Maryland ACORN Official: It’s Racism
by PubliusStatement from Margaret Williams, Board Member, Maryland ACORN:
It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage.
Statement from Margaret Williams, Board Member, Maryland ACORN –





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At what point will the shouts of "racism" become meaningless?
gee thanks for the e-mail address brian. you'll be hearing from me.
Racist! we're all a bunch of racists! there you have it. Case closed.
White guilt is dead long live TRUTH and JUSTICE
Naturally this is what they say. Although clearly they are being investigated in on at least 16 states for voter fraud. Now you can add Tax Fraud and conspiracy to commit kidnapping-slavery-prostitution. And YoMama wants these liars and thieves running the census. YoMama want to be Your Big Brother. He has the NewSpeak down. Watch your mailbox for you daily dose of soma. ACORN is run by the epsilons.
Why do people always resort to screaming "Racism!" at incovienent facts hoping they'll go away, instead of actually amending and fixing what's causing the problem in the first place? Circumventing the argument by attacking the messenger is incredibly disingenious. How do people get away with it?
Who are racists? I must have missed it. They must be referring to the support of teenage sex slave labor from South America.
Huh, so this is all a ploy by Fox News to destroy ACORN huh?
Here I thought this was a couple of enterprising young truth seekers who self-funded an investigation into ACORN, and doing a damn good job of it too.
Just one question for ACORN before I take their presser at face value: Did you issue this before or after O'Keefe and Giles posted video about the SECOND mortgage assistance unit that was more than happy to facilitate multiple federal offenses?
I am sure Fox will quit telling the truth about ACORN, when ACORN quits telling lies.
Here we go again with the race issue. As a hispanic who has never pulled the race card – I resent this type of behavior! Give me a break! I personally will not give any personal information for the 2010 census to any group which the gov't hires. These people are not deserving of handling my personal infomation and I'm thinking the gov't isn't either!
Very nicely said!!
"Racism" is the slur/epithet hurled at white people by bigots. Please adjust your dictionaries accordingly.
Everyone knows that only white people are allowed to use the "R" word when speaking of one of their brethren. From anyone else, it is derogatory hate-speech. I don't know this woman's race, but now, all of a sudden, I care what it might be.
/sarc
The words on the ACORN letterhead is meaningless. ACORN breeds criminal activities and corruption and its leaders are in denial! WTF!!!!!!!!!
The proof is in the transcripts and/or videos. What smear? What Fox? What Glenn Beck?
I have already reached that point, and the presidents poll numbers show that America is also reaching that point.
Already is.
http://townhall.com/columnists/LarryElder/2009/09...
I think it is racist that ACORN only hires african americans.
NOW
Since they were so nice as to provide an email address, they should look forward to some great responces to there statement.
Actually what is interesting is this "press release" was from yesterday — before the 2nd video came out.
Blame it on Fox and Glenn Beck. It's the new Bush.
When will ACORN go away? And hopefully take Obama with them. Where is the Anointed One's reaction anyways?
What a sad day in America when the people who run undercover operations to bust criminals, and those who report the criminal activity, are the bad guys and the criminals become the victims because they were caught on tape with their pants down.
According to ACORN logic, our police officers who perform like operations would be racists, too. *big eye roll*
Something OReaper and Crew don't like: self-funding
"The Fox squad deceived the ACORN staff by consistently misrepresenting their intentions."
Ummm, their intentions were illegal and not only did no one call them on them, they facilitated them at every turn.
Did you read this before you released it? Or does your mind actually work that way?
This just in. The Census Bureau has decided to cut all ties with the scum organization — ACORN
I meant that above for Margaret Wiliams, ACORN apologist.
Just to be clear.
You people need to CHILL OUT! Of course the MSM hasn't covered this story yet. How could they? The Whitehouse has not yet released a statement.
Obama is focusing on HEALTH CARE this week. Organizing communes of underage prostitutes doesn't start 'til NEXT week!
So please, stop your whining. The state run media will provide coverage once they receive clearance and direction from their head of state. Until then, there's nothing they can really do.
It is amazing that an organization with the track record of ACORN of sheer disregard for the rule of law can blame the messenger and the incompetent boobs that they hire. You know that in any normal organization the management would have been canned. I don't blame them for trying to take down Glenn Beck. Beck is on top of taking this organization down almost single-handedly. They will lose. As far as Beck calling the President a racist, I never heard it.
YES!!! You guys did it! Census Bureau has cut ACORN out of the Census!!!
Hey ACORN,
We will not be intimidated by you and/or any other organization that promotes division in this country-no matter how much you try to front it with that phony pretense of community service work. You are exposed and it's only time before everyone knows it. "We The People" of this country are united in are efforts to restore this great nation to the principles it was founded on. All of us non-haters of every color and persuasion will stand up and be counted and we are not afraid!!!
just heard on fox that the census bureau has sent a letter to ACORN severing all ties with ACORN for any and all activities tied to the 2010 census.
There is a large faction on the left whose hatred of Fox has long since passed the point of mere irrationality. So much, it would seem, that he doesn't seem to be aware that Fox really had little to do with this.
I sort of feel sorry for them.
I'm surprised it took 24 hours before ACORN started ranting about racism. One has to laugh when promoters of child prostitution like ACORN start ranting about their civil rights being violated.
Not good enough as far as I am concerned! Cut the 8 billion too!
HA!! I knew this was coming… What a crock. They know they are in so far over their heads that they have no other recourse but to call institutions who hold it accountable a highly overused and increasingly meaningless word.
If blacks or other minorities wish to further their agenda, they would be wise to use the word "racist" more sparingly. Soon, it will lose its value and they will have no other weapon… (Look in recent history at the words, "horrific," and "terrorist." They have been so overplayed by the media that they no longer have the same weight as they had on Sept. 10th, 2001.)
Well it is a good thing ACORN did not doing anything wrong. I was starting to think our Congress was giving money to a Corrupt and Vile organization. I can sleep better tonight knowing it was Fox that is the issue.
/sarc off
The CENSUS Bureau has severed all ties with ACORN!
If the glove don’t fit, you must acquit
The attorney general needs to prosecute this organization under the RICO statuates. We the people need to demand this. This is no different than the mob.
I would be carefull about emailing these people. Remember what the lady said on the first video, dont use your cell phone, cause they can track you. Email address are the same thing.
Wow, Fox News is so "racist" for exposing ACORN as the frauds they are. An "organization" that promotes IRS fraud (they must have done Rangel's taxes), child prostitution and enslavement. How dare anyone investigate an "organization" for illegal activities that is funded by the tax payers of America when we are in record debt. We should just let them continue voter fraud, tax fraud, promotion of child prostitution, voter intimidation and other illegal activies…too bad for them we're not going to!
Don't let ACORN or the Union Thugs intimidate anyone anymore!
Time to take a STAND! Go BECK, FOX, and this Website!
Yep, the racism charges don't even phase me anymore.
Oh, oh, oh… They're right. There is racism at work here. As this story continues to get investigated, the REAL organizers and responsible parties for this systemic fraud at ACORN will be shown to be mostly leftist WHITE PEOPLE using low income people of color to do their ILLEGAL dirty work that allows them to pull millions (maybe billions) from the United States tax payers.
Can you imagine how many up through the ACORN chain are trying to "cover" their "ass" right now?
Oh yeah, there are racists there, to be sure. Who are the execs, lobbyists, financial supporters of this corrupt ACORN organization? I'm sure the main stream "journalists" (besides those at FOX) are checking into that as we speak.
biggovernment run amuck. Who wants to expose that?
Great new site!
AMEN!
Now that the Census director has announced that the bureau will cut all ties with the scum organization ACORN the other "news" outlets will at least have to report on this development. This development won't make any sense to their viewers unless they are given the background information on this story so now it looks like the MSM will have to report on the entire story.
Pleased to hear that ACORN will no longer be conducting the census.
Next, people who care about whether the next election fairly represents the votes of qualified voters should demand that all the avenues for cheating are closed. Showing up to cast your vote in person on the day of the election and dipping your index finger in purple ink that cannot be washed off is not too much to ask of Iraqi citizens and count me as one citizen who wants AT LEAST that level of insurance here. ACORN's willingness to cheat to accomplish their objectives has been amply demonstrated and we have NO IDEA how many phony voter registrations have resulted in allowing votes to be cast for citizens that don't exist, are duplicated at phony addresses or are not qualified.
It'd also be great if someone would audit the voting rolls to see if people who own properties in multiple states are casting votes for federal elections in each of those states.
One citizen, one vote.
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Just heard the same… Lets hope it's true….
She forgot to mention that ACORN is also working for affordable housing for prostitutes and sex traffickers.
Census Bureau severing all ties with ACORN! SCORE BIG-G!!!
Hmm… Why am I not surprised at this accusation… :/ And do I care? Nope, not one bit…. Being called a racist (even as a group or implied) no longer has an effect on me…. nor should it on anyone else that questions the establishment.
Wow! Are you serious! FOX had nothing to do with this! The filmmaker is an independent filmmaker and is in no way connected to fox! ACORN, you are using the race card to gain sympathy and drum up support in the minority community as well as divert attention away from the despicable actions of your organization. Since I am a part owner of your organization since I am a taxpayer, I demand you be investigated immediately!
I pray that's true.
The week that was, on Glenn Beck was moving, and powerful viewing, resulting in the later downfall of Van Jones.
Now come this week, this new website, 2 devastating exposes, and attacks on those doing the exposing.
As Beck has said, this should not be simply a Right vs Left, Conservative vs Liberal, Elephant vs Donkey, thing, but a fight by all of honest America, against the criminality let loose on the land by the election of Obama.
Most Americans don't have the time, resources, platform, or audience that Radio & TV Talkers, and many intrepid Bloggers have to fight this battle, but I believe that we can contribute in small, but effective ways, from letter writing, to something as simple as blogrolls in our sidebars, listing what I call "Food For Thought" links to sites that we encourage our visitors to check out IF THEY CHOOSE TO DO SO.
I leave the blogging on the issues to others who are more effective, and let my few readers explore what they wish of the many, and varied, links, I choose to have in my 2 sidebars.
This website will immediately be added to the list mentioned above.
What up my racist?
Sorry, couldn't resist.
What you mean the President can't multi-task? Isn't that what the left accused McCain of not being able to do either?
Now let's make sure that an ACORN clone organization doesn't step up and fill in for ACORN. We must remain vigilant!
Harumph! More like the white liberal males running ACORN have been using, abusing, and pimping out mostly non-white minority females – many of whom may desperately need jobs in Obama's disasterous economy – and then throwing them under the bus when the scheme gets exposed. The racists tend to screech "racism" first, and loudest.
[...] statement, from Margaret Williams, “Board Member” of ACORN in Maryland. Read more here and here. The name calling has begun. Expect more of the same from the Socialists in [...]
Didn't Mr. Prez TEACH ACORN Leadership classes at Chicago University?? So… he trained these people, right?? Let's IMPEACH this guy already! And Biden and the entire administration and all his whack-job czar buddies!! Boot his rear end back to that cesspool Chicago where he belongs!
I'll tell them were to stick an ACORN
If the two journalists had been black, ACORN would have cried racism and stereotyping of pimps and prostitutes. I assume that when the story was released all news Medias were at liberty to pick up the story but did not. FOX was the only News media that pumped the story not because it is racist but because it’s NEWS! This is big news! ACORN is very corrupt and as more videos are being released from ACORN offices all across America you will see that this is the “business as usual” policy of ACRON. Now tell me how the American people can stop any and all tax dollars from going to this organization! This is the typical response by these people when they are caught “red handed” ooops is that racist?
Hey, ACORN, here's your opportunity to set things straight.
Go ahead and sue Fox News if you think you have a case.
Otherwise, quit yer whinin' and take yer whoopin' …
How long will racism continue to be the battle cry of the left? If you don't vote for Obama, you are a racist, if you oppose health care, you are a racist. If you oppose an organization that receives tax payer dollars teaching people how to defraud the government, hide illegal businesses and do other great services for the American taxpayers that support them.
If I were the left, I'd play the race card strategically and sparingly. The way they play it every 5 minutes makes it trivial.
[...] ACORN: When you expose us, it’s racism! [...]
You have to understand — they're "victims" who "mean well", and that trumps everything (especially if you vote the "correct" way).
ACORN: talk to the hand.
Anyone having trouble registering? This site must be smokin!
This is such old hat, tired and trite garbage, for the Marxists in the DIM BULB party to use the race card every single time their politicians and operatives are caught committing the endless string of FELONY CRIMES the DIMS always refuse to allow to be prosecuted. Like the Black Panther voter intimidation case from last Nov.’08.
Now they want to claim that CHILD PROSTITUTION is such a CULTURAL MAINSTAY of the Black Community, that like Islamic “HONOR KILLINGS”, it is RACIST of us to condemn the broad and widespread acceptance of these practices in the DIM BULB party, under any umbrella purporting to be a PRO-COMMUNITY govt program.
And supported against our will BY TAX PAYER DOLLARS.
That right, you Dim Marxist Liberals? You are claiming CHILD PROSTITUTION as a Black HERITAGE iconoclastic material part of the fabric of Blackness and Marxist Liberalism, that Conservatism doesn’t have the right to “TOUCH”?
Didn’t any of your grandmothers have any lye soap to use in your mouths when you put dirty things in there?
These people have been taught to believe that any opposition they may face is, by its very status as opposition, racist.
If they supposedly called police on James and Hannah, why are they not releasing the police reports?
Hm?
I expect them in 3… 2… never.
Census bearreau put ACORN down for the count. Obama seized control of the Census and suspect he may restore his pet criminal enterprise. This of course is what obama training looks like.
Margaret Williams sounds like the product of the schools that Acorn works to strengthen.
Yeah, watch the other groups – including Americorp, the APOLLO Alliance, RUCKUS, STORM, Public Allies, ACORN’S OTHER NEW NAME which I forgot what it is, news was out several months ago.. Sorry.
Also, I am hearing commercials on late night radio for “A NEW LEAF”, or “SMART LEAF” – I believe it is smartleaf.com – which says, it would not be good to “DROP ACORNS ON PEOPLE’S HEADS” – all through the Spring and Summer, this year…
SEIU, Black Panthers, Weather Underground, and various UN affiliates. And “GREEN” stuff.
AND THE National Endowment for the Arts.
[...] Big Government: The larger pattern of Fox’s irresponsible actions here is the real news. From Glenn Beck [...]
The modern definition of "racist" – Anyone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
For those of you just tuning in, the score: Dynamic Patriotic Duo = 2 / Ultra powerful executive branch backed "organizers" = NOTHING!
If FOKKKX NEWS had never called attention to it, it never would have happened!!
Demanding that people of color be responsible for their actions is very, very racist! If the founding fathers had never owned slaves, these poor ACORN people would have never conspired to provide a venue for the distribution of child sexual services! (Hmmm . . . that's oddly true, in a way)
Beck nailed it when he said the Rathke's are rich, white slumdogs that use vulnerable minorities. No one goes to the CEO's office to capture this type of corruption, and they could care less that those very vulnerable minorities they purport to help are the ones to take the fall. Have no shame.
The Census Director has sent a letter to the National Headquarters of ACORN notifying the group that the Census Bureau is severing all ties with the community organizing group for all work having to do with the 2010 census.____"Over the last several months, through ongoing communication with our regional offices, it is clear that ACORN's affiliation with the 2010 Census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 Census efforts," read a letter from Census Director Robert M. Groves to the president of ACORN.____
Three cheers to FOX News! If it wasn't for them & people like Rush, Sean, Glenn & Andrew, we'd never know what really is going on in this country.
[...] I were kidding… Fox’s attempt to smear ACORN Thursday September 10, 2009 is despicable, part of a [...]
Interesting,
I just sent the following email to Mr. Kettenring from my Gmail account and received the message: "Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:". So apparently he has shut down his email or his inbox is swamped.
My email read:
To Mr. Brian Kettenring,
I have just read the correspondence titled Statement from Margaret Williams, Board Member, Maryland and dated September 10, 2009 and posted at biggovernment.com and I am appalled at its content yet I rejoice that as an administrator for ACORN you allowed this memo was allowed to leave your office so that we all now truly understand the mentality of ACORN and its management.
In her memo, Margaret Williams fails to address the issue that your organization had two members who by all accounts were trained or educated, presumably by ACORN personnel or staff, in policies and ways to circumvent the legalities of the system is stunning yet not surprising. Her assertions that Fox News is somehow spreading racism and that their "irresponsible actions are the real news here" are nothing more than a typical misdirection attempt to take the spotlight off of the despicable actions of ACORN employees. And now we see that the actions of the two employees in your Baltimore office are consistent with the employees in your Washington D.C. office suggesting that these aren't rogue employees who simply "did not meet the standards of professionalism." I just wonder what other evidence they have that has yet to be revealed.
No Mr. Kettenring and Ms. Williams Fox News did not ask your employees to act in this vile manner nor did they ask the eleven down in Miami to violate the law, nor did they ask all the "rogue" employees facing voter fraud charges throughout the country to behave the way they did. You and your people are responsible for your own actions. Fox News, Glenn Beck, and the rest of the crew are simply reporting what you're doing and that in and of itself doesn't make them racist.
You know, decades ago people and companies use to cower when people or organizations (reputable or otherwise) would attack their prey with the allegation of "racist" or "racism". Well thanks to ACORN and similar organizations, you all have gone to the "racism well" one to many times and as a result you've effectively diluted its impact. However, in typical liberal fashion, Ms. Williams, and apparently you as well, has chosen to attack the messenger rather than the message.
And now I hear that the Census Bureau has severed its partnership with ACORN for the 2010 census (there is a God). Mr. Kettenring, you, Ms. Williams, and ACORN itself have done more harm to the minority community than Fox News, Glenn Beck, or those who investigated your pathetic organization could ever do.
I remain,
Ben Armato
I'm sure glad I have unlimited long distance, I have a lot of calls to make Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday…
And they say being unemployed is a bad thing! LOL
BTW,
Scott Levenson (ACORN) 212-239-7323 / scottl@theadvancegroup.com
You'll have to ask for him through the receptionist that will answer.
You all remember him, don't you? Mr. ACORN spokesman. =)
Nov 2, 2008 I thought.
When looking at two options and wondering why someone chose what they chose, determine which one is the Path Of Least Resistance.
That one is almost always what people go with. Because most people are morally lazy.
PS. I thought James was working independently, not for FOX. Did I miss something? OR is ACORN making stuff up again?
[...] Can I call them, or can I call them? It only took a day or so. [...]
I stopped taking any racist comments seriously about a year ago.
Chicken little.
I reached it a loooonnngggg time ago. The minute a racism charge is levied, I automatically assume the accuser is lying.
Seems like all of Obama's enemies-which includes everyone that disagrees with him-is so picked on & misunderstood. You could buy that once, maybe even twice but this is getting ridiculous. Remember how proud of being affiliated with ACORN obama was…wonder if he is today. Not to mention certainly wonder how he will fair or other Liberals for that matter in election without ACORN illegal voters.
Accusations of racism are the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I just left Mr Kittenring or whatever his name is a nice voicemail. Hopefully he'll call me back!
Loving it–keep it up guys!
It would be nice to get these guys, (ACORN) de-funded before the elections in 2010. I will not have confidence in any election that ACORN has anything to do with! Come on Congress lets have some investigation.
I called on my cell and left a message. I dare them to try anything.
Not worried one bit..
Call the number at the bottom. The voicemail isn't yet full.
[...] Why is Fox News the only ones covering this story that Big Government broke? According to ACORN it is because they are racist. [...]
It’s just galling that they would try to defend this. It is what it is, you can watch it. Don’t they have any shame? Or do they want a country with no standards?
I fired one off. Should be a good time.
No matter what I say or do I am a racist. I guess I will just have to accept that and wear the badge because I am not going to stop criticizing these people, the President or the Democrats.
The goons will simply split the venture into a hundred new orgs. The new and improved ACORN is now known as COI.
In 5, 4, 3, 2, ……
Project much, ACORN?
When it doubt use the race card. It's the modern American way in politics. Bravo to all that expose ACORN and if they have something to say and can prove their innocence then so be it!
Hey Maggie (you retard)!
The two reporters DO NOT WORK for Fox News. They are independent and self-funded. Yep – that's right a couple of kids in their 20's are bringing down one of the biggest baddest crime families in the country almost single-handedly!
On behalf of 46% of a very grateful nation, I offer our profound thanks to Mr. O'Keefe and Miss. Giles!
I placed a call this afternoon to my Congresswoman (Michelle Bachmann), asking her to pressure the U.S. Attorney General to bring R.I.C.O. charges against the ACORN upper management. I also asked her to prepare an impeachment document against Eric Holder when he refuses.
I just left a message for B Kettering. If they are receiving federal money I want the books open to the American people. They are a Tax Exempt 501.3c and the IRS should pull that, this letter is political in nature. They should LOSE their tax status NOW.
I think somebody said it earlier best. "White guilt is dead". I don't think the powers that be who put President Obama in place ever calculated on the fact that placing him in office would wholesale empower the white population to finally shake off the mantle of "Racist" and stand up for what is right regardless of what liberals call them. I believe they've gravely miscalculated.
CAll HIM 727-692-7215! I did! and call your Senators I did! EVERYONE call get their Tax Exempt Status pulled and pull the plug on FUNDING!
PimpyJones – September 11th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
At what point will the shouts of “racism” become meaningless?
Hey Pimpy, I think we have arrived!
Heh, heh, heh, heh…..
Wonder what Margaret Williams has to say today?
Mr. Kettenring,
After watching the clips from some intrepid and courageous young people online, I am befuddled. Your organization claims to support economic justice, working families, and voter participation. But these seem slightly incongruous with what was shown.
Your opposition to the "Right Wing Noise Machine" seems so important in light of the current videos floating around the web. I'm sure we all agree that taxpayer support for illegal sex slave and prostitution rings is the Change We Believe In. Who knew that the working part of that equation was prostitution, and the family part were those underage sex workers – er, I mean DEPENDENTS.
As for economic justice, I know there are a lot of people struggling in this economy. But is tax evasion the best way to pay for that visionary health care illustrated in that speech so wonderfully given earlier this week?
As we look at voter participation, were you going to help these illegal underage prostitutes vote? I mean, surely they deserve representation. I'll be sure to send my check to you, care of the President.
I'm also remiss if I fail to address your noble charge of racism. After all, if you don't look out for the illegal, underage, El Salvadorian whores, who will? I'm proud that my tax dollars go to make sure they get properly placed wih an adoptive family who can count them as a deduction.
Rich Gall
P.S. Please pass along my regards for Ms. Margaret Williams, who lacked the courage to post her own email address.
I am so sick of the race card being thrown out, everytime Acorn gets caught in illegal activites. I hope people are starting to see some of the players behind the housing burst. To think people were being coached on how to state their income on their Tax Returns is to much. I wonder how many "stated" income's that were coached to people applying for home mortgages?…As far as I am concerned Acorn should not be in receipt of any federal dollars.
They're meaningless now.
We need a mass impeachment of all the corrupt politicians in government, federal and state. I called my Governor, Bev Perdue of NC today, asking her office to investigate ACORN NC and another like group, NACA, because of these events breaking yesterday and today, and I got hung up on twice. They didn't like the fact that I brought up about Perdue using ACORN in her bid to be Governor.
[...] [...]
Racism… Yeah, that's it. Just like me. I'm a racist because I oppose Barack Obama's Marxist agenda. I'm also a misogynist because I oppose Nancy Pelosi and her efforts to destroy our republic, not to mention anti-Semitic because I oppose Henry Waxman and Chucky Schumer and their efforts to gut our Constitution. Yep, that's me! I'm just a hater…
Okay, you wanna know what I think is racism? Try whining about the slavery of your ancestors, but then providing detailed instructions about how to import underage South American girls to be sold for sex and profit. Hmm…do I smell hypocrisy??? Or isn't it considered "slavery" unless you're black?
Of course, I was waiting for this. Any time some one can't defend themselves ,they pull the race card. Grow up. This is the 21st century. Get out of the 50's people. Not everything is race based. Not every news story by Fox is race based. Atleast they keep us informed . Not like other stations. I have been waiting all day for other stations to report this. No such luck. When are you people going to get your heads out of the left wingers a**.
I didn't hear any misrepresentation…did you? "I want to open a house of prostitution and import underage South American children to work there." Pretty up front to me!
Hey! Wait just a second… Why are they giving all the credit to Fox? That's just not right!! BigGovernment.com broke this story, not Fox!! Damn, what does it take to get a little respect around here?
How ACORN is able to survive:
http://crosssection.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/i-ca...
I have not read all the comments or have heard all the remarks concering these Acorn women. But has anyone realized, (concerning the smuggling of underaged girls used for prositution) that these African American women were basically endorsing SLAVERY!!!! Who's the racist now! Were is Barack Obama and Al Sharpton calling for an investigation for slavery against little Latina girls.
A few weeks ago.
It already has. It's unfortunate that the term is now meaningless.
Don't worry. There will always be one a$$ clown who will agree that it is truly racism. And those guys usually work for MSNBC or the NEW YORK TIMES!
And is run by a couple of white guys.
Everyone needs to call this Brian Kettenring (727) 692-7215 or email him and tell him the gig is up. http://www.bkettenring@acorn.com (that's what it says at the bottom of letter)
Email or call your senators and DEMAND they investigate ACORN before one more dollar of our tax dollars or 8 million dollars of our stimulus money goes to them. http://www.whitehouse.gov
We can't afford to sit down now…
This is not the ACORN that I knew.
Your "not good enough' isn't good enough. Toss in Obama denouncing ACORN!
Add a few congressional investigations too.
Actually, next week Obama will tell us why the stimulus hasn't (or has) saved us.
Then the week after that is some other liberal crap.
Meaningly, A.C.O.R.N. should be ashamed and pay back every penny of taxpayer money…I demand it.
It's already been exceeded… like the boy who cried wolf, it just goes right over my head now.
ACORN is a NASTY EVIL seed that has been planted in our midst and fertilized with the cries of RACISM at every convenient opportunity. It is growing into a horrible and ugly tree that needs to be cut down and burned as firewood….NOW!
I’ll bring the marsh mellows.
Good point, I've noticed that myself.
We need to be cautious on this, ACORN changed their name after Beck started breathing down their necks and they share the same building as SEIU at the LA headquarters… this could be a administration shell game.
It sounds like heads are beginning to roll, figuratively if not literally. The story broken here has had significant impact, and for that we should all be very thankful!
Since BigGov.com made this news, posts like "Advance the Cause of Child Prostitution? YES! WE! CAN!" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/... have sprung up at the grass roots level, so to speak.
Thank you for providing a unifying force for those of us concerned enough about the likes of ACORN to take action.
Keep up the good fight!
It sounds like heads are beginning to roll, figuratively if not literally. The story broken here has had significant impact, and for that we should all be very thankful!
Since BigGov.com made this news, posts like "Advance the Cause of Child Prostitution? YES! WE! CAN!" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/... have sprung up at the grass roots level, so to speak.
Thank you for providing a unifying force for those of us concerned enough about the likes of ACORN to take action.
Keep up the good fight!
As for the all-too-typical "it's racism" argument, y'all might get a kick out of "You’re Surely a Racist, If…" at http://firebreathingchristian.wordpress.com/2009/...
We have 'em on the run for a change, and it sure does feel good! Keep it up, BigGov.com! And thanks for bringing us together…
Well, according to the University of Delaware's *mandatory* freshman orientation:
"Racist: A racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e. people of European descent) living in the United States regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality. By this definition, people of color cannot be racists, because as peoples within the U.S. system they do not have the power to back up their prejudices, hostilities or acts of discrimination."
That's the mentality we're dealing with, people.
I think the day of screaming "Racism" is over. We will not tolerant that from no one. The last two years has shown who the racist are. So, all you WHITES out there, speak out. It is time we stand up to all these racist Blacks and liberals. The day of racism is OVER. America has been so badly damaged by the likes of ACORN, SEIU, BLANK PANTHERS, BLACK NATIONALIST, AL SHARPTON, AND RAINBOW PUSH, AND JESSE JACKSON. We will never be a united country again. The likes of all those evil people have grown too deep in the veins of most of the African Americans. I have several black friends, but they really aren't black, they are AMERICANS! That is the difference between and the ones trying to destroy America.
These geniuses don't realize that they have been crying wolf about racism for so long, their accusation now elicits no more than a chuckle.
Racism has expired. Sorry I can't take the word seriously any more.
Their leaders are not in denial. That means they are not being honest with themselves. They know perfectly well what they are doing. They actively promote the dishonesty, the fraud, the gangsterism that is the core of what ACORN is about. This charge of racism and "smearing" (which after Van Jones mean telling people what you actually did and said) are desperate, pathetic smoke screens. It has always worked for these people. Cry "racism" and it shuts up anyone who disagrees with you. Not this time. May this be the beginning of the unraveling of this organized crime family. The government under this gang will do nothing, of course. But if more of this sort of thing is done, the public awareness and outrage will build. ACORN must be destroyed before they help destroy the nation, their ultimate goal.
The only racism I see is by the ACORN staff who are willing to provide housing to minor minority children for prostituion purposes!
Interesting note about ACORN: Here is their lobbyist info,
http://www.nyc.gov/lobbyistsearch/search?lobbyist...
It appears they have paid Mr. Levenson $30,000.00 (so far this year) as listed under the NY ACORN division. It list the Corp HQ in New Orleans and the phone number listed for the New Orleans office is 504-943-5954. Just in case anyone was wondering.
'ACORN? What ACORN?
Acorn was just a guy in the neighborhood, not someone I exchanged ideas with on a regular basis.'
RACIST? RACISM? You're goddamned right it is racism! These ghetto carpetbaggers have been milking US for years! It is time for HOPE and CHANGE. I can only HOPE that the lght is shed on this trash and that requisite CHANGE is blowing across America. It is time to take our Country back from those who have hijacked it over the last generation. It is time to turn the tables on Madame Nancy Pelosi, Barney the Queen Frank, Harry Reid, Chris Dodd and the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons of this world, it is time to send them all to Dick Cheneys formerly undisclosed location………..
Come on, that stretch faced mutant, Sick Nancy Freakshow, is a real American hero.
Well, except for the whole drinking fetus blood thing….
SOCIALJUSTICE JUSTICE"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
–Booker T. Washington, 1911
Isn't it rather funny that ACORN decries Glenn Beck calling Obama a racist, while ACORN simultaneously calls Fox News and folks related to Fox RACISTS.
Once again, only white people and tea party goers are racists.
The irony is palpable.
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Actually, Andrew Breitbart first got a hold of this story.
Not only is ACORN a criminal organization, they are apparently so stupid that they can't even get the facts straight.
But, then again, ACORN has never let the facts get in the way of calling people 'racists'. Meanwhile, they complain that Glenn Beck calls Obama a racist.
PRICELESS.
If you're going to scream racism, at least get the culprits right. It wasn't FOX that sent Mr. O'Keefe and Miss Giles in on this expose. These two did it on their own FOX and Breitbart were the only two news outlets that bothered to report the story. Sorry ACORN, reporting on corruption in your organization that was found by an independent film maker is not racism. try again.
THE NEW PLANTATION IS acorn WAKE UP BLACK PEOPLE AND FIGHT BACK VS. YOUR SLAVE OWNER RACISTS, THE OBAMA ADMIN AND ACORN
"There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don't want the patient to get well."
~~Booker T. Washington, 1911
Now.
Racism, eh? If the fired acorn workers had been white hippie chicks and the usual white anarchists would their actions and words been given a pass? Didn't think so…
Racist! We're all a bunch of racists! There you have it. Case closed.
White guilt is dead, long live TRUTH and JUSTICE
Obama is not interested in cleaning up corruption or putting an end to the thievery of taxpayers' earnings. He is determined to make a name for himself by inflicting a national health care system (total control) on all Americans.
The only area where his "leadership" shows transparency is in his blatant lies.
In my mind this is another case of "he who smelt it dealt it". They way they have been bandying about the racist label I am to the point that whoever cries racism is actually the racist. It take one to know one you know so if they are familiar enough with racism to sit in judgment of others then they are more culpable than the persons they are accusing. It has actually gone well beyond the point that the boy who cried wolf took it. These days whenever I hear someone use the word racist I cannot help but think they are desperately reaching fo0r an excuse to shift blame.
Cooltom: Hell no, if the workers were white, the Right Reverunddd Al Sharpton and Jesseeee Jacksonnnnn would be out front with bullhorns, screaming "NO JUSTICE, NO PEACE"…..
They are pathetic! It is time now for HOPE and CHANGE!
FOX NEWS Census Buearu Director has cut all ties with ACORN. They will not be using this organization to gather any information for 2010 census.
i did e-mail mararet and got an instant-i mean rraaght now return e-mail on how grrrreat acorny is. try it
amen
Again, zero accountability from the left. The organization clearly is breaking the law and as usual it's someone elses fault. These people turn my stomach. If your live your life with no morals or scrupples then anything is game. For the organization to spout about racism and set-ups without addressing the fact that they have broken the law truely describes what type of people our country is dealing with. To think that just because you serve the poor and disadvantaged you can do these dispicable things really says it all. Pure trash. And Im not talking about the employees. Im talking about the highest in acorns chain of command. They condone this or would have had proper training and guidance for its workers.
Dont worry folks. Acorn will still in one way or another get their hands on our hard earned tax dollars after being axed for the census count. The democrats will find a way by hook or crook. Of that I am certain.
Here we go with having the race card pulled on us again…
What does racism have to do with the fact that in TWO different ACORN establishments, they were caught on camera trying to assist a supposed prostitute and a pimp start a brothel? That doesn't just sound like some isolated incident to me.
On top of that, if ACORN wants to set the record straight that they really are an organization that can be trusted, then why don't they allow some CPAs to come in and audit their books? Every time someone such as Beck or O'Reilly asks if ACORN will release that information they get hesitant. It only seems fair to me that they do this anyway considering that they receive plenty of our tax dollars to fund their cause.
if you are talking of the great margeRAT it is white, check out its web, poor thing is a lost liberal form never never land
Geri: Couldnt agree more! Al and Jesse and their ilk have hijacked this country now for a generation, it is time to send them into their caves. The days of them screaming "No Justice, No Peace" are over. It is now time for all good men to stand and be counted, time for us to scream "No Justice, No Peace". The Great Leader has done more to divide this country in the past six months than anyone has sine the Civil War. It is time WE take OUR Country back from these carpetbaggers………
You know you're winning when the race card gets played!
(Was that the little boy who cried wolf I hear in the distance)???? Yawn.
I am curious, now many non-black people work for ACORN? Non-black; as in White, Asian, Hispanic or any other race, other than the preferred black race. Those stupid criminals just set their cause back 100 years. Lincoln woke up one day and said "What? I freed whoooooooooo?" It is disgusting…………
Alvaro-you speak the truth, you make sense,you are on the side of right—-what the hell are you some kind of PATRIOTIC AMERICAN…thank GOD.
The first time these CORRUPT THUGS get caught doing their dirty work, they pull out the old RACE CARD! It's getting very old and you know where you can stuff it!
It becomes meaningless to people more and more. The folks who use the charge of 'racism' as a method of political interrogation seem to be unfamiliar with the tale of the boy who cried wolf.
Just as the villagers noticed that there were no wolves whenever the boy said there were, people are noticing that there is no racism when the folks like ACORN et al say there is… and they're getting a fate similar to what the boy got: they're not believed.
(What, did you think I'd say "devoured by wolves"?)
agreed bkettenring@acorn.org let them hear your voice!
FURTHERMORE, the assertion that FOX's coverage of this incident is racist admits that ACORN targets a certain racial demographic, which in turn is racial profling–or racism.
ABSURD!!
Oh for the love of God! Enough with the racism already. Seems when there's no one to blame but yourself…must be racism. Seriously, give it a rest. It doesn't work anymore.
ACORN under the Bus! Along with Obama's grandmother, Rev Wright, Van Jones.
I'm just curious as to whether the pimp and the whore will have criminal charges pressed against them for breaking Maryland's wiretapping law. The law makes it illegal for the pimp and the whore to videotape ACORN employees without their permission or knowledge that they are being taped. –Its an equal protection of the law issue as I see it.
As far as I'm concerned, they already have.
Thank you Deb! I feel the same way as a Native American!
Race has nothing to do with this issue. Justice is suppose to be color blind in this country. It always is except when it comes to these hate baiting liberals
And Vann Jones You don't speak to Native Brothers and sisters at all!
As the ex-ACORN worker explained on the 9-11 Beck: those office workers are expendable. Kleenex.
Culpable and deserved to be fired, if not indicted. But there are (were? let's hope) plenty to take their place and take the fall for the upper ranks.
Odd. The only real racism I've personally encountered in recent years has been among the people who scream about it the loudest.
NAPSL: We are going to fund ACORN 8.5 BILLION dollars, and that is the only issue you can raise? How long have you worked for ACORN?
YES, I AM!
Let's remind them of what they did not count on-"We The People" protect what we worked for and our friends and our families-in other words-our United States of America!
When we stop allowing it to be an excuse.
I wish they'd knock it off already…they got caught. I'm so tired of the racism thing. Not only is it old and tired and insulting, it's becoming downright boring.
[...] Balls the size of church bells: Fox’s attempt to smear ACORN Thursday September 10, 2009 is [...]
Of course illigal adolescent Hookers need Health Insurance too on our tax dollar. Its "preventive" care.
The "race card" has become like the "joker" in the sense that it is only used to play silly games and as a wild card and by those not playing with a "full deck".
The sad thing is that when real racism happens people will now play the card game of "I doubt it".
Any news organization could have run this story! The fact is Fox is the only one that ran it "as is." I just want to make sure that I understand Ms. Williams letter. "In Baltimore, the Fox squad deceived ACORN staff by consistently misrepresenting their intentions. No tax returns were filed and no assistance was provided. But the ACORN personnel in question have been terminated because their handling of the Fox agents provocateurs did not meet ACORN’s standards of professionalism." Ok, I get it, so eventhough no law was broken, because documents weren't filed or a tax return wasn't filed, it is still part of the "Acorn Way" to help prostitutes to set up shop and aid in importing minor illegal aliens for the sex trafficing business? So, if I understand this correctly, if the "non-employee Fox provacatuers" were legitimate respective pimp and prostitute, they would have recieved the same advice by Acorn staff? But since their intent was to decieve, Acorn did nothing wrong? Um, Ms. Williams, your argument is as damning as the videotape.
Sincerely,
A Low Income Father of Six Sons
A few thoughts…
1. Only on one occasion were the police notified? Shame on you. O'Keefe and Giles should have been locked up from the word go. Of course, I don't mean that knowing it's all an act, but if you tried to get help from either me or any other person I know to do what you were supposedly doing you never would have made it out the door.
2. I watch Glenn Beck every day. I don't agree with everything he says, but I've never heard him call the president racist (though he has called ACORN racist). They must have access to the director's cut.
3. It is truly a symptom of the cowardice we see everywhere in our country today that the best they can think to do is cry racism. For six months while I watched the economy burn I waited for someone to step up and say, "I did that. That was my fault and I accept the consequences." NO ONE SAID A DAMN THING! No one had the stones to do anything more than point fingers at everyone else for the troubles they were in, and ACORN is doing the same thing. This can't possibly be indicative of a wide-spread problem, it's just a smear campaign.
I have worked in finance, and know how tightly regulated it is (anyone who says otherwise obviously hasn't worked in that industry). The thing is, ACORN professes to provide services that are equally important as financial services, and they receive federal money. Regulate THEM. Make THEM hire compliance officers and make THEM have to jump through umpteen million hoops just do something as simple as trading a share of stock. You may say, "Well, the welfare of the investor is at stake in that case." I say in reply that the welfare of several El Salvadoran girls damn well could have been at stake in this one.
For lack of a better way to put it, being called a racist is now proof that one's argument has hit home, that it has truth.
in 31/2 years THE PEOPLE (meaning those that know right) will vote out the ghetto welfare thugs,and hopefully many of the blind will smell the truth. and the AMERICAN flag will fly over the capitol again.
I call on all Americans to DEMAND that ACORN stop its racist attacks on Fox, and to stop using the irrelevant, tired, overused racist card . The boy has cried wolf to often. Hey Margaret.. is the Census Bureau racist for severing their relationship with you? Come on Madge….I dare you to call them racist!! Lets all Call Brian K.. and let him know who the real racists are. Desperate, falling apart, Margaret falls back on the tired liberal mantra of "Blame anyone but me". Blame Whitey,Blame Capitalism, Blame Bush, Blame FOX. yada yada blah blah boring bullshit.
Boy, I sure am tired of hearing the word "racist". Is anyone else noticing that "racist" is the answer to any dissent, and it doesn't even matter what color you happen to be. If you don't agree with me, you are "racist". How stupid these people are to think that all American people who are not left wing crazies are racist. No, hunny, I am not a racist. I believe in your rights as much as I believe in mine. I am, however, sick and tired of funding corruption and criminal activity. I do without things that I want because I can't afford them, but I pay my own way, without a dime from the government and quite frankly I resent the fact that welfare mom's have fake nails and hairdids and store bought boobs funded by my hard earned money! Here's a thought! Find a job, get off the welfare rolls and we won't need ACORN type entities doling out "entitlements". Nobody is "entitled" to a damn thing. Dig, Struggle and make your own way! Get out of my pocket!
The only reason this is being called racist is that it is a nice convenient diversion. If this was an Asian or Caucasian or probably even a Latino giving this advice in a non-ACORN institution, ACORN would call THEM right wing racists and criminals for condoning the importation of underage illegal aliens for prostitution. THEY WERE CLEARLY SAYING THESE GIRLS WERE UNDERAGE and the person did NOTHING but given sound advice on how to get away with it. PLEASE, people follow their leadership for better or for worse. ACORN is government sanctioned corruption.
Just sent a litlte love letter ACORN expressing my joy at the census dumping them -couldn't happen to a better bunch of thugs and con artists. Hope the get investagated up the yingyang. We will be waiting for them in 2010 at the polls. Try to stop this old Junkyard Dog from voting to throw out Obama's minions. They will need a lot of healthcare.
You know what — the cry of "RACISM" has been used so often that Americans are immune to it. FIND ANOTHER COUNTRY THAT CARES!!!
TO ACORN and ALL YOU LIBERALS:
STOP CORRUPTING THIS GREAT AND FREE COUNTRY . IT"S NOT TOO LATE FOR AMERICANS TO FIGHT FOR OUR VALUES AND PRINCIPLES. NO ONE IS STOPPING YOU (LIBERALS) FROM GOING TO CUBA!!!
GO TRIBE!!
Does that mean "the anointed one" going to tell us all about his involvements with ACORN?
[...] Baltimore workers were fired. Then the D.C. workers were fired. Then a Maryland board member called it “racism.” Then the ACORN Housing President called it a “smear.” Then the U.S. Census Bureau [...]
Fox and others should get the medal of honor for exposing Acorns intent of encouragement of child prostitution, Tax evasion, defrauding the federal goverment housing , ect… All of America should sue Acorn.
Y a w n! Take your Race Card and shove it!! This is getting very OLD. You have NO credibility and sound like an idiot!
Funny that thr 2 head guys in Acorn look like a couple of howdy doodies. Maybe the folks in Acorn should pay attention to who is really exploiting the low income minority communities for financial gain. No, not George Bush, I know they tell you to blame him first, no not the police, not "the man" its that howdy doody looking criminal that runs the Acorn circus. Wait a minute, weren't you trying transfer "the wealth" to the minorities? Hmmm… well maybe its time to go back to the drawing board.
So when Ms Williams says it's racist of [whomever] to report criminal acts committed by ACORN, she's saying THE BLACK RACE are criminals, THE BLACK RACE are tax defrauders, THE BLACK RACE are sex slave traders, THE BLACK RACE are thieves.
Shame on Ms Williams and I demand her resignation and removal from any connection with my government.
Thank God for Fox news and Glenn Beck. It is so in your face clear that Acorn is a corrupt organization and indeed be investigated by both the FBI and IRS. The more we know about this organization/connections and associations with this President will restore America for Americans. Glenn Beck has certainly showed all during one week of all the factual associations and links. That no one cannot refute says it all…for it is facts and truth that will win through. Also the fact that any of the main street media has little comment if at all speaks volumes and the Public knows. We are behind you Fox…We are behind you Glenn Beck..
Time to pull the plug.Get rid of those crying lying a–holes. They only serve themselves. They helped put that clown in the white house. Now they want to help him destroy the country.Who is the RACISTS. Wake up all you white folk and arm yourselves the revolutions is coming.
Yet another illustration of the Statist's efforts to silence and vilify those who dare speak out in opposition to The Messiah – Maureen Dowd, in her infinite wisdom, has espoused that Rep. Joe Wilson's now infamous commentary of "You Lie!" was motivated by racism. Yep, you read that correctly. Of course, true to Statist form, the veracity of the comment itself is ignorned.
http://jacksonianlawyer.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/...
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable." ~John F. Kennedy~
SQUAWK, SQUAWK, SQUAWK, SQUAWK, SQUAWK, SQUAWK…
LOOKS LIKE THE CHICKENS (AND TURKEYS) ARE COMING HOME TO ROOST.
FOREVER PLAYING THE RACE CARD. GET REAL. GET A LIFE. GET OUT OF THE TAXPAYER’S POCKETBOOK!
SHUT DOWN ACORN AND JAIL THOSE WHO HAVE EMBEZZLED & STOLEN OUR MONEY!
WHY on earth would the Census Bureau ever have considered hiring these THUGS in the first place??? And AMERICANS have been complaining and protesting ACORN involvement in the Census ever since they heard about it, but not until THESE DAMNING VIDEOTAPES SURFACED did the Census Bureau back down. What’s up with that????
Looks like Census Bureau itself should be investigated and censured!
And by the way, Americans are NOT required to answer all those invasive, NOSY questions, no matter how much your envelopes THREATEN PEOPLE with FINES &/OR IMPRISONMENT!!! GET OUT OF OUR LIVES!
Racism has lost it's original meaning. It now means that you disagree with the politics or policies of a person of color.
He did say he thought Obama was rascist on his show, but he laid out a case and reason as to why, unlike the media does when it calls protesters rascists and "teabaggers."
Okay Monday everyone needs to load the website at http://www.whitehouse.gov or call them at (202)456-1111 (comments) or (202) 456-1414 (swithboard) and let them know we demand an investigation into ACORN before another dollar of taxpayers money goes out to them. Call or email your Representatives and do the same. We can't let them get away with this. Glenn can't do it alone.
Okay Monday everyone needs to load the website at http://www.whitehouse.gov or call them at (202)456-1111 (comments) or (202) 456-1414 (swithboard) and let them know we demand an investigation into ACORN before another dollar of taxpayers money goes out to them. Call or email your Representatives and do the same. We can't let them get away with this. Glenn can't do it alone.
I have found out over the years when someone is guilty the first defense of the human mind is to cover this guilt by accusing the accuser and thereby changing the topic of discussion and passing blame. How the recent events of Acorn employees caught on tape can be called racist attacks that are aimed at dividing our nation is ridiculous.
There is no racial divide caused by FOX airing this report. It magnifies there is no racial divide.
Statement from Margaret Williams, Board Member, Maryland ACORN:
"It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage. "
I call on FOX news to continue to air reports that educate the public about the racial divides we have crossed when black employees from Acorn were helping a white prostitute, a white pimp, and several underage immigrants coming from El Salvador to find suitable means for housing their brothel and ways to cover it up!
That's not racism, but certainly newsworthy.
Rod Hazelgrove
I have found out over the years when someone is guilty the first defense of the human mind is to cover this guilt by accusing the accuser and thereby changing the topic of discussion and passing blame. How the recent events of Acorn employees caught on tape can be called racist attacks that are aimed at dividing our nation is ridiculous.
There is no racial divide caused by FOX airing this report. It magnifies there is no racial divide.
Statement from Margaret Williams, Board Member, Maryland ACORN:
"It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage. "
I call on FOX news to continue to air reports that educate the public about the racial divides we have crossed when black employees from Acorn were helping a white prostitute, a white pimp, and several underage immigrants coming from El Salvador to find suitable means for housing their brothel and ways to cover it up!
That's not racism, but certainly newsworthy.
I have found out over the years when someone is guilty the first defense of the human mind is to cover this guilt by accusing the accuser and thereby changing the topic of discussion and passing blame. How the recent events of Acorn employees caught on tape can be called racist attacks that are aimed at dividing our nation is ridiculous.
II have found out over the years when someone is guilty the first defense of the human mind is to cover this guilt by accusing the accuser and thereby changing the topic of discussion and passing blame. How the recent events of Acorn employees caught on tape can be called racist attacks that are aimed at dividing our nation is ridiculous.
There is no racial divide caused by FOX airing this report. It magnifies there is no racial divide.
Statement from Margaret Williams, Board Member, Maryland ACORN:
"It is clear and not coincidence that FOX continues to attack and divide our nation along racial lines. We believe our country is beyond this type of attack and call on all Americans to demand that FOX stop its racist coverage. "
I call on FOX news to continue to air reports that educate the public about the racial divides we have crossed when black employees from Acorn were helping a white prostitute, a white pimp, and several underage immigrants coming from El Salvador to find suitable means for housing their brothel and ways to cover it up!
That's not racism, but certainly newsworthy.
[...] ACORN learned of the video Thursday it fired the workers, called Fox News racist for airing the footage, and threatened a [...]
[...] chapter has attributed the backlash they face to…yep, you guessed it…racism. Namely, Fox News’ “racist coverage”. Because playing a video tape with actual ACORN workers commiting crimes is racist, [...]
Thank God Acorn has been terminated .as the Census taker next year. Acorn is nothing but a socialist organization that wants to see themselves in power. What about the Acorn executives who embezzled millions of dollars and the Attorney General will not investigate.
scumbags
[...] to get in front of the scandal, ACORN issued a statement accusing Fox News of racism. (ACORN erroneously gave Fox credit/blame for O’Keefe’s [...]
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-40
HR 40 IH
111th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 40
To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against Afri can-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living Afri can-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
January 6, 2009
Mr. CONYERS (for himself and Mr. SCOTT of Virginia) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
A BILL
To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the United States and the 13 American colonies between 1619 and 1865 and to establish a commission to examine the institution of slavery, subsequently de jure and de facto racial and economic discrimination against Afri can-Americans, and the impact of these forces on living Afri can-Americans, to make recommendations to the Congress on appropriate remedies, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for Afri can-Americans Act’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) Findings- The Congress finds that–
(1) approximately 4,000,000 Afri cans and their descendants were enslaved in the United States and colonies that became the United States from 1619 to 1865;
(2) the institution of slavery was constitutionally and statutorily sanctioned by the Government of the United States from 1789 through 1865;
(3) the slavery that flourished in the United States constituted an immoral and inhumane deprivation of Afri cans’ life, liberty, Afri can citizenship rights, and cultural heritage, and denied them the fruits of their own labor; and
(4) sufficient inquiry has not been made into the effects of the institution of slavery on living Afri can-Americans and society in the United States.
(b) Purpose- The purpose of this Act is to establish a commission to–
(1) examine the institution of slavery which existed from 1619 through 1865 within the United States and the colonies that became the United States, including the extent to which the Federal and State Governments constitutionally and statutorily supported the institution of slavery;
(2) examine de jure and de facto discrimination against freed slaves and their descendants from the end of the Civil War to the present, including economic, political, and social discrimination;
(3) examine the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery and the discrimination described in paragraph (2) on living Afri can- Americans and on society in the United States;
(4) recommend appropriate ways to educate the American public of the Commission’s findings;
(5) recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Commission’s findings on the matters described in paragraphs (1) and (2); and
(6) submit to the Congress the results of such examination, together with such recommendations.
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT AND DUTIES.
(a) Establishment- There is established the Commission to Study Reparation Proposals for Afri can-Americans (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ‘Commission’).
(b) Duties- The Commission shall perform the following duties:
(1) Examine the institution of slavery which existed within the United States and the colonies that became the United States from 1619 through 1865. The Commission’s examination shall include an examination of–
(A) the capture and procurement of Afri cans;
(B) the transport of Afri cans to the United States and the colonies that became the United States for the purpose of enslavement, including their treatment during transport;
(C) the sale and acquisition of Afri cans as chattel property in interstate and instrastate commerce; and
(D) the treatment of Afri can slaves in the colonies and the United States, including the deprivation of their freedom, exploitation of their labor, and destruction of their culture, language, religion, and families.
(2) Examine the extent to which the Federal and State governments of the United States supported the institution of slavery in constitutional and statutory provisions, including the extent to which such governments prevented, opposed, or restricted efforts of freed Afri can slaves to repatriate to their homeland.
(3) Examine Federal and State laws that discriminated against freed Afri can slaves and their descendants during the period between the end of the Civil War and the present.
(4) Examine other forms of discrimination in the public and private sectors against freed Afri can slaves and their descendants during the period between the end of the Civil War and the present.
(5) Examine the lingering negative effects of the institution of slavery and the matters described in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4) on living Afri can-Americans and on society in the United States.
(6) Recommend appropriate ways to educate the American public of the Commission’s findings.
(7) Recommend appropriate remedies in consideration of the Commission’s findings on the matters described in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4). In making such recommendations, the Commission shall address among other issues, the following questions:
(A) Whether the Government of the United States should offer a formal apology on behalf of the people of the United States for the perpetration of gross human rights violations on Afri can slaves and their descendants.
(B) Whether Afri can-Americans still suffer from the lingering effects of the matters described in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), and (4).
(C) Whether, in consideration of the Commission’s findings, any form of compensation to the descendants of Afri can slaves is warranted.
(D) If the Commission finds that such compensation is warranted, what should be the amount of compensation, what form of compensation should be awarded, and who should be eligible for such compensation.
(c) Report to Congress- The Commission shall submit a written report of its findings and recommendations to the Congress not later than the date which is one year after the date of the first meeting of the Commission held pursuant to section 4(c).
SEC. 4. MEMBERSHIP.
(a) Number and Appointment- (1) The Commission shall be composed of 7 members, who shall be appointed, within 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, as follows:
(A) Three members shall be appointed by the President.
(B) Three members shall be appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
(C) One member shall be appointed by the President pro tempore of the Senate.
(2) All members of the Commission shall be persons who are especially qualified to serve on the Commission by virtue of their education, training, or experience, particularly in the field of Afri can-American studies.
(b) Terms- The term of office for members shall be for the life of the Commission. A vacancy in the Commission shall not affect the powers of the Commission, and shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made.
(c) First Meeting- The President shall call the first meeting of the Commission within 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, or within 30 days after the date on which legislation is enacted making appropriations to carry out this Act, whichever date is later.
(d) Quorum- Four members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser number may hold hearings.
(e) Chair and Vice Chair- The Commission shall elect a Chair and Vice Chair from among its members. The term of office of each shall be for the life of the Commission.
(f) Compensation- (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), each member of the Commission shall receive compensation at the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay payable for GS-18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, for each day, including travel time, during which he or she is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Commission.
(2) A member of the Commission who is a full-time officer or employee of the United States or a Member of Congress shall receive no additional pay, allowances, or benefits by reason of his or her service to the Commission.
(3) All members of the Commission shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties to the extent authorized by chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code.
SEC. 5. POWERS OF THE COMMISSION.
(a) Hearings and Sessions- The Commission may, for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this Act, hold such hearings and sit and act at such times and at such places in the United States, and request the attendance and testimony of such witnesses and the production of such books, records, correspondence, memoranda, papers, and documents, as the Commission considers appropriate. The Commission may request the Attorney General to invoke the aid of an appropriate United States district court to require, by subpoena or otherwise, such attendance, testimony, or production.
(b) Powers of Subcommittees and Members- Any subcommittee or member of the Commission may, if authorized by the Commission, take any action which the Commission is authorized to take by this section.
(c) Obtaining Official Data- The Commission may acquire directly from the head of any department, agency, or instrumentality of the executive branch of the Government, available information which the Commission considers useful in the discharge of its duties. All departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch of the Government shall cooperate with the Commission with respect to such information and shall furnish all information requested by the Commission to the extent permitted by law.
SEC. 6. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.
(a) Staff- The Commission may, without regard to section 5311(b) of title 5, United States Code, appoint and fix the compensation of such personnel as the Commission considers appropriate.
(b) Applicability of Certain Civil Service Laws- The staff of the Commission may be appointed without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, except that the compensation of any employee of the Commission may not exceed a rate equal to the annual rate of basic pay payable for GS-18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code.
(c) Experts and Consultants- The Commission may procure the services of experts and consultants in accordance with the provisions of section 3109(b) of title 5, United States Code, but at rates for individuals not to exceed the daily equivalent of the highest rate payable under section 5332 of such title.
(d) Administrative Support Services- The Commission may enter into agreements with the Administrator of General Services for procurement of financial and administrative services necessary for the discharge of the duties of the Commission. Payment for such services shall be made by reimbursement from funds of the Commission in such amounts as may be agreed upon by the Chairman of the Commission and the Administrator.
(e) Contracts- The Commission may–
(1) procure supplies, services, and property by contract in accordance with applicable laws and regulations and to the extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriations Acts; and
(2) enter into contracts with departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the Federal Government, State agencies, and private firms, institutions, and agencies, for the conduct of research or surveys, the preparation of reports, and other activities necessary for the discharge of the duties of the Commission, to the extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriations Acts.
SEC. 7. TERMINATION.
The Commission shall terminate 90 days after the date on which the Commission submits its report to the Congress under section 3(c).
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
To carry out the provisions of this Act, there are authorized to be appropriated $8,000,000.
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$8 MILLION TO “STUDY THE PROBLEM,” AND HOW MANY BILLIONS TO SHUT UP THE RACE-BAITING? MAYBE AMERICA SHOULD JUST CONSIDER ALL THE MILLIONS & BILLIONS GIVEN TO A-C-O-R-N AS “PAYMENT IN FULL”!? (AS IF MODERN-DAY AMERICANS OWE BLACK PEOPLE *ANYTHING* FOR SLAVERY HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO!!!!) OH, AND BY THE WAY, IT WAS *CONYERS* WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO INVESTIGATE ACORN, WASN’T IT? SEEMS HE’S TOO BUSY COOKING UP MORE WAYS TO ROB THE TAXPAYERS BLIND!
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
[...] The main stream media continues to ignore this – just a quick look around the web this morning confirms that they’re still sticking their fingers in their ears and saying lah-lah-lah I can’t hear you. ACORN’s stance is, of course, that the whole thing is motivated by racism. [...]
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The root of racism is unequal treatment of one group over another. The constitution states that all men are created equal, yet we perpetuate this inequality among Americans by establishing and backing laws which decades ago were essentially supposed to prevent racism. These laws were established in order to halt the bigoted behavior of our forefathers and tip the scales of justice in order to restore the concept of equality this great country was built upon. Unfortunately, change comes faster than you can stop it, and today we are in an entirely different world. We are in the 21st century and these laws which were necessary in the past are slowing our march toward equality in the future. It is because of the few ignorant people whose backward thinking results in a country full of laws purporting the undue discrimination they were set to protect against years before. I am a white male, I am a republican, but my skin tone nor my political affiliation should bring you to a conclusion about me nor affect the results of my entrance into college or right to work. If you want to rid the world of racism first you must do everything you can to make the world blind to race. As they say justice is blind, and rightfully so, a college entrance board cannot discriminate one applicant from another on the basis of race, if the application form does not ask of their lineage. The road to change is built from he ground up and this is one of the first practices perpetuating inequality which is in dire need of resolution, yet I see no-one with the power to do so even discussing it.
The root of racism is unequal treatment of one group over another. The constitution states that all men are created equal, yet we perpetuate this inequality among Americans by establishing and backing laws which decades ago were essentially supposed to prevent racism. These laws were established in order to halt the bigoted behavior of our forefathers and tip the scales of justice in order to restore the concept of equality this great country was built upon. Fortunately, change comes faster than we can stop it, and today we are in an entirely different world. We are in the 21st century and these laws which were necessary in the past are slowing our march toward equality in the future. It is because of the few ignorant people whose backward thinking results in a country full of laws purporting the undue discrimination they were set to protect against years before. I am a white male, I am a republican, but my skin tone nor my political affiliation should bring you to a conclusion about me nor affect the results of my entrance into college or right to work. If you want to rid the world of racism first you must do everything you can to make the world blind to race. As they say justice is blind, and rightfully so, a college entrance board cannot discriminate one applicant from another on the basis of race, if the application form does not ask of their lineage. The road to change is built from he ground up and this is one of the first practices perpetuating inequality which is in dire need of resolution, yet I see no-one with the power to do so even discussing it.
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