The Today Show Got Super Confused (VIDEO)

dang @TODAYshow, just couldn't let her finish, huh? love ya @JanelleMonae! #BlackLivesMatter cc: @deray @Nettaaaaaaaa pic.twitter.com/QeGhY5lQGJ

— marla york. (@theseMYtweetz) August 14, 2015

The Today Show wanted to cement their obvious kinship with the plight of Black America so they invited a black singer to perform her song honoring the BlackLivesMatter hashtag. As Janelle Monae was winding up and segueing into her police brutality and racial profiling sermon, the Today show switched audio to the pale Australian chick back in the studio so you couldn’t hear the crazy negro ranting. I remember a day when being a politically correct news outlet was pretty simple. Run it by the vegan chick in the art department and see if she gets hives. Now the national media are wrapping rings of ambiguity around their own soft-serve decision making. We want to send mad props out to the victimized black folk, but we can’t really have a black chick getting all Panthers on our national broadcast or we lose Indiana and Arizona. Let’s run a car wash in our next life. #RatingsMatter.