{"id":6766,"date":"2014-06-02T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncdata.wpengine.com\/?p=6766"},"modified":"2017-09-19T23:06:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T03:06:03","slug":"blog-will-obama-call-keontai-was-the-call-to-sandra-just-a-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalcenter.org\/ncppr\/2014\/06\/02\/blog-will-obama-call-keontai-was-the-call-to-sandra-just-a-fluke\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Obama Call Keontai? Was the Call to Sandra Just a Fluke?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Remember when Henry Louis Gates, the Harvard professor President Obama supported<\/a> when the professor got in a dispute with Cambridge, Massachusetts police?<\/p>\n Remember Sandra Fluke, the law student who championed<\/a> ObamaCare\u2019s contraceptive mandate, got criticized<\/a> by conservatives and then was lionized by the left and asked to speak<\/a> at President Obama\u2019s re-nomination convention?<\/p>\n Remember Keontai Price, the pro-life activist who was beaten for his belief in the sanctity of life?\u00a0 Remember how his story was a headline issue across the media and spoken of in the White House briefing room?<\/p>\n Well, not that last example.\u00a0 There are limits to presidential and media grandstanding.<\/p>\n Neither the media nor President Obama have yet to come to Price\u2019s defense, and the lack of outcry over the beating has members of the National Center\u2019s Project 21<\/a> black leadership network outraged.<\/p>\n According to a report from Students for Life<\/a>, Price \u2014 a student at Central High School in Tuscaloosa, Alabama\u00a0\u2014 ended up in a hospital emergency room with a broken nose after being assaulted by a man who disagreed with the student\u2019s stance against abortion.<\/p>\n Price said that he was peacefully disseminating pro-life literature in a public park in Tuscaloosa when a man confronted him.\u00a0 The man, estimated to be around 350 pounds in weight, alleged that his wife just had an abortion because \u201cthat\u2019s what they needed to do.\u201d \u00a0Soon after making this declaration, the man is said to have pushed Price to the ground and proceeded to punch him in the face.<\/p>\n Price was sent to the ER the next day at the urging to his school principal.\u00a0 His nose was broken.<\/p>\n The silence about such brutal intolerance has gotten the attention of Project 21 members who call the incident inexcusable despite Price\u2019s own stated willingness to forgive his attacker.<\/p>\n For example, bringing up the celebrity status of the Gates and Fluke incidents, among others, Project 21 member Murdock \u201cDoc\u201d Gibbs<\/a> said directly to President Obama:<\/p>\n Hey, President Obama, please call Keontai.<\/p>\n You supported<\/a> Professor Gates at Harvard when you accused the Cambridge police for acting \u201cstupidly.\u201d \u00a0You called<\/a> Sandra Fluke for an alleged verbal insult from a radio talk show host.\u00a0 You also issued a statement<\/a> to praise gay football player Michael Sam him for his courage<\/a>.<\/p>\n How about a call or some support for this 17-year-old black student in Alabama who got assaulted \u2014 where his face was bashed and nose broken \u2014 by a 350-pound pro-abortion attacker?<\/p>\n We\u2019re waiting to hear about your call\u2026 or even for some mainstream media to pick up on the story.<\/p>\n