"Have you ever noticed how gullible some people are?"
Posted on 10/15/2014 7:23:58 AM PDT by servo1969
A community organization group with ties to labor unions and to George Soros is out with a dramatic get-out-the-vote ad featuring an African-American mother forcing her son to wear a bullet-proof vest in order to protect himself from being shot by police and “vigilantes.”
Dream Defenders, the group behind the ad, first gained national attention last year when it held a 31 day protest at the Florida state capitol following George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin.
The group’s executive director is Phillip Agnew who is paid as an organizer by Service Employees International Union, one of the largest labor unions in the country. The group has also received funding from the Tides Foundation, a non-profit group partially financed by the billionaire Soros.
“Did you study?” an African-American mother asks her son, in the ad which the group published to its site and to YouTube.
“You know baby, I’m going to need you to wear that vest today,” the mother says.
“I need to know when I’m at work that you’re going to be safe,” she says as she straps a bullet-proof vest onto her son.
As part of its “Vest or Vote” campaign, which is meant to leave the impression that abstaining from voting increases the need for a bullet-proof vest, Dream Defenders is also selling what it calls a Dream Vest. The retail price for the protective garment is $149.99.
Rather than using the vest to protect against all gun violence, the Dream Defenders ad focuses only on threats posed by law enforcement officials or armed private citizens.
“Every 28 hours an African-American is killed by a police officer, security guard or vigilante,” text from the ad reads. “No parent in America should have to put their child in a bulletproof vest,” it continues.
“On Nov. 4, you have a choice; Vest or Vote.”
The ad also includes news clips from stories about Martin’s shooting death as well as those of Oscar Grant and Michael Brown. Grant was 22 years old when he was shot to death by a BART police officers in Oakland in 2009. Brown, 18, was killed by Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9.
A spokesman for Dream Defenders explained the thinking behind the dramatic ad.
“It’s what we call exaggerated reality,” Steve Pargett, communications director for Dream Defenders, told Buzzfeed. “But here in Florida, it really is the way that mothers are thinking. Mothers are scared for their children. And young people don’t feel as safe as they did before Trayvon Martin was killed. It’s a reality for people living here.”
Dream Defenders was heavily critical of Republican Florida Gov. Rick Scott following Zimmerman’s acquittal last year. The group tried unsuccessfully to force Scott to end a law called “Stand Your Ground,” which they often incorrectly claimed was at play during Zimmerman’s shooting of Martin.
Scott is currently running neck and neck with Charlie Crist, a former Republican now running as a Democrat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ZbHNKd7gQ
Cops - people trying to prevent crime.
Security Guards - people who've caught a criminal in the act.
Vigilantes - people having a crime committed upon them.
The implication being that every single one of these shootings are illegitimate.
Honestly- Since black Americans are so busy killing one another shouldn't they already be wearing bulletproof vests?
Escape from New York come to mind?
His father was NOT an immigrant to the United States. So, if blacks don’t vote, Soros and friends are threatening mass genocide? If I was a black man, I’d do exactly as the say, only I’d vote Republican.
And Reid has the audacity to slam the millionaire Koch brothers? Is this an election, or a union membership drive?
How long before they have to pay “union dues” to be a democrat?
Threatening the lives of people who don’t cow-tow to the democrat plantation should be a crime.
If whites don’t vote, they’re going to need a bullet-proof vest too.
"Did you remember not to assault, rob, rape or murder people? she then asks here son, "Because if you remember not to do these things, you won't get shot by policemen, security guards, or honest citizens."
Oh, wait ... no. George Soros wouldn't put any honest dialogue in his lying marxist propaganda pieces.
Yes that one party system in Chicago has been such a boon to public safety.
Some elections have much greater consequences than others.
Nobama is going to keep peeing in the well so much with all this holders peoples stuff that he will be the last negro POTUS in at least another hundred years.
Ummm....isn’t there a black Democrat in the White House?
Mama knows her son better than anyone else. Probably good advice she’s giving him.
Are you able to buy a vest with EBT?
LOL,,, dunno, but I accept trades,,the plates are gonna cost you...
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