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After eating dinner at a famed Harlem restaurant recently, Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly told a radio audience he 'couldn't get over the fact' that there was no difference between the black-run Sylvia's and other restaurants. 'It was like going into an Italian restaurant in an all-white suburb in the sense of people were sitting there, and they were ordering and having fun,' he said. 'And there wasn't any kind of craziness at all.' O'Reilly pointed to the lack of difference between Sylvia's and other restaurants as a marker of racial progress. He also noted that he went to an Anita Baker concert recently where the audience was evenly mixed between blacks and whites. 'The band was excellent, but they were dressed in tuxedoes, and this is what white America doesn't know, particularly people who don't have a lot of interaction with black Americans,' he said. 'They think the culture is dominated by Twista, Ludacris and Snoop Dogg.' Sharpton said he was taken aback that anyone would be surprised at how blacks acted at Sylvia's and will ask O'Reilly to explain what he meant. Nothing O'Reilly said at the dinner was offensive. Karl Frisch, a spokesman for Media Matters, called O'Reilly's comments 'ignorant and racially charged.'
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