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Friday, April 16, 2010

This is kinda interesting...a female white reporter asking a black man why he is at a TEA Party Rally:



“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.”

NBC Nightly News:
BRIAN WILLIAMS: In this country, April 15, it's Tax Day, or tax extension day for some. For others, this was Tea Party day. All across this country, Americans gathered in parks and plazas and in Washington, D.C., to show their government they're fed up with the way things are going. Our own Kelly O'Donnell is with us from the National Mall tonight. Kelly, good evening.

KELLY O'DONNELL: Good evening, Brian. For the Tea Party movement, this is something of a political holiday, using Tax Day to make their case. They don't like where the country is headed. They don't like the size of government, and more than one was willing to tell me they don't like the media. But they all do want to be heard. Going right to the source, Tea Partiers rallied in Washington, the very place their movement wants to change.
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O'DONNELL, TO MAN: There aren't a lot of African-American men at these events.

DARRYL POSTELL, LAUGHING: Right.

O'DONNELL: Have you ever felt uncomfortable?

POSTELL: No, no, these are my people, Americans.


I wonder..where is Jessee Jackass et all demanding NBC fire this white woman for racist underpinnings of her questions....and I mean, can't a man make his own decisions..

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