On CNN last night, Charleston pastor Thomas Dixon was on with Erin Burnett and Marc Lamont Hill discussing the mass murder there, as well as the Confederate flag and other race issues. As part of the discussion, Burnett asked the pastor why it seemed that race relations are worse now under President Obama than they were just after he first took office. During his answer, the pastor made a terrible accusation.
“The more that this happened with the Tea Party movement, the attack by the Republicans and conservatives against our President, the more it opened up the door for those who were more, more or less afraid, should I say, or skeptical about speaking on these issues to feel more freedom and latitude in presenting the way that they truly felt. So now we see the end result of that.”
