*There are moments in television that are worthy of an Emmy for “Best Serve with a side of Shade.” As was the moment when a woman high on her emotions over the tragic church shooting in Charleston, interrupted CNN’s John Berman and Don Lemon during their live report to serve the real. The only thing missing from this scene was a cup of hot tea for her to sip as she waited for Don to reply to her questions.
“We’re mad! We’re angry! Tell the truth!” she said as Berman launched into a report about the tragedy that many are referring to as a ‘terrorist attack‘ on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church.
Wednesday night a gunman opened fire in the historic black church, killing at least nine people—including the church’s pastor, state senator Clementa Pinckney. The killer, Dylann Roof, a white male in his early 20s, fled the scene afterwards but was apprehended Thursday morning.
“White people are terrorists! This is not a hate crime!” the woman says off-camera.
After Berman introduced Lemon, she yelled, “Don, are you angry?” Coming into frame, she repeatedly shouted questions at Lemon regarding his own anger and then said, “Uncle Tom? Hello?”
“We’re angry. Speak about the anger. Talk about the anger,” she continued as the anchors tried to control the broadcast with their banter. When they mention President Obama, the woman says:
“The president is a puppet! Stop the lies. Stop the lies. He’s an Uncle Tom, too. President Obama’s an Uncle Tom, too,” she said.
She ended with: “Black folks, get off your knees and stop praying.”
Classic. We love her. Peep the video of the epic moment below. Now THIS is true reality TV, folks! Give this woman an award!
At a press conference Thursday afternoon, President Obama spoke about the shooting at Emanuel AME Church that left nine people dead. “There’s something particularly heartbreaking about death happening in a place where we seek solace and we seek peace, in a place of worship,” Obama said.
Before he opened fire on members of a Bible study group at a church, Dylann sat with them and might have prayed with them.
Obama also spoke for the need for increased gun control. “I’ve had to make statements like this too many times. Communities like this have had to endure tragedies like this too many times,” he said. “Innocent people were hurt because someone who wanted to inflict harm had no trouble getting a gun. Sometime as a country we’ll have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence doesn’t happen in other advanced counties. It doesn’t happen in other places with this frequency. It is within our power to do something about it.”
Welp…. #donlemon (she calls don an Uncle Tom and asks if he is angry)
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