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Friday, April 16, 2010
White NBC Reporter Confronts Black Man At Tea Party Rally: 'Have You Ever Felt Uncomfortable?'
“There aren't a lot of African-American men at these events,” NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell, a white woman, told Darryl Postell, a black man at a Tea Party rally held Thursday in Washington, DC, pressing him, in an exchange she chose to include in her NBC Nightly News story, to address her prejudiced assumptions: “Have you ever felt uncomfortable?” Postell rejected her loaded premise that race must divide Americans: “No, no, these are my people, Americans.”
O'Donnell's story noted “skepticism over how the Tea Party is judged and labeled,” letting an attendee assert: “We're not racists, we're not any of the above that people claim us to be. We're ordinary citizens that love our country, and we're fighting for it.” O'Donnell soon wondered if it all may peter out, asking a man in the crowd: “Do you think this has enough energy to really last to November and to make a difference?”
Over on ABC, Jonathan Karl highlighted how “many of them blamed us, the news media.” A woman demanded: “We want honesty from you. We want fair time from you. We want you, the media, to represent all the people, not just a certain portion of the people.”
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/04/16/white-nbc-reporter-confronts-black-man-tea-party-rally-have-you-ever-fe#ixzz0lHOlFLwy
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6 comments:
The progressive media are the real racists . All they do is promote racism hoping that it helps their political allies . They are disgusting !
Kelly O'Donnell proved that she's a racist by asking such a demeaning question, and boy did Darryl Postell leave her speechless-What a great answer!
That guy epitomizes the TEA party people and the movement in spite of the MSM attempts to slander .
#1 I am sure most people know that MOST of the tea party is full of "patriotic" Americans who are practicing their right to express their disagreements with our current president/congress
#2 The MSM plays on any story that promotes ratings whether its race, sex, etc. It's been like this for a long time and has nothing to do with the Tea Party. The tea party is just the "in" thing today.
#3 Nothing racists or demeaning about the question. I would expect the same question to be asked to a white man at a black panther/nation of islam rally.
#4 Just because most tea partiers aren't racists doesn't mean that there is no racism present. A small minority can really make the bunch look bad. This is similar to how a minority of blacks shooting and selling drugs in Salisbury make us all look bad. Don't rant on and on (like many of you do on this blog) about how blacks don't want to work or are violent because you saw a few stories on blacks who have committed crimes, then expect us not to do the same when we see a few stories of tea partiers causing trouble. You can't have it both ways.
He should have asked her do the curtains match the drapes. I think she would have gotten the point. Then he should have offered to Tea Bag her.
6:26 Do you have a point other than playing the victim ?
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