"We're the ones who gave ya'll the freedoms that you have..."

[kpete]

It's been 67 years since Jackie Robinson broke the color line and yet ...
by digby



On Monday night, mostly white St. Louis Cardinals fans clashed with a group of mostly black protesters peacefully demanding justice for slain teenager Michael Brown...

At one point, an older white man starts yelling at the protesters, shouting, “That’s right! If they’d be working, we wouldn’t have this problem!” Then, the Cardinals fans begin chanting “Let’s go Cardinals!” which morphs into “Let’s go Darren!” referring to Darren Wilson, the police officer who fatally shot Brown.

Later on in the video, a woman shouts, “We’re the ones who gave all y’all the freedoms that you have!”


Pretty much says it all.

You can see the video here.
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/07/st_louis_cardinals_fans_yell_racist_slurs_at_michael_brown_protesters_in_confrontation/

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In their article on the video, Deadspin helped annotate where some of the most egregious parts of the video take place.

**We start off with a bang. At about the 22-second mark, an old white Cardinals fan begins telling the protesters—all of whom appear to be black—that they need to get jobs. He looks right in the camera, proudly, and says, "That's right! If they'd be working, we wouldn't have this problem!"
**At about the 1:30 mark, the crowd of Cardinals fans begin drowning out the protesters' chants with a "Let's go Cardinals!" chant. Well, they could be saying worse things...

**At the 2:40 mark, they start saying much worse things. The "Let's go Cardinals!" chant has turned into a "Let's go Darren!" chant. Cool.

**At 8:10 one of the Cardinals fans calls one of the protesters a "crack head" and tells him he needs to go see a dentist.

**At 8:50 the "Let's go Cardinals" chant starts up again.

**At 9:05 one of the Cardinals fans starts telling one of the protesters that if he ever "saw him in the street" he would "look at the ground." They argue for a bit about who would and would not whip whose ass.

**At about 10:25 a small blonde lady starts yelling at the protesters: "We're the ones who gave all y'all the freedoms that you have!"

**At about 12:14 an older female Cardinals fan begins telling the man holding the camera, who claims he is a former Marine, that she doesn't believe he is a veteran. The conversation does not go well for her.

**At 14:54, the Cardinals fans start in on a very loud "USA! USA! USA!" chant.

**At 16:07, another Cardinals fan begins yelling at the protesters, telling them that they need to get jobs.

**At 16:43, a female Cardinals fan begins chanting "Africa! Africa! Africa!" at the protesters.

**At 17:10 a Cardinals fans tells the protesters that they need to remove their hats and pull up their pants.

http://deadspin.com/cardinals-fans-get-ugly-in-clash-with-ferguson-proteste-1643282285
http://www.buzzfeed.com/alisonvingiano/cardinal-fans-clashswith-ferguson-protesters-and-claim-i-am#3xauh8n

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/10/its-been-67-years-since-jackie-robinson.html

[shenmue]

1. Oh, crimony

Sometimes I want to move to another planet.

[riverwalker]

2. I watched the entire video

and my skin literally began to crawl. I don't know how those kids from Ferguson stayed so calm and peaceful, I wanted to slap that blond woman silly myself and I'm an old Norwegian grandma.
Those kids are amazing and courageous.

[damnedifIknow]

3. Mass mental illness

Something's wrong to even begin to defend the actions of Wilson. We need a reboot.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. "You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it and you wave a flag celebrating it."

-- Doug Stanhope

[sabrina 1]

5. Thanks kpete, shameful and disgusting display from Cardinals fans.

I hope the management of the Cardinals issues a statement distancing themselves from these ignorant morons.

[kpete]

11. The original moran was a Cards fan! He's like their source gene.

[bravenak]

6. Am I the only one that has seen stuff like this so much I feel jaded?

I was once told to 'get a job!' while I was at work, by a customer. I have been told to 'go back to Africa!' so many times, I actually look forward to it; I just fear they will tell me to 'go back to America!' Not to mention how many times I was told that white people 'saved' us from those 'savages' in Africa. Who can save us from these 'savages' in America?

[Rex]

7. Ugly. So they too would kill a teenager in cold blood?

Good to know.

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. Wonder how David Freese #23 feels about having his name defiled?

[sakabatou]

9. Some of the fans seems to be assholes

or racist assholes.

[riderinthestorm]

10. Despicable. A very sad and discouraged K & R nt

[jwirr]

12. Absolutely disgusting. Makes one ashamed to be white.

[damnedifIknow]

13. I'm not ashamed to be white

I am ashamed of these white people who should know right from wrong. Makes a person wonder what type of environment they were raised in.

[Egnever]

14. Odd behavior

St Louis has apparently been a democratic stronghold for a long time. What in the world is causing so much racial tension there? This is the sort of behavior I would expect from deep red counties in the south not a deep blue city.

What in the world is going on there?