It is rare to watch someone’s assumptions appear to unravel in real time, especially during a live television interview.
That was the impression left Friday on “CBS Mornings,” when Gayle King raised questions about race while speaking with Lindsay Clancy juror Paula Devlin.
King asked Devlin about the jury’s racial makeup, saying she had not seen the subject addressed elsewhere in coverage of the case.
The exchange quickly made clear why the issue may not have drawn wider discussion.
Devlin said the panel was entirely white except for “one person of color.” King then asked whether that juror was a man or woman, followed by a question about whether “of color” meant Black—before arriving at the detail that appeared to surprise her.
More From Kirsten Fleming
“A black man is the holdout juror?” King asked.
After Devlin quietly confirmed that was the case, King showed little effort to conceal her reaction.
“Woah. I have to sit with that for just a second,” she said.
To the article’s author, King’s response suggested astonishment that a Black American juror had reached a conclusion outside what the author describes as an expected political script.
The moment, the author argues, underscored a broader criticism of the progressive left: that some people assign presumed views to individuals based on race and react sharply when those expectations are challenged.
Think back to when Barack Obama lectured black men for not voting for Kamala Harris.
RELATED: Aaron Rodgers Takes Aim at Exes as Shailene Woodley Continues to Thrive
The intersectionality hierarchy that built the ridiculous Woke 1 infrastructure doesn’t adhere to reality.
Much has been made about this holdout being an utter annoyance to his fellow citizens fufilling their civic duty in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
For the last week, the other jurors have made the media rounds painting him as a problematic, stubborn and disinterested dude.
Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, even accused him of having a “bias against those who suffer from debilitating mental illness.”
In a previous interview, Devlin described him as “arrogant.”
King probably pictured him to be some thick white trash townie out of a Ben Affleck movie.
In reality it was a bunch of liberal New England white ladies hen pecking a black man, who had the audacity to disagree with their votes finding Clancy, who murdered her children, not criminally responsible for the horrific acts.
Kellie Farina, another older juror griped to NBC that the holdout, “had the hardest time getting over the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.”
I should hope so!
This, of course, pokes holes in all that racialized nonsense that has ruled our society over the last decade or so, and King gave up the game.
But, as is so often the case, race does not matter. Humans are humans. And, as humans, our immutable characteristics do not bind us to certain ideologies or opinions.