ACORN is a handy substitute for the 'n word'...

[meegbear]

At 912 event, black teens harassed by hysterical teabaggers

One People's Project has the full-length version of this video, taken from the big 912 rally in Washington, D.C., showing a middle-aged white man and his Asian wife chasing after and harassing a trio of black people -- primarily two teenagers and an adult guardian (possibly their mother) who were selling "Don't Tread on Me" flags along the long grassy mall.

As you can see, the man -- who identifies himself as Tim Jones -- shouts after them: "ACORN! These people are ACORN!!! They are frauds!!! ACORN is fraud!!! Obama sucks! This woman sells signs for profit of ACORN!!"

It attracts more harassers, and it verges on the point of an outbreak of violence when the D.C. bicycle police show up and break up the scene.

Now, how does Jones claim to know that they are actually ACORN workers? He says he overheard a police officer ask them if they were selling for ACORN and the young woman -- who appears to be a young teen -- told the cop "yes." The older woman tells him flatly they're not from ACORN, but he keeps shouting it anyway.

Most of all, Jones and his wife are harassing these people based on some shaky presuppositions: that a young teenage girl would answer a cop's question -- particularly the addition of the ACORN element -- accurately is probably the shakiest, but toss in the fact that "off brand" vendors, people who have nothing whatsoever to do with a political entity like ACORN, employing young African Americans often flock to these political events and sell whatever is selling in terms of hats, T-shirts, pins, flags, and whatever gewgaws can be sold. Cops regularly chase them off if they don't have a license.

Which is probably what these people were doing, and why they fled. Well, that and the fear of being lynched by these maniacs.

The bigger question is: Why target African Americans when there are are hundreds of vendors at these things? And why assume that they have anything to do with ACORN?

Because, to the teabaggers, ACORN is synonymous with scary black people. The kind who, in the minds of Glenn Beck and his followers, are lurking, waiting to overthrow America when Obama orders them to. (Even if they later turn out to be a dance troupe.)

As Susie says, ACORN is just the new wingnutspeak code for the 'N' word. It's now become an epithet -- one you can chase black people around with and accuse them angrily. Just what America needs right now.

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/acorn-handy-substitute-n-word-912-ev

You can click on the link above to see the video.

[thereismore]

1. That's what they were saying on MIP (Make It Plain, America Left, XM radio). nt

[Fridays Child]

2. Thanks for this dose of the medicine of truth.

The right half of the body politic is suffering from a systemic infection called bigotry, and we could not over-medicate it if we tried. Keep on speaking the truth, loud, often, and clear.

[sabrina 1]

3. ACORN = Black, poor and other minorities

I would agree that to those trying to hide their racism, like James O'Keefe, it is a handy substitute. He has railed against being called a racist, back in his college days, and again now.

He just made the 'Rogues Gallery' on this website which watches people who engage in hate speech and racism:

http://www.onepeoplesproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=1&Itemid=3

They claim all their racist-toned statements and targets are just 'parody' or 'sarcasm', such as this one from O'Keefe after another stunt at Planned Parenthood. In this one he pretended to want to donate funds for abortions for 'only black women' adding '“Because there's definitely way too may black people in Ohio. So, I'm just trying to do my part."

He claims he was trying to trap these people into revealing, well something. But it's clear when your only act always includes this kind of thing, what you are, at least to most people.

[noiretextatique]

4. absolutely

all the hysteria about ACORN stems from the paranoid, racist right's fear of retribution. it's not that Obama is a racist, it's more that they fear retribution from people they still want to own.

[David__77]

5. Absolutely, more "welfare mother"-type codeword shenanigans.

Fuck these Nazi racists!

[Xenotime]

6. Yes it is.

[newtothegame]

7. Well I suppose it's the most politically convenient and expedient thing to make that accusation. n/t

[TxRider]

8. I don't hear that here..

Here in redneck ville ACORN is mainly seen as simply a tax payer funded arm of the democratic party, political activism using their tax dollars for the other side.

Just the thought that their tax dollars might go to registering someone to vote for the other side blinds them and puts them into fits of spitting rage. Everything else goes out the window.

Surely something to do with race, but race is definately not the top rationalization, a distant second at best. If ACORN signed up nothing but white people, they would be just as livid if it appeared they were signing up democrats.

Just as they went into fits to kill Clinton's health care agenda, Obama's race has little to do with opposition IMO.

They believe killing ACORN = less votes for democrats, it is truly that simple for them.

[Lilyeye]

9. I've seen a racist call Acorn a N********fest

[frylock]

10. a middle-aged white man and his asian wife ..

the ironing is delicous! this idiot is so clueless that he doesn't even realize that his RACIST cohorts certainly look down upon him for not marrying into his own race.