Last week Bill O’Reilly had this to say about having dinner at a restaurant in Harlem:
There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea.’ You know, I mean, everybody was — it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there and they were ordering and having fun,” he said. “And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.
Here’s the link to the NYT article. Here’s a link to the MediaMatters article.
In reading this story and his follow-ups, I think that the tragic thing is that this is his attempt at being nice. While wildly racist, I think he thought that he was being complimentary. Which is just further proof of how wildly racist and out-of-touch he is.
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