MSNBC Contributor: Debate over NSA is a 'Privileged' Discussion
Reacting to President Obama‘s lengthy presser this afternoon, MSNBC contributor Dr. James Peterson said that the debate over the NSA’s domestic surveillance operations is a “privileged discussion” that ignores the daily “physical surveillance” experienced by America’s poor and minorities.
“I really find it to be quite a privileged discussion,” Peterson said of the NSA scandal. “It’s not that I’m not interested in transparency… I think this conversation is important, but I just believe we needed to have this conversation a long time ago.”
“I believe that poor people and people of color are under a different type of surveillance in this country,” he continued, citing stop and frisk policies in various American cities. “There’s a tremendous amount of physical surveillance that goes on in our nation every day. I’d love to transmit this energy around the NSA… to think more critically about poor folk and people of color are under constant physical surveillance.”
Watch below, via MSNBC:
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