All-white Fox News panel demands apology for school’s Black History Month event

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Fox News’ morning show “Fox & Friends” is generally insensitive, often factually wrong, sometimes downright offensive. Thursday morning, the show became a parody of itself (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/fox-black-history-month-lives-matter)when it interviewed two white Virginia parents, Rebecca and Charles, who are outraged because their 8-year-old daughter’s school district held a Black History Month event.


“Everywhere that we looked were students, high school students, wearing shirts that said ‘Black Lives Matter, I Can’t Breathe,” said Rebecca. “As I was flipping through my program, it had ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot.”

Although Charles wanted his daughter removed from the event immediately, Rebecca decided to allow her to stay to sing with her choir.
“Students started coming out on stage saying things like, ‘I’m from Ferguson, Missouri. I was told to put my hands up. I did and I was shot seven times. My name is Michael Brown (http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/michael-brown-shooting),” Rebecca recalled. “I immediately realized that this was not something that was a good idea for my daughter to be seeing.”

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After the assembly, Rebecca and Charles’ daughter asked why cops shoot “good people”– a conversation that Charles just wasn’t ready to have!
“It took me off guard. We really had to have a discussion with our daughter in great detail about current events we should never have had,” he said. “We should have been notified as parents, and we were not. There has been no apology. There has been no ‘This will not happen again.’ And that needs to be done.”

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[Cebu_4_2]

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[Twisted Titan]

“It took me off guard. We really had to have a discussion with our daughter in great detail about current events we should never have had,” he said. “We should have been notified as parents, and we were not. There has been no apology. There has been no ‘This will not happen again.’ And that needs to be done.”


Standing guard over what type of posion tries to enter your childs mind is THE most important job as a parent

[Spectrism]

Only a racist would be against black history month and not like "black lives matter". As an official African-American myself, I have to say that some reparations need to be made by you racists.

[EE_]

Only a racist would be against black history month and not like "black lives matter". As an official African-American myself, I have to say that some reparations need to be made by you racists.

http://i775.photobucket.com/albums/yy32/ajayinthelife/SammyDavisJr.jpg

[Twisted Titan]

Only a racist would be against black history month and not like "black lives matter". As an official African-American myself, I have to say that some reparations need to be made by you racists.

Send the bill with interest to the descendant of these families.

7434

[EE_]

Send the bill with interest to the descendant of these families.

7434

There's other ways to make things right...

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[Horn]

Who's the racist that titled this article?

[Ponce]

Well, I am a Cuban.........anyone hates me?........come on, bring them up......let's have it out........ahahahahahahahahahh, I know you guys loves me.

"The world is my playground and you people are my toys"........ King Ponce..........you still love me? LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLlll.

By the way Spec I didn't know that you are black.......you don't talk like a black but at the same time you don't kneel to the white........good show.

V

[mick silver]

ponce , spec is a black jew

[Ponce]

Well, we need a little bit of everything so that we can learn a little bit of everything.....otherwise how can we learn anything?

V

[Ponce]

Well, we need a little bit of everything so that we can learn a little bit of everything.....otherwise how can we learn anything?

V

[Spectrism]

Well, I am a Cuban.........anyone hates me?........come on, bring them up......let's have it out........ahahahahahahahahahh, I know you guys loves me.

"The world is my playground and you people are my toys"........ King Ponce..........you still love me? LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLlll.

By the way Spec I didn't know that you are black.......you don't talk like a black but at the same time you don't kneel to the white........good show.
V

Cuban? I thought you were at least a Puerto Rican. So now you are on that lower level? My oh my. Here is a little test- if I put on some music do you lose control of your hips?

Please don't call me black. I may be a colorful person but I prefer to be called "African-American-Caucasian-Yankee-Jewish-Schweinhund".


ponce , spec is a black jew

"Black" is so.... out of date. Besides, I didn't say what part of Africa and where my parents were from. But if you want to think of me as black, you can call me "Afro-Piro-Amero-Polaro-Jiddo-Maximo".

[Cebu_4_2]

"Black" is so.... out of date. Besides, I didn't say what part of Africa and where my parents were from.

Good point! Just because you may be from Africa does not mean you are black. Assumptions...

[Horn]

Just call him Spectro, he wishes his color were more contagious and easily spread to paint onto others...

[Ponce]

Spect? I don't think that you really know what you are........me? Irish-Cuban........simple.

V

[Spectrism]

Spect? I don't think that you really know what you are........me? Irish-Cuban........simple.
V

Of course i know what I are. I is a combination of many things. Pizza, steak, apples, yogurt, chicken soup, potato chips. I is what I eat.

Irish-Cuban.... hmmm.... that is code for Puerto Rican Jew.

[Ponce]

OK rainbow man, you win hahahahahhaahahhaah.

V

[Spectrism]

OK rainbow man, you win hahahahahhaahahhaah.
V

rainbow man.... hmmmm... that is code of rain man wearing a bow tie.... a commie for sure.

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I don't want to wear a bow tie!

[Silver Rocket Bitches!]

After the assembly, Rebecca and Charles’ daughter asked why cops shoot “good people”– a conversation that Charles just wasn’t ready to have!

Well that's a problem. They missed a perfect teaching opportunity there.