While perusing the web this morning, I came across an article on my candidacy for Massachusetts State Representative. I’ll not assume there is an underlying bias, but there are a couple of issues that need be cleared up.

As my phone conversations have been numerous over the last few months and I don’t remember the specifics of some of them, there are some things I am quite clear on.

Running for his first elected office, Parks has proudly cited his color. “I’m the only black Republican running for statewide office this year,” he said this week.

I have cited my color in one context and one context only.

During the last month, while the McCain campaign has been throwing certain states under the bus, I’ve been in contact with officials from the campaign requesting a stop by Governor Sarah Palin. I personally don’t believe Massachusetts is a write-off, and as the left has mocked Palin’s small town roots adding she’s probably never seen black people, I thought it would be good for both of us if she came to The Bay State and campaigned for the only black Republican running statewide, who just happens to live in a small town.

That was it.

A Boston native and Navy veteran who dropped out of journalism studies at Suffolk University, Parks does freelance political commentary and videography.

Saying that someone dropped out of school implies slacker.

Half way through my first semester at Boston’s Suffolk University, I was offered a job to work in the press office for the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At 19, I considered it too good an opportunity to pass up. I worked for the BSO for the next two years and then went on to study at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts school.

I understand you can’t include everything in an interview, but some things can’t be left out without giving a reader a totally distorted view, and during a political campaign, more care need be taken.