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.
This is the tactic they also use when they feel threatened. It’s not going to work for them forever. There was no racism there.
You can hear it if you play it backwards.
maybe ‘kill the bill’ is the new street slang for the n-word. We’re all just too white to get it. sheesh.
Nevermind post 13. Hubby says that I need a liberal ear filter. I don’t own one.
I didn’t hear any racial slurs at all.
I didn’t hear the alleged epithets in the tape. It would probably feel to the black legislators, particularly John Lewis, like crossing the bridge in Selma. If it was tea partiers behaving as accused, they may have destroyed the effort to kill the bill. With radical groups given permits for Washington today, could this be race card street theater?
I didn’t hear it.
But in the meantime these protesters are just tea-baggers, racists, astroturf, nazis, homophobes, nativists, vigilantes, etc.
I heard the word a few times too, but everyone saying it was black and they didn’t look like they were with us. I wanted to as them if that was an okay word again, but decided to save my ammo.
I only heard “Kill the Bill”. Maybe you have to listen to it backwards or something to hear the bad stuff. Maybe they really said “I buried Paul”.
Did I miss something? I just listened to this clip 3 times — NO “N” word, no racist language — just a LOT of unhappy Tea Party Patriots yelling KILL THE BILL.
THE RACE CARD WON’T WORK on us this time! We will not shut up. Now, you may stir up your constiuency against us — but do you REALLY think that’s wise, Mr. Socialist? Really?
Wish a Socialist would actually answer that question on the Sunday AM shows tomorrow...
They were probably hearing: “Killin’ The Billin’”....that’s all I can figure!
They are LUCKY it was a chorus instead of a FIRING SQUAD!!!!!!!
Yeah I heard that too, but it was so unintelligible that you could not make anything out. I’m not even sure what the guy shouted.
Lewis was playing the latest from 50 Cent on his IPod, and the N-word was spoken every other line. He’s evidently confused.
It’s my understanding the complainants are all members of the CBC which IIRC is a group that has repeatedly abused the race card advantageously multiple occasions in the past.
Yes I am calling them liars.
Was it the black female tea party protester that called them the N -word? LOL
Someone needs to screen shot her at the :43 second mark.
Yes. And I only heard a chorus of “BOO!”.
Actually, if you play it backwards you can hear it. It also says helter skelter.
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