A white male leader of Arizona’s Maricopa County NAACP chapter is in hot water because of his appreciation for a local news reporter’s “tits.”
For context: earlier this week, several teens at Desert Vista high school thought it was a good idea to spell out the word “nigger” with t-shirts during senior picture day and put the photo on social media. On Tuesday, local NAACP head Don Harris held a meeting in response to that photo, bringing community leaders and teachers at Tempe Union High School together to discuss the slur. Afterwards, he was interviewed by a television reporter named Monique Griego and her cameraman, according to the Phoenix New Times, and that’s when it all went south.
Harris turned to New Times as a reporter asked him, “Can you just talk about the . . .” and made his enthusiastic comment about Griego. A few seconds later, he said it again: “Nice tits.”
Griego hasn’t commented on the incident—what is she supposed to say?—but Harris said plenty when a New Times reporter called him for comment on the “compliment.”