I was noodling around on Facebook today when I saw a link to an article from the Associated Press, "Only black reporters allowed in Georgia mayoral race event."

The AP is one of the less biased sources of news out there, possibly because it's the source for many other news media, so I'm inclined to take the piece at face value.

So here's what happened: Last night, a bunch of people (all black, from the way the article reads) went to a meeting for which all non-black media were excluded and during which no audio or video recording was allowed. The purpose of the meeting was to "discuss an upcoming mayoral race" in Savannah to "try to unite the city's black community" behind a single candidate, presumably a single black candidate as no non-black candidates were mentioned as attending or having been invited.

Of course, that's probably leaping to a conclusion there. The AP only mentioned a handful of candidates, including the current white mayor (no mention was made as to whether he attended the meeting) and the three black candidates who have declared their candidacies so far. One of the candidates, Regina Thomas, decided not to attend because the meeting seemed "divisive." Van Johnson, another candidate, attended so that he could share his platform for a "progressive" and "inclusive" Savannah.

Right. So attending a meeting that was held solely for the 55% of the population that's black is "progressive" and "inclusive."

Um, no.

In this day and age, when any meeting like this is held, it's racist, plain and simple. The only reason to exclude non-black media coverage was to conceal the racist origins of the meeting, and the racist agenda, from outsiders.

If this had been a meeting for whites only or Hispanics only or Asians only, the national news media would already be raging about how racist Savannah is. They would be calling for a boycott of the city, its businesses and events, and especially for businesses and events owned or organized by people of the race in question, and George Soros would be bussing in protestors from anywhere he could find them to try to shame the city's residents into doing something about such racist activities.

But because it was organized by black people, the Outrage Crowd is quiet as a church mouse.

Oh, and by the way, only two national news media outlets have picked up the story, Fox News and The Washington Post. The latter was an exact copy of the AP report, no analysis attempted, while Fox barely made much more of an effort.

Never mind that people have a right to congregate as they wish. That's part of the 1st Amendment, if anyone cares to read it and understand exactly what freedoms it protects. If a group of black people in Savannah wants to organize and push a particular candidate for mayor, that's their right. They have that freedom whether it's allowed by law or not and I will defend it with my dying breath.

But oh, the hypocrisy.

Now, bear in mind that these are likely the very people screaming about "equality" and "inclusion" at every Trump event ever, but notice that equality and inclusion only work when the onus is on someone else.

Do you know what that attitude is? It's childish. That's the mentality of a child on the playground who wants to play with everyone else's toys, but doesn't want to share his own.

The right thing for those candidates to do is exactly what Ms. Thomas did: Boycott the meeting. You cannot bring about an "inclusive" and "progressive" Savannah by excluding half the population, and especially by excluding any news media.

This isn't the 1950s. We no longer live in the Jim Crow South and haven't for decades. Maybe if progressives would pull their heads out of the past and realize that the majority of Americans don't share their racist attitudes, we could actually get something done in this country.