CONGRESSWOMAN MCKINNEY’S FRONT YARD VANDALIZED: Perpetrators toilet paper [View All]

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CONGRESSWOMAN MCKINNEY’S FRONT YARD VANDALIZED: Perpetrators toilet paper her lawn with VCR tape.



*Somebody is trying to give Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) a warning. Georgia’s first African American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives has been outspoken about her displeasure with the Bush administration and the way it benefited from the hanging chad-plagued election six years ago.

“American Blackout,” a film documenting McKinney’s efforts to address the disfranchisement of African-American voters since the 2000 presidential election, was a hit in last week’s Sundance Film Festival, earning the Special Jury Award for Documentary Films.


Upon returning home from the Park City, Utah event early Sunday (Jan. 29), the congresswoman found that her front lawn had been vandalized and “toilet papered” – but with VCR tape. .

“Obviously, someone wants to send a message that they know where I live and can have access to my front yard to do unkind things,” McKinney told AllHipHop.com in a statement. “Still, we are pleased with the success of ‘American Blackout’ at Sundance and hope everyone who cares about our country will make a point to see it.”