Touré
Touré is the co-host of MSNBC’s The Cycle which airs daily at 3pm. He is also the author of “Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means To Be Black Now,” which was named one of the Most Notable Books of 2011 by the New York Times and the Washington Post and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work of Non-Fiction. He has published three previous books and is currently at work on a book about Prince and is co-writing the autobiography of the legendary rapper Nas. He is a columnist for Time.com. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and two children.
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It;s a shame you have C Cup on her make your show unwatchable having to listen to her rifgtwing lying BS. I'll wait until 1:00 and watch Martin.
I totally agree. She is ruins the show. The Cycle is not going to survive with C Cup on there!
Maybe i can show Toure real racism by visiting MSNBC and giving him a SMACKDOWN he will never forget. Frickin IDIOT.
Sorry Toure but you can't fore us to listen to C Cup vomit Rightwing propaganda everyday. We can listen to Fixed News for that. All you people are safe and boring. You're vanilla, you're the 'Friends' of MSNBC. Why don't you drop C Cup and get someone else like Marc Lamont Hill.
Toure, Is SE Cup using your show to interview for a job with FOX? Her comments are similar to Hannity and are offensive to the viewers of MSNBC.
She is way too young to remember that African Americans have has to fight, demonstrate and die for equal rights along with Martin Luther King. President Obama was right in saying that the response to the victims of the Hurricane Katrina disaster was a travesty. We all know that the folks of Manhattan or West Palm Beach or Boca Raton would have NEVER been treated that way.
President Obama is not pitting rich against poor. He is simply shaming the bigots into realizing how black their hearts are.
Shame on SE Cup, she should be fired and sent to FOX. She does not get it.
In case you don't know.....No one CARES about offending the viewers of the lowest rated "opinion" program on the air or on cable or satellite. No one watches MSNBC
I heard your comments on therapy and I wondered why no one added that you could have gone to male therapist who can speak your language.
You people are too safe & boring. Dump C Cup and get people on like Marc Lamont Hill, Aisha Taylor, Hal Sparks, Lewis Black, John Oliver, Jason Jones, Aasif Maddvi or Kristem Schaal.
Toure', When did it get acceptable to make personal attacks on people.....politicians, newspeople, people in the news? I have seen horrible language used toward the Prez and The First Lady, don't know why 'big brother' hasn't grabbed some of these morons by the back of the neck and thrown them in jail. In that case, I'd be in favor of big brother!
C Cup seems to be using MSNBC to interview for a position on FOX......please dump her, she does not share the views and thoughts of the MSNBC audience. In fact, she speaks like an uninformed snob behind those god awful glasses.
She is the decade of difference!! Youngest FDIC Certified financial literacy educator in the world!!
Looking back at the Presidential primaries, I am reminded of the substandard contenders who’d been programmed with artificial stupidity. Perhaps, with the exception of our barony of American billionaires buying the power to crown a stooge, no legally sane citizen could ever have imagined any one of these candidates boarding an on demand flight on Air Force One.
So why did the Republican aparat send in the clowns, if only quietly acknowledge their candidacy? The strategy seemed clear: better to sacrifice a losing team to a popular incumbent – and wait to throw in your best hat in 2016.
But this playbook was as dicey as the one confected in 2007. Terrified that the odds-on favorite Hillary would win the primary, the GOP strategists brazenly supported Obama, mainly because they were as certain as Tuesday follows Monday that a black Presidential candidate could never ascend beyond head chef in the White House. This idiocy went so far as to have local GOP headquarters issue Obama T shirts to life-long Republican voters. Oh, yea--I was there.
There are times when Fortune smiles and long shots win; and Romney could speciously argue his way into the White House. How do you stop a salesman who can sell a neo-Nazi a circumcision knife?
Jerry Sedley
I appreciate The Cyle. There is fair and of course, strong assessment of the American condition, President Obama and Govenor Romney. Today, I listened and was quite inspirired by Toure comments that we are still "the divided States of America." There is an unbroken stain of disrespect for the leader of the free world; the greatest nation on earth - President Obama. Maybe it is because some of Right-wing America fears he just might succeed, if we vote out the "do-nothing" majority in Congress that concluded almost before the President was sworn in, that he would be a "one term President." Senator McConnell said it, I didn't.
In my book Drop the Rage, Turn the Page (available) at Barnes and Noble, www.amazon.com and Kindle Direct Publishing/Bookshelf in eBook format) I mention some of the real issues that surround President Obama's term and how negative politics have tried to doom him to failure. I talk about a wide range of things. But one chapter in particular speaks to the President's faith and our need for stop trying to make him a Messiah (black, white, Asain, Latino, or Native American) and let him be Mr. President. He deserves a second term, given the nature of the hand that was dealt him when he arrived in office, and the fact that we are better off now than we were when he took office. He has helped the auto industry get on its feet in America; Governor Romney wanted it to go the route of bankruptcy.
Once we unite again around a President, not because of his color, but his ability to lead (I am speaking here of President Obama) we will go forward and no longer be divided.
T. DeWitt Smith, Jr.
You sir, and I use the term lightly, are a disgrace to not only journalism but to the entire nation. When all else fails with you, you throw the big bad race card. How dare you accuse Senator John McCain of wrong doing?e is a United States Senator and he has a right to question anyone at anytime regarding a person's honesty regarding the deaths of Americans. Susan Rice went on five Sunday morning talk shows and repeated what she must have known were lies or else she is so totaly incompedent she needs to be signed on as a contributor to MSNBC. Never, ever forget that JohnMcCain spent several years in a prison camp in North Vietnam, he was there fighting for your right to make an ass of yourself...
Greg Gardner is right-on with his assessment. Toure or whatever his name really is (doesn't he have a first and last name like most Americans?) is a disappointment to journalism and moreover the black race.
I find it interesting that Mr Toure' Neblett can hide behind the 1st Amendment to spew his racist rhetoric. He's had to walk back his comments on Piers Morgan and Asians. Now, the idiot says the NRA wants mass killings like Newton. That is a repulsive and disgusting comment. According to the FBI data base there are 1.4 million gang menbers in this country and 33,000 gangs. Does TOURE' think they are members of the NRA? Maybe he needs to take himself from the comfort of his upscale apartment and go to South Central. Maybe, since he's such a persuasive ass, he can convince the brotha's to lay down their arms, join hands and sing we are the world. Think that would work? Hey folks, I worked in California prisons for 20 years AND THEY'VE ALREADY GOT THEIR ASSAULT RIFLES!!! They've got their clips and no law will change it. They tell me every day they hope that goes through because you will just make it easier for them to commit their crimes.
I was watching a couple shows regarding the individuals being picked to fill Obama's cabinet and it is too bad you are all worried about the diversity of its make-up. I not once have seen a disabled person in a cabinet position, you want to see true diversity, fill a position with a person confined to a wheelchair!
Don't let facts or ACTUAL reporting get in the way of your BS (that there's no "South Brooklyn" and that there was no reporting of problems there):