During the September 21 broadcast of his nationally syndicated
Fox News Radio show, while discussing recent events surrounding the so-called
Jena Six with the show's
executive producer, known on air as "Angry Rich,"
John Gibson asserted that the demonstrators who gathered last
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week in Jena, Louisiana,
only "wanna fight the white devil." Gibson aired news coverage of
the Jena 6 protests and challenged
protestors' claims that the incidents in Jena are representative of ongoing racism in
this country. He said: "[W]hat they're worried about is a mirage of
1950s-style American segregation, racism from the South. They wanna fight the
white devil. ... [T]here's no -- can't go fight the black
devil. Black devils stalking their streets every night gunning down their own people --
can't go fight that. That would be snitchin'."
From the September 21 edition of Fox News Radio's The John Gibson Show, which included an audio clip of a
news report of the Jena 6 demonstrations by Tim Tooten, an education reporter
at Baltimore station WBAL-TV:
GIBSON: But I have been trying to
point out the last couple of days that people have been loaded on buses to go
to Jena to protest the racial injustice there -- you know -- and be told that slavery still exists and
that segregation still exists across the country; that there are -- being told there are schools where principals
allow white students to segregate themselves from black and won't let the black
students sit under their tree. Tell
-- they tell them that. I bet they can't find one other example of it. But they're
being loaded on buses from cities where black people are being killed every
day, at an astonishing rate, by black people, and no one's saying a word.
[begin video clip]
TOOTEN: Protestors wore black to
symbolize their support for six high school students they say were targets of
racism. And some in the crowd hope the outcry over Jena Six is a starting point
for a new generation to help raise the banner for justice.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Young people are
picking up. We're getting sensitive; we're moving on. It's a wonderful time.
CROWD: What do we want? Justice!
When do we want it? Now! What do we want? Justice!
TOOTEN: There was a similar protest
across town at Morgan
State University.
CROWD: (singing) Free the Jena Six.
GIBSON: What is it -- Jeena or Jena?
UNIDENTIFIED
FEMALE: It's not an isolated incident. Things like this happen all over the United States --
GIBSON: Where?!
UNIDENTIFIED
FEMALE: -- whether they
go reported or unreported --
GIBSON: Where?!
UNIDENTIFIED
FEMALE: -- or publicized or not.
GIBSON: Where do they go?
UNIDENTIFIED
FEMALE: So, it's our
job to make everyone accountable for what's
going on.
GIBSON: Where?!
UNIDENTIFIED
FEMALE #2: Racism is
not confined just in Louisiana, and we have
to confront it everywhere, but
racists feel --
GIBSON: Where?!
UNIDENTIFIED
FEMALE #2: -- ashamed
at being racist. That's not acceptable here.
GIBSON: Where?! Where is this going
on? I'll tell you where it's going --
TOOTEN: As Morgan students hold their protest --
GIBSON: Why didn't that rep --
TOOTEN: -- they also pledged to help Jena 6 families pay their
legal bills.
[end audio clip]
GIBSON: Why didn't that reporter
challenge that? Why did he just let them say that?
ANGRY RICH: Political correctness.
GIBSON: He's from Baltimore. What's the murder number in Baltimore right now? Just
up the road.
ANGRY RICH: It's hard to tell,
because there are two or three more every night. I think it's hovering around 160.
GIBSON: And they're all young black
men -- right?
ANGRY RICH: For the most part.
GIBSON: Who are being killed by young black men.
ANRGY RICH: That's right.
GIBSON: So, this is -- what
they're worried about is a mirage of 1950s-style American segregation, racism
from the South. They wanna fight the white devil. I -- you know, there's no -- you can't go fight the black devil. Black devils stalking their
streets every night gunning down their
own people -- can't go fight that. That would
be snitchin'.
ANGRY RICH: New benchmark in Philly
last night.
GIBSON: Philly hit 300.
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