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Film maker Alexandra Pelosi (she is Nancy Pelosi's daughter) produced this short for Bill Maher's HBO program Real Time with Bill Maher. Ms. Pelosi takes a closer look at the new media's claims that there was an impending race riot in Sanford Florida, with organized rallies by both the New Black Panther Party and Neo-Nazis, with incitements for violence. This post is only concerned with this as the topic; not in retrying the case again.
While I knew the New Black Panthers were a pretty small group despite the fixation of right wing media, but I didn't know they were this small; and I sort of laughed at the Neo-Nazi and felt embarrassed for him (the Nazi salute in front of his trailer park home). And while certainly bad news and potentially bad news draws more ratings etc, the protests that did occur in Sanford were peaceful; and there certainly weren't 'race riots.' Some have seen the Trayvon Martin shooting as a painful reminder how as a country we still have a lot of healing to do in regards to race, but seeing these extremists so isolate in Ms. Pelosi's film gives me a glimmer of hope: maybe we are a bit further along the road than we give ourselves credit for.
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Date: 25/4/12 19:37 (UTC)Glad to see you're finally coming around.
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Date: 25/4/12 20:23 (UTC)Yes we've come from treating blacks as property to denying them property rights to letting them accumulate 4% of our average net wealth. Progress!
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Date: 25/4/12 23:04 (UTC)The video she took showed only a few members.
It'd be nice if the DoJ actually did something to punish them for putting out a bounty on someone's head and having its members threaten voters.
They go for groups which they think are dangerous like the Hutaree and leave these guys alone.
What gives? This group is larger and more vocal in their violent threats.
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Date: 26/4/12 01:21 (UTC).......
OK. This is interesting. Why is a violent threat less intimidating from a white Christian than a black man?
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Date: 26/4/12 01:50 (UTC)Yeah.
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Date: 26/4/12 15:36 (UTC)Either we have free speech or we don't.
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Date: 26/4/12 15:42 (UTC)Did you notice the Masonic hat on one of the Black Panthers?
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Date: 26/4/12 16:51 (UTC)Heck I can go there right now with a camera and show all of you how calm and quiet it is.
btw... what's with the "New Black Panthers! New Black Panthers! New Black Panthers!" splashed on the screen?
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