[See NewsBusters for more.] MSNBC Live host Katy Tur could have used Thursday's show to try to see if there was a way that the current protests across the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd could bring the country together. Instead, however, she teamed up with Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson to wonder if white Americans are unwittingly racist by being scared of black Americans, simply by looking at them.
Tur began by simply asking Dyson, "I just want you to tell me how you're feeling and what you're thinking today." Dyson bluntly declared, "It's devastating to be a black person in America, James Baldwin said, is to be in a nearly unending state of rage, to paraphrase him. And the rage grows from the inability of many of our white brothers and sisters to understand where we are."