kpete (44,078 posts)
VOTER INTIMIDATION - Election Flyers With Lynching Photos Plastered On Churchgoer's Cars
ELECTION FLIERS WITH LYNCHING PHOTO APPEAR IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY
An ugly period in America's history is now taking center stage in the 2014 elections.
Churchgoers in Cumberland County were left shaken and disturbed when leaving services Sunday morning. They found fliers with images of a lynching plastered on their cars.
Fayetteville police say the fliers appear to be hate materials, and, because there is an implied threat to the president, it's likely federal agents will now be involved.
The fliers state "Kay Hagan doesn't win! Obama's impeachment will begin." The caption is over a disturbing photo of the lynching of three African-American men from 1920 in Duluth, Minnesota.
The fliers were left on vehicles parked at the Kingdom Impact Global Ministry church on Murchison Road, which has a large African-American congregation.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B0afrrvCQAEz0vD.jpg)
Frustratedlady (9,737 posts)
1. This is a dirty election. eom
brewens (3,735 posts)
2. Couldn't be a better GOTV stunt. I'd bet that will be the reaction in that area. n/t
a kennedy (8,972 posts)
3. OMG....
this is just so wrong. Ugh....
This is so obviously a Dem dirty trick. Why the hell would conservatives go to black chuches and put these fliers out. It's a way to stir outrage in the Black community.
riqster (11,411 posts)
5. "Pro-Hagan"?
I wouldn't assume that a Dem would use such an image.
DIQster disagrees:
Dems would NEVER conjure images of racism!
...or forced pregnancies...
...or global calamity...
...or a loss of suffrage...
...or public execution of gays...
just to scrape up a few extra votes.
4. I don't think "voter intimidation" is an accurate description.
The flyer appears to be saying if Hagan is not re-elected then the President would be subject to a political lynching.
Voter intimidation aims to keep people from voting. The flyer is attempting, rather ham-handedly, to drive them to the polls.
That's pretty desperate - And I'd say that the odds are good that it was a black activist group responsible for this action.
Response to kpete (Original post)
Tue Oct 21, 2014, 12:15 PM
Gothmog (13,032 posts)
8. This is a standard part of the GOP bag of voter suppression tactics
Really?
I was going to vote for: White trustifarians with advanced degrees in social justice studies trying to white'splain to African-American churchgoers why the voters should never run away from the plantation.
Gothmog (13,032 posts)
8. This is a standard part of the GOP bag of voter suppression tactics
So Kay Hagan ducked out on her interview/debate tonight.
Another empty chair (D) (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/21/Thom-Tillis-Debates-Empty-Chair-After-Kay-Hagan-Declines-Debate-Invitation)
Oh my.
Evidently no one over there can read. It says if Hagan is NOT reelected. In other words, vote for her or risk being lynched.
Cindie
Evidently no one over there can read. It says if Hagan is NOT reelected. In other words, vote for her or risk being lynched.
Cindie
riqster (11,411 posts)
5. "Pro-Hagan"?
I wouldn't assume that a Dem would use such an image.
Wait, so her opponent debated Obama instead?:-) :-)
Only liberals are immature enough to try and claim this is a GOP trick.