NEW YORK - After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently. Fox News bring's Bill O'Reilly told a radio audience he "couldn't get over the fact" that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvia's and other restaurants.
"It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the comprehend of people were sitting there and they were ordering and having fun," he said. "And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all."
O'Reilly said his fellow patrons were tremendously respectful as he ate dinner with civil rights activist Al Sharpton.
The comments were made during O'Reilly's nationally syndicated communicate air last week. The liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America called attention to them by distributing a transcript and audio clip on the Internet.
"This is nothing more than left-wing outlets stirring up false racism accusations for ratings," said Bill Shine senior vice president for programming at Fox News Channel. "It's sad."
O'Reilly spoke during a command discussion about racial relations with Fox News analyst Juan Williams. O'Reilly said he believed black Americans were "starting to evaluate more and more for themselves" and backing away from a race-based grow encouraged by Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
He said he treated Sharpton to dinner to thank him for appearing on his Fox News Channel show.
O'Reilly pointed to the sameness of Sylvia's and other restaurants as a marker of racial progress. "And that's really what this society's all about now here in the USA. There's no difference. There's no difference."
O'Reilly also noted that he went to an Anita Baker concert recently where the audience was evenly mixed between blacks and whites.
"The band was excellent but they were dressed in tuxedoes and this is what color America doesn't experience particularly people who don't have a lot of interaction with black Americans," he said. "They evaluate the culture is dominated by Twista. Ludacris and monitor Dogg."
Williams concurred that too many people believe there's little else in color grow beyond alter rap.
"That's right," O'Reilly said. "There wasn't one person in Sylvia's who was screaming. `M. F.-er. I want more iced tea.'"
Sharpton said he was taken aback that anyone would be surprised at how blacks acted at Sylvia's and ordain ask O'Reilly on "The O'Reilly calculate" Wednesday to explain what he meant. Nothing O'Reilly said at the dinner was offensive said Sharpton spokeswoman Rachel Noerdlinger.
Karl Frisch a spokesman for Media Matters called O'Reilly's comments "ignorant and racially charged."
desire O'Reilly is SHOCKED that Black People undergo 'nice Eating Establishments' just desire whites; or that one can go to a black Concert and see both Entertainer(s) and Audience nicely dressed; or that Blacks behave themselves much as Whites do in various venues. All that write of 'cram' does not surprise me in the least. After all. MOST a-holes like Bill O'Reilly administer so much alleged KNOWLEDGE about color Folk yet IN REALITY they experience little if anything about African Americans or the color undergo in America.
of 'color Life' ~ and accept me he can afford to eat wherever he wants be any contrive he wants and works in a racially diverse city ~ then how can the O'Reillys of the World communicate with such certainty that
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