NC campaign flier has background lynching photo

[neohippie]

Source: Greensboro News Record /AP

Multiple media outlets reported the fliers showed up Sunday at Kingdom Impact Global Ministries.

The flier read "Kay Hagan doesn't win! Obama's impeachment will begin! Vote in 2014."
Sen. Hagan is a Democrat locked in tight race with Republican House Speaker Thom Tillis.
The flier did not endorse any candidate and said it was paid for by Concerned Citizens of Cumberland County. There was no contact information for the group.

Read more: http://www.news-record.com/news/north_carolina_ap/nc-campaign-flier-has-background-lynching-photo/article_1e6c25b5-a678-5319-ae8e-66273a9aabc7.html?mode=story

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So much for Post Racial America, North Carolina is still slipping into darkness and our current State government is leading the charge

[Dustlawyer]

1. Would someone please ask John Roberts if he still stands by his Bullshit statement!

[Earth_First]

2. The flier:

[Archae]

18. That particular lynching...

Happened in Marion, Indiana, in 1930.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion,_Indiana#1930_Lynching

[bullwinkle428]

3. Cue all the Republicans lining up to claim it was a "false flag attack"

by Democrats.

[hobbit709]

4. Should have been Koncerned Kitizens of Kumberland Kounty

[1StrongBlackMan]

12. You beat me to it. eom.

[Mister Nightowl]

21. Three, not four

Koncerned Citizens of Kumberland Kounty. Cats are not racist: They view all humans as inferior beings.

[mopinko]

5. are we sure we are reading this right? add the word "if" at the beginning of that.

i'm just sayin.
sorta makes more sense to me than the reverse, just english language wise.

[Yupster]

7. I agree

Seems like the point would be to encourage African-Americans to vote by scaring them. Certainly not something the Tillis campaign would want any part of.

[B2G]

6. This is a pro-Hagan flier

Equally disgusting either way, but...

"Jimmy Buxton, president of the Fayetteville branch of the NAACP, said Monday morning that he had not seen the flier. But he said he does not think the impeachment message is racist.

"That's what the community feels," he said. "That if the Senate is taken over by the Republicans, and it remains the Republicans (in the majority) in the House of Representatives, they're going to impeach him."

http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/churchgoer-taken-aback-by-political-flier-s-lynching-imagery/article_8f572df9-e81b-5dde-894e-0b107d5b1004.html

[The Stranger]

8. But that doesn't make any sense.

How could the Democrat winning mean impeachment would begin?

That is the opposite.

The flyer is Republican.

[B2G]

9. Tell that to Jimmy Buxton

[1StrongBlackMan]

14. Since he hadn't seen the flyer ...

it is likely his comment was based on the reporter's description of the flyer ... a description that may have been misleading.

[mopinko]

10. if kay hagen doesnt win

[Botany]

11. "The flyer is Republican."

yup!

[Bandit]

20. When the flyer says Kay Hagen DOESN'T win Obama will be Impeached

How do you interpret it as her win will bring Impeachment? It is a bad flyer put out by Democrats supporting Kay Hagen.

[TalkingDog]

28. Small words easy concepts. Have a look

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=924216

[DesMoinesDem]

30. The flier is clearly pro-Hagan.

It says "Kay Hagan DOESN'T win", therefore impeachment begins, and equates impeachment to lynching. It is trying to get African- Americans to vote

[TalkingDog]

27. Nope. Wrong. If Tillis wins (and Hagan loses) he will work to Impeach

Which is what the Teapuglicans in this state want.

If it was distributed to African Americans, it was an intimidation tactic.

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. This is the kind of thing Rove specialized in

When he was leader of the college Republicans.

[MisterP]

22. right: because of the implication

an anon stalking-horse group releases an openly racist flier that hits the racists where they like it and the Pub candidate can disclaim it--literally having their cake and eating it too; it's a dog-whistle without having to do it yourself

[vkkv]

15. I can't wait for TX, OK, AZ, KS, MO and the entire South

to SECEDE so we northerners can get going on that BORDER fence!

[Rozlee]

17. Just be sure you have an Underground Railroad for us sane Southerners trapped down here.

All my family is down here and so is my husband's or we'd have vamoosed long ago. I wish my parents had crossed the border illegally via California instead of Texas.

[justice1]

16. I just can't believe in this day and age people are like this.

[drynberg]

19. Talk 'bout slamming down the race card...These bigots just don't care what reasonable folks think.

[AverageJoe90]

23. In other words.....IOKIYARC.

Or, It's Okay If You're A (Reactionary) Conservative. n/t

[Brigid]

24. It's from the Repugs.

Any time an organization's name starts with "Concerned Citizens for . . ." it's a dead giveaway.

[Solly Mack]

25. Damn.

Disgusting.

Just damn.

[bigworld]

26. From the looks of this

It's a really poorly written flyer put out by a guy who is saying that if Hagen doesn't win, Obama will be impeached... therefore, vote for Hagen. Seeing that it was distributed at many southern Baptist churches, I'm pretty sure that's what the flyer intends to say.

[TalkingDog]

29. Orrrrr..... Tillis will work to Impeach and when that happens, we're coming after you next.

And it wasn't distributed at "many Southern Baptist churches" It targeted an African American church.

It was an intimidation tactic.

[DesMoinesDem]

31. That makes no sense at all.