A BBC television anchor criticized President Trump for saying that four female Representatives should go back to the “broken and crime-infested places from which they came.”
Naga Munchetty, who works on an early morning BBC show, said this: “Every time I have been told, as a woman of color, to go back to where I came from, that was embedded in racism.” She also said it had made her “absolutely furious that a man in that position thinks it’s O.K. to skirt the lines by using language like that.”
The BBC said that Ms. Munchetty had broken the rules of impartiality. BBC staffers, thousands of viewers, the Labour Party leader, and a conservative commentator on rival ITV defended Ms. Munchetty. After all, Trump’s remarks were racist.
Let’s start calling this hatred and bigotry for what it is. Ms. Munchetty was absolutely correct. Being “impartial” does not mean you need to ignore what is staring you in the face.
Information for this post is from Ceylan Yeginsu, “BBC Staff Backs Anchor For Comment On Trump, New York Times, (Sept. 27,. 2019), p. A10.
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