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Obit: Norman Lumpkin, first African-American reporter for WSFA, Montgomery, AL

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Mike Stroud

Here's an interesting story about a pioneering black journalist working in the heart of segregationist response to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. Norman Lumpkin, who died on Tuesday, May 6, joined Montgomery, Alabama's WSFA-TV in 1969, the first African-American to appear on a mainstream local program on that station ever (and likely in that entire TV market). He thrived despite almost-certain negative reaction from white viewers initially, and he specialized in covering the most publicly visible figure of the segregationist/states' right cause, Governor George C. Wallace--a very gutsy task given the animosities of that day and time. Lumpkin would stay at WSFA for nearly a quarter century before eventually landing a position with an Alabama state agency.

From the website of the station he worked for: http://www.wsfa.com/story/25442778/well-known-former-wsfa-reporter-norman-lumpkin-has-died. His age was unknown at the time of the report.
 
I believe the term "African-American" should only be used to describe a citizen of both an American county and an African country and not be used as a synonym for any "black" person in the United States with African ancestors since any person of any race or color in the United States could have had descended from Africans of any race or color.
 
Mario500 said:
I believe the term "African-American" should only be used to describe a citizen of both an American county and an African country and not be used as a synonym for any "black" person in the United States with African ancestors since any person of any race or color in the United States could have had descended from Africans of any race or color.
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Way to use a guy's death as your personal soapbox about something trivial and inane.
 
^I did not use a person's death as a "personal soapbox". I was commenting on the way the term "African-American" was used in the first message of this discussion and the article on the World Wide Web page mentioned in that message.
 
Mario500 said:
^I did not use a person's death as a "personal soapbox". I was commenting on the way the term "African-American" was used in the first message of this discussion and the article on the World Wide Web page mentioned in that message.
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So, friend, you're upset mainly because I chose to use a customary term simply because you find it technically inaccurate. If your true argument is political, which I suspect it is, I would much rather prefer you come straight out and say, "Don't do obits on people like that." Your comment does not show a great deal of prudence on your part, to say the least, not to mention sensitivity.
 
I was not upset or making a political argument. I was not even thinking about politics at the time.
 
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Pardon me, I meant to type that I was not even thinking about politics at the time while composing my previous message. I had left out the word "not" by mistake before realizing it and correcting it.
 
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