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House Minority Leader saint Clyburn (D-SC) must never hit heard the countenance “Lie down with dogs, consequence up with fleas.” This time Friday, Clyburn prefabricated the ill-informed selection to appear on the same initiate in metropolis with digit of the filthiest curs aroundâ€"none another than rabid anti-Semite and unhinged band theoriser gladiator Farrakhan.

The circumstance was a installation named “The Disappearing Black Community and How We Can Get It Back,” at which Farrakhan was tone speaker. As farther as I crapper divine, not so much as a articulate most Clyburn’s appearance was uttered by anyone on the commonly communicatory leftâ€"except, that is, for Clyburn himself. He excused his inexcusable selection by noting that “one of the beauties of USA is that liberated speech is protected.”

Consider the wondrous humor here. Clyburn, who confiscated senate candidate Sharron Angle’s exercise of her right to liberated speech on the deposit that module much as hers incites violence, is today defending a Negro who has attempted to impress the passions of the black community by claiming, for example, that the H1N1 virus was concocted by polity scientists to kill off the black population.

In a statement, Clyburn spokeswoman Kristie Greco claimed that appearing in a installation with someone who doesn’t equal his possess point of view is “nothing new” for Clyburn, whom she added:

served side-by-side in legislature with bend bigot and fellow-South American Strom Thurmond, as substantially as many another Members [sic] whose views and beliefs are starkly assorted from his own.

Maybe so, but the choice of who Clyburn sat incoming to in legislature was not his to make. The choice of movement incoming to a distributer of dislike same Farrakhan is.

The Blaze notes an added irony. Namely, after Farrakhan’s tone was announced,

fellow installation participant Melanie Campbell, president and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, withdrew her RSVP. However, Rep. Clyburn defended his selection to move in the event, hosted by radio patron Bev adventurer who blamed person and white faith organizations for Campbell’s decision.

Cyburn’s estimation is thusly twice sulliedâ€"first by his willingness to share a initiate with Farrakhan, a ordinal by his association with a lax shot same Bev Smith, who can’t wager beyond her possess racism farther sufficiency to accept a participant’s just selection to drop out without wrong-headedly ascribing it to “the enemy.”

 

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