If you are prone to anger, you might want to skip ahead, because I find if difficult to contain the outrage I feel over the vile acts of some Georgia Republicans. They dressed in full Republican regalia, put the Republican flag, the stars and bars, on display and attacked a child’s birthday party.
I kid you not, it feels like we are going back in time in America.
In an Atlanta suburb this past weekend, Melissa Alford (a black woman) and her family were hosting an outdoor birthday party in Douglasville, Georgia, when a convoy of seven large pickup trucks donning Confederate flags interrupted the party and pulled into the grass. The occupants then called them niggers and threatened them with violence, according to multiple eyewitnesses, who also stated that the men actually flashed guns at them:
One of at least two cellphone videos from the incident shows Douglasville police officers holding back a group of black men and women as at least seven pickup trucks drive off. The trucks’ white passengers wave as the Confederate, American and military flags mounted on the vehicles flap in the air. .
“This is a child’s birthday party,” one woman in the crowd can be heard saying.
A second video shows the trucks gathered on a grassy area, and the N-word can be heard. A woman who shared the video said the trucks were on her property and their passengers were armed and threatened to “kill y’all [N-words].”
Inserted from <Daily Kos>
Barf Bag Alert!!
I just can’t get my head around such vile, unbridled, Republican hate.
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Sorry about the clip. It was working whan I posted it.
I saw it earlier–so no problem for me.
The clip is not your fault. You have no control over the person who posted it, and neither does Shaun.
I did see this and could not wrap my head around it either. We are seeing so much lately that I cannot wrap my head around. Last week, wasn't it, you posted the video about the Black Lives Matter protest on one side of the South Carolina state house, with a pro-Condeferate-Flag event on the other side? "Worst Mixer Ever"? And some of the whites yelled at the BLMs "You are the color of a bowel movement"? I just wanted to be able to shout across the miles and into the past as I was reading it, "Shut yo' mouth befo' any of them realize we-all are the color of pus." Of course it wouldn't have done any good. Who can reach people who are that crazy?
In related news, Franklin Graham now wants to ban all Muslims from America. Genuine people of genuine faith are going on record to oppose his statements here:
http://act.faithfulamerica.org/sign/franklingraham/?t=1&akid=638.240419.oWG7wd
I saw–he dishonors his father.
Since "father" is not capitalized, I'm assuming you mean Billy.
But Billy Graham, while not nearly as bad as Franklin, was really no paragon of virtue either. And we have the Nixon Tapes to prove it:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-06-24-graham-tapes_N.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/us/billy-graham-responds-to-lingering-anger-over-1972-remarks-on-jews.html
https://www.au.org/church-state/march-2011-church-state/people-events/evangelist-billy-graham-says-he-now-regrets
You are so right, Nameless. Billy Graham, like Sam Walton, is terribly overrated. Only in comparison to their kids do they look good.
I signed the petition. I was not too crazy about his father, but I find Franklin to be despicable.
Thanks JD. Franklin Graham dishonours not only his father but also the authentic Christian faith. I am also saddened to see that the Method and Episcopal churches are supporting Graham's hate fest. Petition signed.
Thanks for the link, Joanne. Signed it.
I just got the email and signed this.
Thanks JD. Been there! Signed that!!
Franklin Graham is a … Republican!
. . . and an asshole! They are often seen as the same thing!
This is good candidate for "As the Stomach Churns." We have some very sick people in this country who think they are above the law and, given who represents the law in some jurisdictions, they may not be as wrong as they should be/
I am utterly disgusted that there are people in this country so racist that they would spoil a child/s birthday party to show off their hatred.
If you follow the link — The occupants then called them niggers and threatened them with violence — in the story, it will take you to a video. I do not however know if this is the video that has been removed above.
These lower life forms that think it is OK to spoil a child's birthday party by driving around with racist flags, parking on the grass which is someone's private property, threatening people with guns, and yelling racial slurs, need to be taught a lesson . . . I just don't know how that lesson should be taught. They and their unbridled hatred are thoroughly disgusting. I have to belive that karma will be a bitch for these neanderthals. This reminds me of an incident in Buffalo, NY when my maternal grandfather took my brother and I down his "Archie Bunker" style street to a corner store to buy Squirt. Outside the store there were a number of African American men standing about. My grandfather grabbed me by the collar and pulled me close as he said "Come here girl or the N*****s will get you!" I never forgot that on an emotional and physical level. I never forgave my grandfather either and refused to have anything more to do with him.
If not the same video, it's very close. But I had to watch a Republican campaign ad first.
I am glad I couldn't see the clip, my bp would have shot right off the charts!
How warped and pathetic are their minds that they think it is a good idea for a group of men (and I use the latter word quite wrongly here – no real man would have done such a thing!) to get armed to the teeth, summon up a crowd of like-minded people, and harass, frighten and threaten a child's birthday party! At the very least these are overgrown bullies – and at the worst they are psychopaths. God help us all – and the local police should have arrested them all – starting at the minimum offence of behavior likely to cause a breech of the peace, and anything else they could throw at them. Those 'men' are a danger to all around.
The Daily Kos article starts with: "I kid you not, it feels like we are going back in time in America. "
As far as racism is concerned, I think that statement is incorrect, America has not advanced much in that area, but has varnished the hatred just a bit more until a decade or so ago. Since then the varnish has worn thin, especially in the red(neck) states and racism is out in the open once more.
These particular disgusting, racist, ammosexual Georgians were fully aware of what they were doing and of the fact that it would be put on video by one or more onlookers. That reminded me eerily of the snapshots of KKK-members and their families posing proudly next to the mutilated and burnt bodies of their victims. The same arrogance, the same pride and why not? Apparently the Douglasville police officers held back the black men and women at this child's birthday party the pickup trucks drove off the property of a black woman. And the same police, with their hands over their ears and eyes claimed they didn't see any laws being broken so the couldn't do anything.
The varnish is getting thinner but at the same time more African-American, and all the other (minority) groups see how unhinged and widespread racism has become. If racists keep being protected on all levels by authorities, black people will take matters in their own hands and though it will not be pretty, they will be joined by many other minorities that feel and are discriminated against.
I fear that you are right and that we may come to see Kent State as a relatively minor incident.
Amen Lona, amen!!! Very well said, and I couldn't agree with you more!
"Douglasville police officers holding back a group of black men and women as at least seven pickup trucks drive off."
Looks like the police department are also complicit as they did nothing to go after the trucks. What about driving on and damaging private property??
PETITION:
Get this racist symbol off of state grounds everywhere
https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/1316
It's a public park. The police appeared to be protecting the racist Republicans.
This group are below the human race.
Thanks all. I still feel sick over this.
WTF? Why? Why spread your vile venom to a child’s birthday party?
Makes NO FREAKIN SENSE!