Posted on 03/20/2010 7:55:48 PM PDT by kristinn
A video has surfaced this evening of the incident today involving civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) and Tea Party protesters on Capitol Hill.
Rep. Lewis has alleged that he was called a n***** by the protesters.
Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN), who was walking with Rep. Lewis, says he heard the word n***** fifteen times.
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) claims "It was a chorus" of people yelling "n*****."
The video, filmed by Marooned in Marin and posted at YouTube, shows Reps. Lewis and Carson walking together, with Rep. Cleaver several yards behind as they fight their way through the Tea Party patriots like they were in 1965 Selma, Alabama.
Reps. Chaka Fattah (D-PA) and Maxine Waters (D-CA) are also walking behind Lewis in the video.
View the shocking video here.
That in itself is highly suspicious. Exactly 15 times? That's a little too convenient of a number to be believed. Why not 7 or 12 or 16? He wanted something more than 10, so just tacked on 5 more for good measure.
So... are we supposed to play it backwards to hear this?
If so, the plant just lost his job. They'll find another epithet expert next time with a better track record. LOL.
Well then that settles it.
By God, there was an utterance of the dreaded "N" word yelled at this protest.
CALL UP THE REPUBLICANS AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE CONSERVATIVES AND TEA-PARTIERS DEMAND they pass this legislation TODAY, and usher in tyranny and socialism upon America as punishment for someone saying that word today. -sarcasm off-
ARE YOU KIDDING ME????! You don't think for a minute that these same type of weasely traitorious bastards wouldn't plant someone in the crowd to shout some sort of racial epithet at the exact moment when these congressional black caucus members decide to take a stroll through the crowds?
These same type of weasely traitorious bastards wouldn't have vandalized democrat headquarters in Denver either, right? Or hung nooses in all manner and fashion across the country with intent to create a racial firestorm (which has happened with regularity the last couple of years - and in each case it was oddly, an african-american who perpetrated the act).
Get real. Democrat/Socialist agent saboteurs at work here, if this even really happened. I was not there in person, but didn't hear it in the video.
The only possible use of what could have been thought to be the racial slur was shouted by a lone male voice at around :44 or :45 in the video; but, it isn’t clear that is what was shouted. It is only possible that it could have been construed as that particular word, imo, at least from what I could hear in this video.
In a crowd that size, it is possible that one among them would be stupid and low enough to shout something like that.
It’s also possible that people looking for a reason to slur the tea party group could “hear” what they wanted to hear, or that someone could have mingled with the tea party group to shout the slur when they passed through the crowd.
It’s going to take a much better accounting of events than this video to provide an accurate assessment of the matter for anyone who cares about the truth.
Kill the Bill.
The new normal for racism.
Just as I thought. Another lie.
That’s all I heard too .. a lot of booing in the beginning and then the chanting of “Kill the Bill”.
They’re playing the RACE card AGAIN! When are these people going to grow up ..??
There was no indication of any reactions from nearby Capitol Police. And they absolutely saturated the entire complex today. Believe me, if there was something of an untoward nature directed at a congressman (or in this case a group) the Capitol Police would certainly have stepped in. So someone needs to ask why they didn’t, which would force them to find and look at the tape.
You two have made excellent points here. Most of the other Congress critters used the underground tunnels to get to Obama's speech.
My husband and I came back to our hotel room to collapse for awhile around 3:30-4:30pm and watched the Obama press conference, splitting between Fox and C-SPAN. I noticed many of 'em arrived into that auditorium thru those underground tunnels.
This whole racism charge is yet another big, phoney, democRAT LIE. They are SO skilled at doing this crap.
I've got to get to bed... we've got another full day of protesting tomorrow at the Capitol. :o)
Please PRAY that Congress votes NO to socialism tomorrow... God help us if they pass this evil monstrosity.
For every two black babies born in this country today, a third is killed by abortion. In the past, that would be called genocide. Today, we have black political leaders championing it.
In psychological terms, this is referred to as “CPRD,” aka “Chronic Perceived Racism Syndrome.” When someone who suffers from this malady hears someone say or sees someone do that the sufferer disagrees with, they just shout, “Racism” or something to that effect.
The problem is that most people are beginning to ignore the sufferers, so they can say whatever they want. Kind of like crying “Wolf!” too many times.
10-4! MA, NJ and VA should have been the warning shots over the bow for the Rats, but no, they want to act like arrogant thugs.
Remember in November!
I heard “what a crock!”
Do not rule out plants in crowd. You really have to ask yourself why they went out of their way to walk through the protest, and doing so to manufacture ‘an incident’ is clearly within the mindset of these crooks.
They are in an all-out disinformation war.
More likely than not it was some leftist plants in the crowd shouting racist remarks. Because no serious Tea Partier would ever do such a stupid thing.
Agreed. I have seen it before.
I didn't hear it even once, and neitehr did these racist, white-hating "Congressmen." They're making it up out of whole cloth to stir up racial tensions just to put their cheap, racist political agenda over the top. It's despicable, adn teh media willingly goes along with it for narrow little ideological reasons. Truth be damned.
So how can we rely on any counts they give us?
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