Black Activist Slams “Buckwheat” Blackout
Posted on November 15, 2007
Louisiana Liberal Given a Pass:
“After a Louisiana state representative called a noted local civil rights activist “Buckwheat,” Project 21 chairman Mychal Massie is criticizing both the lawmaker for saying it and the media for once again appearing to take a pass on reporting about a liberal politician’s racial foible.
Hazel Boykin, a 75-year-old civil rights activist who helped desegregate Louisiana restaurants and schools, helped Democratic State Representative Carla Blanchard Dartez get voters to the polls earlier this month. At the end of a private telephone conversation thanking Boykin for her efforts, Representative Dartez said, “Talk to you later, Buckwheat.”
Buckwheat was one of the black characters featured in the “Our Gang” movie shorts of the 1930s and 1940s whose stereotypical image is considered an insult today. Boykin told the Associated Press: “I’ve never had no one talk to me that way and I consider is a racial slur… I know the meaning of it, it’s just like the n-word.” Representative Dartez said, “I regret my choice of words,” and cited her 93 percent voting record with the legislature’s Black Caucus as proof she is not a racist.
That good ol’ double standard again. Things that would be headlined across the country if a conservative said it do not even get a mention in most media outlets.
The three great “truths” of Leftist America:
1). Only whites can be racist
2). Only conservatives can utter “hate speech”
3). Israel is always in the wrong.
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The truths cited above were demonstrated recently by the MSM’s apoplexy about Ann Coulter’s comments. Aren’t people supposed to be committed to their own religion enough to believe that others should be members?members, too.
You forgot to mention that only those on the left can be “civil rights leaders” or “activists”.
I like the Buckwheat character. Why is comparing someone to him considered demeaning? I hope the actors son sues them for character defamation.