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Civil Rights Groups Blasted for Role in Farrakhan's March - Town Hall
(CNSNews.com) - Conservative African Americans charge that liberal civil rights groups lined up to support and participate in Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's "Millions More Movement" on Saturday, are getting a free pass in terms of media scrutiny. "Farrakhan has said some radical things, and yet the media continues to give him a pass," Shelby Steele, a conservative African American from the Hoover Institute, told Cybercast News Service. Steele believes that liberal civil rights groups and individuals such as the National Urban League, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, the Congressional Black Caucus, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, all of whom are expected to participate in Farrakhan's march on Saturday, should be held accountable for Farrakhan's controversial and allegedly racist statements of the past. Steele said those black representatives should also be asked about Farrakhan's remarks implying that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were the result of a U.S. government conspiracy and that New Orleans levees were intentionally blown up after Hurricane Katrina in order to flood the section of the city housing poor blacks. "[The media] would not give the (conservative) Heritage Foundation a pass like that if the Heritage Foundation identified itself with [former Ku - more available