Juan Williams Calls NPR An ‘All-White Organization’

Former NPR contributor and current Fox News talking head Juan Williams is criticizing his former employer for being, as he phrases it, an “all-white organization” that hasn’t experienced much success including reporters who are Latino and/or black.

Williams shared his concerns with the Huffington Post before the recently-released undercover Project Veritas video made NPR the topic du jour. (Williams has also spoken about NPR since news of the video broke, calling the media outlet’s executives “rude and condescending.”) You’ll recall that Williams was let go from NPR after telling Fox News host Bill O’Reilly that “if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.” NPR justified their decision by claiming that Williams’ comments “undermined his credibility as a news analyst with NPR” and were “inconsistent” with its editorial standards.

Said Williams:

For them, I think the fact that I was a journalist who was not being pigeonholed as just a black journalist, but something larger and sometimes even conservative in a point of view, made them have great difficulty with me.

He goes on to call NPR’s handling of his dismissal as exhibiting “the worst of white condescension.”

Watch Williams’ interview, courtesy of the Huffington Post:

h/t Huffington Post

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