John Gibson: "black shooters don't shoot themselves; "they shoot and move on"

[ariesgem]

On the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, who earlier that day shot four people at his Cleveland high school before killing himself, Fox News host John Gibson asserted that "because the school is very heavily African-American, I did leap to a conclusion" that "the shooter might have been African-American." Gibson went on to say that he "knew this was not a classic hip-hop shooting" once he learned Coon killed himself. Gibson continued: "Hip-hoppers do not kill themselves. They walk away. Now, I didn't need to hear the kid was white with blond hair. Once he'd shot himself in the head, no hip-hopper." Gibson later stated, "I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don't do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again." Gibson added: "I know there's a few of you who want to call me racist. But when you do, remind -- let me remind you, African-Americans are dying in major cities because people won't face this problem."

After a commercial break, Gibson repeated his assertion: "All right, it turns out, though, the kid in Cleveland who did the shooting today -- three teachers, three students -- white." Gibson added: "And I could tell right away 'cause he killed himself. Black shooters don't do that; they shoot and move on."

Later in the program, while speaking to a caller who identified himself as an African-American, Gibson said that "one of the other things that you also don't do -- you being the plural of the community -- is you don't shoot somebody and then kill yourself." After the caller responded, "That is very true," Gibson said, "White people do that." The caller again responded, "That is very true." Gibson continued: "So when I heard the kid shot himself, I said, well, you know, ordinarily I would expect it to maybe be a rapper, thug, gangster on campus with his nine -- 'I shining my nine, you know how I do.' But, you know, it turns out it was a kid who would shoot himself -- well, story over, not a black kid."

The caller later asserted, "I just want to tell you that it's quite easy for someone to step up and be like a Jesse Jackson or an Al Sharpton, because it's easy to point out the 20 percent of our problem, which is the white man." Gibson then asked the caller, "Am I a part of your 20-percent white man problem?" The caller responded, "Oh yeah!" Gibson replied, "Oh man, you had to go racist on me?" He then thanked the caller and ended the segment by saying: "OK, I thought the kid was a black man, I'll admit it, until I heard he shot himself. Does that make me a racist?"

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200710110004?f=h_top

This man has NO SHAME! :mad:

[regnaD kciN]

1. I sense another "Worst Person in the World" award for Gibson...

(Is he related to Mel or something?)

[Berry Cool]

7. He already got it last night.

Silver medal, behind Glenn Beck's latest idiocy.

[JI7]

2. can you imagine a private conversation between him and O'Reilly

[lurky]

3. Over a nice falafel sandwich?

[Bicoastal]

4. SEE...the WHITEST man in the world...

...clumsily attempt to speak for America's black community! Watch him wrestle with complex inner-city issues (and come to his own bizarre conclusions) with his BARE HANDS!

STEEEEEEP RIGHT UP FOLKS! Freak Show lasts until 7!

[Fleshdancer]

5. WTF?

So, according to the a**holes on Fox news...only white people commit suicide and black people are suppose to yell for more "mother fucking iced tea" in restaurants. Wow. Just...wow.

[krispos42]

6. The motives are different

Shooting sprees in schools are typically the end result of unresolved rage at 'the system' and the people in it. The shooter typically doesn't plan to escape or be taken alive because he is making a statement and going for immortality.

On the other hand, a targeted shooting is done in a caluclated manner, to eliminate a problem person without getting caught. This is something that criminals in organized crime do. Which, apparently in this jackhole's mind, are all 'hip-hoppers'. :eyes:

Despite the odd use of the term "hip-hoppers", the pattern of the shooting does point to an angry white male teen, and not an organized-crime/gang killing done by "hip-hoppers", "micks", "beaners", "whops" or whatever ethnic slur associated with gang activity you wish to use.

When the Virginia Tech shooting happened, I immediately made three predictions: that the shooter was a white male, that the shooter was using legally-aquired guns, and that there were warning signs that were ignored. I got two-and-a-half right: Cho was an Asian male, not a white male.

In general, about the same number of white commit murder every year as blacks. But, most blacks are killed by blacks, and most whites are killed by whites. We're talking 80-90% of the time this is true.



http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm

[NorthernSpy]

8. white kid shoots up a school, Gibson starts babbling about Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton...

... big city black crime, gangs, hip-hop homicide, etc, etc, blah blah blahhh.


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