Boortz refers to black crime as "8000lb gorilla in the room"

[Hugabear]

This morning on his radio talk show, Neil Boortz was defending racial profiling, claiming that blacks commit most of the crime in this country. He kept referring to black crime as a "800lb elephant in the room", but at one point he must have had a Freudian slip and showed his true feelings, calling it the "8000lb gorilla in the room"

When is this racist fuck going to be driven off the air?

[chelsea0011]

1. The impoverished usually will commit the most crimes

without regard to race. It is a money thing. It is also why few have been tried for bringing down the government financial institutions. It is a money thing.

[Marrah_G]

2. ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Does this guy know his audience or what?!?

Any *serious* race-related discussion of crime and punishment in this country needs to address economic factors, police discrimination, disparity in sentencing, and a host of other issues. Boortz is merely pandering to an audience that will never look beyond the raw numbers.

[yardwork]

4. Most of the crime in this country is perpetrated by white guys on Wall Street.

[pinboy3niner]

6. +100

[n2doc]

8. Yep. And on K Street. Especially in dollar amount n/t

[NOLALady]

5. Did he say what he calls white crime?

[Initech]

7. No - the real 800lb gorilla in the room is white collar business crime.

What a racist asshole - Boortz is to racism what Limbaugh is to sexism.

[MerryBlooms]

9. I doubt it was a slip. I suspect-

He gave it a little thought, ran it by someone at the station during a break and then got the ok. Boortz and his ilk have never hidden their racism, but since FOX news props them up, they're definitely bolder.

[Blue_Tires]

10. he's just trolling

and he loves to poke at the hornet's nest that is black Atlanta...he's been pushing the
"blacks-are-dumb-lazy-criminal-lowlifes" meme as long as he's been on the air

[Quantess]

11. Notice he didn't say "elephant in the room"

like the standard phrase

[Hugabear]

14. He did use that phrase a few times - I think he just happened to slip up

Pretty sure he was thinking "gorilla" every time he said "elephant" - and then the one time, he slipped up and said what he was really thinking.

[joeybee12]

12. Blacks commit most crimes? I didn't know most banks

had African Americans and their ceo's.

[libtodeath]

13. Racist sob