Of course Lemon agreed, but Cuomo took his desperate virtue-signaling a step further by claiming to have even less faith in white people than he did. Cuomo told Lemon, “I think that you’re putting more faith in [white] people’s ability to do this than I have right now. See the humanity in George Floyd, well that requires humanity in the seer.”
So brave of you, Chris Cuomo. So brave.
Oh, but he wasn’t done.
“You know, we often say the minority can’t change racism or systemic injustice, the majority has to. But does it want to?” Cuomo continued. “Isn’t there a convenience, isn’t there a comfort in being able to excuse anything that an officer does by saying, you’re anti-police, you choose to see that.”
White people bad! Don’t you get it. And, of course, Chris Cuomo, who is white and had a privileged upbringing, is going to lecture the public about how racist they are, while exempting himself from the broad brush he painted white Americans with.
In other words, if you don’t buy into the claim that Derek Chauvin is guilty by default, that any time a minority is killed by a police officer that there was a racial motive, you are part of the problem. You take “comfort” in racism and making excuses for police, who have just as much a right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence as all Americans.
The fact is, 84 percent of Americans approved of the firing of the officers involved in George Floyd’s death, and 78 percent of Americans believed Chauvin should face charges in the death of George Floyd. To suggest white people are dismissive of police brutality or racism, particularly in the context of a case where no racial motive has been proven yet, is shameless virtue-signaling from a man who epitomizes the white privilege that the Left hates so much.