Former Fox Host Storms Off Interview After Black Guest Calls Him Out for Claiming to Care About Black Communities
Former Fox News host Eric Bolling left a BBC interview on last week after Black political commentator Aisha Moodie-Mills called him to the carpet for “claiming” to care about Black communities. It all started during a debate about how corporations respond to political issues, including the controversial restrictive elections legislation signed into law last month.
Bolling expressed frustration about Democrats using boycotts as a tool for social change complaining that “everything has become political.”
“Wearing a mask has become political, a voting law in the state of Georgia has become political, and even has ramifications within Major League Baseball. When you pick sides in a business, you’re alienating the other side.” Bolling said, “Typically in America, liberals have always used the boycott, say, as a tool, a gun, so to speak, pointing at corporate CEO’s heads, saying, ‘If you listen to us and do things our way, or we’ll boycott your product.’”
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the sweeping new elections bill into law, Georgia-based companies, including Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines and Home Depot have criticized the legislation. Also activists made calls for customers to boycott companies that hadn’t spoken out about the bill. Major League Baseball relocated the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta to Denver, Colorado, in response to the legislation.
“The Georgia law is “unacceptable” and “a step backwards,” Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey told CNBC on March 31. “[It] is wrong and needs to be remedied, and we will continue to advocate for it both in private and now even more clearly in public.”
“Conservatives in America have stepped away from that,” Bolling said of boycotts, criticizing “cancel culture.” He argued that the MLB’s decision to relocate the All-Star game was harmful to the Black community.
“Major League Baseball pulled the All-Star Game from Atlanta. Atlanta is 50 percent African-American. … They pulled it from the state of Georgia and put it into Denver, Colorado, 9.7 percent African-American representation in Denver. … They took $100 million of revenue, they took 8,000 booked hotel rooms, and they moved them out of the state and put them in a state and a city with far less diversity than the state of Atlanta.”
Aisha Moodie-Mills, former CNN political commentator, responded, “I think it’s really rich for any Republican, especially white man, to run around and claim that they care about the economic condition of Black communities and Black businesses when that’s a lie.”
Bolling grew frustrated and tried to interrupt Moodie-Mills continued, “Everything that these voting laws stand for and what they look like are reminiscent to the Jim Crow policies that my family lived under this, every single thing about it. So this is all about racial discrimination, and how dare you. You try to act like you are somehow a proponent of Black people and businesses just to make a point and to try to create a wedge. It’s ignorant and it’s just disrespectful.”
When she denied his request for an apology, Bolling again stormed away.
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