Blog critics recently discussed the use of biased sources in the blogosphere. A recurring source of biased news is the Washington Times and its alumni. A former Times columnist has penned his 'this time of the year' piece assailing Martin Luther King, Jr. I believe it is an interesting object lesson in reality being obscured by prejudice.
Sam Francis holds an unusual distinction. He is the only person deemed racist enough to be fired from the Washington Times, a redoubt, along with its sister site, United Press International, for bigots, including neo-Confederate leader Robert Stacy McCain and Gene Expression, VDare and American Renaissance henchman Steve Sailer. He has a different perspective on the controversy in North Carolina about a statue of Dr. King.
Rocky Mount is a small city that is 55 percent white and 45 percent black, and for years the whites who have historically run the place have tried to show the blacks how progressive they are on racial issues. In 1997, the white-run city decided to build a public park that honored King, who actually invited himself to Rocky Mount back in 1962 and delivered his usual oration about having a dream, etc. To honor King even more, the city fathers commissioned a statue of him to adorn the park and inspire everybody.
They gave the contract to a sculptor in Chicago, and he built a model that was put on display in the City Hall and arts center and stood there for more than a year. A black-majority commission approved the design, and the statue was built and installed last summer. The blacks didn't like it.
. . .The sculptor is Eric Blome, who has made sculptures of such black icons as Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall and King himself for various public memorials. There's a big trade in black statues these days, you see, what with all these white bigwigs promoting racial harmony all the time. But the problem is you can't have harmony when the sculptor's a white guy. "We need an artist who can relate," says a local black resident, who with others is demanding the city junk the statue and spring for a new one.
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