Former NPR news analyst Juan Williams discussed his firing from the network last year in an interview with the Huffington Post, and said: “I think when it comes to NPR’s decision to, without any reason, throw me out the door, I think that for them, I think especially for some of the people who created NPR, it’s an all-white operation.”
“I think that they felt they had never had much success with people who were black journalists, Hispanic journalists. More success with white women,” said Williams.
Williams, who is a Fox News contributor, was fired from NPR in October after comments he made about Muslims on Bill O’Reilly’s show: “I mean, look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement in this country. But when I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”
In the HuffPo interview (which was conducted before this week’s NPR controversy over a James O’Keefe video), Williams describes some of the comments made by NPR as “the worst of white condescension to black people.”
“I think they acted very unfairly, and largely in a condescending manner,” he said.
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