Black Lives Matter Greater New York co-founder Hawk Newsome said Thursday on Fox News show “America’s Newsroom” that New York City Mayor Eric Adams was a “c**n” and “a white man in blackface.’
Bill Hemmer, co-host, got things started:
HEMMER: This is the subject. White lives also matter to me. Everybody’s life matters here. The mayor claims that not everyone will respond the same way. Would you tell him that?
NEWSOME! The manner you placed White lives into there was so smooth. Our problem is when Black lives are oppressed and don’t receive justice nobody cares, nothing happens. If something happens to a White man, the world changes. So, let’s get back to Eric Adams. This mayor who’s a Democrat but he spews conservative and Republican talking points. This is the name we give to someone like him. And this is someone we’d call a c**n, right?
HEMMER: Whoa!
NEWSOME: He is a Black man – he’s a White man in blackface, and a very conservative-minded White man, at that.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines the c-word term mentioned above as “Offensive —used as an insulting and contemptuous term for a Black person.”
Racial Slur Database explains its roots:
Probably refers to the Portuguese word for slave pens or barracks “baracoons”. Could also have meaning as a shortening of ‘raccoon’, as raccoons have a tendency to steal. Possibly from Dr. Carleton Coon, who, in the mid-1960’s, theorized that blacks were less evolved than whites.
Calling Adams “a White man in blackface,” meanwhile, is obviously an insult. Newsome’s past history includes such controversial statements. He has also criticized the national BLM for buying luxury homes.
It NY Post reported last November that Newsome “likes to wear a bullet-proof vest and chew on a fat cigar when he strolls through his Bronx neighborhood.” Back in November, 2021, he threatened New York with violence if then Mayor-elect (now sitting Mayor) Adams implemented his plan to bring back plainclothes anti-crime cops. “There will be riots,” he said outside Borough Hall in Brooklyn. “There will be fire, and there will be bloodshed.”
One wishes that he would use more civilized language during what should have been an honest interview, despite his previous rhetoric. Why couldn’t he just say, “I strongly disagree with how Mayor Adams is handling crime?” To lower the dialogue to the point where he’s throwing out personal insults and slurs serves no one. Newsome may very well have some valid points and interesting things to say, but most people will never hear them because they’ll be too stunned by his incendiary rhetoric. It does not help the debate, in fact it actually hinders it.
This post was last modified on April 21, 2022 5:37 pm
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