Monday, October 29, 2018

About That Time NBC Thought They'd Turn Unconstructed White Racist Megyn Kelly Into White Oprah (Last Week)

Feeling Rebloggy
"Good Morning Everyone. And welcome to the show. I'm Megyn Kelly 
And I want to begin with two words: I'm sorry 
You may  have heard that, yesterday, we had a discussion here about political correctness and Halloween costumes. And that conversation turned to whether it is ever okay for a person of one race to dress up as another, a black person making their face lighter or... "
The above quote represent the first unbelievable 20 seconds of her apology for defending black face as part of a Halloween costume. 

 Link to the original offending video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY1Hf2taOPY
Sista Girl = Ain't Having It
Megyn Kelly's NBC show has been a ratings nightmare, and was at risk even before she defended blackface
In its first year, Kelly's show averaged 2.4 million viewers a day, a drop of 400,000 viewers from that hour's average before she began hosting, according to Nielsen (via The New York Times).
 (A lot of black folks didn't watch after 
NBC pushed Tamron Hall out for this offensive wench)


Now NBC is trying to come out smelling like a rose because they made it look like they fired her for racism instead of for losing them money -- when NBC hired her in spite of knowing she was one of white racists' favorite anchors when she was on Fox News.

 Even though most of us black folk knew she couldn't possibly last, most of the ones I know were surprised she was fired so fast after the black face comment and non-apology. Unaware of just how bad her ratings were, that black face comment was probably the mildest racist crap that's plopped out of Kelly's mouth.

 Besides ordinary white folks, far and wide, defend the black face crap every single Halloween.

 For Harriet Video: Racists favorite tool = false equivalence
Kelly is such an unreconstructed racist that she famously flipped out in 2013, in reaction to a piece by Slate writer Aisha Harris about black Santa iconography, and insisted that not only was Santa white, but so was Jesus, and that in both cases this was "a verifiable fact." 
This claim was unbelievably dumb on multiple levels. 
Leaving aside the fraught question of whether there is a Santa Claus, his legend is apparently based is based on a man born in Turkey. Jesus, if he existed, was a Middle Eastern man who lived long before the concept of "whiteness" was invented. More importantly, both figures can safely be understood more as mythical than historical, and subsequently can be interpreted to look however people like.
It was just a matter of time before Kelly said something obnoxiously racist on the "Today" show, even if her ostensible role there was to be a chipper morning-show lark rather than the inflammatory demagogue that she was on Fox News. Yet somehow the executives at NBC  [such as Andrew Lack] were dumb enough not to see the inevitability of what happened.



Click for Sound 
Kelly benefited from the pernicious myth that racism is an ideology of the trailer park and the rural diner and that college-educated elite white people, especially those that live in coastal cities, are somehow immune. According to this theory, elite-group racism is a pandering act staged to bamboozle Cletus, and someone like Kelly, whose educational background and current lifestyle mirrors the cosmopolitan liberal whites she made a living bashing on Fox News, can't really be that hysterical and ignorant....
Sociologist Eduardo Bonilla-Silva has dubbed this the "racism without racists" phenomenon, in which squeamishness about diagnosing what's in the heart of a white person — at least an elite, educated white person — leads people to fear applying the R-word even to people like Kelly, who constantly say and do overtly racist things....
Read More: https://www.salon.com/2018/10/26/so-long-megyn-kelly-now-we-know-your-racism-was-always-perfectly-sincere/ 
BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM
Posted by at
Labels:

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)