Former CNN talking head Don Lemon told HBO’s Bill Maher that he feels uncomfortable with “white spaces.” Therefore, going to bed at his home might be a little awkward.
“I’m usually the only person of color in the room,” Lemon told Maher. Maher gestured toward the panel and said, “There’s only three of us here.”
“Bill Maher admonished him for this, but not in the way I would have admonished him,” says Jason Whitlock. “Hey, Don, how uncomfortable is that bedroom, brother? You’re the only black person, the only person of color, in your house, in your bedroom, at home, on your honeymoon.”
Whitlock says this because Don Lemon’s husband is a white man who is the face of the so-called patriarchy.
“Don Lemon is confused because this is by choice,” he added.
Shemeka Michel agrees.
“It’s always this that Don Lemon leads with: ‘I’m gay, I’m black, I’m gay, I’m black, I’m gay,'” she scoffs. “Is there anything else that Don can talk about without bringing in race?” It’s like his identity as a black man and a gay man, and I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m tired of it. ”
Lemon criticized DEI during a panel discussion with Bill Maher, which makes his statement even more confusing. But Jason Whitlock has a suggestion.
“The solution for Don, and for anyone who has this kind of confusion, is to have a Christian identity. Accept your identity in Christ and just let it go,” says Whitlock. .
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