Ask for MSNBC President Phil Griffin at 212-664-4444(Be Polite if Possible!)
Hola! Greetings from the South By Southwest Interactive Festival. I’m still recovering from staying out past my bedtime, but that didn’t stop me from waking up BRIGHT AND EARLY this morning to remind you that today is Monday and we still haven’t heard from MSNBC Phil Griffin – Despite private assurances that MSNBC has PRIVATELY addressed the matter of MSNBC contributor Toure making light of Black women being systematically raped and tortured in an act of petulance on Twitter, MSNBC still hasn’t made a single PUBLIC statement. Nor has MSNBC written emails or returned any of the telephone calls that were promised to many of you.
Therefore, we are having our second weekly celebration of MSNBC President, Phil Griffin. HAPPY PHIL GRIFFIN DAY! You can wish him well at MSNBC President Phil Griffin at 212-664-4444. and ask him when he’s going to be issuing a public statement about his contributor chortling about Black women being systematically raped during slavery.
Why a public statement? Because when another MSNBC David Shuster made comments far less inflammatory, racist, sexist, and cruel, MSNBC didn’t hesitate to issue a quick brief PUBLIC statement saying that Shuster’s comments were inappropriate.
“The comments were inappropriate,” an MSNBC spokesperson told Politico. “We have talked to David about them.” Mediaite.
So one can only assume that if the President of MSNBC has met with Toure, knows about his comments online and is remaining silent, then they must believe that making light of the devastating impact of sexual violence against Black women during slavery is “appropriate.”
That’s unacceptable. Nor should MSNBC find it acceptable for one of its contributors to make such misogynistic statements in a public forum and then LIE about making them, by blaming the statements on his “cousin” using his Blackberry while he was at yoga.
Then later confessing to lying about his cousin making the statements and then DELETING the confession from his tweetstream. So even if Phil Griffin thought the whole “making light of women being raped” thing was “appropriate”, he should still be concerned he has a MSNBC contributor who is a bold face liar.
BUCK UP PEOPLE!
Now some of you may be too tired to make a 120 second phone call to ask MSNBC President Phil Griffin what he plans to do about this. I know. I know. Life is so hard for you these days. I mean making a 120 second phone call using free or prepaid cellphone minutes while you stand in line at Starbucks is FAR FAR worse than having to walk to work everyday for over 380 days in the hot blazing sun of Montgomery, Alabama. Making a 120 second phone call on your lunch break is SO MUCH WORSE than getting carted off to jail for sitting down on a bus or at a lunch counter. I mean Harriet Tubman had is so much easier back in the day, having to use drinking gourds and quilts, and negro spirituals to communicate escape plans to runaway slaves, Harriet Tubman surely can’t know the burdens you have to endure to make a 120 second cellphone call.
Seriously people, its been two whopping weeks. You can start to whine about holding Phil Griffin and MSNBC accountable when we reach the 52nd Celebration of Phil Griffin Day a year from now. Gina, are you really going to post about this every Monday for a year? Well, um yes. I will if necessary. We made a really simple demand, give us the same statement about Toure, that you issued in the David Shuster Twitter debacle. The only reason I can think of to explain why Mr. Griffin refuses to issue such a statement is because David Shuster’s Twitter target was a young White male and Toure’s targets were Black women. That is an unacceptable double standard. It is a double standard that will continue to exist unless someone destroys that double standard. That someone would be YOU and ME.
Cybercrusading 101
Let me also take this time to give you an important tip about registering your complaint with a large corporate entity- Never. Ever. under ANY circumstances be RUDE or unkind to the people answering the phone. Always treat support staff well and with kindness and it will serve you well. A) They take crap all day long answering the phone. B) They probably agree with you. C) The person answering to the phone may become your advocate as opposed to your obstacle. D) I’ve answered my fair share of phones in my lifetime. E) the person answering the phone is not Phil Griffin and is likely powerless to make the man do anything he doesn’t want to do. F) when you abuse support staff, you lose moral high ground- you have the moral high ground on this one. So do be kind when you call MSNBC President Phil Griffin at 212-664-4444 to wish him ( or his assistant a very Happy Phil Griffin Day!)
HAPPY PHIL GRIFFIN DAY Part Deaux! Just call and get it over with this morning!
PS to those who say this is futile and no one will ever listen to a bunch of outraged blog readers, did you check out my pithy quote in the Washington Post this weekend about Debra Lee’s “Redemption Tour”? We can do this! This is low hanging fruit. Having a blast at SXSW BTW!
UPDATE: I have received a “statement” from MSNBC. I will be posting it, but after some of you read it, it may make some of you angrier and those who weren’t angry, mildly annoyed. I attempted to get the MSNBC spokeswoman to “fix” the statement, but she insisted on having me publish her culturally insensitive original statement . But they really do want y’all to stop calling them One small problem, her statement will likely only infuriate you more because its about as elitist as they come, drenched in complete and total lack of self awareness. As a preview, apparently both Mr. Griffin AND Ms. Russo, the NBC spokeswoman are the descendants of African slaves… who knew. Just wait for it.
I’ll be speaking at the South by Southwest Interactive Festival today. I’m on the Black Blogging Rockstars Panel organized by @karsh of the Black Web Awards. I’ll be joined by @jaybrotherlove and @dedej of Clutch Magazine. @Karsh has set up a great site called Black Blogging Rockstars to go along with the panel.
Debra Lee’s Legacy – BWHAHAHA!
I think we finally got to her… or at least the bad press got to her change her wicked ways. Either that or she’s not actually Debra Lee, CEO of Black Exploitation Television, but a space alien wearing a human exoskeleton that looks like Debra Lee. The real Debra lee is orbiting earth right now having an aneurysm over the fact that the space alien Debra Lee rehired Ed “oh so fly” Gordon back to the network. Any day now, space alien Debra Lee is going to rehire Donnie Simpson and Sherri and Ananda. Recently space alien Debra Lee has been chatting about her “legacy.”
After a noticeable transition to a pop culture entertainment network and the inauguration of President Barack Obama, BET decided it was time to take the network to a different level. [you mean from the 7th Circle of Hell to like... the 5th circle]
Lee said that it was “time to sit back with my management team and say, ‘where are we going. What do I want my legacy to be? After 30 years, what do we want to stand for?” [Um, Y'all stand for absolutely nothing]Eurweb
I guess she doesn’t want CNN playing videos from BET Uncut when they do their video tribute to her. Let’s review Debra Lee’s “Legacy”:
“Cita’s World”
“BET Uncut”
“College Hill”
“Hot Ghetto &^%”
BET- “Read A m$*&^#*ing Book!”
“Frankie & Neffie & ‘em” – Toya & Tiny & ‘em- Worst Michael Jackson Tribute in the History of the universe
I hope I’m not 60+ years old before I start thinking about me legacy. Well better never than late Debbie. Glad we could help you with that.
WAOD Network
Over on the WAOD Network, your fellow WAOD readers are chatting up a storm about Monique and Gab0urey Sidibe at the Oscars. Some think Mo’Nique is unprofessional and uncouth. Others think Gaburey Sidibe isn’t as “happy” as she seems.
They are also talking about former lawmaker Juanita Goggins who died alone of hypothermia and an NPR piece about Black Male Privilege. They are still debating someone named Nicky Minaj- never heard of her. Join in on the fun by signing up for the WAOD Network, the place where WAOD readers have their say.
Phil Griffin Monday!
Yes, it looks like Monday we’ll be saluting MSNBC President Phil Griffin again. I’ll try to figure out a way to make this fun, fresh and new for the next 52 Mondays. Yes, I said the next 52 Mondays or until such time as he issues a public comment on the Black klansman masquerading as a pop culture contributor on MSNBC. I didn’t stutter 52 weeks of Phil. All Phil all the time.
Today What About Our Daughters is participating in HAPPY BLACK GIRL DAY! Happy Black Girl Day is the brainchild of Sister Toldja. You can read the official rules of HAPPY BLACK GIRL DAY at her blog, The Beautiful Struggler. I can’t wait for the Happy Black Girl Day greeting cards, floral arrangements, fire works display. Here is my first entry. This week I am one HAPPY BLACK GIRL!
I received a picture mail Monday that merely said “She’s there.” The accompanying photo was of a white house. No, not “A” White House, but THE WHITE HOUSE.
She’s there? Yes, She’s there. Yes, after months of starts and stops and setbacks and detours she was there. SQUEEE! YAY! uh uhhhh! Shut UP! She’s there? Yes, she’s there! No way! WAAAY!
On Monday Michelle Obama Watch dispatched our Washington Correspondent, Nisa, to the White House to report on the International Women’s Day celebration hosted by our First Lady and the President of the United States. On Tuesday she reported from the Smithsonian Museum of American Historywhere the First Lady was handing over her inaugural gown. And none of it would have been possible if I hadn’t been willing to let go of the steering wheel. I now have EVIDENCE that I can build something, release it, and it will grow without me micromanaging. Which is a good thing because I’m building a lot of stuff these days.
Last year, after my doctor gave me the side eye regarding my blood pressure, I was forced to give some things up, including control by trying to do too much. So I handed over the management of Michelle Obama Watch, the blog, to someone else.
This Black girl is happy that she found the fabulousness that is the Managing Editor of Michelle Obama Watch, Aminah Hanan. You should be happy that since Aminah has had things well under control since she took over, I have been freed to focus on developing television and movie projects. The first is a spin off of Michelle Obama Watch, the blog called Our East Wing, the television show.
For the past four months I’ve been taking courses in video and television production. I know how to white balance an HD camera. I know what an ND filter is. I don’t quite know what aperture is, but I know how to adjust it to get the look I want. I’ve learned about audio and mixers and The Grand Master. I’ve been certified to produce in a 2 camera studio and next month I’ll train to get certified in the three camera studio. Dolly shots, and panning, medium and long, warm vs. cool, keying, character generation are now part of the ever evolving vocabulary and skill set.
Four months ago, I looked in on the studio control room and it looked like they were flying the space shuttle. Well now, I know how to fly too. I was the star pupil in my class! Okay, well there were only two people in the class, but I was still the star I reserved a studio at the end of the month to hold auditions to select the hosts of the show. I have to know how everything works before I can direct other people, but as soon has I get the hang of everything, I’m handing it off and moving on to the next project. And that’s just the beginning.
So I’m happy that we are amassing a growing body of evidence that one day we will live in a world where millions of Black women will be defining their images for themselves by producing their own content. One blog post at a time, one correspondent at a time, one television show at a time. You now have the evidence. Why not step out on faith?
Happy Black Girl Day!
PS. Sign up for Script Frenzy today. Its the competition to write a 90-page screen or stage play in 30 days. I’m already outlining It starts April 1st. I hope to have at least 6 readers participating with me.
PPS. If you want to get me a Happy Black Girl Day Present, you can get me a Panasonic GH1 :)… for the aspiring filmmaker
AAAAH. Happy International Women’s Day! What a wonderful time to honor a great figure in women’s history. Therefore, logic demands that we pause on International Women’s Day to honor the President of MSNBC, Phil Griffin.
Now I don’t think Phil is a woman, but that in no way precludes him from being historic this month. Phil has managed to engage in a historic act. Phil may be the first executive in history to need almost A WEEK to decide whether joking about the systematic rape of Black women is “inappropriate.” In fact, Phil is currently breaking all previous corporate records for issuing an response when someone using HIS CORPORATION’S BRAND chooses to engage in both gender-based and race-based hate speech!
The “someone” in question is MSNBC contributor and “journalist” Toure. The hate speech in question are these tweets he made about the systematic rape and torture of Black women during slavery. He then blamed those tweets on his “cousin” taking over his blackberry while he was at “yoga.” In the real world this is known as lying. At MSNBC, this must be known as creative license. He later admitted that there was no “cousin” and that he had typed almost a dozen tweets of HATE because he was angry. All of this occurred on a Twitter account associated with MSNBC via the bio section.
Even if MSNBC doesn’t care about the whole joking about slavery and rape thingy, surely an organization that purportedly provides “news” would be concerned about their contributor:
LYING- by saying his cousin typed the tweets while he was at yoga.
COVERUP – by erasing the tweets where he confesses to writing the offending tweets
Now a week ago, I PERSONALLY called MSNBC and managed to get past the receptionist phone screener’s path to VOICE MAIL HELL and spoke to a real live human being in Mr. Griffin’s office. I read this woman what MSNBC contributor and Twitter Addict Toure said about the rape and torture of Black women during history. She assured me she would be forwarding this information to “the appropriate person .” Having seen no public statement and reviewed Toure’s Twitter page, MSNBC is still emblazoned in his bio. Which would indicate to me my message ended up in File 13. So I called back a second day to ask the same woman in Mr. Griffin’s office what she had done about the previous message. She then asked for a phone number and an email address. Which I gave her. Now we’re a week in and NO EMAIL and no phone message.
Last Friday, my readers finally broke out of their post-Christmas malaise and started calling too, apparently now, MSNBC has perfected their VOICEMAIL HELL phone distribution system and are routing all Toure-related calls to voicemail. No problems, you’re going to call 212-664-4444 anyway.
Every time one of you calls and MSNBC fails to make a public response to this insanity, is an indictment of MSNBC’s management. They should have dealt with this on March 1st when this happened. Its not like they were unaware that they had a contributor engaging in hate speech on a Twitter account he was connecting with them. Its been all over the internet, and I did call to inform them about the incident. So plausible deniability is no longer an option.
Even if they didn’t “realize” that Toure’s tweets were hate speech, surely after receiving all of these calls, they would have the common sense to convene a group of all 3 Black MSNBC employees and conduct a focus group. So the only explanation for this massive delay in responding is that they think this thing is going to go away.
Today is your day to let them no…um no its not.
Objections not Raised are WAIVED!
Some have argued that we should just ignore this because Toure is a dysfunctional nobody. Others have pondered whether they should be doing other things with their “energies” other than “focussing” on Toure and his hateful words. My response is that’s complete and total @$#*^&%(*@&$. These excuses are nothing more that justifications to be apathetic.
This phone call takes 120 seconds, maybe 3 minutes and 30 seconds max. Most of you have cell phone plans with either unlimited minutes or anytime minutes so the call costs you less than a cup of coffee. Secondly it takes you longer to make up your mind at Starbucks, than it takes to make a call to say “I Object!” and then go on your merry little way. You are not so emotionally fragile that a 2 minute phone call will ruin your entire day are cause you to lose focus of important tasks. Sorry not buying it. You’re dithering. Just call and get it over with already. If you won’t object to this, what will you object to?
This is LOW HANGING fruit. This is not complicated. MSNBC hasn’t hesitated to chasten other employees you get out of pocket on Twitter. They didn’t take this long to decide to give Don Imus the boot. So what explains this delay??? I don’t know, but their silence is deafening.
So on today, celebrate Phil Griffin Day by calling him ( or the now designated voicemail) at 212-664-4444 and asking him:
What’s the delay? Remind him that MSNBC was QUICK to issue a response to David Shuster’s Twitter Antics. Why is this one taking forever?
Remind them of the irony that they haven’t yet made a decision on whether or how to publicly address Toure’s hate speech, but they managed to reach a decision to send all calls related to the matter to VOICE MAIL HELL.
Monday Mocking Extravaganza!
Oh yes, and you can now consider every Monday until they respond Phil Griffin Monday here on WAOD. I’ll just take a few minutes every Saturday to figure out a new way to mock him for dithering. Eventually this story will take root and get wings and they’ll not only look bad for enabling Toure, but for taking so long to figure out how to respond. To the intern they’ve assign to monitor this matter, you may be wondering if this thing is going away… that would be no.
Phil Griffin, we salute you! NOT!
PS. This blog does not do “boycotts.” That tool is typically effective for the very powerful and the extremely powerless. I don’t fall into either one of those categories. Those calling for boycotts in the comments section at this stage in the game need to expand your activism options. There are a wide range of strategic options available to you, including PUBLIC SHAMING and MOCKING that can be far more damaging than empty threats of boycotts.
PPS. How do y’all like my peacock, I modeled it myself. I’m currently converting my Cornel West model into a Toure model. I thought I would have to mothball the Cornel West model when Tavis went and canceled the SOTBU. Yes, if this thing goes into week three, there will be both a Toure and Phil Griffin Model.
ON Wednesday I urged those readers who wished to voice their objection regarding Toure’s comments about Black women being systematically raped during slavery, to call MSNBC President Phill Griffin and complain. Afterall, Toure has listed MSNBC on his Twitter account and MSNBC has chastened employees for being unruly on Twitter in the past.
Well I called the MSNBC President’s Office and talked to the same woman TWICE. Although Toure has not removed his affiliation with MSNBC, he has scrubbed his confession and admission that he was emotionally unstable and used impaired judgement. But of course he left up his jokes about Black women being raped during slavery. He appears to admit that he brought up the systematic rape and torture of Black women during slavery as some type of act of vengeance. You won’t see any of this on his twitter account now because he deleted it. Luckily for you… I took a screen capture and have all of the deleted tweets. I was actually trying to take an image of his bio section with his MSNBC affiliation, but who knew that he would go back and edit his tweet stream?
Which brings up another point. I’m just a lowly blogger, but don’t “professional” “journalists”- which Toure purports to be- have ethics? Isn’t it a no no to LIE about your writing and blame it on an imaginary cousin taking over your Blackberry? Isn’t it a LIE to confess and then erase the confession? This has Jayson Blair written all over it.
I’ve already called twice. Do your part and call MSNBC President Phil Griffin at 212-664-4444. When the receptionist answers just say matter of factly “Phil Griffin’s Office”. Sound bored. A young woman will answer the phone. At which point you can ask her:
Whether MSNBC will discuss Toure’s twitter hijinks and treat him the same way they treated David Shuster?
Will MSNBC continue to allow Toure to include their network’s name on his account?
Have they discussed this matter with him at all?
Will they issue a public statement regarding this matter in the same way that they issued a statement regarding David Shuster’s “inappropriate” interaction with James O’Keefe?
Will Keith Olberman consider naming Toure his Worst Person of the Week?
She took down my email address, but I still haven’t heard back. Luckily for her, I can blog about this for the next three months.
Now that he’s scrubbed his Twitter page, I’m far more interested in this because he’s hiding something. Probably from his confused self.
First of all, who or what is a Tourex? Apparently I’ve been living under a rock and missed an incident on Twitter where a demon spirit took control of MSNBC’s Toure’s Twitter account and made the kinds of statements one might expect from a BET employee or independent contractor. And you would think MSNBC would have learned from Don Imus. We know that Mr. X-Ray is affiliated with MSNBC because his Twitter account proudly declares such an affiliation. And it was next to the MSNBC name that Toure’s account posted the following in reference to the systematic rape and torture of Black women during slavery:
“Some [Black women and girl slaves] were cunning and brilliant enough to use their bodies to gain liberation thus fooling massa. Of course most were raped, we know that, but some were sharp enough to trade that good-good for status or liberation.” Gawker
Well golly gee, if I had branded my Twitter account with a major news network’s name, and had that published on that account, you would think I would do more than blame it on a mysterious “cousin”. You would think MSNBC might care… seeing as how they are editing and regulating other MSNBC contributor’s Twitter accounts.
Now compare this Twitter incident with one involving MSNBC’s David Shuster. When David Shuster got out of pocket on Twitter, the MSNBC brass were QUICK to put the Kabosh on that
It’s looking like MSNBC management has indeed forbidden reporter David Shuster from Tweeting, or so suggest illicit Tweets emanating from the embattled Twitter page in question. Recall that Shuster’s Twitter went dark for three weeks following the journalist’s apparently inappropriate @-reply to the felonious James O’Keefe, in which Shuster predicted that the prison-bound O’Keefe will indeed be sent to prison.
Shuster’s silence was rumored to be the result of a mandatory Twitter embargo—a theory that was all but confirmed by the reappearance—and immediate deletion—of his sudden Tweets,
MSNBC even went so far as to issue a public statement calling Shuster’s comments inappropriate.
“The comments were inappropriate,” an MSNBC spokesperson told Politico. “We have talked to David about them.” Mediaite.
But since Tourex’s Twitter attack was on enslaved Black women… NO Biggie!
If you will notice Al Sharpton, the high commissioner of Decency has been radio silent about this. So has R. Kelly’s favorite publicist, Tavis “Black Folks Need and Agenda” Smiley. So has Al Roker, who was quite vocal about Don Imus. The list goes on, but you will be waiting until the Devil needs a heater before the Black Elite Establishment makes a demand that the diversity-challenged MSNBC makes some public statement about these ridiculous statements by one of interns. We know this, but I always think its important to remind you of the jelly-spined feckless leadership of people running around declaring themselves to be leaders.
I would have ignored this other than the fact that if you will recall, I do believe it was this same Toure that wrote or manufactured a quote referring to First Lady Michelle Obama as a “Ghetto Girl” a quote he did not attribute to his “cousin,” but to some imaginary anonymous Martha’s Vineyard resident. Later after people became outraged at the statements his “cousin” made about enslaved Black women, the follwing appeared in his timeline.
“I like to be intellectually risque but never want to offend. I crossed that line. Am now redrawing it for myself. Poorle expressed bizzarre ideas and brain farts are not what this space is supposed to be about. Will do better going forward. ” Witches’ Brew
If I was MSNBC I would be hiring some fact checkers because you may have a Jayson Blair-like problem on your hands. If his BLackberry was indeed hijacked by his “cousin” then what does that say about his judgement. If in fact there is no “cousin” then what does that say for X-Ray’s character? It appears he outright lied. I’m not sure and that’s MSNBC’s problem seeing as how their network’s name is on his twitter account.
If you would like to celebrate Women’s History Month, consider inquiring about why it appears that MSNBC appears to have a DOUBLE STANDARD when it comes to twitter accounts associated with its network. At the very least they ought to demand Toure remove their name from his Twitter account if it is easily hijacked by his “cousin.”
You can contact
MSNBC President Phil Griffin at 212-664-4444
(they are going to transfer you to viewer services HELL, but get creative with it.)
EMAIL: viewerservices@msnbc.com
If you are really feeling creative and motivated, you can ask Representative Sheila Jackson Lee and Maxine Waters to send the letter, they already went after MSNBC this week for its lack of any ethnic diversity. Maybe she can ask the NBC President why MSNBC-related Twitter hijinks attacking White males are dealt with swiftly while MSNBC-related absurdities attacking victims of systematic rape and torture are ignored. #justsayin… Here are their office numbers. Do be polite, point out you appreciate their concern about MSNBC’s diversity issues and express the fact that if they had the opportunity you would love for them to address the apparent double standard. It never hurts to ask- Why not make a federal case out of it… literally.
Shelia Jackson Lee- 202-225-3816. Maxine Waters – (202) 225-2201
Good luck with that whole calling a congress member’s office. Do report your adventures in the comments or via email.
In all likelihood, MSNBC has no clue about Toure’s Twitter hijinks. Help celebrate Women’s History Month by sharing Toure’s Twitter ” history” related to Black women.
So today ends my blogcation. And quite frankly I don’t really feel like blogging. Sometimes you’re just speechless, like when you see an organization that purports to speak for people like you. An organization with a LONG history of fighting negative portrayals of Black folks hand out awards to people who make their money promoting coonery of the highest order. And THAT”s just the people who WON an award. These people nominated a FUNERAL service for an award! These people nominated a song about drinking excessively, engaging in various sex acts and blaming it on the al al al al al alcohol. These people nominated Steve Harvey for a literature award… Strike that, he won! Continue reading →
I’m still on blogcation, but this was too good to have some of you not know about. Tavis Smiley and Al Sharpton had a CATFIGHT yesterday on national radio. None of it was about what you think its about, but if you would like to hear the dueling hissy fits or discuss it, you can do so on the WAOD Network. The blogcation continues.
I have been instructed to ho go an undisclosed location to work on a project and folks are being quite insistent about it. So as planned, I’m on blogcation for the month of February. No blogging here at WAOD. That means no comments either.
I’ll still be tweeting as it is a great procrastination tool. You can follow me on Twitter. Its Black History Month so I’m sure there will be oodles and oodles of items for me to give a 140 – character commentary about.
You can also start your own discussions with other WAOD community members over at the WAOD Network- “Where WAOD Readers Have Their Say”. Charlotte and timetokeepitreal just started threads about side hustles and a “positive” story about Black women and their daughters in the Washington Post. Although all new members now have to be approved. You can also follow our progress on the Couch to 5K program.
Hopefully those of you involved in creative pursuits will use this time to buckle down and build some “unsexy” infrastructure. Its not as exciting and the instant feedback on blog posts, but its necessary. My goal is to comeback in March with a *bang.*
“If his status ain’t hood I ain’t checkin for him Betta Be street if he lookin’ at me” – Beyonce’ & ‘em.
Apparently some are SHOCKED that I am not a fan of Beyonce and her drug dealing husband and am NOT delighted that one of the most venerable news organizations left would be doing a feature on her carefully manufactured public persona. My response, Have you read this blog? Continue reading →
One small problem, her statement will likely only infuriate you more because its about as elitist as they come, drenched in complete and total lack of self awareness. As a preview, apparently both Mr. Griffin AND Ms. Russo, the NBC spokeswoman are the descendants of African slaves… who knew. Just wait for it.
