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Journalists Air Grievances To Obama At Unity Conference
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Rob - 01:07pm on 07/28/2008

Looking at a representative sample of questions Obama took from “journalists of color” at the UNITY convention it seems like these reporters were less worried about determining whether or not Obama would be a good President and more worried about when he’d be putting their check in the mail.

For example:

BRIAN BULL: Senator, I am Brian Bull from Wisconsin Public Radio and the Native American Journalists Association. Last February, the Australian prime minister apologized for the past treatment of its indigenous people. Last month, the Canadian prime minister also issued an apology for its treatment of its indigenous population. Would your administration issue an apology to Native Americans for the atrocities they’ve endured for the past 500 years?

And then there’s this:

SUZANNE MALVEAUX: When it comes to reparations, would you take it a step further, in terms of apologizing for slavery or offering reparations to various groups?

And this:

JOHN YANG: I’m John Yang, NBC News White House correspondent and a member of the Asian American Journalists Association. I’d like to ask you about affirmative action. Just this morning, Senator McCain endorsed an Arizona ballot initiative that would end preferences based on race and gender in that state. The author of that initiative, Ward Connerly, says your very success undercuts the argument for affirmative action. If the United States were to have a president of color, would there still be a need for affirmative action?

It would appear, at least in the eyes of the liberal media establishment (particularly those who are “journalists of color"), that race relations in America boil down entirely to the “majority” (read: white males) apologizing and giving people who aren’t the majority (everyone who isn’t a white male) all sorts of special treatment.

What is particularly humorous is that they call this a “Unity” convention.  Last time I checked, “unity” meant people working together not one group of people petition the government to use its power to punish another group for past misdeeds that nobody in the present either perpetrated or suffered under.


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