CNN Host Don Lemon: ‘I Don’t Know If America Sees Black People And Especially Black Gay Men As Fully Human’

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David Rufful
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Don Lemon said that Americans don’t see gay, especially gay black men as being “fully human,” according to The BizPac Review.

“I feel like I’ve had to do that because I don’t think America has seen enough people like me. I don’t think America intimately knows enough people like me. I would love America to see black people, especially black gay men as — and I hate this word — normal, and as human beings and as part of the culture,” Lemon stated.

“I don’t know if America sees black people and especially black gay men as fully human, and as deserving of the American Dream.”

“There’s also this false reality that we’re living in a post-racial world after the election of Barack Obama. That was all bullsh*t,” Lemon said.

“It was a wake-up call to white people who thought we were living in a nonracist world. We’re living in two different realities as black and white people.”

“We knew, as black people, what was lurking beneath the surface. I still believe that [Trump] was the necessary wake-up for America to realize just how racist it is.”

“It’s a singular moment — unless and until we have another one. I write in my book that it’s the new blaxploitation. We constantly see black bodies being killed. How long are we going to have to hold black bodies up to get justice?”

“You have to have relationships with people, whether you agree with them or not. It doesn’t mean you let them off scot-free; you must hold them accountable. And I know people hate to hear this in this environment, but you have to give people some grace.”

“Whether we like, as black people, being the teachers or helping to guide white people through racism — it’s uncomfortable sometimes,” Lemon stated.

“It’s tiring — unfortunately to some degree you have to do it, because otherwise they may take the wrong actions, and we want people to do it the right way.”

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From The BizPac Review:

The remark was in response to a question about “putting yourself out there,” as the CNN host fully assumes the role of martyr for black America.

Quite a remark from a black man making $4 million a year, a black man with a net worth estimated to be at $12 million. The irresponsible claim came at the end of the article and Lemon offered nothing to substantiate such an egregious remark.

The Washington Post let what equates to an attack on America stand on its own — keep in mind that 40% of the country is something other than non-Hispanic white, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Lemon voiced the very tenets of Critical Race Theory, a toxic, divisive ideology that teaches Americans to hate each other based on the color of one’s skin — an ideology with Marxist overtones that claims America is overrun with systemic racism and all white people are inherently racist.