A few years ago, Blacks could not randomly use “drive by” without there being a shooting connotation. These days, a Muslim can’t refer to blowing things up without people getting nervous… so what if a Black man talks of blowing someone up…
What would that mean?
When the Savannah Morning-News reporters later returned to the hotel for an unrelated assignment, he approached one of them — high school student Courtney Scott, an intern at the newspaper.
“As we were preparing to film, Montel Williams walked up with his bodyguard and got in Courtney Scott’s face pointing his finger telling her ‘Don’t look at me like that. Do you know who I am? I’m a big star, and I can look you up, find where you live and blow you up,”‘ said Joseph Cosey, a web content producer for the newspaper.
“At this time he was randomly pointing at all of us.”
Scott said she wasn’t sure how to interpret Williams’ comment.
“I’m not sure if he meant ‘blow me up’ and ruin my career or really blow us up, but it was threatening,” Scott said.
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