Goldie Taylor lectures Nicholas Kristof for suggesting protesters focus less on Michael Brown

As Twitchy reported earlier, an internecine Twitter feud broke out between New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and New York Times editorial writer Brent Staples after Kristof suggested the #BlackLivesMatter movement might have been better served by focusing on Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old shot and killed by police in Cleveland, rather than Michael Brown.

Staples responded that it wouldn’t have mattered, because a “healthy majority” of whites support the actions of police in cases where blacks are killed.

Kristof did his best to clarify, but Twitter wasn’t having it.

@jeff_deeney Michael Brown case is more ambiguous and uncertain; Tamir Rice case more clearcut and likely to persuade people of a problem.

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 23, 2015

@NickKristof are you "uncertain" about whether or not Michael Brown should have been killed?

— Julia Carrie Wong (@juliacarriew) January 23, 2015

@deray @NickKristof one can do two things at the same time, esp when there are many many people involved

— Panthro 5000 (@Panthro5000) January 23, 2015

@Panthro5000 @deray Yes, absolutely. But Brown received more attention than Rice, and I'm suggesting it should have been the other way

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 23, 2015

https://twitter.com/tanehisicoates/status/558766900377694209

@tanehisicoates Yes, indeed. Still worth pushing back and putting most compelling faces on problems.

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) January 23, 2015

Goldie Taylor lectures Nicholas Kristof for suggesting protesters focus less on Michael Brown

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