Showing posts with label Cornell Brooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cornell Brooks. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Race card's overdrawn

December 23, 2014 AP , Cornell Brooks 0 Comments
Killings Of 2 New York Officers Trigger Backlash

Rik Stevens and Verena Dobnik, Dec. 21, 2014, AP

"To link the criminal insanity of a lone gunman to the peaceful protests and aspirations of many people across the country, including the attorney general, the mayor and even the president, is simply not fair," NAACP President Cornell William Brooks said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

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Friday, November 28, 2014

No, it's a term of endearment

November 28, 2014 Cornell Brooks , Erin Burnett 0 Comments
NAACP President: ‘Burn This Bi*** Down’ Not ‘A Call For Violence’ 

Jeffrey Meyer, Nov. 26, 2014, Newsbusters

On Tuesday night, Cornell Brooks, president of the NAACP, appeared on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront to discuss the shooting death of Michael Brown and dismissed calls for violence by a member of Michael Brown’s immediate family as inciting violence. Burnett played video of Brown’s stepfather, Louis Head, telling a crowd of protestors to “burn this bi*** down” after the grand jury decided not to indict Officer Darren Wilson and asked Brooks if “that served as a call for violence?” Rather than condemn Brown’s stepfather’s highly charged rhetoric, the president of the NAACP proclaimed “I don't think that was a call for violence or it caused violence.”

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