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South Carolina: black reporter attacked by white family

by: Pam Spaulding

Thu Mar 13, 2008 at 11:30:00 AM EDT


Sweet jeebus. Racism - what me worry? When are we going to have that sane discussion about race in this country?

In South Carolina, a black reporter was attacked by as she did a stand-up at a crime scene. Another crew was there to film the attack (by members of the suspect's family). Via Huff Post:

Three people upset that a news crew was reporting on the arrest of a relative attacked the television reporter and yelled racial slurs at her and a photographer, authorities said Tuesday.

The family members, all white, began yelling and charged at black WSPA-TV reporter Charmayne Brown while she was standing in the street near the family's home in Union, said news director Alex Bongiorno.

Brown was punched in the head, and black cameraman Ti Barnes was also struck as he tried to pull family members off Brown, Bongiorno said. A video of the attack shows Brown, who wasn't seriously injured, defending herself. "I think she's more affected by the verbal abuse than the physical abuse. She's really shaken up," Bongiorno said.

The fight was taped by a white crew from a second television station. They were not attacked.

Yes, Union, South Carolina. Home of Susan Smith, who strapped her two young children and released her car into a lake, drowning them -- then made up a story blaming a black male carjacker (more here).

As former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, who recently joined Bill O'Reilly as his permanent guest host on the Faux News bully's radio Factor, said back in 2003:

Here's the unmentionable secret: Racism isn't that big a deal any more. No sensible person supports it. Nobody of importance preaches it. It's rapidly becoming an ugly memory.
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Hey, that's my old station...
I worked there before moving to Japan in July.  I can totally believe something like this could happen in the upstate.  I lived most of my life in the southern part of south carolina thinking that the northern part of it (Union, Greenville, etc) just HAD to be less racist and more open, but I'm afraid it's not.  Really sorry that happened to Charmayne though.  She's a good great investigative reporter and a good person all around.

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting." -E.E. Cummings

Tony Snow
is the guest of honor at a fundraising for our local anti-gay christian hate group

http://www.azpolicy.org/

Nothing is a big deal to rich white straght men, so it isn't surprising he sees no problems


azpolicy

I clicked on that URL just to see what it was.  Yuck - how creepy.  I feel like I should spray off my monitor and wash my keyboard.  


[ Parent ]
The Boil Has Been Lanced in 2008
We can expect more of Albany, SC, and OK, I fear.  A gigantic boil of hatred has been lanced and the poison is released in America.  Time will tell.

Graduated high school in the midlands of SC and FU in Greenville SC in the piedmont / upstate SC.  Yep, not hard to believe that racism is alive and VERY well there ... and all over the USA really.  My brother lives in Rock Hill ... he writes of racism there.  It is above the board there.  More than in the West.

In California there is no majority race ... though you can't tell that in Northern CA ... north of Sacramento ... very white in these parts.  I liked San Francisco ... I miss ATM's where you had to choose between English, Spanish, and several Asian languages ... that was kewl to me.  I miss sitting on the bus and just listening to all the different languages, walking through neighborhoods and feeling different cultures ... yes I miss that.

It hurts to watch this YouTube ... so many memories of my youth ... invitations to join the KKK ... racist friends ... fighting for a black-white club in high school, and losing the fight.  And still finding violent racism as alive in SC now as then.

Racism in the USA.  It is so difficult to discuss.  Why is that?  Snow says it is a memory?  BS.  Yeah I remember it.  Like it was yesterday ... wait, it was yesterday ... and today.

I ramble ... because this YouTube hurts.

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It is but one of many boils
I grew up in a fairly liberal little town in flyover country in the 60's and 70's. The town had a racial mix, but they were segregated in neighborhoods. There were streets designated by the local real estate cartel and the banks that wrote the mortgages as the boundaries between the African American, Native American, and the white neighborhoods. It was the work of one man who was the local real estate mogul. When he finally died in the early 80's the barriers fell and the town became more racially integrated. However there was plenty of hate even in my own family. When the black family moved in across the street from the house where I grew up, my father was one of the leaders of a group of neighborhood people who tried to run them out because he said their presence would lower property values. This tiny group of rag-tag racists even went so far as to burn a small cross in this family's front yard.

The sad thing is that little town was considered to be fairly progressive because the next town over didn't have any people of color living there at all and the fact we tolerated their presence was a sure sign we were flaming liberals. We did however have a relatively large (for a small town) albeit closeted gay community.

The good thing is the attack was caught on video tape and there is no shortage of credible eye witnesses. It is the south though, so the jury may find them guilty but their punishment will probably be pretty light.

Never try to train a pig. It's a waste of time and it annoys the pig.


[ Parent ]
Here's what Tony Snow meant to say:
Here's the unmentionable secret: Racism.
It's rapidly becoming ugly.

Shades of American History X. n/t


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that record is almost 20 yeas old.
maybe we should just let the poor man be?

Lurleen on Twitter

[ Parent ]
ye gods...
 What are they drinking in Union?!

  Crazy assed trash that already had a family member turning up beaten to death. And they go after a reporter simply there to bring the news?

Any bets they can plead innocent to the murder of Big Daddy?


Half right...
Snow said "no sensible person"... which obviously does not include these morons.  

This story hits close to home
I have a relative who just moved to Union.  She admits that it is a very segregated area, but she likes it there because it is such a quiet town.  Right now, every one is fine with the racial divisions, but that may change soon because of new commercial developments, and more affluent Black people moving into the area.  She's been urging me to move out there, but I just can't understand how the citizens can be fine with the unwritten rules that some areas are off limits because of your race.  It's so weird to me that in 2008 people would be okay with this, and not do anything to change the situation.

good lord!
thank heavens the camera man was there and able to help her out to some extent.

Lurleen on Twitter

Why
on earth didn't the other crew help?

I was wondering that, too
I understand that there is this idea of journalistic witnessing, but someone was being hurt. And you have a conflict of interest because your filming it means that you have an exclusive. Where's the realization that you could protect someone and that might be better than getting a scoop?

The whole thing made me cry and feel very ill in the stomach. I simply can't abide people treating each other this way. The racism made it worse, but the violence alone is reprehensible.


[ Parent ]
Unfortunatly, racism is alive and well in the US
There are too many who profit from it to actually end it. I spent time working in the Greenville area and ran across it a lot.

Unfortunately, this is still a topic that can't be discussed because invariably, someone gets branded a racist during the exchange.

At the national level, people like Obama's preacher isn't helping things with his inflammatory rhetoric. Obama could go a long way in helping move this discussion along by denouncing the preachers remarks. He has an opportunity that doesn't come along very often and so far, he doesn't seem interested in using it.

Lastly, the racism that exists today exists in both the black community as well as the white community.

Just sensless...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...


He has denounced
the remarks on numerous times.  

[ Parent ]
Just to clarify
I think the main questions that some people will have are; are the statements truly racist.  Talking about the second class treatment of Black people in this country isn't racits, and in fact there are too many examples from the criminal justice system to the education system to prove this is true.

If the statements are racist, then how could Obama remain in this church for twenty years?  Denouncing racist statements now don't mean much, if these statements have been repeated over and over for twenty years, yet Obama never felt uncomfortable about them.


[ Parent ]
He has? Can you point me to where he has done so?


[ Parent ]
Okay
Here's a good article that ran in the NY Times over a year ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04...

Here is a story from the Times last year about the church being very afrocentric, and that may upset some people.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03...

This guy has a problem with Obama and his church, but even he writes that Obama has distanced himself from the pastor.

http://www.renewamerica.us/col...


[ Parent ]
The Huffington Post
has a great article on Obama talking about Wright.

[ Parent ]
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