NBC Highlights Downbeat 'State of Black America' Report

Wednesday's NBC Nightly News highlighted the downbeat “State of Black America 2009” report, but failed to identify the group behind it, the National Urban League, as liberal nor note the left-wing policy prescriptions recommended in the report.

Though NBC anchor Brian Williams acknowledged Barack Obama's election “was a reminder of the great strides this nation has made in race relations,” he warned that

“today there was a reminder of how much work remains to be done to heal what has long been this nation's greatest wound.” [snip]

National Urban League President Marc Morial, the former Democratic Mayor of New Orleans, then charged:

“The country's in a ditch, and black Americans have lost ground over the last eight years..."

[The grivance industry: too big to fail.]

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