Teh One Who Knocks
04-29-2015, 11:19 AM
By Evan Bleier For Dailymail.com
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A Baltimore city councilman has lashed out furiously against an CNN anchor who called rioters 'thugs.'
'Just call them n*****s,' Carl Stoke wryly told CNN's Erin Bernett live on air.
Before asking Stokes what he thought about the word, Burnett pointed out that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and President Barack Obama had both chosen to use the word.
After mentioning the mayor had been criticized, Burnett asked, 'Isn’t it the right word?'
Stokes first responded: 'No, of course it’s not the right word to call our children thugs.
'These are children who have been set aside, marginalized, who have not been engaged by us.
'No. We don’t have to call them thugs.'
The CNN anchor questioned how his explanation would justify stealing from a CVS or burning down an old persons' home.
Stokes, who serves the city's 12th District, said: 'So calling them thugs? Just call them n*****s.
'Just call them n*****s.
'No. We don’t have to call them by names such as that. We don’t have to do that.
'You wouldn’t call your child a thug if they should do something that would not be what you would expect them to do.'
The host held her ground and said she hoped 'I would call my son a thug if he ever did such a thing'.
Obama said on Tuesday the looters should be treated as 'criminals' and 'thugs.'
'There is no excuse for the kind of violence we saw yesterday,' Obama said. 'It is counter-productive when individuals get crow bars and start prying open doors to loot.
'They're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing.
'When they burn down a building they're committing arson.
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A Baltimore city councilman has lashed out furiously against an CNN anchor who called rioters 'thugs.'
'Just call them n*****s,' Carl Stoke wryly told CNN's Erin Bernett live on air.
Before asking Stokes what he thought about the word, Burnett pointed out that Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and President Barack Obama had both chosen to use the word.
After mentioning the mayor had been criticized, Burnett asked, 'Isn’t it the right word?'
Stokes first responded: 'No, of course it’s not the right word to call our children thugs.
'These are children who have been set aside, marginalized, who have not been engaged by us.
'No. We don’t have to call them thugs.'
The CNN anchor questioned how his explanation would justify stealing from a CVS or burning down an old persons' home.
Stokes, who serves the city's 12th District, said: 'So calling them thugs? Just call them n*****s.
'Just call them n*****s.
'No. We don’t have to call them by names such as that. We don’t have to do that.
'You wouldn’t call your child a thug if they should do something that would not be what you would expect them to do.'
The host held her ground and said she hoped 'I would call my son a thug if he ever did such a thing'.
Obama said on Tuesday the looters should be treated as 'criminals' and 'thugs.'
'There is no excuse for the kind of violence we saw yesterday,' Obama said. 'It is counter-productive when individuals get crow bars and start prying open doors to loot.
'They're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing.
'When they burn down a building they're committing arson.