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You are here: Home / Civil Rights / Racial Justice / This Week In Blackness / Seriously, Don Lemon. Please Stop Talking.

Seriously, Don Lemon. Please Stop Talking.

by Elon James White|  September 23, 20142:16 pm| 13 Comments

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Don Lemon has stepped in it yet again. This time he has equated disciplining children with disciplining his dog: “You have to teach who’s in control. It doesn’t matter whether it’s fear or what have you, I’m saying this, because it stops you from doing it,” he added. And then he threw in some slavery mentions for good measure.

Please, CNN. Please stop letting this man have a platform. We’d suggest a muzzle, but we realize that people and animals aren’t the same.

Team Blackness also discussed how much a woman’s virginity is worth, the charitable natures of millenials, and Miss America versus conservatives.

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  1. 1.

    maurinsky

    September 23, 2014 at 2:38 pm

    Dogs don’t learn when you hit them, any more than people do.

  2. 2.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    September 23, 2014 at 2:40 pm

    Dude, lern2post pls. kthxbai.

  3. 3.

    ShadeTail

    September 23, 2014 at 2:47 pm

    Why do your articles keep double-posting?

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    jl

    September 23, 2014 at 3:03 pm

    @ShadeTail: Now with a slight variation. Comments sections separate this time. My money is on FYWP shenanigans deep in the works.

    As for Lemon, the Fox News lunatics have been on this Discipline and Punish rage for days, so CNN has to copy. As I said before, Lemon’s big problems is he is not as idiotically bland as most CNN anchors. When he goes, he goes all in and says something ‘interesting’ (aka, truly weird or lunatic a la Fox News). It stand out more on CNN than Fox News, of course, at least for anchors, if not for panelists and mere reporters.

  5. 5.

    gvg

    September 23, 2014 at 3:04 pm

    Didn’t you post this a few days ago?

  6. 6.

    gvg

    September 23, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    https://balloon-juice.com/2014/09/19/for-the-love-of-god-don-lemon-please-stop-talking/

  7. 7.

    Heliopause

    September 23, 2014 at 3:18 pm

    I’m starting to hear Rod Serling in my head.

    “No, no, you don’t understand! This was posted days ago! And then it came back! And it keeps coming back! It just keeps coming back! Why won’t anybody believe me!?!?”

  8. 8.

    RaflW

    September 23, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    Youtube says video says it is private, won’t play.

  9. 9.

    jl

    September 23, 2014 at 3:27 pm

    @gvg: Yes, it is exact duplicate post from a few days ago. Seemed familiar. Someone see if they can find Elon James White. If not, we are in twilight zone territory.

  10. 10.

    scav

    September 23, 2014 at 3:29 pm

    @RaflW: Well, if we’re using this space for other issues that might be addressed while figuring out what’s wrong with the process:
    A) private message on video seconded and
    B) there’s a 404 message when I try to use the direct download link. Doesn’t provide a lot of details, it’s trying to download http://traffic.libsyn.com/twibiu/TWR_575.mp3
    and says something about no previous URL.

  11. 11.

    BethanyAnne

    September 23, 2014 at 3:39 pm

    double posts are the best posts best posts

  12. 12.

    shelley

    September 23, 2014 at 3:48 pm

    Obviously a blog burp.

  13. 13.

    RaflW

    September 23, 2014 at 5:03 pm

    @shelley: Burp would be the polite term.

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