In light of O'Keefe's real reason for going after ACORN, you should remember Vernon Dahmer

[MrScorpio]

From Wiki:

Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, Sr. (March 10, 1908 - January 11, 1966) was an American civil rights leader and president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP, in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer was born March 10, 1908, to George and Ellen Dahmer of Forrest County, Mississippi. He attended Bay Spring High School.

In March 1952 Dahmer married Ellie Jewell Davis, a teacher from Rose Hill, Mississippi. Vernon and Ellie had eight children in their family, including their daughter Bettie and son Dennis. The family home in north Forrest County was part of the Kelly Settlement area. Ellie Dahmer also taught for many years in Richton, Mississippi and retired in 1987 from the Forrest County school system.

Dahmer was a member of Shady Grove Baptist Church where he served as music director and Sunday School teacher. A successful businessman, he was the owner of a store, a sawmill, a planing mill, and a 200-acre (0.81 km2) farm; he also farmed commercially with 300 acres (1.2 km2) additional planted in cotton.

Dahmer served several terms as president of the Forrest County Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and led voter registration drives in the 1960s. He kept a voter registration book in his store in late 1965 to make it easier for African Americans to register. Dahmer also helped the local African-American population pay a poll tax for the right to vote. His mantra was, "If you don't vote, you don't count," and those words, which he repeated on his deathbed, were used as his epitaph.<1>


On the night of January 10, 1966, the Dahmer home was firebombed. As Dahmer's wife and children escaped the inferno, gunshots were fired and Vernon returned fire from within the house. He was severely burned about the head, face, arms, and upper body before he could escape. His 10-year-old daughter, Bettie, also suffered painful burns. The Dahmer home, grocery store, and car were destroyed. Dahmer died on January 11, 1966, from the effect of burns in his respiratory tract.

The rest: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Dahmer

It seems today that the real opponents of Civil Rights and Social Justice in America no longer come in the middle of the night wearing white sheets, bearing guns and fire bombs.

Today, they wear suits and come straight at us during the day on nationwide TV, bearing cameras and blackboards.

In no uncertain terms, ACORN suffered a high-tech lynching.

Welcome to America.

[havocmom]

1. K&R

Yep.

[secondwind]

2. we must defend Acorn....they have done a lot of good! K&R

[drm604]

3. K&R

In memory of Mr.Dahmer, we must continue this fight. The murderers and lynchers are still the same at their core. They've simply become more sophisticated.

[XOKCowboy]

4. It was racism then and it's racism now

Just like in 1966, whites are feeling threatened because they see our country as being "overrun" by people unlike them. Unfortunately it's rich white people who wield the power in this country and they know how to incite the masses. It's hard to be proud of our country right now.

[izquierdista]

7. This white isn't threatened

It's the ignorant cracker subgroup of whites that are threatened.

[Hannah Bell]

5. yep. & fighting power involves risk, as the dahmer story shows.

[mzmolly]

6. "In no uncertain terms, ACORN suffered a high-tech lynching."

Well said!

[sabrina 1]

8. Excellent post

People need to look into what these people are all about and the real reasons behind the decades long targeting of organizations like ACORN.

'high-tech lynching of ACORN' ~ and of Van Jones. And the sad thing is, Democrats assisted them without even a question. And there are many questions which require a full investigation of this 'stunt'.

[Scruffy1]

9. We can beat them

It was definitely a high tech lynching. Call your congressman and senators and let them know. Any contributions to Acorn would be appreciated. I'm increasing mine. Must be doing something right to get the hate mongers shorts in a knot.

[MrScorpio]

11. Welcome to DU

Thanks for your suggestion

[Louisiana1976]

10. K&R

:kick:

[TheeHazelnut]

12. Bertha Lewis, CEO of ACORN was on Fox News Sunday today...

It was sickening, because she was being tag-teamed by two white Republicans, one of whom being Chris Wallace, the supposed moderator of the discussion.

[Hannah Bell]

16. chris wallace: slimy as okra.

[bertman]

17. Hannah, please don't equate Wallace with okra. I love me some slimy okra. Wallace--not.

[SeattleGirl]

13. A high-tech lynching indeed, MrS.

The assholes going after ACORN (and Obama and everything and everyone else they deem a threat) wouldn't be nearly as effective if the fucking M$M didn't give them so much air time.

[Mithreal]

14. K&R nt

[Ken Burch]

15. Thanks for tying the past to the present.

n/t.

[bertman]

18. I did not know about Vernon Dahmer. Thank you for posting this, Mr. Scorpio.

Recommend and kick.

[mopinko]

19. acorn needs a champion.

needs someone to set the record straight on a lot of things. they need to sue those assholes for rights to the unedited videos. and someone needs to tell the true story that is on them. and then some.

[mistertrickster]

20. Yup, we know . . . we know. It's an old story--if character assassination doesn't work

as it did with Kerry and Dukkakis and Gore, then just plain old assassination is next--Medgar Evers, George Tiller, Martin Luther King.