PBS’ Tavis Smiley set off critics earlier today when he declared that President Obama’s statement today on Trayvon Martin and racial profiling was “weak as pre-sweetened Kool-Aid.” That was just the warm-up act, though. Now, race-obsessed Salon has at last weighed in with its verdict on the president’s speech, calling it “overrated and airy,” and writer Rich Benjamin reserved his praise for Eric Holder, whom he suggests is unafraid to appear as the “angry black man” in the administration.
What’s another way to put it? Writes Benjamin:
Some of us have an Inner Child. Others have an Inner Nigger. Is Holder the president’s conscience? Or his Inner Nigger?
Yes, Benjamin is a black man, and Salon is as liberal as it gets. So, free pass, right?
https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/358401870177374209
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@salon TAKE IT DOWN!!
— CindyLouCamus (@cindynorth1) July 20, 2013
.@Salon has until tomorrow morning to apologize for that article and take it down. Or else I'm done with them forever.
— (((Light & Joy))) is Anti-Fascist (@leenie909) July 20, 2013
https://twitter.com/angrierangel/status/358401361613819905
Dear @RichBenjaminUSA and @Salon
You are about to catch Hell… From both Inner and Outer Negros.
Ms. Brooks
— Ms. Brooks™ (@TheREAL_MBrooks) July 20, 2013
@Salon is a bastion of left wing racism. But then, it's the house @joanwalsh helped build, so that explains it.
— itgurl (@itgurl_29) July 20, 2013
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@ritaag @goldietaylor they think because we live in a so called "post racial world" anything goes. Truly pathologic
— MagicLaura (@LauraShezBar) July 20, 2013
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@goldietaylor They are hiding behind the fact that the author of the article is Black. It's not okay.
— aspirational12 (@aspirational12) July 20, 2013
I was already refusing to click on @Salon links, but now I'm permanently done. This is unreal.
— Bailey, ABD (@the_author_) July 20, 2013
WHAT IN THE ENTIRE BLACK ASS FUCK, @Salon ?!?!
— Dick Sommelier (@TardigradePussy) July 20, 2013
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#blacktwitter ATTACK!!! @Salon has some NERVE!!!!
— Adjoa Hackman (@AdjoaHackman) July 20, 2013
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So I see people tweeting at me about the @Salon piece. IDK what Rich Benjamin was thinking, but negates all of his other writing on the site
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) July 20, 2013
But … President Obama has a complex double consciousness. That’s a compliment, right?
What black person doesnt understand duality/double consciousness? Legit Q: Does Holder embody PBOs complex double consciousness? @Salon
— Rich Benjamin (@IAmRichBenjamin) July 20, 2013
@richbenjaminusa naw Rich, I can't go with you on this one. Especially after today.
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) July 20, 2013
https://twitter.com/goldietaylor/status/358406519529803776
@goldietaylor @RichBenjaminUSA @Salon @AntheaButler nah son you can keep that
— Oswald Bate's Prison Tweets (@corey_smith80) July 20, 2013
@RichBenjaminUSA @salon
Dude you can't be serious…..— E. Dewey Smith (@edeweysmith) July 20, 2013
https://twitter.com/PappySquared/status/358406050292039681
Is the popcorn ready yet?
I will not RT and I will not quote. I will instead, watch as the various people I follow eviscerate that horrendous Salon essay.
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) July 20, 2013
Editor’s note: This post has been updated with additional tweets.
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