Something’s terribly, and obviously, wrong with this picture:
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.
(Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man … from 1952)
The (White) suits at CNN could be forgiven for throwing the (stereotypically) intimidating Roland Martin not to the back, but under the bus. But you’d think they would be loath to diss the likes of Don Lemon, Fredricka Whitfield, and Soledad O’Brien in this fashion. But, frankly my friends, they don’t give a damn.
Mind you, if this were a promo for FOX News, the very folks at CNN who approved this lily-White promo (with all due respect to Sanjay and Fareed) would be blasting it as a reflection of unabashed racism.
And Whites wonder why Blacks “have a chip on their shoulder”?
WTF!!!
* This commentary was originally published on Tuesday, April 9, at 10:18 am