Teabaggers Upset Health Care Town Hall Held in Black Church

[babylonsister]

http://www.openleft.com/diary/14553/teabaggers-upset-health-care-town-hall-held-in-black-church

Teabaggers Upset Health Care Town Hall Held in Black Church
by: Chris Bowers
Mon Aug 10, 2009 at 17:08

Disclaimer: I am working on Joe Sestak's campaign--Chris



Young Philly Politics has the response from the local conservative health care protesters to Congressman Joe Sestak holding a townhall meeting in a predominately African-American church in Philadelphia:

For example, word got out that Sestak's meeting would actually be held in Philly, and so, there was this tweet:

CON SESTAK PA 7TH DISTRICT IS NOT HAVING MEETING IN AREA OF VOTERS THAT ELECTED HIM HE IS MAKING US GO 2 PHILLY WHERE THE BLACK PANTHERS R

Oh, where the black panthers are!?

And, if that was a little to subtle for you, it was followed by this one:

@glennbeck iTS A BLACK CHURCH IN ANOTHER DIS. SESTAK IS GOING TO SAND BAG US

Um, yeah. It is even directed at Glenn Beck. That is too, too, too perfect. That is who will be at the town hall, hoping to drown out any conversation from actually happening.

I have no commentary to add, as this speaks for itself. Except that Joe Sestak is running for Senate in the entire state of Pennsylvania, so Philadelphia is hardly out of district.

If you are in the Philadelphia area on Wednesday, please come to Representative Sestak's townhall, so that the anti-reform protesters are not the only ones being heard.

Location: Broad Street Ministry

315 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA
b/t Spruce and Pine (across from UArts and Kimmel Center)

This event is FREE and OPEN to the Public. PLEASE COME and SPREAD the WORD!!

[tanyev]

1. Great big loudmouth skeerdy-cats.

[DJ13]

2. Lol, thats called "checkmate"

Go ahead and try to disrupt it!

[CakeGrrl]

3. Perfect way to expose their racist underpinnings. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Hmmmm..a tactic presents itself.

Since they are apparenlty allergic to African Americans....

[TokenQueer]

5. That part of downtown Philly is pretty happening...

...and gay adjacent. Teabaggers are wailing like the town hall is being held in Cabrini-Green. :eyes:

[C_U_L8R]

6. Since when is Broad and Pine Black Panther territory?

what beck-tards.

[Barack_America]

11. Isn't it technically the Avenue of the Arts section?

Oh yeah, a nest of black power that area is.

:rofl:

[C_U_L8R]

13. Yeah and...

I don't think there's been a Black Panther in Philly for 30-40 years.

The stupid ass fools are just spouting nonsense.

[silverweb]

7. Smart move!

I'm thinking some of the belligerent loudmouths are gonna be a little too chickenshit to try their crap in that locale!

:rofl:

I hope the church membership and all their friends turn out in force!

[blogslut]

8. Ha! Awesome!

Hold all the town halls in black churches! Racists are skeered of teh brown people. I love it.

[TexasObserver]

9. Great idea! More of same!

[Barack_America]

10. So I find out about a town hall in my own city via Glenn Beck?

That's a problem.

I'm going to try to go.

It's Wednesday at 6:30pm for my fellow Philadelphians.

[bushmeister0]

12. Thanks for that.

I'd love to go. Alas I'll be working. But I posted the info on my FB, so hopefully some of my friends can make it down to that very dangerous part of CC.

[RagAss]

14. LOL !!! Eat my teabag !

[eppur_se_muova]

15. But it's NOT because they're racists!

Goodness gracious, no! :sarcasm:

[galileoreloaded]

16. No guns allowed in Philly guys...VS. the rest of PA.......n/t

[Barack_America]

17. How dare they hold a meeting in a predominantly black city in a predominantly black church!

But seriously Glenn, thanks for jumping on this and making it all too clear that the motivation behind these protests is indeed racism.

I think there was one person in the country who hadn't already figured that out.

:eyes:

[Wednesdays]

18. K&R

:kick:

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. Hey Philly folks be careful! You know the wingnuts will be bringing guns to this one