Geraldo: If Chapel Hill Victims Weren’t Muslim, There Wouldn’t Be ‘Muted Response’

Geraldo Rivera said today that if the Chapel Hill shooting victims had not been Muslims, the national reaction would not be as “muted” as he’s witnessed in the past few days. Rivera told Bill O’Reilly to imagine what if those three students were black or Jewish or gay.

He argued, “There would have been automatic outrage. President Obama would have spoken out… in a forceful way. He would have come down, leaders from every corner of the country would have come together.”

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Rivera then said this:

“The fact that they were three Muslim students, I think, has had something to do with the muted––relatively muted response we have had and I think that it’s time to say all lives matter.”

And even when O’Reilly pointed out that Obama did release a statement, Rivera said it was “too late.” O’Reilly suggested that the reason the response has been so muted is because the Muslim population in the United States is a small one, and so “you don’t have that kind of crescendo” to national outrage.

Watch the video below, via Fox News:

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