Don Lemon wasted his breath when he told Joan Tarshis, a woman claiming she was raped by Bill Cosby when she was 19, “I don’t mean to be crude, but…” as he went on to be not only crude, but repulsive and pathetically ignorant to a woman speaking on her alleged victimization. On the November […]
CNN’s Don Lemon is known for making controversial, often questionable, statements. Well, in this week of “Don Lemon Said What,” the anchor raised eyebrows while trying to defend spanking as a form of discipline for raising children. He championed its merits partly based on its effectiveness in training dogs. “Listen, I went to training — I […]
CNN devoted significant time recently to profiling the St. Louis police officer who shoved their host Don Lemon on camera. It appears that, after the incident with Lemon, someone did some digging into the officer’s past and uncovered video of an hour-long speech he delivered, one in which managed to rail against blacks, the LGBT community, President Obama and […]
St. Louis police officer Dan Page, who earlier this week pushed CNN host Don Lemon during a live broadcast in Ferguson, has been suspended from duty after video of him going on racist, homophobic rant went viral. The bigoted remarks were made during an Oath Keepers meeting a few months ago. During the speech, Page rants against […]
Rapper Talib Kweli has been marching among protesters in Ferguson, Mo. , so he had a few choice words for Don Lemon about his and his company’s “white supremacist” coverage. Read More: Don Lemon Alleges National Guard Member Used the ‘N-Word’, Seemingly Shocked It Happened ‘In 2014′ CNN Anchor Suggests Using Water Cannons On Ferguson’s Protesters […]
It’s pretty well documented that Don Lemon is against the use of the “n-word.” In fact, he’s described it as one of the five things the black community must address to progress in American society. Well, Lemon’s latest run-in with the epithet wasn’t from the mouth of a belligerent black teenager but, allegedly, from that of a […]
While CNN anchor Don Lemon (pictured above, in white) was reporting from the tense streets of Ferguson, Miss., early Monday morning as protestors stood in solidarity against the brutal killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, he was pushed back aggressively several times by a police officer who clearly did not care he was being filmed by CNN […]
Don Lemon, CNN anchor and race provocateur du jour, says that KTLA entertainment reporter Sam Rubin made an understandable mistake when he confused actor Samuel L. Jackson with actor Laurence Fishburne. RELATED: Samuel L. Jackson Slams News Anchor: ‘Black Men Don’t All Look Alike!’ [VIDEO] As previously reported by NewsOne, Jackson was making the media rounds to promote his […]
CNN anchor Don Lemon publicly criticized Melissa Harris-Perry and a panel on her self-titled show for making jokes about former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney at the expense of his Black grandson Kieran Romney. In the wake of Harris-Perry’s gracious apology, Lemon has now come forward to applaud her sincerity. Mediaite reports: “The first rule of […]
Ever since CNN anchor Don Lemon (pictured) decided to start editorializing, he has not shown himself to be a serious thinker. Lemon has developed a knack for trivializing complicated sociopolitical issues affecting people of color, mostly by offering personal anecdotes to argue positions that could be easily debunked with data, such as when he peddled […]
CNN’s Don Lemon invited The Guardian columnist Orville Lloyd Douglas onto his show to discuss his controversial article, “Why I Hate Being A Black Man.” RELATED: ‘The Guardian’ Writer Explains Why He ‘Hates Being A Black Man’ Douglas admitted that he is “conflicted” about being Black because of the negative stereotypes that he is inundated with on […]
By putting forth a plan detailing how Black America could allegedly save itself from falling victim to its own foibles and derelict culture, CNN anchor Don Lemon justifiably angered many Black social media users — particularly #BlackTwitter — and has begun the difficult work of defending his Black card. RELATED: Don Lemon, Co.’s ‘Saggy Logic’ Defies Reality […]
