Real Story Behind Ejection At McCaskill Town Hall - Racist Destroyed Woman's Picture Of Rosa Parks
By Logan Murphy Wednesday Aug 12, 2009 4:00pm(h/t Pam's House Blend)
Many of you may have seen the footage of an African American woman being removed from a town hall event held by Democratic Senator, Clarie McCaskill in St. Louis yesterday. What you didn't see was the racist, white male who started the incident.
From Hating Not Debating:
This is the only video of what actually happened at the event this afternoon. The news only showed the woman being escorted away by the police. What happened was the women walked in with signs, the crowd booed and yelled at the women. The women rolled up their posters and put them down. A photographer/reporter approached the woman on the end and wanted to see what the poster was. As the woman went to show the photographer/reporter what the poster was, a man from the bleachers stood up and snatched the poster from the woman and photographer/reporter. As the woman went to retrieve her poster the police stepped in and escorted the woman and the man from the building.
The poster was not of Obama, it was not pro health care, the poster that was taken from the woman and wrinkled up into a ball was of Rosa Parks. Read on...
UPDATE: Michael Bersin of Show Me Progress interviewed Maxine Johnson, the woman in the video. You can read the interview and get more on the story here.
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Show Me Progress OWNS!!!! They print my stuff LOL!! Seriously Bersin is a worker!
http://blog.showmeprogress.com/
Wow I was just going to email this to C+L. This is very very amazing.
That woman was totally within her right to be angry at that racist bastard and try to get her placard back. But of course he would attack a woman.
just like a f*cKKKing RepuglyKKKan!
Fired Up Missouri rocks as well. Former Sen. Jean Carnahan writes editorials all the time.
Missouri is a perfect state for this battle, little islands of progressives in STL, KC, Columbia and Jeff City vs. miles and miles of redneck heaven!
And we still own them hard...cause we are in the right!
http://www.firedupmissouri.com/
It's easier to shout out a lie than seek out the truth.
There are no words. Sure, these people are xenophobic but to snatch away a picture of Rosa Parks and destroy it? Holy crap.
He probably didn't know it was Rosa Parks...
Probably thought it was...Oh...Who knows with these types...and it doesn't really matter.
All he knew was what he needed to know...He was in the heart of redneck Jefferson County. The woman with the "illegal" poster was a black woman. The woman on the poster was black. How dare these....well...you can guess..defile his beloved Jeffco with their differently colored skin.
You know the nasty, racist old joke..what do you call a black man with a law degree....
He doesn't just think that's funny...he lives it.
If the MSM only showed this woman being dragged out with nothing else to explain the whole deal they should be... they should be..... well what do you do to a media outlet that does something like that?
Or the companies who buy ad time from them, anyways.
complete with Rosa Parks posters. Maybe it would get on the news. Hehe.
Maybe he didn't know what was on the poster and just started tearing it up, like he thinks he was some sort of hall monitor? He's still a prick of the highest order, but there is a chance he was a liberal who was tired of seeing the Birthers and their lame signs. Fed up and went ill-advisedly on the offense? I REALLY don't think that's the case, but until we know more...you know?
He's a prick either way.
So it seems unlikely she would be a birther with a stupid sign that needed to be ripped up. More likely the guy's a racist.
It seems likely that he targeted her for those reasons, but I would still like to know more before passing total judgment. If we find out why he was there, then we can make our conclusions. I am sure that even if he is Dirther, he won't cop to going after her for being an apparent liberal and Obama supporter; he'll chicken out and claim that he was doing his poster police thing.
I think what you say and the way you want to approach it is very valid. I agree that the guy was probably a "dirther" but we don't know at this time. I'm not sure the guy was able to see what the sign was even. He should be brought up on fraudulent hall monitoring! I'm 100% positive he didn't have a permit to monitor. Do doubt in my mind of that.
no permit, no I'm sure you are correct.
Sometimes liberals are kind of annoying in the way that they try to see both sides of the issue. I just annoyed myself, for example.
:)
Yes I am a little annoyed with myself for agreeing with you and I am a little annoyed with the way you dragged me into this
As a side note there is no doubt in my mind that woman could have kicked that guy's butt up one side of the isle and down the other.
That fucking racist coward knew full well what was on that sign because in his sick, hateful mind whatever, whomever that black woman supports, he's against...just like Obama.
Btw...if allowed, she would have kicked that bigot's shit back up his ass.
Not likely that anybody could mistake her for a Birther, but aren't we being a tad [sigh...lack of a better word] racist by assuming that she couldn't be? I mean, a black dude got "knocked down" the other day who claims to be a conservative. We all saw that sadsack on tv crying "lawsuit".
Look, the dude is an asshole and probably a Dirther asshole, but I just can't tell definitively from that video. Still, I will stop digging my hole now, because i don't actually disagree with you.
:)
...first place was because she was a African American in an overwhelmingly white setting. That in itself was a act of racism.
Do you think he would have approached her if two big black guys were on each of her sides?
...he would have approached her if she had two guys-of-indeterminate-race next to her. Or even one Bonkers.
Part of what I read in the story was that there was some sort of request to put away all signs. The minute she unrolled hers, this crank took it upon himself to act like a child. I dunno! That's all I saw that I can say for sure.
I've seen many guys get their asses thoroughly kicked here in Chicago after pissing off big black women like that.
That bigot probably ran to his car.
n/c
never, ever, ever, get in the face of a black woman to piss her off (even if she is tiny). They will f*ck you up.
...but will run like Usain Bolt from a mad black woman.
And it was obvious that she only unrolled the sign because the photographer wanted to see it. The woman was not an aggressive sign unroller by any means. She was simply responding to the honky photographer who was probably in cahoots with the chicken shit sign ripper. I say this becasue the photographer didn't care diddly about the sign ripper when everybody was being led away.
[Strokes chin sagely]
The photographerrr....
No matter who or what I would say that the sign ripper's (James Winfrey, 67) life is now ruined and I'll bet he wishes there were death panels.
Btw...if allowed, she would have kicked that bigot's shit back up his ass.
No doubt there. So in a way you can see why she got more cops. The other guy didn't look like he could fight his way through a tissue.
Maybe he had a squirt gun?
And it looks like another poster got more info (below). Teary McPosterhater got himself arrested.
Looks like we are getting closer to justifiable, unfettered bashing of the sign ripper! Yay! I'll play. I gots NO aloha for these freeper, birther, deather, "dirther", deluded, loud-mouthed pricks.
Still covering your ass are you?
Afraid so.
A liberal would likely know the identity of the woman in the poster, and show some damn respect.
No, this has to be one of your typical wingnuts, and my suspicion is that he has some brains and recognized Mrs. Parks in the poster (and is butthurt about the civil rights movement), or he doesn't know who Mrs. Parks is and was just offended period...
...quick grab. He could have just grabbed and started working that thing.
Ok, forget him being a liberal. Bad example. Maybe he was some Ron Paul libertarian. I don't know. Stupid prick could have been a Catholic, she could have been carrying a picture of the Pope, and how stupid would he feel now?
I keep saying I am going to stop digging my hole, but I just don't want anyone thinking I am sticking up for this fool. I'm only saying that maybe we can bash him later when we've confirmed, say, who he voted for in the last election.
and grabbing anything out of the black woman's hand would stoke the hateful racists, which it did.
Concern troll. Do not feed.
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Ex, you and I had a good laugh a few days ago. I think? Anyway, I am pretty sure it was you. "Asslint"! Right?
I am no concern troll, though I am annoying myself, too.
Lolz
Anybody can be a concern troll, dude. It's a function, not an identity.
the racists are emboldened by the media and trhe prior presidency.
doesn't show this video. They just show a video of a black woman getting removed without providing any context as to why. The viewer is left to believe that this is just a typical incident and that it's not the stupid, angry, misinformed old white people that are causing most of the disruptions which is the reality.
They didn't show the incident that caused the confrontation and they only shown the black woman being removed, not the white man being removed and the one who's actions caused the confrontation. The MSM in this country is a total joke, a bunch of lazy propagandists.
Unfortunately, I am afraid at the end of the day you will still be right, but maybe this vid hasn't made the rounds yet?
but how many will go back and correct yesterday's news? Not many. Lots of people saw the first video. How many will see one that puts the event in a proper context?
Took the words right out of my mouth. Therein lies part of the injustice.
1) Photographer:
Nice reflexes. You missed the good picks while still on one knee. Ah well.
2) Watch for the guy in the gray shirt pursuing the action with his camera phone. Maybe he was a freeper and couldn't wait to get this posted to his blog later in the day. He certainly didn't have any interest in the poster tearing guy. But in fairness, I suppose with her yelling she was the more dynamic story and he would have pursued her no matter what his political leanings.
Meh.
almost unbelievable........i would think KO will have this on his program. these people wrap themselves in the flag/constitution and at the same time show their racist side.
I'm disgusted and horrified, of course, but definitely not surprised...
of these sick f**k nasty filthy America hating wingnut scum!
I think once we take care of Health Care reform we should then concentrate on Media reform.
I've had better views at rock concerts from the nose bleed section.
Gods, these people are disgusting.
Maybe they were just having a lovers spat.
http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fi...
for the additional information. There was no mention or coverage by the MSM of the man that initiated the attack or that he was arrested.
...while all the Negroes got to sit comfortably.
Seriously. Professor Gates did a PBS series examining the geneology of some prominent black Americans; Morgan Freeman, Chris Rock, Oprah and others. Anyway, he told Oprah that she had white relatives, and she replied that she was aware that part of the Winfrey family was white.
Interesting. To me anyway.
I surely hope Oprah's cousin runs into that woman again.
it fascinating, and in this case, if Teary McPosterHater was a relative of Oprah's, it would be ironic too.
It's why, when those tapes surfaced of Nixon saying that abortion was acceptable if a mixed-race baby was involved, I did a famous relatives check on Ancestry.com to see if he was a distant relative of President Obama's...
Did you and I come up with that separately? JINX!
Alright. 'Night, folks.
Stewart's "Yellington J. Crazypants" that he used for one old man at a town hall meeting...
Good night!
From Cedar Hill....
Probably pissed that Oprah Winfrey has his name..and definitely in the right area to be a racist.
Okay, I got it now, he came from across the aisle.
The crowd in the stands howled and jeered when Maxine Johnson walked in late with her Rosa Parks poster. She was able to find an empty seat on the floor because people had already started leaving. Then the video picks up. What's curious is that after that there were teabaggers holding up "Don't Tread on Me" flags and there was nary a whisper from the crowd. I wonder why (see the 14th photo from the top).
A firsthand account of the reaction of those teabaggers:
Then, one attendee was accosted in the lobby for phoning while black and wearing a Planned Parenthood t-shirt:
Yep, there were lots of classy people in attendance in addition to the usual vein popping in their neck apoplectic right wingnuts...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/12/cnn-...
cnn covered the rep. david scott story. some people are so foolish and over the top. it has to be a small amount of grey matter for these people.
I better not say it, but she deserves every fucking penny. See the way the white cops bull rushed the "big black woman". They rammed her like she was cattle. The white guy was lightly pushed away. I thought racism was over?
In a way I have to hand it to the crowd for not starting a riot. If I would have been there I may have made a fool of myself and taken old James Winfrey, 67 down right there.
(Wiping brow, thanking lucky stars)
Maybe he was the man Rosa Parks refused to give her seat to. Sure he's a little petty for holding a grudge all those years, but still...
Get him!
...an attempt at distracting from you, Bonkers?
;o}
:)
was on the sign or not, it's abysmal behavior toward another human being. Who the eff does old-white-guy think he is to grab something out of someone's hands and destroy it?
The human interaction displayed is appalling and this man not only owes this woman an apology, he owes EVERYONE attending the event an apology. What a fucktard he showed himself to be!!
...is here: http://tumblr.com/xbx2o7wt2
...that's mature.
Just another entitled, puffed up, full of himself, ignorant, bullying Repuke (most likely racist) gas-bag.
I wonder if he also beats children?
steals her property and destroys it and she is kicked out. Just what Tom Joiner said would happen as soon as a black person spoke up at one of these meetings.
The photographer was a jerk for starting this and for not respecting the wishes of the hosts, i.e. that posters be put down and away. The woman was a jerk for being so proud of her posters and for not telling the photographer to wait until after the meeting. The fat oaf being hyper-vigilant is a jerk for sticking his fat oaf body into business that was not his and for not letting a uniformed security guard handle his petty grievances.
what do you call a person who thinks everyone, including the assaulted, is to blame?
j...
tell me what you saw instead casting me into the same group of blithering idiots caught up in that mess. come on, you've shown you're not above the fray of name callers, but I'm sure you think yourself better than others. try to engender some discussion. what did you see?
that woman was the center of attention the second the clip starts, your eye goes right to her.
the speaker is having to start where she left off. clearly there was some distraction taking place.
and this man was cheered when he grabbed the poster.
what she was doing may have been loud and distacting to those on the floor.
doesn't exactly excuse his being a child and throwing a tantrum.
this is a pointless story, it just goes to show what kind of nightmarishly dim and crazy people are showing up at these things
but make sure you're packing a gun. WTF is wrong with these people and do they really think they're fooling anyone with their racism?
The good lord was in that entropic old fool, the good lord who keeps black people where they belong, out of sight, out of mind, out of the Oval Office, back in the ghetto.. I hope the media never leaves his lawn.
She shouldn't have unrolled hers. Just sayn'. And I'm a commie liberal.
..rules are rules...We all have to follow them. Frankly, I'm surprised that that skinny white dude didn't get the smack down by my sista's. The sistas can be quite a handful when they want to be.
We're doomed.
The way I heard it, one rule for admission was no signs and no posters displayed by anybody. It was a poster and it could be seen. Its removal should have been left to the security people.
Republican means uneducated, ignorant, racist.
How much you want to bet the old man ends up on Fox News telling
how he was just enforcing the rules and the back patting he'll get from all the cretins there.
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