This video from the USA is about the Ku Klux Klan and lynching.
From daily The Morning Star in Britain today:
Protests were also held outside the BBC’s Broadcasting House in Belfast yesterday over the publicly funded corporation’s decision to interview a Ku Klux Klan member on Wednesday’s Good Morning Ulster programme.
Belfast Trades Council and the Irish Congress of Trade Unions Youth said the BBC’s decision beggars belief.
“The KKK are renowned for lynching people because of the colour of their skin. There can be no justification for these racist, divisive, reactionary beliefs nor should they be given the oxygen of publicity by the largest broadcaster on these islands,” they said.
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What a sad reality. What humans do to themselves makes no sense. These people have been taught to hate.
Indeed. And the publicly funded BBC should not give publicity to the KKK and similar groups. Mesanwhile, the BBC kept silent about a demonstration of 50,000 people against the government’s austerity; a demonstration which started just outside BBC London headquarters:
https://dearkitty1.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/big-anti-austerity-march-in-london/
It’s discouraging. What’s wrong with being black? As for austerity, it can be prevented. These are evils we create.
Take care, Micheline
Establishment people may use racism against black (or other) people to push through austerity agendas, making the rich richer and the poor poorer. There may have been government pressure on the BBC to not interview anti-austerity marchers and to interview the Ku Klux Klan.
BBC – puppet of the government.
It seems they are scared of being attacked as ‘leftist’ by Conservative politicians.
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