Military Vet s Mic Muted As He Begins Talking About Black History Behind Memorial Day
The event s organizers admitted to cutting off the Barnard Kemter s microphone because his remarks weren t “relevant to their programming.
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An organizer of a Memorial Day event in Hudson, Ohio, cut off a 77-year-old military veteran’s microphone as he began discussing the Black community s significance to Memorial Day.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter, the event’s keynote speaker, was about midway through his speech when his microphone stopped functioning, The Akron Beacon Journal reports. At first, it was assumed that the error was innocuous, but an organizer of the event confirmed that it was anything but.