"Freedom Summer" on American Experience PBS on June 24, 2014.
In 1964 "Freedom Summer" happened. It was being carried live on TV and The woman Fannie Lou Hamer was called to give testimony about having been summarily arrested jailed and threatened when she tried to register to vote.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (DEMOCRAT) was POTUS at the time. Being the racist that he was Johnson called a press conference at precisely the same time Ms Hamer was to give her testimony. Johnson did this because he feared what Ms Hamer might say and he knew that a POTUS press conference would "PREEMPT" the live broadcast proceedings of the so called "summer of freedom".
Johnsons underhanded and flagrantly racist motivated tactic was foiled - Ms Hamers' testimony was recorded by news cameras and reporters (gee, imagine that - news media doing its job!) and was rebroadcast numerous times across the spectrum of News media outlets - major television news broadcasts, radio etc.
The point I am making with this post is the irony - the tragic irony that Black Americans STILL think the Democrat Party is their friend today. It is NOT. The only thing that has changed since 1964 is that the "news media" has switched sides. They support the Democrat Party at the expense of all of their so called "protected classes" - Blacks, women, gays etc. Unless members of these "protected classes" toe the Party line they are first, attacked by media and then ignored by media as much as possible. SHAME - Shame! on all those who call themselves "Reporters" today in 2019
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