White NBC Reporter Confronts Black Man at Tea Party Rally: 'Have You Ever Felt Uncomfortable?'

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/04/16/white-nbc-reporter-confro...
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?

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[DHarri9977]

@mojohns44 Nicely said, bless you.

[DHarri9977]

This guy gets it, key word here is "Americans" you would think after 9/11 people would be more united. It didn't take long for everyone to fall back into the usual patterns of whats in it for me. The politicians on both sides of the aisle pander to these various groups and continue to follow the same patterns in Washington which is putting everyone else a head of its citizenry. We are quickly reaching the point of needing humanitarian aid in this country given the current economic conditions.

[piker19]

All liberals who ignorantly accuse us tea partiers of be racist are FUCKING SCUM! My best friend and fellow tea partier is in fact an african american

[mojohns44]

I love the fact that she laughed at the fact that a Black man dared t ocall "White Conservatives" HIS PEOPLE. I got news for you lady; I'm Black and I consider Christian people of all color, hard-working people of any race, people of served in the military like I did MY PEOPLE all day, every day. And if your Liberal Arts professors back at college have a problem with that, remind the bozo who is paying his salary and keeping this country free and productive - not him or her!

[RepublicansAreNazis]

GKC1874 why everytime anyone in the GOP When. They. are caught bring racist. they always change the su ject

[GKC1874]

@RepublicansAreNazis If you knew your history, you'd know that Hitler and Mussolini were the progressives of their day. FDR wrote admiringly of Mussolini. Margaret Sanger and George Orwell were great admirers of HItler. Remember Hitler was the Leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Before you go off with the pat answer that he highjacked the party take a look at their platform and his accomplishment. He was anti-christian and radical environmentalist to boot.kinda like u LOL

[RepublicansAreNazis]

GOP + Tea Party = KKK

[PrisonerNumber9653]

@LeoAutodidact And where has THIS been said??

It IS wrong, and worthy of criticism, for wealthy blacks to put their own greed ahead of racial justice by voting Republican. It's not "voting and thinking alike on everything."

There is still no "race card," that's a sick made-up term implying racism is just a game, it doesn't really exist.

[LeoAutodidact]

@PrisonerNumber9653

Oh, but if you're Black and are openly Republican YOU MUST BE DESTROYED!

Just as an example, ya' know.

[loki35e]

HAHAHA...Priceless