Anyone who either remembers or has ever studied Civil Rights history knows what an evil figure Democrat and Klansman Bull Connor was. Connor abused his office when he allowed Klansmen to attack Freedom Riders; the imagery of his use of firehoses and attack dogs against civil rights activists remains one of the most iconic images in the fight for equality. Now, the Washington Post has attempted to harness this bully power to attack black Republican Herman Cain by portraying him as Connor in a video.

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Move-On-Up.org, the conference for the much persecuted black conservative, did not receive much press in its local media market of St. Louis. In fact, the organizers were attacked by the alterna-weekly right before the conference by writers who I’m told did not bother to contact the conference’s organizers for response or show up to the event to interview the people about whom they were writing.

Star Parker speaks at Move-On-Up.org's scholarship dinner. Photo: Dana Loesch

One media outlet did give the conference coverage, and that came from KTVI Channel 2.

African Americans who share conservative views on society and politics gathered in St. Louis this weekend to talk about building a grassroots organization.  It was the first national convention for Move-On-Up.Org, a group that began as an electronic social network connecting blacks who felt big government was heading in the wrong direction.

The meeting drew people from six or seven states as well as Missouri politicians including Republican Lt. GovernorPeter Kinder.

Nationally known conservatives Andrew Breitbart, known for his blog Big Government and Star Parker, a syndicated columnist, author and network TV commentator were among the speakers.  Parker runs a think tank which promotes market based pubic policy to fight poverty.

The first African American chairman of the St. Charles CountyRepublican Party, Eugene Dokes credited Move-On-Up with encouraging his interest in politics and challenging him to improve his education.  A Navy veteran, Dokes now runs his own real estate agency and is working on his PHD in business.  He said the convention showed participants “you’re not a bad African American for being a conservative.”

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From the National Black Conservatives press conference in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 4:

From the National Black Conservative press conference in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 4:

Real diversity in action.

The National Press Club in Washington, D.C., was the scene of an historic event, August 4, 2010. For the first time in U.S. history, black conservative leaders from across America gathered for a national press conference. Their purpose was three fold. One, to rebuke the NAACP’s resolution accusing the tea parties of being racist. Two, to introduce themselves to America. Three, to dispel the myth that black conservatives are as rare as Bigfoot sightings.

As the organizer and spokesperson of Tea Party Express that hosted the event, I am constantly confronted by the liberal mainstream media, “Where are the conservative blacks?”

The NAACP’s politically motivated attack on the tea party movement based on unfounded charges of racism created the “perfect storm” for black conservative leaders, organizations, authors and entertainers to bond together to defend their fellow patriotic God-fearing Americans.

The National Black Conservative Press Conference featured speeches and Q & A by a “dream team” of America’s top black conservatives.

Of the approximate 30 to 40 media outlets in attendance, two black reporters, one from “Black Enterprise” and the other from another black media outlet were stunningly hostile and closed-minded during the Q & A. (more…)

Over the weekend, conservative bloggers pounced on a seriously biased headline from the McClatchy News Service on their website. The editorializing news service’s statement was discovered by @McClatchyWatch on Twitter on Sunday.

Dan Riehl at Riehl World View summed up the McClatchy headline meme this way:

All it claims is some alleged hate for Obama by Southern Republicans with no explanation for it at all. Perhaps McClatchy wants to leave its readers free to figure out some motivation for any alleged hate for Obama. Ya think? If McClatchy wants to write about hatred in American politics, they’d be better off rounding up the Left’s reactions to any black conservative. Justice Clarence Thomas might be a good place to start. But they’re probably more likely to just portray him as dumb.

Riehl also points out that, given their standards of accuracy, perhaps McClatchy reporters weren’t even at the conference itself: (more…)

Some of you may have read the article by Krissah Thompson recently in the Washington Post entitled “Some black conservatives question tea party’s inclusiveness.” The article received play on Drudge, follow-up coverage by three networks, countless leftist blog links and 409 direct article comments online. Thompson’s piece was hailed by the Post as a “must read” and Thompson as an “intrepid journalist concerned with the principle of the issue.”

Just one question- did any one even read the article? The inflammatory thesis that the Tea Parties are “non-inclusive” is based upon one interview with a Tea Party Participant from Harlem who said:

it’s become more of this rally of hate. The tea party leaders should apologize on behalf of the irresponsible comments that were made.

Naturally. So give us the evidence please. Give us one photo, one quote, one video of your supposed “hate rallies” or “irresponsible comments.” Some irresponsible comments have been shared on this site by Lloyd Marcus, but of course that would not prove the point. Luckily, I can save Ms. Thompson’s gaping credibility gap. Here is the long awaited video of “hate rallies” that do attack the president in a racist manner:

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Here’s a street poll I would like to see.  In any city, on any given day, simply pose this question: “Are there any black conservatives in America?”

If such a poll were taken, I would bet all I have that the answers would fall into a very limited range between zero and the number of fingers on one hand.

Anyone who has partaken of mainstream media offerings in the past 40 years knows the answer that is expected.  Of course, there cannot be any black conservatives, unless they are brainwashed “Uncle Toms,” “Oreos,” “house-slaves,” or just plain, ordinary, run-of-the-mill idiots.

Even though this theory, on its very face, runs contrary to the proposition of anti-racism – that all human beings are individuals and cannot be rightly judged by the color of their skins or by any other racially defining characteristics – we have been urged by a racist media for decades to accept it.  Pigeonholing all people whose skins happen to be black into a single ideological mindset is every bit as vile and utterly racist as was Jim Crow.  Coincidentally, the very Democrat party that sponsored Jim Crow laws across the South is the same party, which now has successfully proclaimed through its media mouthpieces that people whose skins are black are not, in fact, individuals with the capacity for free thinking, but are still to be judged “politically” by their skin color alone.

Therefore, most Americans have bought the big racist lie that there are no black conservatives in America, save those unfortunate, misguided, stupid few. (more…)