ACORN is a handy substitute for the 'n word': At 912 event, black teens harassed by teabaggers

[Joanne98]

One People's Project has the full-length version of this video, taken from the big 912 rally in Washington, D.C., showing a middle-aged white man and his Asian wife chasing after and harassing a trio of black people -- primarily two teenagers and an adult guardian (possibly their mother) who were selling "Don't Tread on Me" flags along the long grassy mall.

As you can see, the man -- who identifies himself as Tim Jones -- shouts after them: "ACORN! These people are ACORN!!! They are frauds!!! ACORN is fraud!!! Obama sucks! This woman sells signs for profit of ACORN!!"

It attracts more harassers, and it verges on the point of an outbreak of violence when the D.C. bicycle police show up and break up the scene.

Now, how does Jones claim to know that they are actually ACORN workers? He says he overheard a police officer ask them if they were selling for ACORN and the young woman -- who appears to be a young teen -- told the cop "yes." The older woman tells him flatly they're not from ACORN, but he keeps shouting it anyway.

Most of all, Jones and his wife are harassing these people based on some shaky presuppositions: that a young teenage girl would answer a cop's question -- particularly the addition of the ACORN element -- accurately is probably the shakiest, but toss in the fact that "off brand" vendors, people who have nothing whatsoever to do with a political entity like ACORN, employing young African Americans often flock to these political events and sell whatever is selling in terms of hats, T-shirts, pins, flags, and whatever gewgaws can be sold. Cops regularly chase them off if they don't have a license.

Which is probably what these people were doing, and why they fled. Well, that and the fear of being lynched by these maniacs.

The bigger question is: Why target African Americans when there are are hundreds of vendors at these things? And why assume that they have anything to do with ACORN?

Because, to the teabaggers, ACORN is synonymous with scary black people. The kind who, in the minds of Glenn Beck and his followers, are lurking, waiting to overthrow America when Obama orders them to. (Even if they later turn out to be a dance troupe.)

As Susie says, ACORN is just the new wingnutspeak code for the 'N' word. It's now become an epithet -- one you can chase black people around with and accuse them angrily. Just what America needs right now.

Video at link........

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/acorn-handy-substitute-n-word-912-ev

[creeksneakers2]

1. This should go viral

[thelordofhell]

2. Like Ice Cube said

He's the ACORN you love to hate.

[Mopar151]

3. and ACLU is code for "teh Jews" n/t

[cadmium]

5. yup. Also the "Fed" is code

for the Jews and anti-states rights federalism. The Fed is a two-fer code word signaling Jews(ne bankers) and blacks (ne slaves).

[rmp yellow]

4. I don't see a clear sign of racism

Plus the Asian community might be offended if we start implying that an Asian woman yelling" ACORN, is not a neocon but a racist.
These two may have said that because they hate liberals or may be racists. But that's two possibilities, not one.

Plus... are we supposed to think that the white man is a racist who loves the minority Asians, since his wife is Asian?

[OwnedByFerrets]

6. Huge K and R