{"id":1952186,"date":"2023-06-20T17:18:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gayle-king-gets-roasted-for-insulting-white-guy-who-dared-take-off-work-on-juneteenth\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:20:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:20:13","slug":"gayle-king-gets-roasted-for-insulting-white-guy-who-dared-take-off-work-on-juneteenth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gayle-king-gets-roasted-for-insulting-white-guy-who-dared-take-off-work-on-juneteenth\/","title":{"rendered":"Gayle King criticized for insulting &#8216;white guy&#8217; who took off work on Juneteenth."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgayle-king-gets-roasted-for-insulting-white-guy-who-dared-take-off-work-on-juneteenth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1952186&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Gayle King Gets Roasted for Insulting &#8216;White Guy&#8217; Who Dared Take Off Work on Juneteenth<\/h2>\n<p>Maybe Gayle King needs to brush up on what \u201cnational\u201d means in \u201cnational holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCBS Mornings\u201d co-host might have been joking Monday when she opened the show noting that a white on-air co-worker was off for Juneteenth while she and two co-hosts, who happen to be black, were working.<\/p>\n<p>But a good many viewers and those who caught it on social media were definitely not amused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it lost on anybody that the only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-listened-to-barack-obama-and-bruce-springsteens-new-podcast-so-you-dont-have-to\/\" title=\"I Listened To Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen\u2019s New Podcast, So You Don\u2019t Have to\">white guy<\/a> at the table\u2019s off today to celebrate Juneteenth, and we\u2019re still here!\u201d King said, as co-hosts Nate Burleson and Vladimir Duthiers laughed out loud.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Truth be told, I was thinking the same thing. Just didn\u2019t expect <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GayleKing?\">@GayleKing<\/a> to say it out loud  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/HappyJuneteenth?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#HappyJuneteenth<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ivrTSaWKeQ\">pic.twitter.com\/ivrTSaWKeQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ed Brockenbrough (@DrEdBrock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrEdBrock\/status\/1670799134016544770?\">June 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>King was talking about Tony Dokoupil, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-school-board-spends-hours-debating-whether-gay-father-of-mixed-race-daughter-is-diverse-enough-for-all-female-volunteer-group\/\" title=\"San Francisco School Board Spends Hours Debating Whether Gay Father Of Mixed-Race Daughter Is Diverse Enough For All-Female Volunteer Group\">white member<\/a> of the cast, who was absent. Whether Dokoupil\u2019s day off had anything to do with Juneteenth or was simply a long weekend in June wasn\u2019t addressed, but it wouldn\u2019t take a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-justice-department-nominee-faces-ethics-minefield-from-fathers-corporate-interests\/\" title=\"Biden Justice Department Nominee Faces Ethics Minefield From Father\u2019s Corporate Interests\">civil rights lawyer<\/a> to read an implicit insult in King\u2019s words: <em>\u201cHow is he off on our day?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope Tony\u2019s enjoying his Juneteenth holiday,\u201d King said, maybe to take the sting out for the benefit of her viewers. \u201cWelcome to \u2018CBS Mornings.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To be fair, it is a mildly amusing observation \u2014 even if it\u2019s not anywhere near as funny as the laughter from Burleson and Duthiers seemed to make it. But making it the way King did, on national television in a blatantly race-conscious context, was in exceptionally poor taste.<\/p>\n<p>It also showed a remarkable ignorance that shouldn\u2019t be expected in a prominent newswoman.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true enough that Juneteenth was an unofficial black holiday going back to the 19th century, long before the act establishing it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/senate-unanimously-passes-bill-declaring-juneteenth-federal-holiday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passed by Congress<\/a> and signed by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/flashback-just-last-year-bumbling-biden-couldnt-even-explain-juneteenth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pandering President Joe Biden<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>For anyone who\u2019s managed to escape it in the two years since, it commemorates the occasion when Union troops entered Texas at the end of the Civil War with news that slavery had been ended in the defeated Confederacy.<\/p>\n<p>That was an obvious-enough reason for the event to be commemorated by black Americans, whose ever-more-distant ancestors were directly affected by Southern slavery.<\/p>\n<p>But since Congress and the president have decided to make the day a federal holiday, that means it\u2019s for <em>all<\/em> Americans, regardless of their skin color.<\/p>\n<p>And that brings King\u2019s joke into the realm of the near-offensive, like a TV host complaining that Irish Americans are hung over every March 18 or Mexicans go missing every Cinco de Mayo.<\/p>\n<p>James Golden, better known as \u201cBo Snerdley,\u201d the former producer and call screener for \u201cThe Rush Limbaugh Show,\u201d passed the clip on to his more than half-million Twitter followers.<\/p>\n<p>As anyone familiar with Rush fans would guess, they weren\u2019t happy with King\u2019s take.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So white people cant celebrate Juneteenth??<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stanley Jackson (@Stanley61117114) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Stanley61117114\/status\/1671200159349321742?\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">And if he worked, they\u2019d complain that he was ignoring the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Thardell (@amrond00) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amrond00\/status\/1671185134736019457?\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Are they going to cover all the non-Christians that take time off for Christmas?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 April Campbell (@SoNotMarfaTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SoNotMarfaTX\/status\/1671180900413964288?\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s the thing that maybe King didn\u2019t think of.<\/p>\n<p>If Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery, it\u2019s also a holiday in honor of the countless <em>white <\/em>Americans who spent their lives \u2014 and gave their lives \u2014 to make sure that that happened.<\/p>\n<p>That includes abolitionists who worked to eradicate slavery in the Northern states in the first decades of the United States. It includes the crusading newspaper editors and politicians who worked hard \u2014 if not always successfully \u2014 to keep slavery from spreading from its Southern roots into the states joining the Union.<\/p>\n<p>It includes the famous \u2014 like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/slavery\/john-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Brown<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/american-civil-war\/harriet-beecher-stowe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Harriet Beecher Stowe<\/a> \u2014 as well as the church congregations and clergymen who worked to end slavery long before President Abraham Lincoln put his signature on the Emancipation Proclamation or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cal-thomas-now-new-holiday-juneteenth-never-forget-republicans-party-civil-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reconstruction Republicans<\/a> ratified the 13th Amendment.<\/p>\n<p>It includes, maybe most of all, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/american-civil-war-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at least 360,000<\/a> (and possibly many more) overwhelmingly white soldiers who died in the Union Army over the course of the Civil War, giving, as Lincon put it, their \u201clast full measure of devotion\u201d to ensuring the Union cause prevailed and slavery in the United States was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no question that the peculiar institution of slavery was a stain on the history of a country that was truly \u201cdedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.\u201d But it was not an ineradicable one.<\/p>\n<p>And many, many white Americans did more to erase that stain than any <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/squad-member-gets-brutal-fact-check-twitter-claiming-jordan-neely-lynched\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gayle-king-gets-roasted-for-insulting-white-guy-who-dared-take-off-work-on-juneteenth\/\" title=\"Gayle King criticized for insulting 'white guy' who took off work on Juneteenth.\">race-baiting \u201csquad\u201d member<\/a><\/a> in Congress or mob of Black Lives Matter rioters ever will or could. If Juneteenth was celebrated in that context, without endless, empty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/john-fettermans-juneteenth-message-backfires-moment-past-comes-back-haunt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Democratic virtue-signaling<\/a>, it just might pick up more support than another day off on the federal calendar.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this tweet put it best:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Happy Juneteenth To Every US Citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marva Longmore (@Undergrowth2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Undergrowth2\/status\/1670980523831836672?\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The funny thing is, given the wording \u201cTo Every US Citizen\u201d and the fact that the writer appears to be an avid fan of the Manchester United soccer team in the United Kingdom, there\u2019s a good chance it wasn\u2019t even written by an American. Which just makes it all the better.<\/p>\n<p>Gayle King could take a lesson.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gayle-king-gets-roasted-insulting-white-guy-dared-take-off-work-juneteenth\/\">Gayle King Gets Roasted for Insulting &#8216;White Guy&#8217; Who Dared Take Off Work on Juneteenth<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maybe Gayle King should understand the meaning of &#8220;national&#8221; in &#8220;national holiday.&#8221; On &#8220;CBS Mornings,&#8221; she jokingly mentioned that her white co-worker had the day off for Juneteenth, while she and her two black co-hosts were working. 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