[CORRECTED] In the following video filmed by Democratic strategist Peter Glickert at a townhall meeting held by Sen. Claire McCaskill August 11th, a black woman is shown being escorted out after being attacked by a white man for possessing a poster depicting civil rights activist Rosa Parks. The black woman is said to have been escorted out “for her own safety” by sheriffs after the white man snatches the Rosa Parks sign from the black woman’s hands. As the black woman is being escorted out, the white man, who is allowed to stay and participate in the ongoing corporate sponsored civil unrest, receives applause for her aggressive and violent action.
The black woman, Maxine Johnson of St. Louis, Mo. told CNN today that there were many anti-Obama signs with racial slurs on them at the townhall meeting. She also told CNN that sheriffs informed her that they could not guarantee her security, and that she had better leave the area because “these folks are nasty.”
Are Democratic leaders going to ignore this race-based hateful act of aggression and intimidation? Doing so can only lead to a proliferation in abuses by these Democracy-hating and seemingly homicidal sociopaths.
Consider the origins of the Nazi party, imagery which these racists have adopted to describe the Obama Administration. The Nazi party grew out of small political groups with a nationalist and racist orientation. That’s how these teaparty-goers, right-wing militia and violent anti-healthcare reform protesters, incited by Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Dick Armey, operate. They pretend that they care about the welfare of Americans, but they are now physically attacking Blacks and appear to be laying the groundwork for a right-wing corporate-backed coup de tat that could bring back Jim Crow era laws.
Are these racist violent health care reform protesters setting the stage for the next Civil War?
I wonder where people like this and the gun totting man in NH would be now if Bush/Cheney were still in office? there is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
From other reports of the incident I have read the person that attacked the black lady was a white man not woman. After watching the video I looked at other reports because it totally looks like a man in the video but the article says a white woman.
Upon taking a closer look, I see you are correct. The gender of the person is not clear from a cursory view of the video in regular view. But in full view, it appears that the person has facial hair, even though he has man boobs and a wide bottom. His gender does not negate the power of his actions. If anything it makes his actions even more intimidating and aggressive.
My guess is he would not have made it within 1000 feet of that townhall meeting without being detained for several hours or days by secret service.