Ravenwood - 11/09/05 06:45 AM
Via Taranto comes this CNN transcript of anchorman Carol Lin describing the impetus for the two weeks of rioting in France:
...it's been 11 days since two African- American teenagers were killed, electrocuted during a police chase, which prompted all of this.
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A few years ago I think some anchor referred to some Jamaicans as "African-Americans". Dumbasses.
Posted by: Jay Kominek at November 9, 2005 10:27 AMIs "dumb ass" hyphenated?
Posted by: Bruce at November 9, 2005 10:28 AMSo political-correctness is now a knee-jerk reaction. Congradulations, CNN comrades, you have finally mastered duckspeak. Double-plus good.
Posted by: Dobbshead Panama at November 9, 2005 10:40 AMYet witness the sound and the fury if emigrants from South Africa to the U.S. are referred to as "African-Americans."
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