CNN analyst Areva Martin accused radio host David Webb of 'white privilege.' Webb is black

[hexola]

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/16/areva-martin-cnn-analyst-accuses-black-radio-host-white-privilege/2590841002/

During a guest radio appearance, a CNN legal analyst said the show's host, who is black, has benefited from "white privilege."

The segment aired Tuesday during a SiriusXM show hosted by David Webb, who is also a contributor at Fox News. His guest during the segment was Areva Martin, a civil rights attorney and CNN legal analyst.

According to a clip posted to Twitter, Webb details his rise in the media, saying he always saw his qualifications as a more important issue than his color.

"Well, David, that’s a whole 'nother long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don’t have the privilege of," said Martin.

When Webb asks how he benefits, Martin said it's "by virtue of being a white male."

[MagickMuffin]

1. Ooopsie, Webb must've changed and no one else noticed his transformation

Oh no David, you now have a choice.

Do you want to remain a POC or do you want to continue to receive ALL the virtues of being a white male???


The choice is yours!

[loyalsister]

2. For accuracy

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It could have been stated in terms of white supremacy. As in, Clarence Thomas' success has everything to do with attaching to and enabling white male supremacy.

I don't know enough about him to know if that is the case with Webb, but if she can't make that argument, she clearly does not understand racism.

[violetpastille]

4. +1

[hughee99]

7. I think she just used it as a ploy to dismiss his opinions, and it backfired. Nt

[Amishman]

3. Embarrassing, stupid shit like this undermines legitimate discussion

It's hard enough to have a real conversation about this stuff as is

[pintobean]

6. I found it enlightening.

It's funny what people will assume when they can't see a person's color. It's also interesting how people can, and will, use that. It happens quite often on message boards.

[ChubbyStar]

8. It's also interesting how people can, and will, use that.

Fragmented sentence. To be a sentence, groups of words need to have at least one independent clause. An independent clause is any group of words that contain a subject and a verb and can stand on its own. So exactly what are you saying in this non sentence?

[WillowTree]

9. Patronizing much?

That's taking 'grammar police' to the extreme.

And, by the way, "it" is the subject and "is" is the verb. In other words, it is a valid sentence.

[ChubbyStar]

12. Try putting that in a news headline

"It's also interesting how people can, and will, use that." What is that? Bombs in Syria? Baby abduction in Fresno? So you missed the independent clause part of the equation.

[WillowTree]

13. "It is interesting." Complete sentence.

[pintobean]

14. LOL

How's that for a headline?

[ecstatic]

11. Internet dialect aka "netspeak" is informal and doesn't follow all

the traditional rules.

[Fullduplexxx]

5. Lol

[MrScorpio]

10. You can pretty much expect the RWNJ blogosphere to use this to promote anti-blackness

Black cons are never about overall black empowerment, they're about monetizing white supremacy with a black face for personal gain.

Technically, Areva Martin wasn't wrong about Webb.

His blackness seems to be an inconvenience for him, because he clearly would rather be white.