https://youtu.be/nOOyezZ725Y
When I was a kid my mom would always ask me the following when I got into trouble.
“Are you apologizing because you are sorry or because you got caught?”
I was a kid, Paul Finebaum is a 61-year-old man. He was born in the 50s, not the greatest of times for minorities in this country.
This apology can be seen two different ways.
Either Finebaum like he said literally had no clue that black people were still having tons of issues in society and only until he made his crass, ignorant and unprofessional statement did he realize how offensive it was.
Or……
He knew exactly what black people and minorities still deal with, things as a white man he would never had to go through and he simply didn’t care.
Either way is terrible to be perfectly blunt. He is either ignorant and turned a blind eye to it or he knows exactly what is going on and dismissed it.
One thing I have routinely seen in media is that if you talk ignorantly about certain topics (women, domestic violence, politics, gender roles, homosexuality & etc) the consequences are swift and often times leads to someone being fired.
When you talk ignorantly about people of color, an on-air apology seems to make it all better and then you wonder why black people still feel like we are treated like a subhuman and speak on oppression.
Props to Cari Champion for handling this interview like the true professional she is, because it is hard to do your job while looking someone in the face who days earlier expressed a thought that what we as black people have dealt with for centuries doesn’t exist.