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“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.”
Over on ABC, Jonathan Karl highlighted how “many of them blamed us, the news media.” A woman demanded:
“We want honesty from you. We want fair time from you. We want you, the media, to represent all the people, not just a certain portion of the people.”
Audio: MP3 clip.
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