Remember When The Media Was Obsessed With Finding Minorities At Tea Party Rallies?

by **TexasBlue** Thu Oct 06, 2011 7:47 pm

Remember When The Media Was Obsessed With Finding Minorities At Tea Party Rallies?

Rob Port
SayAnythingBlog
October 5, 2011

Back when the tea party protests were at full tilt the media busied themselves trying to discredit it by suggesting that minorities were being excluded. Keith Olbermann called it “the near total segregation of Tea Party events,” and in response to an invitation from a tea party group to come and see how diverse they were, he asked “Where are the people of color? And instead of worrying about inviting me, shouldn’t you be inviting them?”

Don’t expect anyone in the media to apply that same standard to the “Occupy Wall Street” protests:

Though a few representatives of minority groups have appeared among the “Occupy Wall Street” protesters in New York City, photos and videos of the left-wing mini-throngs indicate they suffer from a serious lack of diversity. And the protesters themselves told The Daily Caller on Tuesday that they are conscious of the issue, if not the inconsistency it demonstrates.

A 40-photo Washington Post slideshow showing hundreds of angry protesters in New York and other cities includes no more than 15 clearly identifiable minority protesters, and just six African-Americans. The rest of the protesters shown are white, and most are male.

In 26 photos from San Francisco and Chicago gatherings posted on OccupyTogether.org, only one person from a minority group is clearly visible, and it’s unclear whether he is a protester or a bystander.

Minority groups are similarly underrepresented in photos and videos posted on OccupyWallSt.org, the self-described “unofficial de facto online resource for the ongoing protests happening on Wall Street.”

Even the “unofficial” organizers of the protest events admit this is — or at least appears to be — problematic.

“That’s an interesting question, and it comes up often,” OccupyWallSt.org’s Patrick Bruner said in an email to TheDC. “Unfortunately, we have a very high turnover rate, and nobody as of yet has come up with official diversity related statistics for us. From observation, I can tell you that we’re not all white, and that we also have a huge LGBT [Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender] population.”

“We’re working on reaching out to minority groups as well,” Bruner adds. “Thanks for the food for thought, I’m sorry I don’t have more exact information for you right now.”

I really don’t think the legitimacy of a protest movement hinges upon what the racial/gender makeup of the movement is. If the “Occupy Wall Street” folks are mostly white and mostly male it’s irrelevant. I’m more concerned with what their arguments and philosophies are. Whether those arguments and philosophies are right or wrong doesn’t rest with whether or not there are enough blacks or Hispanics or women or gays in the crowd making them.

But that was the standard applied to the tea party. It was a supposedly “racist” movement of angry white people, mostly men. Which wasn’t true, but it sure made for a good talking point for the left. And it’s interesting to watch them apply the double standard.

by dblboggie Thu Oct 06, 2011 9:10 pm

Ah yes, the MSM again doing their job as the coomunications arm of the DNC.

Why does anyone buy this crap anymore?

by **TexasBlue** Fri Oct 07, 2011 4:55 pm

Coomunications arm? ROFL

by dblboggie Fri Oct 07, 2011 5:39 pm

Typing on this tiny keyboard is damn hard! Snicker

by **TexasBlue** Fri Oct 07, 2011 6:37 pm

dblboggie wrote:Typing on this tiny keyboard is damn hard!

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by dblboggie Fri Oct 07, 2011 7:58 pm

Mine is much smaller than that.

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