Tara Setmayer Rails Against ‘Podunk Racism’: ‘This is 2019, People’

‘The fact that it exists scares the hell out of me’

RUSH EXCERPT:

SETMAYER: “Clearly. When I was researching this story, I hadn’t heard of it until tonight, but I started researching the local coverage of this. One of the stations in Louisiana did a longform story, and this guy has absolutely zero contrition about this being a racist, offensive, horrible meme he posted. He’s more focused about the attention it brought to their town of 900 people. And this piece we just saw showed that the people there seem to think there’s nothing wrong with this. That scares the hell out of me. I’m from New Jersey, 15 minutes outside of New York City. I don’t get this level of podunk racism. But the fact that it exists scares the hell out of me. And the fact that this guy wasn’t held to account of it at all shows that we have a long way to go. And he said, I didn’t think it was racist, or the other guy says the “n”-word all the time. When the president uses coded language, or tip-toes around racial animus, nobody but offended, even the president of the United States is kind of bigoted. So we must be all right, too. This is 2019, people, my God.”

(Via Mediaite)

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