I had to add a question mark to that title because there is still time for Sharpton to acknowledge the invitation and turn up. So far though there’s been no response to Mychal Massie’s faxes emails and phone calls. Massie is chairman of Project 21, the Black Conservative Leadership Network, and he took offense at the words Sharpton and his associates National Urban League chairman Marc Morial, and former D.C. congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy used when describing the crowd that showed up for Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally last fall. He wants them to debate the smears they directed at the Tea Party.

Fauntroy said-

“We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty that the Ku Klux – I meant to say the Tea Party – you all forgive me, but I – you have to use them interchangeably.”

Sharpton told CBS News-

“The Tea Party, as a political philosophy, is to reverse what civil rights did and that is saying the federal government must protect people.”

Massie says-

“I have seen black, Hispanic members at each one,” he told CNSNews.com. “It is nothing short of cowardice for men of this prominence to make these types of accusations and then hide behind silence. Anyone can say anything. But it takes a person of moral character and forthrightness to stand and defend what they say and I am calling them to stand and defend what they say”

I reckon they will not show up. They uttered their totally untruthful smears. Their mainstream media comrades reported them. The deed is done. The objective is met. The smear is applied. Sharpton and his yellow bellied propagandists won’t show up to defend the allegations because they know they are indefensible. They knew that before they uttered them.