Richard Cohen: Bill de Blasio's Mixed Family Makes Me Puke!

Washington Post opinion columnist wrote another aim at the Black community. Could this attack be the end of his longtime career at the newspaper?

Richard Cohen maybe one sentence away from a pink slip after he made an offensive comment about mayor-elect of New York City, Bill de Blasio and his family.

He claims that biracial families make him "PUKE".

As usual, the Washington Post opinion writer pens a piece criticizing Black people.

In turn he's criticizing the interracial family. Bill de Blasio is married to a Black woman.

And he's got a miserable history of inflammatory statements criticizing the Black community in general.

Cohen wrote a column in 1986 which argued owners of jewelry stores were right to refuse to allow entry to young black men because of a fear of crime. This column led to the Washington Post having to apologize.

Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the shooting of Trayvon Martin in July 2013, Cohen wrote "a controversial column in which he defends George Zimmerman's suspicion of Travyon Martin and calls on politicians to acknowledge that a disproportionate amount of crimes are committed by black males".

The column went on to say that Cohen "can understand why Zimmerman was suspicious and why he thought Martin was wearing a uniform we all recognize;" in any case, he also points out that:

New York City elected Bill de Blasio as their mayor. Conservative mounted a full scale attack on de Blasio and his family.

"What I'm trying to deal with is, I'm trying to remove this fear from racism. I don't think it's racism to say, 'this person looks like a menace,'" 

"Now, a menace in another part of the country could be a white guy wearing a wife-beater under-shirt. Or, if you're a black guy in the South and you come around the corner and you see a member of the Ku Klux Klan".

Towards the end of the column, Cohen calls Trayvon Martin "a young man understandably suspected because he was black".

On November 4, 2013, Cohen wrote a column about the much talked about Oscar buzz film “12 Years a Slave”, in which he evinced personal ignorance of the history of slavery in the U.S. and a negative view of abolitionist writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, writing: "Instead, beginning with school, I got a gauzy version. I learned that slavery was wrong, yes, that it was evil, no doubt, but really, that many blacks were sort of content. Slave owners were mostly nice people — fellow Americans, after all — and the sadistic Simon Legree was the concoction of that demented propagandist, Harriet Beecher Stowe."

Shortly afterwards, on November 11, in the course of a column about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Cohen referred to the recent victory of Bill De Blasio as Mayor of New York, writing:

"People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children." 

This statement was widely condemned.

Anyway, what's your opinion of it?

Me and S. Baldwin explained this multiple times.

Color doesn't matter. As long as individuals share a common interest and love for one another, it's satisfaction. I don't discriminate against a person's race when it comes to relationships.

Cohen is entitled to be a blowhard conservative bigot. He's perfectly fine. I mean after he's fired from The Washington Post, maybe he'll get a job with people he'll feel comfortable with.

They're hiring over at the Loserville Nation, Breitfart and WorldNutDaily.