A couple of days ago on MSNBC, David Shuster called me a #.
Later, Chris Matthews called me a sellout.
Keith Olbermann called me a Little Black Sambo.
CNN’s Rick Sanchez called me a biscuit-and-chicken eatin’ white wannabe.
Now, if I had publicly made these claims, these media celebs would be demanding I produce video clips of these incendiary statements, and if I couldn’t, they’d justifiably be on the phone with their lawyers.
On March 20th during the Tea Party protests, members of the Congressional Black Caucus chose (and I use that word tactically) to walk through the throng to go vote for the Health Care Reform bill. Surely, if the Tea Party were one generation removed from the Klan (which incidentally was a Democrat Party creation), they might’ve either taken a different route or would’ve had an armed escort greater than less than a handful of Capitol Hill cops.
I’m personally amazed that the objective mainstream media has failed to produce ONE video or audio clip (out of the many shot by citizens) that backs up the claim of Congressman John Lewis, who says he was called a # by a Tea Party bomb thrower. Obviously it’s a given the media will accept the word of a God-like politician. Just ask John Edwards how that works. Making oneself a victim is easier for some than others.
The media is in perfect sync, running with this template that the Tea Party is this violent and racist horde.
Funny how my son and I went to the two large protests in Washington, D.C. and the only names I was called was my own as I ran into many people who knew me and assaulted me with hugs and poses for pictures. Other blacks and minorities in attendance (who curiously seemed to run and hide from mainstream media cameras) didn’t seem at all concerned for their safety.
In fact, in all the Tea Parties held nationwide, how many arrests were made for disorderly conduct or property damage? Knowing the crack media as we do, if such disturbances occurred, we’d see those images right along with the audible racial slurs hurled at CBC members at an O.J.-like pace. But alas, either the media has done a very sloppy job at reporting, or… those events never happened.
With that, I would never claim media pundits and anchors used racial slurs (at least in public) without irrefutable proof.
However, this should not be a one-way street.
Until the media can produce evidence that can link hateful race comments to an entire group of non-violent, clean-up-after-themselves, civic-minded citizens, any other claims are slanderous and, to tell you the truth, there are times I wished I were that lawyer.
