Patricia Carroll was the black CNN camerawoman assaulted at the Republican National Convention when two attendees threw peanuts at her and screamed racial slurs.
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In an interview with Richard Prince’s Journal-isms of the Maynard Institute, Carroll said that she wasn’t shocked by the incident: “I hate that it happened, but I’m not surprised at all.”
As reported by RPJ:
Carroll, who agreed to be named for the first time, said she does not want her situation to be used for political advantage.
“This situation could happen to me at the Democratic convention or standing on the street corner. Racism is a global issue,” she said by telephone from Tampa.
Carroll said no one took the names of the attendees who threw peanuts at her Tuesday on the convention floor and told her, “This is what we feed animals.” She alerted fellow camera operators, producers and CNN security. The head of the delegation — she was not certain of the state — told her the perpetrators must have been alternates, not delegates.
But Carroll, 34, said that as an Alabama native, she was not surprised. “This is Florida, and I’m from the Deep South,” she said. “You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don’t think I should do.”
Carroll noted of the Republican convention, “There are not that many black women there.”
She said she wanted to thank CNN, which “has been behind me 100 percent.” Although she was stationed on the floor next to Fox News, the perpetrators “didn’t know what I was doing. I happened to be standing there,” near one of the delegations.
Carroll went on to say that she can’t change people’s hearts or minds, and hoped the story would just go away.
Carroll ended the interview saying she’s not interested in talking to any other media outlets about the incident.
SOURCE: RPJ
