{"id":42704,"date":"2022-04-05T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/?p=42704"},"modified":"2022-09-21T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T19:54:56","slug":"msnbc-host-says-oscar-slap-a-black-thing-you-wouldnt-understand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2022\/04\/05\/msnbc-host-says-oscar-slap-a-black-thing-you-wouldnt-understand\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Host Says Oscars Slap a Black Thing, You Wouldn\u2019t Understand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just as America thought the obsession with Will Smith hitting<\/a><\/strong> Chris Rock at the Oscars had ended, MSNBC dragged everyone back into it. And now the leftist media wants to make this incident<\/a><\/strong> involving black men a white supremacy issue.<\/p>\n

On \u201cJesse Watters Primetime\u201d on the Fox News Channel, Project 21<\/a><\/strong> Co-Chairman Horace Cooper<\/a><\/strong> said: \u201cIt\u2019s just totally ridiculous. I can\u2019t believe that race is supposed to cover up the behavior that you witness, regardless of who is involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

This, Horace pointed out, is \u201cracism 101 for the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over at MSNBC last weekend, host Tiffany Cross said white people are not entitled to have an opinion about the slap-fight that was brought into their homes in place of a movie awards ceremony. To oppose the violence, apparently, is projecting white values on black culture.<\/p>\n

In her effort to \u201ctry to put this in context for our white fellow countrymen as best I can,\u201d Cross explained there is a \u201ccommonality\u201d among black people that whites can\u2019t comprehend. To prove it, she used this analogy:<\/p>\n

[I]f we went to a white person\u2019s home, and it was their family dinner, and we were sitting at the table, and the mother hauled off and slapped the father. And everybody at the table has an opinion.<\/p>\n

You know, the sister is like, \u201cMom, you always do this.\u201d And the brother is like, \u201cI can\u2019t believe you\u2019re doing this.\u201d And Dad is like, \u201cYou\u2019re terrible.\u201d If I weigh in as the guest in this home and I say, \u201cYeah, you guys are terrible.\u201d Everybody\u2019s like, \u201cI\u2019m sorry. When did you get an opinion? This is our family table.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what this moment felt like for many of us,\u201d Cross lectured. \u201cThere\u2019s a nuance to what happened.\u201d MSNBC panelist Yvette Nicole Brown added: \u201cSome people use their words, some people use their hands. It is what it is. In the black community, we understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fox News host Jesse Watters, astounded by this, wondered: \u201cWhat else are we not allowed to have an opinion about?\u201d Horace responded:<\/p>\n

I\u2019m really kind of curious. If we\u2019d been at a dinner like she described, and the mother hauled out\u2026 and hit the 3rd grader, are you supposed to sit there idly by and say\u2026 \u201coh well, this is none of my business?\u201d<\/p>\n

It is remarkable that, today, we\u2019re going to look at people \u2013 if we follow Ms. Cross\u2019s model \u2013 solely on the basis of their race.<\/p>\n

How about, if you\u2019re white, you just don\u2019t show up for any of Will Smith\u2019s movies? Would you be happy about that? Would she be happy about that?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe segregation model that worked for the left in the 1930s and 40s and 50s,\u201d Horace commented, \u201cdoes not work in the 21st century.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watters called the dinner party moralizing a \u201cstupid analogy\u201d since the Smith-Rock confrontation was broadcast worldwide. Horace \u201cabsolutely\u201d agreed with this, and pointed out:<\/p>\n

[L]ike the segregationists of the past, we are hearing people say \u201cjust judge it on the basis of race \u2013 there\u2019s no reason for you to use your own judgment [when you can] use your own opinion.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Remarking about how wrong this behavior is, Horace said:<\/p>\n

There should not be a special conversation for the handicapped, a special conversation for blacks, a special conversation for whites. There shouldn\u2019t be special conversations in America. This is the 21st century. She should wake up!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Watters reported that MSNBC anchors \u2013 many of them white and liberal \u2013 spent the last week reporting on the slap, and \u201cI don\u2019t think she confronted any of them in the hallways.\u201d<\/p>\n