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On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer fretted over health care reform protesters legally carrying guns: "A man at a pro-health care reform rally...wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip....there are questions about whether this has racial overtones....white people showing up with guns."
Brewer failed to mention the man she described was black.
MSNBC pop culture analyst [?] Toure discussed the supposed racism involved in the protests. Toure argued:
"...there is tremendous anger in this country about government, the way government seems to be taking over the country, anger about a black person being president [?!?] ....we see these hate groups rising up and this is definitely part of that."
Not only did Brewer, Ratigan, and Toure fail to point out the fact that the gun-toting protester that sparked the discussion was black, but the video footage shown of that protester was so edited, that it was impossible to see that he was black.
[Making the deceit intentional. To review: one (1) black man showed up with legal side arms and our professional journalists reported it as 'white people {plural} showing up with guns {plural}. Watch the video, these folks are drumming up racism.]
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