Burn Confederate Flag day 9/12
Since this is NYC, I'm not sure where the Teabag... er, partiers will be holding their 9/12 rally (barf), but fhis is a brilliant counterprotest for any who want to join:
http://sites.google.com/site/burnrebelflagday/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130672693642828
Who's got the matches?
http://sites.google.com/site/burnrebelflagday/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130672693642828
Who's got the matches?
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People who are interested in participating in this event may want to take note that the group's interpretation of the meaning of the Confederate flag,
i.e., a long-time symbol of racial hatred
is disputed by those who identify as Southerners.
To this day, many Southerners still see the Confederate flag as a historically-specific symbol of resistance to economic exploitation by the North. Yes, this flag was later used to symbolize resistance during the Civil Rights movement, but it was adapted with much the same attitude towards the North ("they're telling us what to do"). In his autobiography (written at this time), Malcom X himself says that Northerners would do better to look at their own black ghettos, than to hold the South accountable for racism they commit themselves.
Personally, I see this event as unnecessarily inflaming the so-called red/blue divide. Why not just protest the Tea Party itself? -
Agreed...seems to be sinking to someone else's level of idiocy...
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Subject: Re: Burn Confederate Flag day 9/12
pwaltman_1972 wrote: Since this is NYC, I'm not sure where the Teabag... er, partiers will be holding their 9/12 rally (barf), but fhis is a brilliant counterprotest for any who want to join:
Nobody more racist than you and yours, yours meaning the party of Grand Kleagle Senator KKK Byrd (D).
http://sites.google.com/site/burnrebelflagday/
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=130672693642828
Who's got the matches?
"Buried at the bottom of a story published the other day, the New York Times printed a curious little correction:
The Political Times column last Sunday, about a generational divide over racial attitudes, erroneously linked one example of a racially charged statement to the Tea Party movement. While Tea Party supporters have been connected to a number of such statements, there is no evidence that epithets reportedly directed in March at Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, outside the Capitol, came from Tea Party members.
Let’s go over that again:
* The Times is admitting that there is absolutely no evidence that any epithets were shouted at the Congressman by any member of the Tea Party.
* This correction demonstrates we have finally proven our point to the nation’s most eminent and influential liberal media organ: that Rep. Andre Carson lied when he told the AP that members of the Tea Party hurled the “N-word” 15 times during the March 20 health-care rally that took place at the U.S. Capitol.
That’s great, as far as it goes – a thorough vindication of the Tea Party — but it doesn’t go far enough.
* It’s not enough for the Times to make a correction having let that calumny sit out there unrebuked for weeks and months and then, way after the fact, issue a correction.
* It’s not enough because the Times continues to imply that something racially charged might happened on the steps of the Capitol, when we have shown conclusively, via multiple videos of the moment in question, that nothing of the sort occurred.
It’s not enough because the Times correction is just the beginning. The same correction needs to come from every other major media outlet that blithely repeated this defamation, including the AP, the Washington Post, The Hill, and MSNBC – not just in their news columns, but in their editorials, op-ed and opinion columns and shows as well. Until then, there will be no closure, because the Tea Party will not stop in its pursuit of vindication until the same media effort that went into propagating this lie goes into dispelling it and giving the millions of Americans – 23% of whom are minorities, according to Gallup — their good name back.
Which media outlet is going to have the courage to air the exculpatory videos?
Which will be the first to admit that Congressman Carson lied about the events of that day? That he slandered the Tea Party and had his charges believed by a gullible press corps that did no reporting and pursued no corroboration from among the 400 people and the Capitol Police officers whom Carson claimed had witnessed the event?
Why? Because it didn’t “fit the narrative.’
We are not going to stop until, in our pursuit of justice for the falsely maligned Tea Party, the MSM airs the exculpatory evidence. And to air them is just to expose a massive government-crafted fraud, it shows the moral emptiness at the core of the media. Those videos are the elephant in the room.
What’s at the center of this national racial mess is a cynical political ploy created by President Obama and elected Democrats, and executed with the help of their media allies and activist groups like the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus, to gin up the base for 2010 and take the spotlight off a faltering economy, a bungled Gulf oil spill cleanup, a soaring national debt, and a deeply unpopular health care bill.
The long list of victims of the Obama Administration’s race-war-by-proxy strategy continues to grow. Anyone who disagrees with Democrat politics is branded a racist. Anyone who disagrees with the health-care bill is a racist. The exposure of the manufactured N-word lie illuminates better than anything what Mary Frances Berry meant when she said:
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness."
http://bigjournalism.com/abreitbart/2010/08/03/i-got-my-correction-thanks-to-the-the-new-york-times/ -
The long list of victims of the Obama Administration’s race-war-by-proxy strategy continues to grow. Anyone who disagrees with Democrat politics is branded a racist. Anyone who disagrees with the health-care bill is a racist.
*eye roll*
It never ceases to amuse me how pot sympathizers can without a shred of irony accuse kettle supporters of being black.
Obama's "race-war-by-proxy" needs to rack up a few hundred thousand more bodies before it can rival the actual and direct wars initiated by his predecessor. And let's not forget how anyone who disagreed with Republican politics was labeled anti-American, and anyone who disagreed with the war was a traitor, a terrorist, or worse.
Mind you, I'm not coming out FOR Obama here, just against this sort of lame-brained partisan regurgitation of your media mouthpiece of choice.
I mean, really, these thoughts were worth the time and effort of writing them up? At least Hannity gets paid. -
Subject: Re: Burn Confederate Flag day 9/12
pwaltman_1972 wrote:
Better yet, anybody know a bodega that sells the Stars and Bars?
Who's got the matches?
No?
I guess I'll have to steal the finger painted one my kids made at Vacation Bible School. -
I'm confused. ....do people still believe the media? When some news source finds a nutjob (on the left or the right) that says something patently offensive, and the news source claims that said nutjob speaks on behalf of a large group of people ....do people believe them?
Doesn't it just discredit the media source making the claim?
When a statement comes out on an organization's letterhead, or is made during a press conference by their authorized representative, that's clearly different. One can also draw conclusions if the majority of the people attending the majority of the events behave a certain way, because then there is a clear pattern.
[Somewhat Non-politcal Advice from Whynot to Tea Party: As someone who has atttended and organized more than my share of rallys, you seem to need a good PR firm, and some folks to work "security" at your events at the very least.
Such efforts "encourage" attendees to stay on topic ...and "encourage" reporters to interview only those authorized to speak on behalf of the organizers. Control how the media portrays your event as best you can. Folks hosting rallys on the left, right and for vaious causes have known this for years.
If need be, attend a MoveOn (http://www.moveon.org/) training event under a name other than your own. This is basic stuff. Sheesh. Don't claim to be a victim of not using techniques that are readily available. As Move On and others have shown, the media isn't some omnipotent thing that can't be effectively manipulated.]
....in otherwords, a nutjob at the Tea Party rally doesn't represent all of the Tea Party any more than a nutjob at an event championing the Left's many causes.sterling2000 wrote: Agreed...seems to be sinking to someone else's level of idiocy...
Sterling gets it right.
To me, this Flag Burning event is roughly similar to an event on the Right that asks people to do something like show up at an AIDS Clinic and scream "God Hates You" at the patients. Most Republicans aren't going to show up, because most feel such an event would not represent their views and/or would just serve to deliberately piss folks off. (it's not a perfect analogy. Analogies never are).
Such event's don't help anyone's cause. The only purpose of such events seems to be:
They allow folks to meet people of a similar, um, "nature".
They allow the media to only influence the really dumb.
They allow those who haven't bothered to take Political Activism training to claim they are victims of the media. -
The Tea Party is a predominantly white, male, chrisitian, Republican-voting group. Harp on the secret New York Times/Obama theories all you want, but nothing changes this fact.
Whether the Tea Party is racist or not, openly or not, is beside the point in terms of electoral politics.
Most Democrats welcome tea party candidates with open arms b/c they are bad general election candidates. Ask Harry Reid. Or ask Obama when he cruises to victory over half-term governor Sarah Palin in 2012. -
Boygabriel wrote: The Tea Party is a predominantly white, male, chrisitian, Republican-voting group.
This is what makes it seem so bizarre to hear them cry about how they are "victims", when all they have to do is use the resources they have at their disposal.
Is it somehow everyone else's fault that they can't get their acts together?
....Claiming one is a victim of the dying print and broadcast medium is just pathetic. -
whynot_31 wrote:
Sterling gets it right.
[quote=sterling2000]Agreed...seems to be sinking to someone else's level of idiocy...
To me, this Flag Burning event is roughly similar to an event on the Right that asks people to do something like show up at an AIDS Clinic and scream "God Hates You" at the patients. Most Republicans aren't going to show up, because most feel such an event would not represent their views and/or would just serve to deliberately piss folks off. (it's not a perfect analogy. Analogies never are).
Such event's don't help anyone's cause. The only purpose of such events seems to be:
They allow folks to meet people of a similar, um, "nature".
They allow the media to only influence the really dumb.
When I posted this I knew it wasn't for everyone. And I hear the points that Sterling & Whynot are making. However, after the whole Shirley Sherrod incident recently, I'm just fed up with the Teabagger crap.
As a total aside, I love how eggcream cites a page by Andrew Breitbart - the same douchebag responsible for the edited video of Sherrod's speech; AND then tried to claim that the farmers she helped weren't actually the farmers she was talking about. Not to mention the whole bogus, highly edited ACORN videos he helped produce and disseminate.
Getting back to Sterling & Whynot's point, I agree there are times for being the bigger person. Then again, there are times for venting your utter disgust. And I just found that the teabaggers in the city are planning on combining their 9/12 BS with a protest against the planned Mosque and Cultural Center (evidently, they have no problem with the 4-5 titty bars that are w/in a 2 block radius of the WTC, but I digress).
Yes, I want to antagonize these douchebags. -
The Tea Partiers are choosing religious and ethnic bigotry by opposing the mosque? How shocking.
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whynot_31 wrote: [quote=Boygabriel]The Tea Party is a predominantly white, male, chrisitian, Republican-voting group.
This is what makes it seem so bizarre to hear them cry about how they are "victims", when all they have to do is use the resources they have at their disposal
Literally no group in America spends more time crying about their victimization than rightwing Republicans who are followers of people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. -
Boygabriel wrote: The Tea Partiers are choosing religious and ethnic bigotry by opposing the mosque? How shocking.
.....wait, I thought they didn't want us to think there was a pattern.
I thought they wanted us to think either:
They didn't hold such views, or
That such views were held by a very small percentage of their members, or
That they were victims.
Clearly they need a good PR firm. They should hire Move On. -
Subject: Re: Burn Confederate Flag day 9/12
eggcream wrote:
Sorry, you fail basic logic. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. The fact that there is "no evidence that any epithets were shouted" does not automatically lead to the conclusion that "Andre Carson lied...." It simply means that we don't know what actually occurred.
* The Times is admitting that there is absolutely no evidence that any epithets were shouted at the Congressman by any member of the Tea Party.
* This correction demonstrates we have finally proven our point to the nation’s most eminent and influential liberal media organ: that Rep. Andre Carson lied when he told the AP that members of the Tea Party hurled the “N-word” 15 times during the March 20 health-care rally that took place at the U.S. Capitol. -
pwaltman_1972 wrote: [quote=whynot_31]
Sterling gets it right.
[quote=sterling2000]Agreed...seems to be sinking to someone else's level of idiocy...
To me, this Flag Burning event is roughly similar to an event on the Right that asks people to do something like show up at an AIDS Clinic and scream "God Hates You" at the patients. Most Republicans aren't going to show up, because most feel such an event would not represent their views and/or would just serve to deliberately piss folks off. (it's not a perfect analogy. Analogies never are).
Such event's don't help anyone's cause. The only purpose of such events seems to be:
They allow folks to meet people of a similar, um, "nature".
They allow the media to only influence the really dumb.
When I posted this I knew it wasn't for everyone. And I hear the points that Sterling & Whynot are making. However, after the whole Shirley Sherrod incident recently, I'm just fed up with the Teabagger crap.
As a total aside, I love how eggcream cites a page by Andrew Breitbart - the same douchebag responsible for the edited video of Sherrod's speech; AND then tried to claim that the farmers she helped weren't actually the farmers she was talking about. Not to mention the whole bogus, highly edited ACORN videos he helped produce and disseminate.
Getting back to Sterling & Whynot's point, I agree there are times for being the bigger person. Then again, there are times for venting your utter disgust. And I just found that the teabaggers in the city are planning on combining their 9/12 BS with a protest against the planned Mosque and Cultural Center (evidently, they have no problem with the 4-5 titty bars that are w/in a 2 block radius of the WTC, but I digress).
Yes, I want to antagonize these douchebags.
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i wouldn't complain about anyone protesting anything, isn't that our right as free americans, beside the overflow crowd will probably wind up in the titty bars , who can use the business . -
Hamilton wrote: [quote=pwaltman_1972]
i wouldn't complain about anyone protesting anything, isn't that our right as free americans, beside the overflow crowd will probably wind up in the titty bars , who can use the business .
Getting back to Sterling & Whynot's point, I agree there are times for being the bigger person. Then again, there are times for venting your utter disgust. And I just found that the teabaggers in the city are planning on combining their 9/12 BS with a protest against the planned Mosque and Cultural Center (evidently, they have no problem with the 4-5 titty bars that are w/in a 2 block radius of the WTC, but I digress).
Yes, I want to antagonize these douchebags.
Indeed. It is definitely their right to protest - as it ours to counter-protest. -
pwaltman_1972 wrote: [quote=Hamilton][quote=pwaltman_1972]
i wouldn't complain about anyone protesting anything, isn't that our right as free americans, beside the overflow crowd will probably wind up in the titty bars , who can use the business .
Getting back to Sterling & Whynot's point, I agree there are times for being the bigger person. Then again, there are times for venting your utter disgust. And I just found that the teabaggers in the city are planning on combining their 9/12 BS with a protest against the planned Mosque and Cultural Center (evidently, they have no problem with the 4-5 titty bars that are w/in a 2 block radius of the WTC, but I digress).
Yes, I want to antagonize these douchebags.
Indeed. It is definitely their right to protest - as it ours to counter-protest.
Frequently the only smart ones are the ones who sell the t-shirts and buttons at the protests. -
pwaltman_1972 wrote: [quote=Hamilton][quote=pwaltman_1972]
i wouldn't complain about anyone protesting anything, isn't that our right as free americans, beside the overflow crowd will probably wind up in the titty bars , who can use the business .
Getting back to Sterling & Whynot's point, I agree there are times for being the bigger person. Then again, there are times for venting your utter disgust. And I just found that the teabaggers in the city are planning on combining their 9/12 BS with a protest against the planned Mosque and Cultural Center (evidently, they have no problem with the 4-5 titty bars that are w/in a 2 block radius of the WTC, but I digress).
Yes, I want to antagonize these douchebags.
Indeed. It is definitely their right to protest - as it ours to counter-protest.
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this could get confusing, what if they want to counter protest your counter protest , would they have to find a counter of their own. -
Ideally one that offers large styrofoam cups, for the protester on the go.
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Hamilton, in such cases the police form concentric rings to keep the various protesters and counter protesters apart. Which ring you end up depends upon what time you arrive.
....which all brings up the antics of a friend of mine (who, as you will soon learn, was an anarchist in college):
[it's time for today's edition of Storytime with Whynot!]
In Boston, in the late 80s, the Left had decided to protest some bank as a result of something it believed it had done. [the bank and the perceived offense are no longer important]
Anticipating a great deal of chaos, my friend decided to see what would happen if he attended the event while wearing his nice business suit. He even shaved and got a haircut for the occasion.
To his delight, the police literally pushed the protestors aside to ensure his safe passage into the bank. Continuing to maintain his composure, he then took the elevator to the CEO's floor. He then unveiled his anarchist banner, burst out laughing, and was promptly tackled by building security.
He was fined something like $100, but got a story he could re-tell for the rest of his life.
....among best $100 ever spent. -
that's so great
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wn31
did he wind up at goldman sachs -
Hamilton wrote: wn31
maybe. ....but he was manufacturing LSD in his basement in 1990, that was the last we were in contact
did he wind up at goldman sachs -
whynot_31 wrote: [quote=Hamilton]wn31
maybe. ....but he was manufacturing LSD in his basement in 1990, that was the last we were in contact
did he wind up at goldman sachs
I can see the cable series now:
Brokering Bad -
krowonhill wrote: People who are interested in participating in this event may want to take note that the group's interpretation of the meaning of the Confederate flag,
pwaltman_1972,
i.e., a long-time symbol of racial hatred
is disputed by those who identify as Southerners.
To this day, many Southerners still see the Confederate flag as a historically-specific symbol of resistance to economic exploitation by the North. Yes, this flag was later used to symbolize resistance during the Civil Rights movement, but it was adapted with much the same attitude towards the North ("they're telling us what to do"). In his autobiography (written at this time), Malcom X himself says that Northerners would do better to look at their own black ghettos, than to hold the South accountable for racism they commit themselves.
Personally, I see this event as unnecessarily inflaming the so-called red/blue divide. Why not just protest the Tea Party itself?
You provided an answer to Sterling's and WhyNot's posts, but what do you have to say to mine?
Why not just protest the Tea Party itself? Instead of bringing the confederate flag into it? Especially since it's clear from this thread that there are Tea Partiers that live in NYC, and not just "The South". -
Jefffery-
Maybe VH1 could do a reverse Behind The Music special: The star would start out poor and addicted, then get rich and famous. -
jeffrey wrote: [quote=whynot_31][quote=Hamilton]wn31
maybe. ....but he was manufacturing LSD in his basement in 1990, that was the last we were in contact
did he wind up at goldman sachs
I can see the cable series now:
Brokering Bad
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speaking about brokering bad, check out a.s. goldmen & co.
they were a firm we use to clear for, really scary stuff. -
krowonhill wrote: [quote=krowonhill]People who are interested in participating in this event may want to take note that the group's interpretation of the meaning of the Confederate flag,
pwaltman_1972,
i.e., a long-time symbol of racial hatred
is disputed by those who identify as Southerners.
To this day, many Southerners still see the Confederate flag as a historically-specific symbol of resistance to economic exploitation by the North. Yes, this flag was later used to symbolize resistance during the Civil Rights movement, but it was adapted with much the same attitude towards the North ("they're telling us what to do"). In his autobiography (written at this time), Malcom X himself says that Northerners would do better to look at their own black ghettos, than to hold the South accountable for racism they commit themselves.
Personally, I see this event as unnecessarily inflaming the so-called red/blue divide. Why not just protest the Tea Party itself?
You provided an answer to Sterling's and WhyNot's posts, but what do you have to say to mine?
Why not just protest the Tea Party itself? Instead of bringing the confederate flag into it? Especially since it's clear from this thread that there are Tea Partiers that live in NYC, and not just "The South".
krow, sorry I neglected to respond to you. I'm already getting flamed on another board over this so I don't really have the energy to be arguing this on both. Suffice it to say, though, that I don't buy the whole Confederate Flag as "just" Southern heritage/pride argument. Simply put, when you say "many Southerners see the Confederate flag as a historically-specific symbol of resistance to..." don't you really mean many white Southerners? How many black Southerners (or Northerners, for that matter) are there out there, flying the Stars and Bars from their homes? Correct me if I'm wrong on this.
I also don't want to get into a "who was worse" argument. Yes, northern banks helped finance the slave system, and also profited from it. Yes, redlining (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining) was practiced throughout the North to create segregated cities and black ghettos, which we are still struggling with (see any discussion on brooklynian regarding gentrification, especially recent ones involving Crown Heights).
When you say:krowonhill wrote:
you are in fact agreeing with me on this because what "they/we" were "telling us to do" was end the Jim Crow system of racial oppression.
it was adapted with much the same attitude towards the North ("they're telling us what to do")
So, burning the Confederate flag isn't about regionalism - on my side, at least. Its about race-based oppression, and those that still embrace it, i.e. Andrew Breitbart, the guy who posted the heavily-edited video of Shirley Sherrod's speach (as I mentioned in my previous post). It's not an accident that the "Teaparty" was embraced by FOX News - FOX News is headed by Roger Ailes, who previously worked for the elder Bush as his media and was responsible for writing and producing the "Revolving Door" ad during the 1988 Presidential campaign (here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_Door_(television_advertisement)) and (video here:
Note that of all the fictional inmates, only one was black, and that while all the inmates are looking down for most of the ad, he's the only one who ever looks into the camera (unfortunately the youtube vid quality is too poor to see it). These guys know how to blow (and listen to) the racist dogwhisles, and burning the Confederate flag is my way of calling them on it.
If you disagree, I'm not sure what else to say, but I'm still going to do it anyway. -
Boygabriel wrote: The Tea Party is a predominantly white, male, chrisitian, Republican-voting group. Harp on the secret New York Times/Obama theories all you want, but nothing changes this fact.
Stop listening to the voices in your head. The Tea Party is made up of all races, religions and parties ie; black and white males for instance. And it's not beside the point when liberals tarnish their reputation.
Whether the Tea Party is racist or not, openly or not, is beside the point in terms of electoral politics.
Most Democrats welcome tea party candidates with open arms b/c they are bad general election candidates. Ask Harry Reid. Or ask Obama when he cruises to victory over half-term governor Sarah Palin in 2012.
They are for smaller government. Only a racist sees racism where there isn't any. Only a racist screams racism when they can't debate with facts.
We'll see how ya'll welcome Tea Party candidates come Nov. won't we. The most esteemed President Barack Obama's poll numbers are sinking lower and lower every day. Record unemployment, Food Stamps hit record high, gov't healthcare shoved down our throats. People are pissed, even those that aren't white, male, chrisitian, Republican-voting group. -
^ ... and global financial fire-and-brimstone crisis (he inherited) averted.
Just sayin'...
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pwaltman_1972 wrote: [quote=whynot_31]
Sterling gets it right.
[quote=sterling2000]Agreed...seems to be sinking to someone else's level of idiocy...
To me, this Flag Burning event is roughly similar to an event on the Right that asks people to do something like show up at an AIDS Clinic and scream "God Hates You" at the patients. Most Republicans aren't going to show up, because most feel such an event would not represent their views and/or would just serve to deliberately piss folks off. (it's not a perfect analogy. Analogies never are).
Such event's don't help anyone's cause. The only purpose of such events seems to be:
They allow folks to meet people of a similar, um, "nature".
They allow the media to only influence the really dumb.
When I posted this I knew it wasn't for everyone. And I hear the points that Sterling & Whynot are making. However, after the whole Shirley Sherrod incident recently, I'm just fed up with the Teabagger crap.
As a total aside, I love how eggcream cites a page by Andrew Breitbart - the same douchebag responsible for the edited video of Sherrod's speech; AND then tried to claim that the farmers she helped weren't actually the farmers she was talking about. Not to mention the whole bogus, highly edited ACORN videos he helped produce and disseminate.
Getting back to Sterling & Whynot's point, I agree there are times for being the bigger person. Then again, there are times for venting your utter disgust. And I just found that the teabaggers in the city are planning on combining their 9/12 BS with a protest against the planned Mosque and Cultural Center (evidently, they have no problem with the 4-5 titty bars that are w/in a 2 block radius of the WTC, but I digress).
Yes, I want to antagonize these douchebags.
"Yes, I want to antagonize these douchebags." Amuse is more like it.
ANother one who just listens to the voices in his head. No ACORN tapes were heavily edited. Shirley Sherrod is a racist as is her husband:
Charles Sherrod on the white man and his Uncle Toms
CNN's Joe Johns surprisingly highlighted Charles Sherrod's racially-charged comments about stopping "the white man and his Uncle Toms from stealing our elections" during a segment on Thursday's Anderson Cooper 360. Johns also reported on the questions being raised by conservatives about how his wife Shirley Sherrod received her former position at the U.S. Department of Agriculture
Anchor Anderson Cooper, after devoting some time to faulting himself for not pressing Mrs. Sherrod after she labeled conservative Andrew Breitbart a "vicious" racist during a July 22 interview, introduced the correspondent's report: "There's also a new aspect to the Shirley Sherrod story...Questions about her and her husband, Charles...keep bubbling up on some conservative blogs. The questions center around why and how Shirley Sherrod got appointed to her old job at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the first place, and whether her appointment was somehow connected to a settlement she received from the government in a race discrimination lawsuit."
Cooper then turned to Johns, who outlined that "in the '60s and '70s, the Sherrods and a number of other African-Americans operated a farming cooperative. Times were tough. Many white farmers got loans to survive, but the cooperative didn't. It was foreclosed. The Sherrods joined other African-American farmers in a class-action discrimination lawsuit against the government, and just last year, the Sherrods each got about $150,000 a piece." The CNN correspondent continued that "shortly after that payment, Shirley Sherrod got the job as USDA's director of rural development in Georgia."
Later in the segment, the CNN anchor inquired about Mr. Sherrod's racially-tinged remarks: "There's another layer to all this. A speech that her husband, Charles Sherrod, made earlier this year at the University of Virginia Law School conference on the issue of race in the law. That's been put online, and it's made a lot of people annoyed. What's the story about that?"
After Johns played the relevant clip, Cooper followed-up by asking, "So, is this taken out of context, the way Shirley Sherrod's comments were taken out of context?" The correspondent replied, "It doesn't appear to be. Apparently, he said he said what he meant, meant what he said." He added that "people we've talked to, who know him, point out...[that] he's been using that kind of language since the early days of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...where he was one of the early leaders."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcJ3cBDS7Y
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