Racialicious on CNN and NPR
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I was on CNN this Saturday, along with civil rights pioneer Dr. Mary Frances Berry and blogger Marisa Treviño, to discuss Attorney General Eric Holder’s comments last week.
Here’s the video:
I was also on NPR News & Notes yesterday (for probably the last time ever before they cancel the show!) to discuss RNC Chair Michael Steele’s plans to give the GOP a “hip hop” makeover, as well as the alleged altercation between singers Chris Brown and Rihanna.
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Minotaar wrote:
Wow that professor from Upenn should go and take that course that Carmen is taking for media relations. What a microphone hog!
Carmen I loved the Marty McFly comment. Great use of very short speaking time.
Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 5:47 pm ¶
Paz wrote:
Carmen, you made a good point in that we need to discuss race across racial/ethnic lines. I’m very appreciative that this site seems to have a diverse group of people commenting.
I kind of wish they had a white panelist because by only having Latina, Black and Asian panelists it reinforces the problem that you pointed out. It gives the impression that racism or race issues are only about PoC when in fact they affect everyone.
Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 6:44 pm ¶
Michelle wrote:
I looked up (cause I am still a news junkie) at my TV and there you were! You looked beautiful! You are on my DVR!
Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 7:41 pm ¶
Free wrote:
It’s always good when Carmen is on CNN.
Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 8:19 pm ¶
Dolly wrote:
Fantastic job, Carmen. I really appreciated your honesty about the severity of the situation. There are so many people undeservingly out of work right now–firing people completely insensitive to racial issues should not evoke people’s sympathies.
Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 10:01 pm ¶
Minotaar wrote:
“It’s always good when Carmen is on CNN.”
Except that time when Don Lemon was screaming at Carmen “DOES HE GET A PASS, CARMEN, DOES HE GET A PASS??????”. Carmen looked sad for Don.
Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 10:57 pm ¶
Latoya Peterson wrote:
@Minotaar –
That is one of my all time favorite Carmen TV moments. Her face was a pure expression of “WTF Dude.”
Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 11:10 pm ¶
Minotaar wrote:
We need to get that clip on youtube. It was so hilarious. *That* sort of thing is why we need more discussions on race on the news. lololol.
Posted 26 Feb 2009 at 11:23 pm ¶
Phil wrote:
Good insight, Carmen! You have to come up to Canada sometime to educate everybody up here!
Posted 27 Feb 2009 at 1:17 am ¶
Nina wrote:
Great CNN appearance. and I agree, where was teh white panelist. Teh media perpetuates the idea that race adn racism only affets POC.
On another note. So sad that News and Notes will be off the air. Once they switched them out of the 9 a.m. hour I found it hard to listen on a daily basis and now it has been cancelled. I feel partly responsible for low listener numbers.
Posted 27 Feb 2009 at 10:00 am ¶
Luis wrote:
1) I really like Don Lemon. He plays the fine line of being broad and moderating and giving his opinions (which, as far as I’ve seen, have been solid). It’s great to see him succeeding on CNN. I’m still amazed that CNN has no many great POC hosts, while Fox and even left-leaning MSNBC are still a sea of white faces. I guess that’s the beauty of being both international and based out of Atlanta.
2) Carmen. Marty McFly. Excellent reference. Racking up style points.
3) I grew up with VHS tapes of some of those Merry Melody cartoons, and I was born in ‘87. These images stick with us culturally. There is no magical turnover that erases history ten, twenty, or even forty years behind us.
Posted 28 Feb 2009 at 4:29 am ¶
Fatemeh wrote:
YAAAAAAAAAY, CARMEN!!!!
I agree that this clip needs to get on YouTube. I am a sad one now that my cable’s gone, and I needs my fix!
Posted 28 Feb 2009 at 3:20 pm ¶
Jessica wrote:
I just wanted to note that I take issue with the language you use here to talk about the charges against Chris Brown, especially as a blog that consciously addresses social justice issues (and how we talk about them).
First of all–’alleged’? The connotation is that there is a question as to whether something happened. Something did happen. Secondly, it was more than an ‘altercation’ (even if you’re unwilling to go with ‘intimate partner violence’, try ‘physical abuse’). And finally, describing it as ‘between’ them implicates Rihanna in being (at least partially) responsible for what happened, rather than the victim of violence.
I recognise that we don’t know exactly what happened, but we don’t need to to reject this description. The extent to which it is questioned in spite of all accounts of the evening being fairly uniform (especially in regards to the identity of the abuser, the identity of the victim, as well as the physical marks) makes this less about pursuing the truth and more like trivializing the abuse.
Posted 28 Feb 2009 at 8:38 pm ¶
elle wrote:
this interview you had was great,especially Mary Frances Berry, who dropped some knowledge on that clueless Horatio Alger wannabe. Also, what is this Marty Mcfly reference?
Posted 01 Mar 2009 at 8:32 pm ¶