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Wolf Blitzer was the one who observed off the cuff that the Katrina refugees he was seeing were "so poor, and so black"
by selimthegrim 5y ago
Wolf Blitzer was the one who observed off the cuff that the Katrina refugees he was seeing were "so poor, and so black"
- gord288 5y agoAwkwardly worded and delivered, but it seems his observation was that Black residents were disproportionately negatively affected by Katrina. A perfectly valid point. I am by no means a defender of Blitzer--his interviews and his framing of issues show him to be a banal thinker--but I feel he received a lot of undeserved criticism for this utterance. Which seemed at the time to mostly come from bad-faith actors like Rush Limbaugh, taking a cheap shot.
- selimthegrim 5y agoThe time to say that is not when the camera is panning across an extremely dark-skinned family wading.