Reporting on a tea party rally, NBC News reporter Kelly O'Donnell, a white woman, told Darryl Postell, a black man attending the rally, “There aren't a lot of African-American men at these events.” Pressing him, in an exchange she chose to include in her NBC Nightly News story, to address her prejudiced assumptions: “Have you ever felt uncomfortable?” Watch the video below
More to the point, Mr. Postell's response was quite appropriate, and I must say noble and beautiful: "These are my people: Americans."
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