To: cgbg

In “Sociology,” it was pointed out how “Ebony,” a popular magazine aimed at the Black American market, featured only light skinned folks. There was no ebony in “Ebony!”
Not sure how it is now. It is sad that people of the same race could discriminate against one who was darker. Wouldn’t that be called “Racism?” YOU BETCHA!


34 posted on 06/14/2020 11:58:54 AM PDT by BatGuano (Ya don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do Ya?)
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To: BatGuano

It’s the same in the Hispanic world, watch any Mexican TV show, all European looking actors and actresses.


35 posted on 06/14/2020 12:01:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knighthawk

Thomas Sowell wouldn’t be the right kind.


36 posted on 06/14/2020 12:07:42 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: BlueHorseShoe

My Grandfather once told me 60 years ago to watch, keep your mouth shut, because a Fox always smells his/hers own hole first. Ive found this to be true all my life, a thief will say somebody stole it, a liar says someone is lying and so on. That first impression has paid off many times.


37 posted on 06/14/2020 12:08:36 PM PDT by gbs
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To: knighthawk

Soledad is a race pimp of the worst kind. Trust nothing this irrelevant whore says.


38 posted on 06/14/2020 12:10:59 PM PDT by Levy78
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To: knighthawk

When was the last time o’brien was on cnn? Pretty ckear they’ e since tossed any of that restraint right out the window.


39 posted on 06/14/2020 12:11:33 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: timestax
NEVER GO THERE !!

cnn-Prooven-Liars

40 posted on 06/14/2020 12:12:02 PM PDT by timestax
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