Friday, December 5, 2003
Protestors call Cunningham racist; call on him to resign
They accused the host and the station of being racist based on comments and spots that aired in response to the death of Nathaniel Jones.
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Protesters with the Coalition of Concerned Citizens for Justice are angry about WLW spots like one that parodied a song saying: "The fat man ever after has a martyr's place/ Let's all ignore whatever drugs he had/ His friends are on the news and all up in our face/ saying he was a charming guy and splendid dad/ His death was unrelated to his injuries but still we hear the people sing police brutality/ lies go on bro la la how the lies go on."--WCPO
Now go back and read through those lyrics again. They're calling Cunningham racist for stuff like that.
How many times was it say he was overweight because he was black? 0
How many times did it say he did drugs because he was black? 0
How many times did it say that anything anyone did was influenced by their race? 0
How many times in there was it even mentioned that he or any of his friends were black? 0
At what point did cries of racism no longer have to involve the supposed racist actually making judgments based on race? Criticizing somebody of another race is not racism. It's called criticism.
Is there real racism out there? Sure, but calling this racism just minimizes the real instances of racism.