By Bob Parks ——Bio and Archives--August 27, 2010
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Tea Party Spells KKK, Rights Leader SaysBy invoking the Ku Klux Klan, Reverend Fauntroy has once again parroted the notion that Glenn Beck/Tea Party supporters are racist, and he did so at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He obviously knew by using such language, the media would continue its symbiotic relationship with racebaiters and run with it. Curiously, three weeks ago prominent black conservatives (some aligned with the Tea Party Express) came together for a press conference at... the National Press Club! Much of the major news media was in attendance as black conservatives denounced the cavalier use of the race card by the NAACP. There were also witness accounts of laughter by media members at the conclusion of the presser. That press conference lasted close to two hours yet one sentence by Tea Party Express activist Selena Owens was all that made the airwaves. Six seconds out of 111 minutes. One condescending column ran on Salon.com and CNN's Shannon Travis wrote a piece online where the comments were disabled after a few hours because his readers were becoming a tad intolerant; dare I say racist...? But Fauntroy uses inflammatory language and ABC News treats this as breaking news. While other Tea Party groups are receiving death threats and race-baiters are getting more attention that they deserve, the media elite are playing a very dangerous game just to further a political agenda. While they sit back in their make-up chairs, hoping for violent footage to codify their assertions of conservative racism, real people are at risk. Emotions are being ratcheted up, verbiage is becoming confrontational, and the media cowards who already have their conservative/Glenn Beck/Tea Party goers are extreme, violence-prone Klan members, will sit back in air-conditioned studios hoping for bloody b-roll. The left and their media are desperate. With only two major events left before the midterm elections, they need to paint conservatives with a broad, racist brush to salvage the Democrat majority, and if there is collateral damage, so be it. The media royalty will act all shocked on-air while high-fiving and fist-bumping off. It must be nice to think you can look down on millions of America you believe you can manipulate, and if any ugliness happens at the Beck or 9/12 events, they will look the other way, devoid of conscience. You know, like the Klan.
The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the non-voting delegate who represented the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991, called on African-Americans to organize a "new coalition of conscience" to rebut the rally scheduled for Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial featuring Fox News pundit Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux -- I meant to say the Tea Party," Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. "You all forgive me, but I -- you have to use them interchangeably."
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Bob Parks is a is a member/writer of the National Advisory Council of Project 21. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight