DeRay McKesson to MSNBC: Does Hannity Think Black People Organizing Is ‘Insidious’?

Activist DeRay McKesson faced off against Sean Hannity yesterday, and the Fox host (along with guest Kevin Jackson) accused McKesson of being a “professional protester,” finding something suspicious in him being in Baltimore, Ferguson, and McKinney, and asking him point-blank if he’s been involved in any of the looting and rioting that’s going on.

McKesson appeared on MSNBC tonight to talk McKinney, and at one point, Chris Hayes played the Hannity clip and found it amusing that there’s “something insidious about a, quote, professional protester.”

“I think that people are afraid when black people organize,” McKesson said. “The reality is that people organize as a part of their profession all across the country, across a host of issues, but when black people organize, it becomes this insidious thing to some people.”

He added, “That’s the only thing that I can offer up to make sense of that critique that’s coming.”

Watch the video below, via MSNBC:

And you can watch McKesson face off with Hannity last night here, via Fox News:

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