From the Huffington Post:
Juan Williams says NPR is an “all-white organization” that exhibited the “worst of white condescension” in its handling of his firing last year.
In an interview with The Huffington Post, conducted before the most recent controversy surrounding an NPR executive’s comments about the tea party (and CEO Vivian Schiller’s ousting), Williams blasted the organization for its treatment of him.
“I think when it comes to NPR’s decision to, without any reason, throw me out the door, I think that for them, especially for some of the people who created NPR, it’s an all-white operation,” Williams said. He added that he thought NPR “felt they had never had much success” with black or Hispanic journalists, and that they had had “more success with white women.”
[…]
“I think they acted very unfairly, and largely in a condescending manner,” Williams said of NPR’s handling of the situation. “If you stop and think about some of the things that were said in the midst of that controversy, the idea that I should have a relationship with a psychiatrist or that I need a publicist to tell me what to say. It just suggests to my mind that they think that I was some sort of infantile mentality, or childlike person.
“I think the worst of white condescension to black people was evident in some of those comments,” he said.
Full article here.