Breitbart: CBS News has declared words and phrases like “blacklist” and “Black Monday” racist.
“Many headlines referred to the stock market plunge yesterday as ‘Black Monday,’ and that is just one of the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that racism has been braided into our everyday culture,” CBS This Morning co-anchor Tony Dokoupil announced on Tuesday.
The segment that followed attacked a number of other words and, of course, our Founding Fathers as racist, by way of a book — Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America — aimed at children as young as 12. The book is written by CBS News contributor Ibram X. Kendi and co-author Jason Reynolds.
Transcript courtesy of NewsBusters:
CO-ANCHOR MICHELLE MILLER: And speaking of the book, so many misconceptions and truly lies throughout the history of what children are taught about their history. I hate to put it that directly, but, you know, when you go back and you look at people like a Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, these founding fathers who were so revered, how do you re-teach that?
CBS NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND AUTHOR IBRAM X. KENDI: Well, I think first and foremost you ask the question, what does it mean that a slave holder heralded the American philosophy of freedom? And so you sort of start there. And then I think young people can understand the contradictions. And I think that’s one of the things we’re trying to show them through this book.
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CBS CO-ANCHOR ANTHONY MASON: Tony made reference to it in introducing you, even terms like “Black Monday,” “Black Sheep,” can be freighted with a negative connotation that sometimes we don’t even realize.
MILLER: Baked into the vocabulary.
MASON: Yeah.
[ONSCREEN GRAPHIC: Words With Negative Connotations: Black Monday, Black Sheep, Blackballing, Blackmail, Blacklisting]
KENDI: Yeah, and I don’t think we even realize when you have a skin color and regular color and we’re connoting both in a negative fashion. There are relationships between the two and I think we have to break not only the relationship, but those negative connotations.
Whoa, whoa, whoa…
Why doesn’t CBS News disclose all the words and terms where “black” is used as a positive?
How about “Black Friday”?
Oh,ok. So we now have to say, “African-American list”? Got it.
I can remember a time when this would have been a Saturday Night Live sketch.
Whoa Black Betty Wham-Ba-Lam… Whoa Black Betty Wham-Ba-Lam…
They’ll coming for the music next.
So “blacklisted” has been black balled?
Dark days ahead. Puts me in a black mood.
So no more black crayon, little black dress, orange is the new black, blackouts, black marks, black tie, black coffee, or:
(as) black as (one) is painted
(as) black as (one’s) hat
(as) black as a raven
(as) black as a raven’s feather
(as) black as a raven’s wing
(as) black as a skillet
(as) black as ink
(as) black as Newgate’s knocker
(as) black as night
(as) black as pitch
(as) black as the ace of spades
(as) black as the devil
(as) black as the minister’s coat
(as) black as thunder
a black box
a black day
a black eye
a black look
a black mark
a black mark against (one)
a black mark against someone
a black mark beside (one’s) name
a black spot
a dirty look
a/the black sheep
as clear as black and white
back of the black stump
be (not) as black as (someone or something) is painted
be in (one’s) black books
be in someone’s black books
be in the black
beyond the black stump
black
black and blue
black and white
black as a skillet
black as night
black as night/pitch/the ace of spades
black as one is painted
black as pitch
black babies
black book
black book, (put) in one’s
black box
black eye
Black Friday
black gold
black gum
black hat
black hole
black list
Black Lives Matter
black look
black magic
Black Maria
black mark
black mark beside name
black market
black on black
black out
black rider
Black Russian
black sheep
black sheep of the family
black stump
black tie
black triangle
Black Twitter
black-and-blue
black-collar worker
black-collar workers
blacklist
black-silk barge
devil is not so black as he is painted
dirty look, give a
early black
give (someone or something) a black eye
give a black eye to (someone or something)
give someone a black eye
he, it, etc. is not as black as he, it, etc. is painted
in (someone’s) black books
in black and white
in the black
in the red
little black book
look black
not all black and white
not as black as (one) is painted
not as black as you are painted
of the blackest dye
once you go black, you never go back
paint (one) black
paint a black picture (of someone or something)
paint black
paint the black
pitch black
pot calling the kettle black, the
pot is calling the kettle black
pretend (that) black is white
put (something) down in black and white
put down in black and white
saintly black character
say (that) black is white
set (something) down in black and white
swear (that) black is white
swear black is white
the black dog
the black market
the black ox has trod upon (one’s) foot
the black ox has trod upon (one’s) toe
the black sheep
the black sheep of the family
the devil is not so black as he is painted
the new black
the pot calling the kettle black
the pot is calling the kettle black
this side of the black stump
Ibram X. Kendi. That’s the first mistake.
So how soon will they realize that Schwarz means black in German?
They’re desparate to use all these banned terms to fill that ‘black hole’
‘Scuse me while I whip this out –
https://youtu.be/DM4-r4pN1PY
Sounds like CBS wants to WHITEWASH the English language.
Anthony Mason, Gail King and that new guy are ASSHOLES.
Uh oh. I just bought some “black out” curtains for a bedroom. It said “black out curtains” right on the raaaycis package!!
How about Oreos or Uncle Tom?