This just in: Confronting racism makes some white people very “uncomfortable.”
So uncomfortable, in fact, that they break down in tears on live TV because they just feel so judged!
Well, that second scenario more accurately describes one person in particular — Fox News host Melissa Francis.
During a Wednesday broadcast, she defended President Trump’s bombastic news conference in which he doubled down on blaming “both sides” for violence at the white supremacist rally that left one counter-protester dead and another 19 injured.
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But even her Fox News co-hosts weren’t taking it, and the friction that ensued was enough to bring her to tears.
“I am so uncomfortable having this conversation,” she said.
“I know what’s in my heart and I know that I don’t think anyone is different, better or worse based on the color of their skin,” Francis continued, waterworks initiated. “But I feel like there is nothing any of us can say right now without being judged.”
Co-host Harris Faulkner threw Francis a bone, saying “there have been a lot of tears on our network, and across the country and around the world.”
“It’s a difficult place where we are, but it’s not where we’ve been, it’s where we are,” Faulkner added. “This is not 1950, we can do this. We can have this conversation, oh yes we can. And it’s OK if we cry having it.”
Watch below:
https://youtu.be/wH65EPY05LA
Writer Jesse Berney provided a bit of constructive commentary on Twitter:
This is funny but I also want to talk about how what @MelissaAFrancis is saying here is, in fact, racist. https://t.co/5t1tqDArAH
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
It is racist to try to stop discussions about racism because they make you uncomfortable.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
It is racist to put your comfort over the oppression of others. That’s the sneaky racism.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
The other woman (I don’t know who it is, sorry) is trying to point out the tough facts about what Trump says. Francis won’t let her.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
Stopping that discussion because you are afraid of being accused of racism perpetuates suffering.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
White people need to feel that discomfort. We need to embrace it. We need to be willing to examine our own beliefs.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
You can’t just say “I don’t think people are different because of their color” and declare racism solved. That’s not how it works.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
Most of all, we need to LISTEN to people of color. Even when it makes us uncomfortable.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
You seem nice, Melissa. But you don’t get a free pass from racism because you want one. None of us do. We all have work to do.
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) August 16, 2017
Francis reportedly blocked Berney on Twitter shortly after his comments.
Smith David
Awwww baby girl.. You want some apple slices and a juice box? Poow thang.
Yessssum y’all Ms. Francis is going thru it. I wonder if she knows how uncomfortable racism has been for the oppressed? Pooow Ms. Francis.
Smith David
I will say, she looks stunning in that yellow.
DCguy
Typical Fox News. Being forced to TALK about Racism is basically offensive to her, so better not talk about it.
Kind of like the people that don’t even want violence or bigotry against lgbts to even be mentioned. Because Racism and Bigotry die when it is exposed to the sunlight. Of COURSE Fox is desperate to find an excuse not to talk about it.
KaiserVonScheiss
What did she say in the clip that was racist? Nothing.
This is just more nonsense and fake news. This is the leftist agenda: call everyone racist, poison the well and hope they will back down and finally agree with you. Well, guess what? It ain’t gonna work forever.
People of all stripes and colours are waking up to this kind of bullshit. Notice how it’s the identitarians on the left and right who constantly talk about race.
No one else wants to talk about race 24/7. The rest of us want to live our lives. People should be judged by the content of their character, not the colour of their skin. But to the radical left, that isn’t good enough. No, we have to talk about race constantly. We have to talk about how everyone is racist and how they need to check their privilege and such nonsense.
It’s stupid and racist. The radical left and right, both racist. They truly belong together.
adam_stevens
Are these the thoughts and ideas of a serious man?
I don’t think so.
Bob LaBlah
@Mon Kaiser……………….”No one else wants to talk about race 24/7.”
Mon Kaiser, the subject is about race overall. The subject is about a knuckle headed (but elected) president who doesn’t seem to understand that he IS going to be held to a higher standard than he didn’t anticipate whether he likes it or not. And he clearly doesn’t. Do a google search and read what ol’ Arnold Schwartzanegger said about him today. And by the way, do you know where the HELL is Rudy Giuliani these days of late? I’ll close with this observation: your once fire breathing support for Trump has clearly been douched these days of late. Not even you can keep it up and YOU know it.
Juanjo
What Bob said was on point. Kaiser is again clutching at his pearls and being outraged over nothing at all.
gayjim1969
How did it all become about her? No one attacked Ms. Francis or called her racist; they simply disagreed with her take on the president’s statements regarding Charlottesville. She went and played the race card on herself. When white people are so sensitive about race that they can’t defend their position without falling back on the, “Why does everyone call me a racist; I know I’m not a racist” tactic, they know they have the intellectually and morally inferior position; this is a variation on the Poor Me Melodrama tactic used to emotionally manipulate others.
Her opinion was in the minority–a position she’s hardly used to on a Fox News show–and her attempts to sway her co-panelists was going nowhere, so she said, “I’m misunderstood;” “Don’t gang up on me, poor me.”
Jesse Berney was right in his assessment of her; she stopped the entire discussion by making it all about her and changing the narrative from the president’s response to racism, to Ms. Francis being a fragile, irrational elitist who requires coddling every time race issues are discussed.
BigWill
Kaiser Roll, the best part of you ran down your daddy’s leg.
Bob LaBlah
I have been watching Fox News very closely these days of late and have notice they too have bailed on Trump. They even aired a one and a half minute “unsubstantiated” (their exact words) that the senate is less than five votes away from having enough votes to impeach Trump. There is no way Fox would have reported that were it not true. This is Fox we’re talking about. The network that justifies just about any garbage spewed by ignorant GOP members and their elected presidents but this time around even they know they backed the wrong guy.
Trump knows what is going on and the only reason he has for back the neo-nazi’s is to show the public what he is going to instigate if impeachment proceedings begin. A patriot he claimed to be but his true color (a yellow streak up his back) is now showing. It won’t be long before David Duke enters the WH as his guest. Thats just how stupid and arrogant he is and I bet he does something along those lines before he gets forced out.
Brody
“There is no way Fox would have reported that were it not true.”
Got a feeling I’m gonna be reminding you of this statement in the future.
🙂
Bob LaBlah
@Brody…..” Got a feeling I’m gonna be reminding you of this statement in the future.
:)”
It is true. I have my doubts about Fox as well but other reputable sites are reporting the same thing and believe it or not it started at the Brookings Institution.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-just-six-senate-votes-away-impeachment-651857
NateOcean
She cried a river…then went home and cashed her FoxNews paycheck.
topsyturvy
Being … white … is … um … just … uh … so … just so … um … I’m sorry … just so … uh … hard.
jasentylar
Read her, Jesse!
hithere2
Oh how I long for the days when all black and brown people lived and worked on the other side of the tracks, that way I didn’t have to deal with them or see how government and societal policies like access to higher education and housing loans or redlining actually benefited me and not them. Now when I am faced with such facts it makes me sad because it’s not my fault if my grandparents, parents and I benefited from such policies and they didn’t, so why should I be made to feel bad when I have no control over any of this. Oh it just makes me want to cry and cry. Please black and brown people, say something to make me feel better. I know that love is in my heart.
1EqualityUSA
“I know that love is in my heart.” (I understand your post is irony.) Love? Try respect. Look past the atoms and molecules. Spiritually competent beings are the threat. Where love does its best work is in forgiveness, a bridge. The unenlightened continue to battle bodies, see skin, and condemn religious beliefs; they seek to oppress others politically. Strife is unhealthy. The spirit supersedes. In Charleston, South Carolina, a white supremacist allowed us to see what spiritual strength is, forgiveness. 1816’s Mother Emanuel Church has its parishioners forgiving in the face of hatred, divine competence. That kind of power is rare, a beacon for navigators. The threat is not the color of one’s skin, but spiritual wealth. Now, this is irony.
fredo777
Oh, Kaiser responded to this post with some bullsh*t about the liberals?! Shocking.