On Thursday’s edition of CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish interviewed Marc Morial, head of the National Urban League, regarding its publication of a report on the fifth anniversary of the death of George Floyd. Morial claimed that “the loud voices that you hear in opposition [to DEI] are not representative of the majority of the American people.” In response, Cornish sympathetically observed: “But they are in control right now in a lot of ways.”
That teed up Morial to say, “They are in control, and that’s why we’ve got to activate those of us who believe that equal opportunity is the American value we’ve got to fight for.”
Cornish began the segment by saying the death of Floyd “ignited a firestorm.” But the only footage she ran was of protesters merely yelling at Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for his refusal to defund the police — although he did…
