Head of New York Civil Rights Coalition compares MSNBC rhetoric to McCarthyism

Stephanie

Diamond Member
Jul 11, 2004
70,230
10,864
2,040

awful people on that station


SNIP:
Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, told The Daily Caller that Melissa Harris-Perry and MSNBC engage in racial McCarthyism to silence mainstream black voices.

“I’m an African-American, and I’m a liberal,” said Meyers, longtime former member of the ACLU’s Board of Directors and onetime aide to legendary NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins. ”I shook when I watched that segment where they were calling out the African-American grandchild of Mitt Romney. I was really appalled.”

MSNBC host Harris-Perry apologized Saturday for a segment in which she and her guests mocked the adopted black grandson of Mitt Romney and said that Romney having a black grandchild was indicative of the Republican Party, which finds token black people for photo ops.



“I’m shocked that [MSNBC president] Phil Griffin is condoning it. I’m a little surprised it’s coming from Melissa Harris-Perry because she ought to know better. They focus entirely on race and calling racism where it doesn’t exist, and it’s time for the liberal community to call them out,” Meyers said.

“It’s ideology. I believe that Melissa Harris-Perry and Michael Eric Dyson and Toure and these folks who are supposed to be the representatives, the so-called voice of the African-American community, are a strident errant voice. It is so ideological and so radical and I’m surprised that it’s becoming mainstreamed on MSNBC. There are responsible African-American voices but you never see them on MSNBC and you barely see them on CNN.” (RELATED: CNN slams Melissa Harris-Perry for attack on Romney’s black grandchild)

“It’s fashionable” for media commentators to engage in divisive racial rhetoric, Meyers said.

“There used to be a reverend on TV in New York, ‘Reverend Ike.’ And Reverend Ike used to say, ‘you can’t lose with the stuff I use.’ I think the so-called voices of Black America are selling snake oil. They are being lauded and reinforced and put into the mainstream to make it appear that they’re the authentic black voice and they’re not. Why else would they put Al Sharpton on MSNBC? I don’t get it. I mean, I do get it,” he said with a laugh.

So why do white liberals condone these tactics? According to Meyers: “paternalism.”



“You have liberal whites who are well-meaning and well-intentioned, but it’s the same liberal whites who in the ’60′s tolerated and embraced black nationalism. It was racist then, and it’s racist now… If you have white people saying this about black people, MSNBC would not tolerate this for one minute. The chieftains [of the black community] would call it out.” (RELATED: It’s official: Melissa Harris-Perry is sorry)

“It’s worse than divisive. It’s crying racism where the racism doesn’t exist. They just make this stuff up. Everything becomes about race, about calling people racists when they haven’t said anything racist. It’s Orwellian Doublespeak.”

Meyers also compared Harris-Perry and other MSNBC commentators to Joseph McCarthy, noting that people who get accused of racism are smeared in the public arena.
“It’s a literal blacklist. The whole purpose is to silence you and to marginalize you. People don’t want to be called racist, particularly when they’re not racist,” he said.

Meyers said that he always responds to “racial idiocy” regardless of the “stripe or the color of the person” expressing it, but noted that he does not get much criticism for it from the back community.

all of it here
Civil rights activist: MSNBC engages in racial McCarthyism | The Daily Caller
 
I've never heard of Mr. Meyers before but you can bet I'll go out of my way in the future to find out what's going on with him. A black liberal telling it exactly like it is at MSNBC and within much of the universe of liberaldom that play the race card on anyone who disagrees with their racist orthodoxy.

We disagree with Obama's policies, we're racists simply because we disagree with a black man. We're Republicans so we're all racist, according to Chris Matthews. A black person who's Republican or conservative, hello Uncle Tom, oreo cookie, house nigga, etc. Yep, the Dimocrat party of inclusiveness...as long as you're willing to toe their racist line that is.
 
Last edited:

Forum List

Back
Top