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Ousted NPR pundit Juan Williams ripped his former employer - which is taking heat after an embarrassing sting - for showing the "worst of white condescension" when it fired him last year.
"I think when it comes to NPR's decision to, without any reason, throw me out the door, I think that for them, especially for some of the people who created NPR, it's an all-white operation," said Williams, who works for Fox News.
Williams said NPR "felt they had never had much success" with black or Hispanic journalists and did better with white women.
Williams made the comments to the Huffington Post before Tuesday's release of a sting video that showed an NPR exec calling Tea Partiers "racist."
The Website published the interview Thursday as part of a series that examines black journalists' experiences in the media industry.
NPR canned Williams, 56, in October after he told "The O'Reilly Factor" he gets "nervous" when he sees people in airplanes wearing "Muslim garb."
NPR has said Williams' comments about Muslims "undermined his credibility as a news analyst."
About the firing, Williams said: "I think they acted very unfairly, and largely in a condescending manner..."
Earlier this week, NPR executive Ron Schiller was caught on tape calling Tea Partiers "middle-America gun-toting" people... and "racists."
Schiller and NPR's CEO resigned, and many Republicans in Congress have called for stripping NPR's federal funding.
"These people are not only attacking the Tea Party ... they attack anybody who disagrees with their point of view. These folks are doing damage to real journalism at NPR."
Source: NY Daily News
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By: Shanda M on 3/10/2011 6:21PM
Just goes to show you, we're gonna always be stuck with uncle toms like williams, clarence thomas, and michael steele. Faux news, the tea party know they can always depend on these types to defend their racism.
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By: Brady on 3/10/2011 6:57PM
Shanda just shut up, Lord God just stop it. Your talking about 3 of the most succesful men in black america. And what is there crime, they dont think like you. Their politics are thier own, and they are entitled to them.
So just shut the hell up.
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By: Gichaya on 3/11/2011 12:13AM
Juan Williams weren't crying racism when the NPR was greasing his palm with the big bucks, so I really don't care to hear his rhetoric at
this point.
@ Brady....get a grip
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By: Bruce on 3/11/2011 9:20AM
You know Shanda, screw you!
Just because a fellow Black American takes a different veiw than yours doesn't make him an Uncle Tom. The whole pathetic idea that you have to think either black or white stinks of your racism.
You can't complain about white people and live in your stinkin thinkin. You are a brainwashed black idiot that just spits out stupid blackism slogans. You have no intelectual depth and you are a perpetual slave.
Your just jealous of free thinking people.
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By: Shanda M on 3/11/2011 1:54PM
Bruce
Thank you for telling me who I am. If my thinking is stinking that is because I use to live with an alcholic like you. Go get a bottle and leave me alone. Having an opinion is my right.
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By: billW on 3/11/2011 8:41PM
LMAO the negro is a confused race.if a negro is a republician he's a tom, a sell out or a tool of the white man. negroes only vote for negroes, never do they vote who's best for the job.
thats why negroes shouldnt be allowed to vote.
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By: stare k on 3/11/2011 10:39PM
Shanda M You are so right .Most blacks that go up ther in the world ,not all of them were SUCKING UP TO WHITIE . I worked with both kind in the hoapital. When VIP jobs go up if u been sucking up to whitie for quite a while they give u MNG . position . same as opra she sucked up From the very beginning , stil do . If she did not she not be in the position she is in .On the other hand if she was not rich the would not give her the time of day . Just another black woman .
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By: Hector on 3/12/2011 2:45PM
I know your probably uneducated because of your outlandish comments. Maybe next time you could provide some FACTS to back up your statements. Otherwise it just looks like another stupid comment on BV.
FYI: Juan Williams is a big time Liberal.
Also are you calling anyone who is of color a racist or uncle Tom just because they have a different political ideology than you?
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By: barringtonsmorrison on 3/15/2011 6:28AM
So now he wants to be black. He wasn't so Black when he was selling out black folks and culture on fox news. for those of you who don't keep up with politics ... he is a sell out. He sold his soul for a pay check. Just bc we share the same skin color doesn't mean we're on the same side
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By: Greg on 3/10/2011 8:07PM
I agree with Juan Williams, well to a point! Is anyone at all surprised to hear that NPR is an all white organization? So are both the Republican and the Democratic Parties! And, sadly we're also going to continually be stuck with these so-called pseudo "do nothing" talking all the time, but saying, and doing nothing black leaders i.e. Al Sharpton, Jesses Jackson that continue to only incite the black masses to always play the race cards, remain in a state of dependency, and fail to develop a meaningful, strategic national agenda. What's the difference? But, that's on black folks, not the usual pundents from Fox News, or as you say someone's Uncle! I've seen Sharpton on Fox News more than a few times, and anyone in their right minds know that he's only playing both sides of the street!
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