An undercover videographer showed up at a protest against the Koch brothers held in Palm Springs, Calif., and began asking the protestors' opinions of Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, receiving shocking replies advocating that Thomas be hanged or tortured. by R. Cort Kirkwood
NAACP Ignores Racial Remarks About Justice Clarence Thomas
R. Cort Kirkwood | The New American
10 February 2011
Progressives who opposed the political activities of Charles and David Koch, the billionaire brother industrialists helping fund the Tea Party movement, want to lynch Associate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Or at least a few of them said so at the rally. Even worse, reports The Daily Caller, the NAACP refused to comment about the comments.
An undercover videographer showed up at the protest, held in Rancho Mirage, Calif., and began asking questions of the enlightened protesters who undoubtedly voted for President Barack Hussein Obama. The exchange was quite ugly, The DC reported:
Asked by the filmmaker to say what he would like to do to Thomas, one protester says: “put him back in the fields.”
“He’s a scumbag,” the man says. “He’s a dumb shit scumbag.” The man also said Thomas’s colleague, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, “should go back to Sicily.”
A young woman at the rally said that though she was “all about peace,” she would like for Thomas to undergo “torture.”
Two other protesters appear to call for Thomas’s death. When asked what should happen to Thomas, one person says “hang him” while another protester says “string him up.”
“He’s a scumbag,” the man says. “He’s a dumb shit scumbag.” The man also said Thomas’s colleague, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, “should go back to Sicily.”
A young woman at the rally said that though she was “all about peace,” she would like for Thomas to undergo “torture.”
Two other protesters appear to call for Thomas’s death. When asked what should happen to Thomas, one person says “hang him” while another protester says “string him up.”
Although the videographer, Christian Harstock, was “undercover” because he wore a “Common Cause“ T-Shirt to conduct the interviews, the voluble protesters knew they were speaking into a camera and that he would broadcast their words.
“They knew that they were accountable for their own words and that their look and likeness would be reproduced later,” he told TheDC. “That still did not deter them from expressing the most vile forms of hatred, and some would say racism, on the record.”
Oddly, or perhaps not, the NAACP, would not denounce the obvious racial tone of the remarks with TDC when the website called for comment.
In an email to TheDC, NAACP spokesman Hillary Shelton said:
Last summer, the NAACP passed a resolution calling for a civil political discourse,” Shelton said in an e-mail to TheDC. “We continue to call on all Americans to abandon vitriolic language. It serves as a distraction from the real issues our society need to address and distorts the challenges we as Americans have to confront to make our nation greater still.
Harstock made the obvious point to TheDC: “If a liberal journalist were to produce the kind of footage at any one Tea Party, we would not be allowed to forget about it for the next five years.”
