RNC Chairman Reince Priebus sent a letter to Jamilah Lemieux, the digital editor of Ebony Magazine, Friday, seeking an apology for her hateful and outlandish comments aimed at conservatives, yesterday.
Lemieux spent much of her day Thursday attacking conservatives on Twitter after she racially insulted RNC Deputy Press Secretary Raffi Williams, who is liberal Fox News Commentator Juan Williams’ son.
The dust-up started with a discussion regarding the new Black conservative news magazine being launched by Ben Carson and Armstrong Williams.
Black conservative blogger and radio talk show host, Wayne Dupree (@newsninja) captured the ugly exchanges, as did Twitchy:
@BETpolitichick @SistahScholar @orlandowatson @Raffiwilliams @hugheynewsome I 100% do not want to know more, I wish I knew less!
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
This is where Raffi Williams entered the conversation:
@JamilahLemieux wish you knew less? hoped you would encourage diversity of thought. @BETpolitichick @SistahScholar @orlandowatson
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) March 27, 2014
Shockingly, Lemieux hasn’t seen fit to delete this next abominable tweet:
@Raffiwilliams @BETpolitichick @SistahScholar @orlandowatson Oh great, here comes a White dude telling me how to do this Black thing. Pass.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
And it got worse:
@JamilahLemieux who are you refering to as white… Armstrong and Carson are black @BETpolitichick @SistahScholar @orlandowatson
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) March 27, 2014
@Raffiwilliams @BETpolitichick @SistahScholar @orlandowatson YOU. Now, leave, I have no interest in this conversation.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
@JamilahLemieux You are questioning someones blackness.sorry I do not fit your stereotypes @BETpolitichick @SistahScholar @orlandowatson
— Raffi Williams (@Raffiwilliams) March 27, 2014
Then came the worst faux apology in the history of faux apologies:
@Raffiwilliams I was looking at your avi without blowing it up. I apologize for that. However, I care about NOTHING you have to say.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
I forgot that tweeting something about a Conservative is like leaving a cookie out in a house full of roaches and turning off the lights.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
And how terrible their reading comprehension is #onhere.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
And her meltdown wouldn’t be complete without pretentious liberal academic jargon:
And that they jumping in the mentions of someone with an opposing view with a bunch of jingoism and trite rhetoric is revolution.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
When conservatives on Twitter requested a sincere apology, Lemieux reacted with more venom:
For the Conservative trolls in my mentions, I thought @Raffiwilliams was White because I didn’t blow up his avi. And I apologized. Go away.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
.@JamilahLemieux Apologized for not looking at @Raffiwilliams picture, not for treating him like less than human. Some “apology”. #Typical
— LoneWolf907 (@LoneWolf907) March 27, 2014
Your lack of reading comprehension is embarrassing. But it happens. Now, apologize to me @ellencarmichael
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
@charlescwcooke so…none of you can read or even try to understand what happened? How embarrassing
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
It just went on and on – there’s much more at Twitchy.
Raffi Williams went on Fox and Friends, this morning to talk about the unfortunate episode, and his desire to write a guest article at Ebony expressing the value of diversity of thought.
Via Wayne Dupree:
Williams shouldn’t expect Ebony to be excepting his offer anytime soon if Lemieux has anything to do with it. She doubled down on her sad, closed minded stance, on Friday:
I am allowed to be disinterested in engaging political views that I find to be against my best interest and the best interests of most.
— Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) March 27, 2014
According to their website, “EBONY.com is the premiere online magazine destination for African-American cultural insight, news and perspective. An inviting, charged, and interactive experience under the direction of Editorial Director, Kierna Mayo, EBONY.com is a community-powered site for hot topics and trends, advice, critical conversation, and the best in entertainment and breaking news on Black life in America.
Through original reporting and highly-curated aggregate content, EBONY.com reflects the diversity and broad spectrum of daily thought and opinion within the African-American community. It captures the laugh-out-loud humor of our online audience with a fresh and intelligent point of view, and provokes and inspires dialogue connecting all points of the African-American world.
(Emphasis mine.)
Encouraging diversity of thought within the African American community doesn’t seem to be a priority for Senior editor, Jamilah Lemieux, as sadly, she considers it “against her best interest and the interests of most.”
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