*Without mentioning the name of her colleague Don Lemon, longtime CNN contributor Donna Brazile clearly came for him and the histrionics he and other cable news anchors displayed over President Obama’s use of the N-word during a podcast discussion about racial prejudice.
“I’m glad [Obama] tried to make a point. Many people – it went past them. They didn’t understand; they focused on the word and not the meaning and that’s part of the problem,” Brazile told CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer this afternoon.
Brazile said she “got her butt whipped” by her parents when she tried to use the N-word as a child. They taught her that it “was used to dehumanize my father, my grandfathers, my mother my grandmothers. We were told to never use that word. And I don’t’ use it. And I don’t listen to music that often uses that word.
“But [Obama] was trying to make a point. And I’m glad that he made it,” she said, emotionally.
“But unfortunately it went right above some people and they focused on the [word],” she repeated, for emphasis.
Brazile became emotional when talking about her three young nephews growing up in South Carolina, where, last week, nine black residents were murdered in a church by a Confederate flag-obsessed white supremacist.
“I don’t want anything to happen to them…Those are young boys. And they want to be men… I want them to grow up in a country, unlike the country my parents grew up in, and my grandparents, and me,” Brazil said, choking up. “I want them to be free of all of this. And I will work for that,” she added, struggling to get out the words.
“I’m sure you will,” Blitzer said softly.
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