Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., center, walking down the steps of the House side of the U.S. Capitol after the last scheduled vote of the day Thursday, March 30, 2006 on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)
Posted on 03/31/2006 5:41:56 AM PST by maggief
Edited on 03/31/2006 8:39:58 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A huge SMUG cloud alert!
What kind of film is this *American Blackout*?......please tell me it's not what I'm thinking...
Oh darn ! I wanted to see it!
BARF!
http://festival.sundance.org/filmguide/popup.aspx?film=6675
Ian Inaba's American Blackout is a stylish, intelligent, and provocative documentary that looks at the historic and systematic disenfranchisement of the black vote through the lens of the political career of Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia). George W. Bush's narrow victory in 2000 launched an historic investigation into Florida's election process. Public focus was on dysfunctional ballots and the Supreme Court litigation, but Inaba's inquiry leads him to Congresswoman McKinney, who investigated the private company hired by the state of Florida to generate voter lists, which effectively shut out the black vote and handed Bush an unlikely victory. While tracking McKinney's career, Inaba reveals a host of ways in which black political power is systematically squelched, ranging from the slander that assailed McKinney when she stood up to the Bush administration on 9/11 and Iraq, to the political machinations that disempowered the black vote in the Georgia Democratic primaries and the Ohio presidential election in 2004. Inaba reminds us that African Americans have long fought a war inside our country for their right to vote, and unfortunately that war rages on today. American Blackout emotionally revitalizes the core of our power as American citizens–the right to vote–and effectively reveals that the fate of black voters is inextricably tied to the fate of all Americans.— Shari Frilot
Figures!.....thanks..
Right.
Why should We The People see how our elected officials behave themselves while working for US
Here's a question: If she were white & the cops were black....would the tape be released?
This woman is a member of Congress and she quotes a gang related dead rapper?
Good Grief!
Smug cloud indeed! The DC Capitol police are represented by a huge percentage of blacks. This isn't racist by any stretch of the imagination. It's Cynthia grandstanding for publicity.
I heard on the local news here in Washington, DC this morning that the Capitol Police Officer that Rep. McKinney hit intends to press charges.
Tell me that picture doesn't say all that needs to be said.
Is it just me, or does that picture just look like a pimp who just bailed out his "ho's"
Who's the pimp to her left...?
There was an earlier post here on FR, based on an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article, that the capitol police were going to notify the federal prosecutor that charges would be filed.
I'm still not going to hold my breath.
"It was da JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS -- !!!"
Nothing new there. Move along.......
This should be a hoot!
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