Rev Al Sharpton Challenged to Prove Tea Partiers Actually Racist

'I want you to defend how proponents of limited government can be compared to KKK'

(By Bob Unruh, WorldNetDaily) - A debate is being scheduled for Rev. Al Sharpton and some of his colleagues-in-thought to provide evidence for their allegations that tea-party members who are protesting big government and high taxes are "racist."

And the event will be held whether Sharpton, Marc Morial of the National Urban League and Walter Fauntroy, co-founder of the Congressional Black Caucus, decide to show up or not, according to organizers.

The challenge comes from WND columnist Mychal Massie of Project 21, a division of the National Leadership Network.

In a recent WND column, Massie said the only way 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," Massie said. "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."