wow…I just read this in regards to the shooter’s claim that Parker had made “racist” remarks…
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Trevor Fair, a 33-year-old cameraman at WDBJ for six years, said that the words Parker used are commonplace but that they would routinely set Flanagan off.
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“We would say stuff like, ‘The reporter’s out in the field.’ And he would look at us and say, ‘What are you saying, cotton fields? That’s racist,’ ” Fair recounted.
“We’d be like, ‘What?’ We all know what that means, but he took it as cotton fields, and therefore we’re all racists.”
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He was paranoid or something. Don’t journalists regularly use that term meaning the person isn’t in the office, he/she is out on a job?