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Ms. Martin accused Webb of "white privilege" and the radio host had the perfect answer in response.
The back and forth came during a debate around the qualifications required for being hired, as Mediate reports, stating, “Webb said as a general rule when applying for jobs he cares more about his work-related expertise and experience, not skin color.”
The exchange began with Webb asking, “Shouldn’t their requirement, their primary requirement, regardless of ethnicity or regardless of net worth, be that they are capable of covering politics? For instance, if you’re going to cover political campaigns, sports may not be the most qualified background. And that brings to the point if people want to get into these fields, regardless of color, I’ve chosen to cross different parts of the media world, done the work so that I’m qualified to be in each one; I never considered my color the issue; I considered my qualifications the issue.”
So Martin told Webb, “Well, David, that’s a whole ‘nother long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing, that people of color don’t have the privilege of.”
Then Webb asked, “How do I have the privilege of white privilege?”
Martin replied smugly, “David, by virtue of being a white male you have white privilege. This whole long conversation, I don’t have time to get into —”
Webb interrupted, “Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should’ve been better prepped. I’m black.”
A laughable pause, then Martin continued, “I stand —”
Webb didn't let her finish: “You see, you went to white privilege; this is the falsehood in this. You went immediately with an assumption. Your people, obviously, or you didn’t look. You’re talking to a black man . . . ”
Martin cut him off: “They gave me the wrong information.” As if that's a good excuse to pull the race card and make an assumption without knowing what the hell you're talking about.
And why would she need to know the color of Webb's skin in an interview? Could it have something to do with intersectional bull crap?
Webb continued: “ … who started out in rock radio in Boston, who crossed the paths into hip-hop, rebuilding one of the greatest black stations in America and went on to work at Fox News where I’m told apparently blacks aren’t supposed to work, but yet, you come with this assumption and you go to white privilege. That’s actually insulting.”
To her credit, Martin agreed: “It is, and I apologize, because my people gave me wrong information.”
Webb: “The whole white privilege thing is insulting.”
Martin: “David, can I apologize and correct the record? I want to apologize. I was given wrong information about you and I apologize.”
The exchange began with Webb asking, “Shouldn’t their requirement, their primary requirement, regardless of ethnicity or regardless of net worth, be that they are capable of covering politics? For instance, if you’re going to cover political campaigns, sports may not be the most qualified background. And that brings to the point if people want to get into these fields, regardless of color, I’ve chosen to cross different parts of the media world, done the work so that I’m qualified to be in each one; I never considered my color the issue; I considered my qualifications the issue.”
So Martin told Webb, “Well, David, that’s a whole ‘nother long conversation about white privilege, the things that you have the privilege of doing, that people of color don’t have the privilege of.”
Then Webb asked, “How do I have the privilege of white privilege?”
Martin replied smugly, “David, by virtue of being a white male you have white privilege. This whole long conversation, I don’t have time to get into —”
Webb interrupted, “Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should’ve been better prepped. I’m black.”
A laughable pause, then Martin continued, “I stand —”
Webb didn't let her finish: “You see, you went to white privilege; this is the falsehood in this. You went immediately with an assumption. Your people, obviously, or you didn’t look. You’re talking to a black man . . . ”
Martin cut him off: “They gave me the wrong information.” As if that's a good excuse to pull the race card and make an assumption without knowing what the hell you're talking about.
And why would she need to know the color of Webb's skin in an interview? Could it have something to do with intersectional bull crap?
Webb continued: “ … who started out in rock radio in Boston, who crossed the paths into hip-hop, rebuilding one of the greatest black stations in America and went on to work at Fox News where I’m told apparently blacks aren’t supposed to work, but yet, you come with this assumption and you go to white privilege. That’s actually insulting.”
To her credit, Martin agreed: “It is, and I apologize, because my people gave me wrong information.”
Webb: “The whole white privilege thing is insulting.”
Martin: “David, can I apologize and correct the record? I want to apologize. I was given wrong information about you and I apologize.”
But even if Webb were a white man, why would it be okay to assume that he had "white privilege" as if it gets handed out to us when we're born?
Webb concluded, “But based on my color you were going to something I was part of, and just to add to it, my family background is white, black, Indian, Arawak, Irish, Scottish; I mean, it’s so diverse, I’m like the U.N. when it comes to this. And this is part of the problem with driving the narrative around a construct like white privilege. Privilege is one thing where applied well, the economy, various social factors, but not necessarily determined by color of skin.”
Hopefully a few liberals learned something from this, but I doubt it.
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