So everyone is ganging up on Bill O’Reilly for this joke he made on Fox and Friends, that towering Trump-sucking black hole of political analysis.
What he said was that he didn’t hear anything Maxine Waters said because of her “James Brown wig.”
Watch below:
This attack on Congresswoman Maxine Waters from Bill O’Reilly is openly racist (via @mmfa) pic.twitter.com/BHy77FzfOl
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 28, 2017
I dunno guys. That’s not really racist. Would it have been OK if he had compared her hair to a white guy’s hair? What’s the secret formula here?
There are genuinely racist things to get upset about, and this isn’t one of them. This isn’t going to inspire neo-nazis to attack Maxine Waters or other African-Americans. This is going to inspire guffaws from his audience, and that’s it. Get over it, we have real problems to tackle. Like mayonnaise in guacamole, c’mon white people!!
UPDATE!!
“As I have said many times, I respect Congresswoman Maxine Waters for being sincere in her beliefs. I said that again today on Fox & Friends calling her old school. Unfortunately, I also make a jest about her hair which was dumb. I apologize,” O’Reilly said in a statement.
This is very odd, since he says a lot of questionable things all the time and never apologizes. Oh well.