Given the context of the incident, the poll does not fit. He was not bothered by "muslims" on a plane.
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"I mean, look, Bill, I'm not a bigot. You know the kind of books I've written about the civil rights movement in this country," Williams said Monday.
"But when I get on a plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they're identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous."
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Also, just for the record as this has nothing to do with the poll but here is his explanation as to why he said that
"They take something totally out of context," Williams said Thursday night, adding that his point was that Americans must come to grips with their prejudices.
"I have always thought of journalism, in a way, as a priesthood. you honor it you protect it," he said, before criticizing his former employer. "These people don't have ay sense of righteousness, of what's right here. They're self righteous."
Williams said NPR wanted to get rid of him because of his contributions to Fox News.
"I don't fit in their box," he said "I'm an unpredictable black liberal."
Ailes, in making his announcement, said, “Juan has been a staunch defender of liberal viewpoints since his tenure began at Fox News in 1997. He’s an honest man whose freedom of speech is protected by Fox News on a daily basis.”
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