Don Lemon Reacts to Samuel L. Jackson Mix-up: People Do Look Alike!

Don Lemon returned to his temporary home at 7pm on CNN Tuesday night to talk to Erin Burnett about the local news anchor who made the grievous error of mistaking Samuel L. Jackson for Laurence Fishburne during an interview with yesterday. Ultimately, Lemon was willing to give KTLA’s Sam Rubin the benefit of the doubt, admitting there are some groups of people that he has trouble telling apart as well.

Lemon began by talking about how he was often mistaken for former CNN anchor T.J. Holmes, something he said the two men used to joke about frequently. When it did happen, he said he would usually just laugh and correct them, perhaps saying, “I’m the other black guy.

Burnett thought Jackson handled the situation “beautifully,” showing it bothered him but using humor to make light of the whole thing. But she also cited a study from the American Psychological Association that found “people are notoriously awful at recognizing faces from other races. She even offered up the example of herself and actress Emily Deschanel to make her point. “Two white women with blue eyes, there you go.”

“When someone is in our tribe, I think it’s particularly easier for us to tell them apart, because we’re used to their facial features,” Lemon said, before warning that he’s “probably going to get in trouble” for saying “people do look alike.” He used a few examples before landing one that might hit close to home for anyone who has spent any time in Brooklyn recently.

“It’s not about race,” Lemon said. “You go to Brooklyn, everybody’s got a beard and plaid shirt. They may be able to tell each other part but they all look alike to me.” At the same time, Lemon said Rubin “should probably know” Samuel L. Jackson’s name by now, especially since he’s been in more than 70 movies over the last few decades.

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One County Spent Over $5 Million Jailing Homeless People Instead Of Giving Them Homes

A volunteer interviews a homeless Florida man. Laws that make it a crime to live as a homeless person make little sense from a moral vantage point. New data shows they make even less sense from a fiscal standpoint.
Over the past decade, municipalities in Florida’s Osceola County, just southeast of Orlando, have spent more than $5 million to repeatedly jail three dozen homeless people for
quality-of-life offenses.
Rather than major crimes like assault or burglary, nearly every one of these arrests were because of violations of local ordinances prohibiting activities that many homeless people do to survive, such as sleeping in public or panhandling. Laws that criminalize homelessness can lead to an inescapable cycle of poverty.
The data was collected by Impact Homelessness, an advocacy group in central Florida. The organization identified 37 homeless people in Osceola County who were collectively arrested 1,250 times between 2004 and 2013 at a cost of $104 per booking. During that time, these people spent 61,896 days incarcerated at an average cost of $80 per day.
Altogether, Osceola County communities spent $5,081,680 over the past decade to repeatedly jail just 37 homeless people.

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Here Are All of the Black People on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC

February is Black History Month, which is a lot of territory to cover in just 28 days. Begun in 1926 as Negro History Week, Black History Month was first recognized by the U.S. government in 1976, and its purpose has always been to correct the under-representation of black Americans in mainstream historical narratives. As the country observes its 39th Black History Month, we decided to take a look at how black people are represented in our most visible beat, cable news.
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