Brian Kilmeade Corrects Guest Who Called Starbucks CEO ‘The Biggest Racist on the Planet’
Fox News guest Kevin Jackson was corrected by Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade after he claimed Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was among “the biggest racists on the planet.”
Jackson made the accusation while going on a wild rant about Starbucks’ diversity initiatives:
“What more does Donald Trump need to do to demonstrate that he has nothing to do with the so-called racial rhetoric? What’s funny, Brian, is the left always talks about this unconscious racism. The biggest unconscious racism are the people like Howard Schultz who are the biggest racists on the planet. He wants America to believe that it takes him and a day of atonement for his company in order for blacks to be successful in this country when all around Howard Schultz are nothing but successful blacks.”
Kilmeade then interjected by saying, “I’m sure you don’t mean that — that Howard Schultz is a racist.”
“Maybe some of his policies have boomeranged,” added the host. “I get that.”
Throughout the rest of the segment however, Jackson did not recant his statement that — in a country where white nationalism is gaining popularity, where white supremacists continue to murder minorities and those opposed to racism, where ICE rips migrant families apart, and where racial income inequity is on the rise — the CEO of Starbucks is the biggest racist.
In fact, he doubled down.
“Brian, you do not need to correct me,” Jackson said defensively. “I do believe Howard Schultz is a racist in the sense that he believes he is better than blacks in this country.”
Watch above, via Fox News.
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