Armstrong Williams takes a “Washington newspaper” to task for a recent stereotype-riddled story. Hmmm, I wonder, could that be the Times????
A Washington newspaper recently reported that a wild pack of black journalists heckled black conservative activist Jesse Lee Peterson at a forum on reparations. “He was booed, jeered and called ‘the white man’s boy’ by a crowd of nearly 300 black reporters and media figures for speaking against reparations at last week’s annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists,” the article noted.
It is true that Peterson was jeered by a few of the black journalists in attendance. (The article fails to note that the remarks came from a vocal minority, not majority.) It is also true that the jeers were provoked by several inflammatory comments by Mr. Peterson regarding race relations in this country. This is Peterson’s MO. He makes a living by soliciting knee-jerk reactions from his audience.
Considering how much the extreme left hates Williams, I doubt that he will get proper credit for addressing this issue.