Ryan Powers
College of William and Mary
O’Reilly’s Racism Is Showing

After joining Rev. Al Sharpton for dinner in Harlem, Fox’s Bill O’Reilly remarked that “couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City … even though it’s run by blacks, primarily black patronship.”

Steven Benen writes further:

On the same program, O’Reilly was describing his experience to NPR’s Juan Williams. “There wasn’t one person in Sylvia’s who was screaming, ‘M-Fer, I want more iced tea,’” O’Reilly said, adding, “You know, I mean, everybody was — it was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun. And there wasn’t any kind of craziness at all.”

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