NAACP: White-Washed Media Never Selects Black Moderators For Presidential Debates
We may have a black President, but there won’t be any black journalists grilling President Obama or Mitt Romney when the debates roll around. In an op-
ed, NAACP President Benjamin Jealous made his disappointment with the panel of all white moderators known.
“The lack of diversity among this year’s debate moderators is representative of the overall lack of diversity in news media. Whether it’s as primetime news anchors, debate moderators, or commentators on the influential Sunday morning political talk shows, people of color – and African Americans specifically – are strikingly underrepresented” wrote Jealous.
The big surprise among observers was that CNN’s Candy Crowley became the first woman to moderate a presidential debate in 20 years. The last woman to moderate a presidential debate was Carole Simpson, who is black. In addition to Crowley, The Commission on Presidential Debates also selected ABC’s Martha Raddatz to moderate this year’s vice presidential debate.
Although no African-Americans have been invited to be moderators for presidential debates since Simpson in 1992, PBS’ Gwen Ifill moderated two vice presidential debates (in 2004 and 2008).
In an interview with the Huffington Post, Simpson said she “was happy two women were named, but it would have been nice if a little color had been added.”
Her comments seemed in line with Jealous, who said, “While we congratulate the Commission on Presidential Debates for including two women moderators for this year’s debates, it is troubling that no African Americans or journalists of color were included to lead the conversation.”
It is amazing to realize that it has been twenty years since Carole Simpson hosted a debate. And both she and Jealous are right about the absence of color among the moderators.
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Since this un-organization KNOWS this is happening; why aren’t they doing anything about it?
Like I keep telling you negroids; these un-organizations are ran by khazars!
If this un-oranization was a Black UNIFIED ORGANIZED movement, they would tell Black people to BOYCOTT. But, this un-organization only uses their tongues and put their tails between their legs when it comes to the RIGHTS of Black people!
O’Drama does the same thang!
@Derrick you said a mouth full
I didn’t know my people were so fvcked up mentally!
You would be surprised at the number of so-called leaders, who are agents and planters for caucasoids.
THEY ACT LIKE THESE PLANTERS AND AGENTS ON THIS SITE; YOU DON’T KNOW WHO THEY ARE!!!
Stay Strong!
With one of the most important presidential elections of the century looming, I sm more concerned with getting people to the polls than giving some black moderators their few hours of fame.
@milkwhite:
It’s time for you caucasoids to take a back seat, get on the back burner; you’re in LAST PLACE now…so, deal wit it!
You’re a perfect example of how you crazy crackers talk all this ‘pull your bootstrap up’ bullshyt, but when a Black person starts ‘pulling them up’, crazy crackers like you UNTIE THEM!!!
Get the f*k outta here!
you cracker racist clown!!!
look up COINTELPRO
Not suprised
It’s irreverent what race the moderators are. People act as if they are going to ask some pertinent questions related only to black people. For the last 4 years what’s been sitting in the White House hasn’t given a d**n about issues related to black people and most black journalist showed they could care less.
Anyone who watched Gwen Ifill host the 2008 vice presidential debates with Joe Biden and that idiot Sarah Palin saw she was too scared of white racist conservatives to ask any follow up questions to Sarah Palin. Even though it was obvious to anyone watching that debate Palin was avoiding answering many of her questions out of stupidity. When the late Tim Russett of MSNBC demanded that then candidate Obama repudiate Louis Farrakhan as the worst kind of hatred in America black journalist remain silent. I didn’t hear any black journalist ask why no white candidate for president had ever been asked to repudiate any white racist in America, especially seeing the racial atrocities whites have committed in this country against blacks. Or ask why was a black man Louis Farrakhan was being called the worst kind of hatred in America on a national stage.
Many of these black journalist are only worried about their careers and don’t have a backbone anyway. They are just the puppets of a white Jewish dominated media. Black people should be focusing on owning their own news networks. That way we can stop begging white racist for crumbs off their plate.
NAACP DOES NOT HAVE BLACK PEOPLE FOOLED. DEMAND IT OR STOP GIVING THEM YOUR MONEY. TIRED OF THEM PRETENDING BLACK. GET OFF YOUR BUTTS AND DO SOMETHING. PRAY AND VOTE OBAMA 2012