The Banality of Bias: AP Reporter Injects Anti-White Racism, Corruption, into Miss. Election

Enter Stage Right ^ | 9 February 2004 | Nicholas Stix

[mrustow]

Incoming!

[Izzy Dunne]

i>As egregious as Shelia Hardwell Byrd's racism is, it is also so common as to be banal

THERE is the real shame, folks.
It's so common, that it's accepted.

[mrustow]

Heads up!

[mrustow]

FYI

[Deliberator]

Byrd clearly thought that Blackmon and Anderson's skin color should have gotten them elected; why else celebrate their chances as black politicians? And yet, somehow I doubt that, had they won, Byrd would have written, "State Sen. Barbara Blackmon, a lieutenant governor candidate, and Gary Anderson, a candidate for state treasurer, both won Tuesday, and some observers say their skin color was at least part of the reason."

Byrd is "passing." She is an editorialist who calls herself a reporter.

ZING!

[MegaSilver]

Disgusting, disgusting, disgusting, disgusting...

I don't care who's doing the discrimination: black, white, gray, green, purple... WHATEVER. They need to get over themselves.

[mrustow]

I think I'll steal a page from your book, and start "zinging" people, instead of pinging them.

[gulfcoast6]

Sheesh, here we go just 'one more time'.

[mrustow]

Zing!

[mrustow]

Incoming!

[mrustow]

Heads up!

[mrustow]

Zing!

[mrustow]

Heads up!

[mrustow]

Media Bias Alert!

[mrustow]

And again and again and again.

[mrustow]

Most journalists are unelected politicians who entered the field, in order to abuse power.

[stainlessbanner]

ping em

[mrustow]

That's what happens, when you take over the journalism schools.

[ElkGroveDan]

This reminds m of the 1982 race for California governor. LA MAyor Tom Bradley who was black had been ahead in the polls and in the end he lost to Attorney General George Deukmejian by about 150,000 votes statewide (a very small margin in California).

Someone did an exit poll where a small percentage of people said they didn't vote for Bradley because he was black. Extrapolating the numbers to the entire electorate demonstrated that that percentage exceeded the margin of victory. Therefore, it was alleged, that Bradley lost because he was black.

No question was ever asked in the poll however how many people voted FOR Bradley because he was black, a number that could easily have exceeded the anti-Bradley anti-black vote, since all the LA Times and other statewide media ever talked about during the election was the potential for the "first" major black governor.

For the record, Bradley lost because a really obnoxious handgun control measure was on the ballot, and gun owners turned out in droves to vote against the measure and those like Bradley who supported it.