Chuck Todd Addresses Racist Charleston Shooting w/Segment About Black Murderers

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Chuck Todd Addresses Racist #Charleston Gun Violence w/Segment About Black Murderers: http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/chuck-todd-addresses-racist-charleston-gun …

Following the tragic deaths of nine black church-goers in Charleston at the hands of an alleged white supremacist, NBC host Chuck Todd featured a segment with only black murderers who were regretful of using guns.

On Sunday's edition of Meet the Press, Todd kicked off a discussion about gun control with a video of convicted murderers at Sing Sing Correctional Facility talking about how they wished they had never picked up a gun.

"The circumstances you are about to see are very different from the racist violence in Charleston," Todd explained. "In this case, in the inmates are African-American that you're going to hear from. But their lessons remain important."

"And we simply ask you to look at this as a color-blind issue that's about just simply gun violence," he added.

read more: http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/chuck-todd-addresses-racist-charleston-gun


Chuck Todd penned a response to the critics of his terrible Meet the Press segment highlighting black murderers who regret picking up a gun.

We've gotten a lot of feedback about the gun video we showed on Meet the Press today. Some were upset it only featured African-American men talking about their regrets of pulling a trigger. All of the men in the piece volunteered to be a part of the video and the larger project it is a part of.

But the last thing we wanted was to cloud the discussion of the topic.

The original decision to air this segment was made before Wednesday's massacre. However, the staff and I had an internal debate about whether to show it at all this week. When we discussed putting it off, that conversation centered around race and perception - not the conversation we wanted the segment to invoke.

We decided against delaying the segment because we wanted to show multiple sides of what gun violence does in this country. We thought the issue of gun violence in our culture and society was an important conversation to continue -- too important to put off for another week. The consequences of gun violence should not be hidden.

As I say to all audiences, Meet the Press should make all viewers uncomfortable at some point or we are not doing our job. I hope folks view the gun video as a part of the conversation we should all be having and not the totality of it.

from Karoli at Crooks and Liars:

Memo to Chuck Todd and NBC News: You cannot separate the two. You cannot. When you choose to air a segment featuring black people in prison for murder -- whether or not they regret their act -- you ARE bringing race and perception to your viewers. From your perch, you think you can be lofty about that, but real people and real viewers will not and do not share that privilege...

The Charleston massacre has raised many issues which are ripe for discussion and they all center on race, racism and white privilege. There's plenty there to "make viewers uncomfortable" without sending a message that murderers are black people. Yes, that's perception. But how else are viewers expected to perceive it when you're airing a segment with its sole focus on black men convicted of murder...?

Start listening to people instead of lecturing them about "being uncomfortable." Listen to people in your own universe. I'm pretty sure, for example, that Tamron Hall and Joy Ann Reid would have told you that under no circumstances would this be an appropriate launch for a discussion of gun violence not only on this week for sure, but on any week of any year...

There are no colorblind issues. Everyone sees things through the lens of their own experience. You can no more ask a black person to pretend they're not black than you can turn into a spotted leopard. This idea of "colorblindness" is really a suggestion that everyone should view issues like white folks do, because of course we don't perceive ourselves as "color."

read more: http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/chuck-todd-defends-mtp-segment-black?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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1. K&R.....

[GoneFishin]

2. I can't believe what I am reading. I knew Chuck Todd was twisted, but I am almost speechless to

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think that even he is that big an idiot.

Am I missing something? Does he have a brain aneurysm?

[GeorgeGist]

8. As Timmeh explained ...

integrity is for paupers.

[Cha]

3. Of course, chuckie todd and corporate mediawhoredom would do something inanely stupid and

racist like this.

[hifiguy]

4. Hey Chuckles,

[MerryBlooms]

5. MSNBC is fucked up beyond ANY sort of redemption.

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6. Oh, you wanted to "cloud the discussion," all right

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You deliberately decided to "prove" that blacks are just as good at killing as they are at being killed under the guise of "fairness and balance."

Meanwhile, the families of both the victims and the shooter agonize; politicians and pundits are clumsily wrapping their agendas around the shooting as though it was an oversized package; there's been next to no national reporting done on Dylan Roof's online manifesto and its mention of a conservative organiation; the FBI itself is avoiding accusing Dylann Roof of being a terrorist -- and this is the only "unique angle" on the Charleston shooting you could come up with? I'd have more respect for you if you'd spent the time taking votes of whether or not to get rid of the Confederate flag!


rocktivity

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7. Todd should be fired or at least his chief editor

either he was told what to portray or he did it himself - which is it?