In reporting on the arrests this afternoon, CNN reporter Susan Candiotti read, uncensored, a Thursday posting from Jacob England’s Facebook account, which said “Today is two years that my dad has been gone, shot by a fucking nigger.”
Candiotti warned viewers beforehand to “Please excuse the language, it’s very sensitive,” then read aloud from that (now-deleted) Facebook account. Here’s the uncensored clip of Candiotti’s report, from CNN:
Ironically, the very subject of censoring the n-word came up on CNN’s air Saturday night, as anchor Don Lemon and panelist Goldie Taylor let the epithet loose a few times [ http://www.mediaite.com/tv/goldie-taylor-on-cnn-white-people-arent-confused-by-the-word-ngger/ ], and Lemon argued that, in the context of a news report, “I don’t care what color the reporter is, I think someone should say ‘that person called him a nigger,’ rather than ‘the n-word,’ because it sanitizes it.”
Police Chief Chuck Jordan said the gunmen appeared to have chosen their victims at random. Police identified those killed as Dannaer Fields, 49, Bobby Clark, 54, and William Allen, 31. Two men were wounded but were released from the hospital, Jordan said.
Coming, as it does, in the midst of the highly-charged atmosphere surrounding the killing of Trayvon Martin [ http://www.mediaite.com/tag/trayvon-martin ], the Tulsa shootings figure to deepen an already intense national discussion about race.
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