Black broadcaster confronts hate in Charleston
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Crump, who works for WBTV in Charlotte, was in Charleston working on a story about cleanup following Hurricane Matthew. canada goose coats on sale Along with his camera crew, he was filming near the southern tip of the peninsula when he came across a young white man, he and identified as Canada Goose Outlet 21 year old Brian Eybers, holding an iPad, apparently producing some sort of “citizen journalism,” as Crump put it.
The man, watching theWBTV crew, was narrating his story into the tablet when Crump caught wind of what he was saying.
“He basically said, ‘There’s a black guy here. No, wait a minute, he’s a slave. No wait a minute, he’s a ’n word,’ ” Crump told The Post.
Added Crump, “I went from 0 to 60 in an instant, just like that. I just turned canada goose coats to [my cameraman] and said, ‘We need to get this guy on tape.'” (The result can be viewed above, with offensive language bleeped.)
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Crump and the young man were neartheCathedral of Saint John the Baptist butMotherEmanuel AME Church sat only 10 blocks away. Canada Goose sale It was there, inJune 2015, that Dylann Canada Goose Online Roof was accused of killingnine black worshipers. Crump stood in that church, hours later, blood still drying. He stoodthere again a year later, to cover the wretchedanniversary.
After the shooting, the family members of those slain chose to follow scripture by offering forgiveness, an act thatturned the city of Charleston into a “disarmed powder keg,” Crump said.
Naturally, all of this raged through Crump’s head as he stormed toward Eybers. After all, Crump, a great canada goose outlet store locations great grandson of Kentucky slaves, spent his career considering race relations.
As Dennis Milligan, WBTV’s news director, told the Charlotte Observer, “You could safely call Steve the leading civil rights reporter in town with his documentaries and daily stories.”
Crump told The Post that in the moment, he faced a canada goose clearance simple but difficult question: “Do you respond to it, or not? Do you Canada Goose online let it stand?”
Given the city’s recent canada goose history, he decided he couldn’t let it stand.
“Say that a little bit More louder,” Crump said toEybers on tape. “Come on, what did you just call me?”
Brian Eybers (WBTV)
“I called you Canada Goose Parka ‘Sir,'” Eybers said, eyes shaded by glasses. canada goose store He saton the ground near the cathedral, wearing a white T shirt with the logo for the band Sublime, shorts and a purple hoodie wrapped around his waist, along with a pair of Nikes and black crew socks.
“You did not call me ‘Sir,’ ” Crump shot back. “You called me in the buy canada goose jacket n word, right?”
At which point Eybers said, “I believe I did call you the n word.”
When asked to spell it, Eybers obligedwith an eerie calm.
“N as in Nancy, I as in indigo, G as in grant,” and so on.
When Crump asked what gaveEybers the right to call him that, the young man cited the Constitution of the United States.
Eybers pushed his sunglasses off his nose, revealing his eyes.
“Yeah, canada goose black friday sale this one does make me superior,” he said.
The video continued, with Eybers continued to layer insult after buy canada goose jacket cheap insult atop one another, all https://www.arconserve.ca aimed at Crump’s skin color.
“You’re a canadian goose jacket f ing idiot,” Eybers told Crump, chuckling. “You’re ignorant, so you really are a n, then. You’re acting niggardly.” cheap Canada Goose.