The following is my official letter that was sent on Project 21 letterhead to Al Sharpton, Marc Morial of the National Urban League and Walter Fauntroy, co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus. Certified letters were sent Sept. 9. We are awaiting reply.
I encourage you, the reader, to take interest in this debate and whether or not Project 21 receives a response. The only way we as a nation will be able to overcome the malevolence of those trading on race-based assignations is to confront their evil.
America is the home of freedom and opportunity; if it were not, we would not have problems with illegal immigration. Sharpton, Morial, Fauntroy, and their ilk have harmed and sought to divide us for far too long. It is now time for them to show the courage of their convictions and face me in a debate, where they can share with the nation the basis for their vile rhetoric.
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They owe you and me, they owe it to the many they have knowingly led astray and imprisoned on a plantation of resentment and mind-numbing blindness.
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Dear Reverend Sharpton:
After having read and watched you in the media defaming the tea-party movement, I challenge you to a debate on race and the politics of the tea-party movement.
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I challenge you to publicly explain, for example, how one legitimately likens people who want to curb excess spending to those seeking a segregated society. I want you to defend how proponents of limited government can be compared to the Ku Klux Klan "interchangeably." I want you to educate America how an apolitical rally promoting moral value and an adherence to our nation's founding principles is "insulting" and "hijacking" the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
I am prepared to make the effort to find a venue for this debate in Washington, D.C. I propose we schedule this debate as soon as possible for sometime in October. The debate will be structured very closely to the Karl Popper debate format.
Over the years, I have tried to challenge the civil rights establishment to explain its increasing politicization through subtle means. The recent flurry of unfounded and incendiary statements made by establishment leaders with regard to the tea-party movement forces me to demand a public airing of my concerns and definitive responses from you and others.
I urge you to respond to this request with all due haste. If you do not come in person, I still plan to hold a debate – bringing up your quotes and asking others to discern your comments without the benefit of your input.
Please have someone on your staff contact David Almasi at Project 21's Washington office to determine a date, time and clear up any other unresolved details.
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Thank you,
Sincerely,
Mychal S. Massie
Chairman
