Why do I continue to be shocked by Fox News hosts and guests’ comments about race in general and about Black History month in particular? Here’s why…ks
MEDIA MATTERS
As most of the country celebrates Black History Month, Fox News has spent February peddling racist tropes about the black community. Fox personalities and guests repeated racist canards about black-on-black crime, out-of-wedlock births, and “black behavior,” mocked a video highlighting the impact of structural racism, criticized Beyoncé’s Super Bowl performance as an attack on police officers, and accused a Black Lives Matter activist running for Baltimore mayor of having proved only that “he could burn things down“:
LEANNE NARAMORE & SARAH WASKO
