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Forum Post: We need to bus in some people of color...seriously.

Posted 13 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 2:19 p.m. EST by captaindoody (339) from Elizabethville, PA
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Watching footage of our rally on television, I am struck by how white the crowd is. Now that we've got George Soros funding us, lets bus in some people who are not white. It makes us look racist with so many white faces.

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[-] 1 points by PoliticallyIncorrectBenjamin (50) 13 years ago

If they need to be bused in they don't belong. A protest needs to be people doing what they believe in, not what they are being coerced to do.

[-] 1 points by captaindoody (339) from Elizabethville, PA 13 years ago

Well I'm not saying to coerce them. I want to pay them. We've got the money to do it. Soros is funding us.

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 13 years ago

This was posted today on Breitbart's BigGovernment.com:

"If you follow me on Twitter, you know I spent a chunk of the weekend reading through the minutes of meetings from the #OccupyWallSt protests. While the time spent shifting through the mind-numbingly inane discussions among these twits is time I’ll never get back, I did learn a few interesting things. Among these is the fact that the protesters are obsessed with process. Actually, obsessed doesn’t really capture it. They are singularly focused and consumed by discussions of “how” they are going to go about doing things. They are so concerned that any one person may feel ‘left out’ or that any other person may exercise too much “control”, that they spend countless time discussing and debating “how” they are going to conduct meetings; often during the meetings themselves.

"Which goes a long way to understanding how the situation in the video above happened. Rep. John Lewis, a veteran of real protests to win real freedoms and rights, asked to be able to address the young, overwhelmingly white, protesters in Atlanta, during one of their “General Assemblies.” So far, so typical. Anytime a group of people gathers for a political event, politicians of all stripes will often want to speak to the crowd. And, invariably, accommodations are generally made to let this happen. After all, an elected officials adds a certain amount of ‘legitimacy’ to the meeting.

"Instead, some of the protesters objected to Rep. Lewis speaking. Partly because it wasn’t yet “time” for speeches, but also because letting him speak at that time would suggest he was “above” or “more important” than anyone else there. (The second obsession of these protesters.) That the whole farce played out WHILE Rep. John Lewis was standing there is delicious. The awkwardness is palatable.

"What must have been going on through Rep. Lewis’ mind, as one young while college kid after another spouted off that it wasn’t yet “time” for him to speak? The man marched through Selma and was beaten to secure basic equal treatment of blacks and here are a bunch of privileged, progressive white kids telling him, sorry, you can’t speak to us.

"Exit question: Imagine if a tea party had done this? Maybe now Rep. Lewis will retract his racial smear of the tea party.

Source: http://biggovernment.com/mikeflynn/2011/10/09/occupyatlanta-protesters-object-to-speech-from-rep-john-lewis/

[-] 1 points by reaganite (100) 13 years ago

lol

[-] 1 points by captaindoody (339) from Elizabethville, PA 13 years ago

There's nothing funny about appearing to be a racist. Stop laughing.

[-] 1 points by reaganite (100) 13 years ago

I'm sorry...I forgot for a moment that a sense of humor is evidence of capitalist brain washing. I will wear my che t-shirt for the next week straight in order to atone for my breech of protocol.

[-] 1 points by captaindoody (339) from Elizabethville, PA 13 years ago

EVERYONE!!! Be sure to buy your Che T-Shirts at the Gap. They just gave us a big donation and we want to show support!

[-] 1 points by garciasal (1) 13 years ago

I'm latino, if you want to pay me the 4,000 dollars in opportunity costs I'll be on the next plane out.

[-] 1 points by captaindoody (339) from Elizabethville, PA 13 years ago

Wait a minute. Are you telling me that you're making money? Don't post that on these forums. We need to stay on message.

[-] 1 points by TechJunkie (3029) from Miami Beach, FL 13 years ago

Most people of color are too busy working for a living to take a month off to camp out in the streets not making any income and not bettering themselves in any way.

[-] 1 points by captaindoody (339) from Elizabethville, PA 13 years ago

But we'll look racist if they don't come. Since we have a big pot of money now from Soros, we should spend it to bus in some non-whites.