Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns called both the current secessionist movement and elements of the Tea Party racist during an interview late last month on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The award-winning filmmaker doubled down on those accusations during an interview with Breitbart News.
Burns is currently promoting “The Central Park Five,” a documentary detailing how five innocent teens were convicted of a horrific rape which shocked the Big Apple back in 1989.
The filmmaker, who works primarily on projects for PBS, says there wouldn’t be a birther movement with a President Joe Biden in the White House. Burns then turned his attention to the Tea Party, saying a friend who attended a Tea Party event told him “almost every one she met there invoked the ‘n-word'” about the president, he recalls.
That friend isn’t the only one hearing that racial slur of late, he alleges.
“I have heard in last four years the ‘N-word’ used more often than in the rest of my life,” the 59-year-old filmmaker says, adding Obama’s detractors routinely call the president “un-American,” the “other” and a Muslim.
“The Central Park Five” features news snippets of Donald Trump crying out for the death penalty in that tragic case involving four black teens and one Latino lad who lost a large portion of their youth as a result of the botched investigation. Burns says people in 2012 are still using racist code words to camouflage their true intentions.
“The message is still the same,” he says.