In a broadcast earlier this week, Don Lemon called radicalized white men the “biggest terror threat in this country.”
Said Lemon: “The biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them. There is no travel ban on them. There is no ban on–you know, they had the Muslim ban. There is no white guy ban. So what do we do about that?”
CNN's Don Lemon: "We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men, most of them radicalized to the right, and we have to start doing something about them." pic.twitter.com/OFu9fL3eHn
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 31, 2018
Regardless of how you feel about Lemon’s remarks, whether you agree or disagree, what happened next is truly horrific.
Critics, the majority of whom appear to be white men, have responded in ways that basically prove the CNN anchor right: by hurling all sorts of hate, vitriol, and violent innuendo his way.
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The responses have included no shortage of racist and homophobic slurs, including calling Lemon a “f*ggot n*gger”, “f*ck boy”, “house n*gger”, “pig”, “donkey”, “anti-white”, and “bitter fruit,” a reference to Billie Holiday’s 1939 song “Strange Fruit”, which is about lynching African Americans during the height of the Jim Crow era.
Let’s take a look at the responses, shall we?
First, there were the tweets…
Don Lemon of CNN the most distrusted name in news. A lot of angry white men are looking for you black ass. Stop sayin you gay too. We don’t clam your sorry black ass fucker??????????????????????????
— Two-spirite (@Intersexindian) November 2, 2018
@donlemon “the biggest terrorist threat the US is facing is white men.” Maybe the biggest threat is faggot niggers like you. FYI I am neither racist nor homophobic. Just giving you a little of your own rhetoric to remind you how much it hurts and how wrong it is. Grow up!
— William C. Bafford (@WilliamCBafford) October 31, 2018
CEO of CNN. He is the ass that hired Don ‘take it in the ass’ Lemon? https://t.co/1QLllZY7r9
— Amy E Adams (@AmyEAdams77) November 2, 2018
Don lemon is a p.I.G pig pic.twitter.com/XrUsKwROzg
— Truthcat (@Truthcat1) November 2, 2018
Don Lemon is in a relationship with a #White #man, so he shares his bed with one of the #terrorists he complains about not being put on a #terrorist watch list. Talk about a #complex #relationship. But hey, I hear that hate sex can be hot ???? pic.twitter.com/ab6S6fnxF2
— TheLiberalHammer (@Kevin_Nyvek) November 2, 2018
Is don lemon gay? pic.twitter.com/tE8VYcQ2aF
— GIANT DIUGH (@Shawn78129600) November 2, 2018
you see don lemon raging against white men-lol yur fag ex was a white dude
— Scott (@lobsterquotes) November 1, 2018
Don Lemon is a House Nigger.
— Jon Ueberroth (@jonube) October 31, 2018
Don Lemon triples down on his ANTI-WHITE racism #walkaway #toxichomosexuality pic.twitter.com/5u18k6AkSj
— Robotsky (@Conunderground) November 2, 2018
I am tired of ass wipes like Don Lemon. Can call white men anything they want. SO DON LEMMON YOU ARE A FAG NIGGER
— gold nugget (@herb_salley) November 2, 2018
Then came the memes…
Related: CNN anchor Don Lemon calls white men the ‘biggest terror threat’ in the U.S.
batesmotel
Let me guess, he still has a job after that racist comment.
DarkZephyr
His comment wasn’t r*cist. He’s right. He didn’t bother saying “not all white guys” but he shouldn’t have had to. He is openly dating a white man. But back to his point, he’s absolutely correct. Nasty homophobic straight white men make up the largest, worst, most dangerous element of this country. Instead of joining these bigots in deriding him, you should be asking yourself how you can help toward a solution to this problem.
JH0607
Blacks are only 13% of the population but they commit over 80% of all crime…and 95% of murders.
viciouslies
@JH0607: That is… not correct.
Brian
“most of them radicalized to the right”
Yeah, I don’t think he’s absolutely correct. Most white men in this country are certainly not radicalized to the right.
Bryguyf69
Er, what racist comment? He was just starting facts. Try looking at the most recent ADL stats. The VAST majority of domestic terrorism is from right wing white men. Look at your mass shootings, especially school shootings. And anonymous bombings. How many are perpetrated by non-white males?
SnakeyJ
He needs to be fired. He’s spreading lies and hate speech, and it shouldn’t be accepted because it’s directed at white men. Everyone’s a victim now.
DarkZephyr
He’s pointing out the truth. AND getting the reaction he was hoping for that proves his point.
Shaner
I don’t understand why Lemon gets a pass for an out of line statement like this. He’s abused his position to generalize that white right leaning people are a danger to the USA? Individuals with radical views who choose to act on them whatever their political leanings or colour are a danger to the public. His credibility (what little he had) is gone for me.
Juanjo
“His credibility (what little he had) is gone for me.”
I am sure that he, as well as, the rest of us are all devastated to read this.
Coruna2018
Shaner, is he wrong? I think not. At the very least, most right-leaning white men do not spend time thinking of how they have it over most non-whites. They live in their protected bubbles, aka gated or all-white communities. Notice I didn’t say “all white men”. I said “most right-leaning white men” and it is true that most don’t use 1 oz. of brainpower concerned about the plight of non-whites. They only concern themselves with getting ahead, financially but they do worry that non-whites might get more financial and political power than they might have and that freaks them out as to what a non-white majority would do to such white men who’ve, at best, dismissed non-whites and, at worst, like Juanjo and Shaner, discrediting him and using slurs to minimize him and what he says but Juanjo and Shaner cannot disprove what Don Lemon said. More harm and murder have been committed by alt-right men than any other group in the United States and they, by definition, are radicalized right-leaning white men. They are tearing our country apart and will bring us down.
Thomas Loom
Because the President still gets away with it.
Juanjo
I see the usual racist, homophobic trolls are at it again. Dark Zephyr is on point.
Ditamo
FACT: 73% of Politically Motivated Terrorism/Killings in the USA from 2006 to 2016 were committed by Radical Right Wingers
FACT: Over 90% of Right Wingers are White and the majority are Male
Conclusion: As a minority or women in the USA, you should fear far right WHITE MEN.
David
Ditamo; don’t just throw this shit out there; everyone should fear the far right and they should also fear the far left. Your such an ASSHOLE for stating such crap. The government must be supporting you.
DarkZephyr
David, how about you give evidence showing that he’s incorrect? Are you really gonna try to deny that most right wingers are white men? Seriously? And then implying that he must be broke and on welfare because that is the ONLY type of person who would hold an opinion like that after calling him an a**hole is pretty rich.
I am a 41 year old gay white male. I recall with great clarity growing up and all of the incidences of being physically gay bashed. Do you know what comes to my mind? A sea of mostly WHITE faces. Were there some other types of faces in there? Yes. But they were by far the minority.
bowlingbutch
All you have to do is look at who goes to a Trump rally to see the face of bigoted hatred and the responses to Don Lemon shows that hate is alive in America. f you are not a white non-gay male in America you are a target for the hatred that is rampant in the White House and the Republican party. Don Lemon said it correctly and the ignorant people who use his life to be so openly hateful are promoting violence against black men, gay men, love between 2 races and anyone who is different. These are the people we all have to be afraid of for their hatred. When you promote that hatred, do you even think what that hatred feels like? Or since there are leaders who do the same do you really think it is okay? How many deaths does it take to stop hate?
Virpilosus
I am a white man. I am a progressive…I agree with Don Lemon and DarkZephyr on his comment above.
QJ201
I really need a Bitter Fruit t-shirt
JH0607
LOL
GLF
Yeah, as a white man who studies anti-LGBT politics, fascism, and Weimar Germany, Don Lemon is spot on and the reaction is predicable and proof of concept. The Justice Department warned in !2009! that right-wing white radicals were a domestic terror threat, and the Republicans sh t a brick, because that’s a large portion of their base. Let us not forget 45 only won about 25% of the population. You think white radicals are a small portion of that? Think again. If you’ve ever wondered what you would be doing in the 1930s as fascism spread across the globe and governments fell one by one…look around. You’re doing it.
dannysax
Yes he is right on! He did not say “all white men,” obviously he found a loving one that he is with, and there are a lot like that one. It’s just the vocal minority of far-right hatemongers who he is warning against. if that’s not obvious to you other commenters, then you have no intellect at all. I listened to a Trump rally video in which he talked about “bad people” in the refugee caravan. You know Donald has no clue how to use “big” words or say things in an eloquent manner, without his teleprompter written by his aides. But the reaction audience who cheered was, as has been said already, mostly white men with MAGA hats on. The new poster going around espoused by these types, equates LGBT with “Liberty (statue), Gun, Beer (bottle), and Trump” and this is what a lot of them believe about how to make America great again. Be on your guard!
draven
A lot of white men are unhappy all there lives. Regardless. They self hate. It shows a lot. Most white are cool. But dome white live in s bubble in USA. They weren’t told they were cute as little boys so they grow up and turn into hateful men.
GayEGO
I am a gay white man and I agree with Don Lemon. When I was in the Navy as a musician, it was a few white guys that harassed me because I played the flute. But I succeeded in a non-violent way to stop them from their comments.
JH0607
So you think that harassing you for being fem is terrorism???
Birdbrain1963
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Blackceo
Don Lemon is not wrong about this. I’m not scared of migrant caravans or MS-13. I’m scared of White men who feel like they have been aggrieved and have poor coping skills so the only way they know how to take out their rage is to shoot up synagogues and churches and movie theaters and schools and yoga studios. Ever since Trumpism allowed these people to take the sheets off their heads, hate crimes have gone up exponentially. So yeah…I get what Don Lemon is saying here, particularly since it is also White men who are carving out policies that are harming marginalized groups, including poor Whites.
But yes, go off on Black on Black crime and stuff. That doesn’t scare me as much as the potential that I’m minding my business and some angry White man decides to start shooting up the place.
Kangol
Look at the incel, misogynist, racist nutcase who just murdered two women in Tallahassee and injured nearly half a dozen more. They did fight back so that he didn’t slaughter every woman in that yoga studio, but two dead people is too many. It turns out that he is yet another white man who hated women, black people, gay people, etc. We have psychologists and psychiatrists out there, and most people who’ve ever consulted a reputable one can attest to the fact that at their best, they do good work. The ACA and many private insurance plans do cover mental health services. Let me say that again: Obamacare mandates mental health coverage for its insurance plans. Instead of seething with hate and resentment, plotting to massacre people, ranting on social media, loading up on weapons of slaughter and then going on rampages, etc., why don’t these rage-filled guys get badly needed psychological help?
fireman3306
FACT 1. Over 1,400 more black Americans murdered other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968.
FACT 2. Black People (mostly men) commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime.
FACT 3. Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks committed half of homicides in the United States for nearly 30 years.
FACT 4. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined.
FACT 5. It would take cops 40 years to kill as many black men as have died at the hands of others black men in 2012 alone.
fireman3306
BLACK/RACE/FACTS
In 2015, The Washington Post launched a real-time database to track fatal police shootings, and the project continues this year. As of Sunday, 1,502 people have been shot and killed by on-duty policeThe Truth officers since Jan. 1, 2015. Of them, 732 were white, and 381 were black (and 382 were of another or unknown race).
But as data scientists and policing experts often note, comparing how many or how often white people are killed by police to how many or how often black people are killed by the police is statistically dubious unless you first adjust for population.
According to the most recent census data, there are nearly 160 million more white people in America than there are black people. White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers.
U.S. police officers have shot and killed the exact same number of unarmed white people as they have unarmed black people: 50 each. But because the white population is approximately five times larger than the black population, that means unarmed black Americans were five times as likely as unarmed white Americans to be shot and killed by a police officer.
Police have shot and killed a young black man (ages 18 to 29) — such as Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. —175 times since January 2015; 24 of them were unarmed. Over that same period, police have shot and killed 172 young white men, 18 of whom were unarmed. Once again, while in raw numbers there were similar totals of white and black victims, blacks were killed at rates disproportionate to their percentage of the U.S. population. Of all of the unarmed people shot and killed by police in 2015, 40 percent of them were black men, even though black men make up just 6 percent of the nation’s population.
And, when considering shootings confined within a single race, a black person shot and killed by police is more likely to have been unarmed than a white person. About 13 percent of all black people who have been fatally shot by police since January 2015 were unarmed, compared with 7 percent of all white people.
In response to these statistics, critics of police reform — often political conservatives and police unions — typically argue that the reason more black men and women are shot and killed by police is that black Americans commit more violent crime.
“There’s too much violence in the black community,” former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation.” “If you want to deal with this on the black side, you’ve got to teach your children to be respectful to the police, and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police; the real danger to them, 99 out of 100 times, 9,900 out of 10,000 times, are other black kids who are going to kill them. That’s the way they’re gonna die.”
New DOJ Statistics on Race and Violent Crime – Truth is Justice
New DOJ Statistics on Race and Violent Crime – Truth is Justice
?FACT 1. Over 1,400 more black Americans murdered other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968.
?FACT 2. Black People (mostly men) commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime.
?FACT 3. Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks committed half of homicides in the United States for nearly 30 years.
?FACT 4. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined.
?FACT 5. It would take cops 40 years to kill as many black men as have died at the hands of others black men in 2012 alone.
?It’s true that around 13% of Americans are black, according to the latest estimates from the US Census Bureau.
And yes, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, black offenders committed 52 per cent of homicides recorded in the data between 1980 and 2008. Only 45 per cent of the offenders were white. Homicide is a broader category than “murder” but let’s not split hairs.
?Blacks were disproportionately likely to commit homicide and to be the victims. In 2008 the offending rate for blacks was seven times higher than for whites and the victimisation rate was six times higher.
As we found yesterday, 93 percent of black victims were killed by blacks and 84 per cent of white victims were killed by whites.
Alternative statistics from the FBI are more up to date but include many crimes where the killer’s race is not recorded. These numbers tell a similar story.
In 2013, the FBI has black criminals carrying out 38 per cent of murders, compared to 31.1 per cent for whites. The offender’s race was “unknown” in 29.1 per cent of cases.
What about violent crime more generally? FBI arrest rates are one way into this. Over the last three years of data – 2011 to 2013 – 38.5 percent of people arrested for murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault were black.
Clearly, these figures are problematic. We’re talking about arrests not convictions, and high black arrest rates could be taken as evidence that the police are racist. But academics have noted that the proportion of black suspects arrested by the police tends to match closely the proportion of offenders identified as black by victims in the National Crime Victimization Survey.
This doesn’t support the idea that the police are unfairly discriminating against the black population when they make arrests.
So why are black offenders – and young black men in particular – over-represented in America’s crime statistics?
Judging from online comments, there is a wide spectrum of views on this, from unapologetic racism to militant refusal to blame the problem on anything but historic white racism.
Some criminologists think we could be simply confusing race for poverty or inequality: black people tend to offend more because they tend to be more disadvantaged, living in poorer urban areas with less access to public services, and so on.
If you control for deprivation, people of different races ought to be similarly predisposed to commit crime. Or that’s the theory, at least.
There is a lot of research in this area, but a lot of it is contradictory.
BLACK CRIME STATS 9-19-17
?93% of black homicide is committed by their own race.
? In 2012, blacks committed 560,600 acts of violence against whites, and whites committed 99,403 acts of violence against blacks
?The blacks are 12 to 13% of the population yet 52% of all homicides. Which makes them seven times higher than that of whites for committing homicide
?Blacks, in other words, committed 85% of the interracial crimes between blacks and whites, even though they are 13 percent of the population.
2012/2013 period, blacks committed an average of 560,600 violent crimes against whites, whereas whites committed only 99,403 such crimes against blacks. This means blacks were the attackers in 84.9 percent of the violent crimes involving blacks and whites. This table can be used for a number of interesting calculations. First, we find that during the 2012/2013 period, blacks committed an average of 560,600 violent crimes against whites, whereas whites committed only 99,403 such crimes against blacks. This means blacks were the attackers in 84.9 percent of the violent crimes involving blacks and whites.
?Using figures for the 2013 racial mix of the population–62.2 percent white, 17.1 percent Hispanic, 13.2 percent black–we can calculate the average likelihood of a person of each race attacking the other. A black is 27 times more likely to attack a white and 8 times more likely to attack a Hispanic than the other way around. A Hispanic is eight times more likely to attack a white than vice versa.
Lacuevaman
copy/paste asshole
Bryguyf69
Fireman3306 –
You just made a complete fool of yourself because none of that is relevant. TRY READING CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU POST. Lemon was clearly talking about ideological domestic terrorism. Or was the word, “radicalized” too complicated for you?
Try looking at the most recent ADL stats. The VAST majority of domestic terrorism is from right wing white men. Look at your mass shootings, especially school shootings. And anonymous bombings. How many are perpetrated by non-white males?
So what crimes are worse? A localized robbery, where there is usually just one targeted victim? Or a random mass killling that can occur in any neighborhood? Duh! THINK about it.
radiooutmike
While you, or I for that matter may not be part of the problem as white guys.
They/we are certainly most of the problem. Like that douchebag Steve King, who is all rah-rah for white men and western civilization in general. But he never accepts or owns what history has taught us. The abject horror we have perpetrated on each other, but mostly to people who don’t look like us or are the same sex or religion as us.