Here is a video from Univision where Chris Barker, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, insults Univision anchor Ilia Calderón with racial slurs.
The Noticiero Univision Edición Nocturna team went to Yanceyville, North Carolina, on July 24 to interview Barker and other members of the Loyal White Knights, a chapter of the KKK. The interview turned tense as Barker hurled racial slurs at Calderón, who is Afro-Colombian.
“To me you are an [N-word]. That’s it,” Barker told Calderón.
“At that moment, I felt scared and unsafe,” Calderón said in the video.
She explained that prior to the interview, she had prepared herself to face insults and possible tensions.
“I knew they were going to disrespect me but I never imagined the level [of disrespect],” Calderón said.
Univision vice president of news María Martínez Guzmán explained that Calderón stayed in the car as the team was filming inside Barker’s house.
“I have never seen someone looking at a person [Calderón] with so much hate and resentment,” Guzmán said.
Univision plans to broadcast the interview on Sunday, August 20.
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María Camila Montañez is a journalism student at CUNY Graduate School of Journalism’s Spanish-language program. She is originally from Colombia and tweets from @mariacmontanez.
[…] regrets her words and apologized but she wants to move on. The context was about how a KKK member used the racial slur again Univision journalist Ilia Calderón yet it still leaves questions about why say it in the first place. She still said it. And it looks […]