CNN political commentator Karen Finney appeared on ABC's This Week on Sunday during the "PowerHouse Roundtable" segment to falsely claim that "anti-black racism is everywhere" in America today and compared the banning of the radical and racially divisive Critical Race Theory in public K-12 schools to the kind of police brutality we saw on Friday night when the body camera footage was released from the Tyre Nichols arrest.
Finney started off by attempting to paint the entire country with guilt by association for the actions of a few bad police officers: "Everybody should be held accountable. So I think that's the other part of this as American citizens. We have to acknowledge our own responsibility."
Responsibility for what exactly? The overwhelming majority of police officers are good people who obey their oath to protect and defend. The few bad officers like the five involved in the killing of Nichols were promptly arrested and charged with murder.
"We know from the civil rights movement, you can't just change law. You have to change hearts and minds, and anti-black racism is everywhere. We know that," Finney cried.
Finney then made the false and outrageous claim that police officers are taught to discriminate against black and brown people: "That is part of the training that these officers receive that black and brown equals danger. We see it. We have to acknowledge this comes at a time when the governor of Florida says no African American AP classes when we have demagoguery around Critical Race Theory."
"The truth is we have to be willing to have hard, truthful conversations in this country, and all of us have to be a part of that or it's not gonna change. It's not gonna be enough to just change policy," Finney lectured.
Leftists in the media like Finney see racism lurking around every corner when the truth is we've come a long way in the United States when it comes to race relations and discrimination. Instead of acknowledging that, they would rather seek to polarize the country along racial lines for ratings.
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ABC’s This Week
1/29/2023
9:41:46 a.m. EasternKAREN FINNEY: We intentionally went out and talked to white, suburban Trump supporters and we just read them the language from the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. No—with no political language around it to say, and overwhelmingly people agreed and what they said was, you know, I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was that bad, and I do—and they also said, yes.
Everybody should be held accountable. So I think that's the other part of this as American citizens. We have to acknowledge our own responsibility, but the second thing I wanted to touch on is something that you were asking your other guests and that is we know from the civil rights movement, you can't just change law. You have to change hearts and minds, and anti-black racism is everywhere.
We know that. That is part of the training that these officers receive that black and brown equals danger. We see it. We have to acknowledge this comes at a time when the governor of Florida says no African American AP classes, when we have demagoguery around Critical Race Theory when the truth is we have to be willing to have hard, truthful conversations in this country, and all of us have to be a part of that or it's not gonna change. It's not gonna be enough to just change policy.
