Saturday, April 17, 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."

Recent polling from Rasmussen about the average TEA party attendee population reveals that:
-Eighty percent (80%) in the Tea Party movement are white. Six percent (6%) are African-American.
-Fifty-five percent (55%) of those in the Tea Party movement are Republicans, 14% Democrats
Seventy-eight percent (78%) are politically conservative. Other research has shown that more than 40% of conservatives nationwide do not consider themselves Republicans.
-Ninety-four percent (94%) believe the federal government has become a special interest group that looks out primarily for its own interests. That view is held by 67% of all voters nationwide.

Courtesy:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/general_politics/april_2010/tea_party_profile_many_ways_to_describe_a_movement Bookmark and Share


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