Million-Dollar Racial Incitement Against Law-Abiding Poll Watchers
To get a sense of the racial incitement Democrats will be willing to use in November’s election, read this article written by a couple of college kids and published in the Tucson Sentinel. Despite the fact nobody reads the e-only-Tucson Sentinel, this irresponsible report by A.J. Vicens and Natasha Khan demonstrates the depths the Left is willing to plumb to stoke up racial resentment during the election.
- A. J. Vicens
Vicens and Khan’s operation isn’t a real journalism program. They are part of News21, an operation designed to attack conservatives and Republicans in the upcoming election — to accuse them of ill will and conspiratorial efforts against minorities. They are a well-funded and unfair opposition research program.
- Natasha Khan
No sane Republican or conservative should grant an interview to anyone from News21 this fall, unless they demonstrate a change in their biases.
But of course News21 can’t change their biases. Their funders wouldn’t be happy. News21 is bought and paid for by the left-wing Carnegie Foundation. (The great Scot immigrant and Pittsburgh industrialist would be in a rage to learn his legacy is being used to undermine the rule of law). Their other funder, the left-wing Knight Foundation, is no different.
These foundations have showered News21 with cash to give college kids cameras and plane tickets to roam the country attacking voter integrity efforts. They cloak themselves with academic camouflage courtesy of Arizona State University. They proudly call themselves the “future of journalism.” “We’re redefining journalism,” their webpage declares.
No argument there. But conservatives should investigate the ideological agenda funding News21, because they seek to affect the November election. Recently the Washington Post swallowed their faulty voter fraud work with a feature article, no questions asked.
Let’s turn back to the racial incitement of News21’s Vicens and Khan.
They report that black voters are “intimidated” by the presence of law-abiding poll watchers in a Milwaukee precinct. Vicens and Khan ask no tough questions about the legal meaning of intimidation when they blissfully report:
The black voter “noticed three people in the back of the room. They were watching, taking notes.”
Officially called “election observers,” they were white. [Jamilia] Gatlin, and almost everyone in line, was black.
“That’s pretty harassing right there, if you ask me,” Gatlin said in the hall outside the gym. “Why do we have to be watched while we vote?”
“Pretty harassing … if you ask me”? News21 was asking them — but didn’t ask the questions everyone is thinking: Pencils? Taking notes? Vicens and Khan didn’t bother to ask what was so intimidating about taking notes with pencils. Heck, in Philadelphia even billy clubs don’t seem to bother some people! Vicens and Khan ignore that inconvenient backdrop when they use the term “intimidation.”
Vicens and Khan don’t turn to any law to define “intimidation.” They falsely accuse poll watchers of committing a crime. Do they teach defamation per se at the Arizona State j-school?
Instead, Khan and Vicens, and their million-dollar funders, serve up racialist tripe. If there are white people in the room, black people should be offended!
Here’s the problem. Those poll watchers – which News21 simply must identify as white like some crime report from 1961 (“A negro robbed a woman…”) – have a right to be in the polls under state law to observe the election. News21’s funders might not like the fact that tens of thousands of law-abiding citizens will be in the polls all over the nation this fall to ensure that crimes don’t occur and laws are followed. But the poll watchers in the story did nothing wrong.
Except, of course, they were white. What more do you need?
News21 published the racial paranoia of Jamila Gatlin as if there was not a whiff of crazy in it. To college kids, heads filled with all species of racial grievance, perhaps there wasn’t. But to the rest of us adults who live in a multi-racial country with hundreds of interactions in a week with people of all races, Gatlin sounds nuts.
Worse than nuts, actually. She sounds like the segregationist from 1950s Mississippi. A black person ‘round here? How dare they. Somebody do something!
Khan and Vicens should be ashamed of themselves. But they won’t be. They will email their story to friends, family, and fellow travelers with the implication they did a great job. They are soldiers on a mission no different than any political operative. They seek to excite the Democrat base because they want Democrats to win. And no matter the trappings, no matter the fancy academic mothership at Arizona State University, that’s exactly what News21 is. Republicans and conservatives best take careful note and respond accordingly.
It behooves every American citizen to be alert to anything unseemly where ever they vote and to call attention to it. Every legitimate vote should count and not be negated by fraudulent activity. Time was this sort of thing would not be tolerated but now is promoted not only by the most rabid of the left but the Democrat party as evidenced by the current administration’s support of amnesty for illegal aliens as well as protecting subversives such as the New Black Panthers.It is now the default position of the Democrats to label anything counter to their mission racist ad nauseam. Let’s not forget that it is the pervasive, perpetual chicanery of the Democrat party that gives rise to our suspicions and actions. That is not at all what America is all about and and we must resist it and fight it until it no longer exists.
Isn’t the real racist the woman who feels intimidated by the presence of peaceful, law-abiding “whites”?
Pretty creepy that the sum total of their evidence of wrongdoing is skin color. Who’s the racist?
Gatlin must also assume that the white poll-watchers are Republican otherwise why would she care?
Just look at what they do to Clarence Thomas and Condi Rice. If your black and aren’t with the program you are vilified.
When a Radical-in-Chief is hell bent on victory, regardless of ANY legal boundaries, ALL manner of hell is possible.
So, it is with this in mind that the following blog commentaries make perfect sense – http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/08/01/will-barack-hussein-obamas-lawless-justice-department-under-the-aegis-of-ag-holder-finally-fall-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
And, http://adinakutnicki.com/2012/07/30/the-racialist-potus-seeks-transformation-via-raced-based-classroom-edicts-say-it-aint-so-commentary-by-adina-kutnicki/
You can’t make this sh-t up. Of course, few know the underbelly like Christian.
If, ‘News21′ and their 2 pinheads, Vicens & Khan consider themselves, ‘Progressive’ or ‘Multicultural’, ‘Diverse’ – WHY is it these ahem, ‘Progressives’ ALWAYS resort to race?
If the aforementioned people are ‘above such trivialities’ then WHY is one’s race, sex, sexual preference, political affiliation etc., in EVERY facet of their op-eds?
Answer: They’re Illiberal. Illiberal’s are near impossible to reason with or attempt to come to accords with.
Illiberal’s wishy-washy, slide rule-like ‘beliefs’ are ‘always evolving’.
My being Conservative I’ve called out and/ or cornered Illiberal colleagues, friends on matters whereas they again, ‘evolve’ from minutes or even moments prior that earlier assertion or declare I’ve, ‘Twisted their earlier comment’.
I liken my Illiberal compadre’s views, ‘insights’ as to those of a chameleon’s ability to change color.
There is no, ‘There there’ with Illiberal’s.
One big problem is that poll watchers in many places must be from the distirict. This means that Republican poll watchers are often Democrats.
I recall, back in Maryland when Dr. Ross Pierpont (IIRC) tried to put people in the polling places to forstall fraud. Of course, it was treated as if it was the equivalent of a white equivalent of the New Black Panthers; I think he was intimidated into stopping or curtailing. So the Democrats have a free hand to commit fraud.
Frankly, there IS no rule by law anymore.
Socialism and the young, always a whirlwind romance until they see each other naked.
News21 ?
Agenda 21 ?
Ah, Tucson. Where La Raza is headquartered, systems thinking in education was created to get to same place as explicit race based theories like Paolo Freire’s, and the P21, 21st Century Thinking Skills movement all originated.
And Arizona State which has the largest Center for Sustainability now in the country. And Sustainability has nothing to do with conservation and environmental damage. It is an update to Marxism using the environment as the illusion to push for an altered future. Which Obama has put in place already if he can just get reelected to finish the job.
Which may require illegal immigrants voting to push him over. After all they would benefit from his second term policies so they should also get a say in whether they come to fruition. Tis only equitable goes the argument.
How systems theory and Sustainability and altering values and manipulating emotions to transform America via education was the subject of this post http://www.invisibleserfscollar.com/second-order-change-why-reform-is-a-misnomer-for-the-real-common-core/
My next post will tie this into the racial equity theories that create a sense of grievance but get to the same place in terms of what goes on in classroom. No one gets to know much or reason abstractly and logically. All is to be about reimagining a different America grounded in the impossible utopia of racial and social justice. With the govt in charge it can’t be equitable. Only equal oppression and exploitation by bureaucrats and cronies.
It should be called The Center for Managablity. Its’s not about sustaining anything. It’s about control the population to whims of these elites will.
Poll watchers are essential. I once observed the ballot count at the Mount Pleasant school, Vancouver East riding. The Liberal official rejected a dozen or more legal NDP ballots, which I challenged for the record. It was all spite, the NDP was getting double what the Liberals and Tories were getting combined. The candidate earned it, Margaret Mitchell was acknowledged as “the hardest working MP in Ottawa.”
Obviously, the News21 folks aspire to jobs at MSNBC.
They proudly call themselves the “future of journalism.” “We’re redefining journalism,” their webpage declares.
They are actually more like a continuation of MSM journalism. Every year the Houston Chronicle runs an article very much like this one right before election day. At least they used to before I cancelled my subscription.
I’m not so sure. The Foundations of this country (Ford, Carnegie, et al) have loooong been the bankrollers of the world communist movement.
Learn the history. Those foundations you mention were built by the father or grandfather. It wasn’t until the pampered, over-educated, underworked son or grandson took over the company that it turned hard-left.
Leftists, so envious of other peoples’ stuff, always follow money. They seek it out and then seek to divert it to their own ends. Frittering it away as quickly as possible to quickly change the world and “right all the wrongs”.
Folks on the Right tend to look to build something lasting. That entails saving and spending with a view toward the long term (a.k.a. investing).
DING DING DING!!!
Winnah Winnah Winnah!!!!
Henry Ford was an avowed socialist. It didn’t start with his children.
What I find so ironic in this whole race baiting scheme is it more white liberals bringing attention to so called racism of black citizens. You see more white liberals working up the black folk than blacks themselves. Oh, there are your favorite black dems in congress, and a few black journalists, but mostly white liberals highlighting supposed racism. Meanwhile, these white liberals are no where to be found in inner city urban neighborhoods where minorities reside. Don’t think that the black folk do not notice this hypocrisy. They do. Most of them allow it because of the crumbs they get off the table rather than have nothing at all. It is sad what we have allowed liberals to get by with for a mere 1 cents on a dollar. People need to wake up.
Damn, beat me to the punch. You are absolutely correct in that it is the white prog who sees racism everywhere. The black progs are just the victims. They take their orders from the white progs.
So according to these two dingbats, any and all white Americans are guilty of racism for being at a poll during elections. Then I guess all white LEOs are racist too…
I wonder how many blacks are part of the News21 crew?
So let me segue into my favorite parting shots: Does anyone still believe we can live with these rats here in America going forward? And if we would only tax the living daylights out of the left, we could at least shut nitwits like these two down.
Considering today’s college degree is equal to my high school diploma. Are holding these kids too high a standard to function as adults?
Allowing for the differences in ethnic composition between the US and my own country, the UK, even so the mildest comments they would attract over here would be viewed as unprintable by your standards. They would find themselves the objects of well-deserved contempt and ridicule by black, white, asian, or whatever.
One intriguing aspect is what historical perspectives do your average high school kids come out with? Maybe the fact that I live in an old country, with to historic battlefiels a mere 50 miles away fromw ehre I live(Bosworth Field, 1485; Naseby, 1645). Nor can I say that its Christianity provides much, with its attachment to Dispensationalism(and its corresponding decrying of the Old Testament). Given that you have Muslim countries to deal with, it does help to be able to refer to Ibrahim, Ismail, Musa, Haron, Suleiman bin Daud – that’s Abraham, Ishmael, Moses, Aaron, and Solomon son of David to us.
Finally, if you had tried to tell an ancient Roman that my distant ancestors were a suprior race of people to the natives of Egypt he would have laughed at such stupidity. My Germanic/Norse forbears were viewed as barbarians and savages by Rome; Egypt, by contrast, had monuments that predated Rome by some 2,000 years.
It’s really beyond question that the liberals will do anything in their power legally or otherwise to guarantee an Obama win in November. To intimidate non-liberal poll watchers would be simply another step in promoting their voter fraud efforts. It might even be more effective than fighting voter ID requirements by issuing driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants.
Khan and Vicens are typical of the snot college kids I run into every now and then. These children have big ego’s and an inflated vision of their own importance. There are no rules to follow, just do what ever it ever takes to achieve there social vision. They are “right men”(or women) in the making. If things continue like they have, these children may someday kill you if they feel you are getting in their way and if they can get away with it. And when they kill you they will have no remorse. After all, they are the annointed and you are evil!
OoopS! That should be “their” vision
I remember Carnegie from my childhood when our town had a “Carnegie Free Library”. The linked (surprisingly well written) article about True the Vote is actually kind of interesting particularly in that it calls out the author of this post as an adviser to True the Vote. It is curious that True the Vote has aggressively supported various voter role purging efforts. We need to get away from politicizing the voting process. If we are perceived as striving to suppress this fundamental American right, we will ultimately lose.
Brutus/Troll
The article is about News21, an aspiring journalistic publication. It is not about TruetheVote, which is a voter integrity non-profit organization.
J. Christian Adams has explained and linked to references regarding how News21 is failing at journalism by race-baiting regarding legal activities of law-abiding citizens. You have explained nothing, shifted the topic, and made unsupportable innuendo in an effort to distract attention away from the failure of News21, its funding source, and the left’s agenda to suppress voter integrity.
There is no “troll” in my post. Mr. Christian Adams has gone after a media outlet that has published an article that references him and an organization to which he is integral. He does not reveal his association with TruetheVote. He publishes photos of the “reporters” who wrote the article. Intimidation, perhaps.
Mr Christian Adams, you, me, and everyone else knows that voter fraud doesn’t occur. We all know the reason for the existence of TruetheVote and the other voter suppression laws. It isn’t complicated, be honest.
Hey Brutus – I’ve disclosed many many times I work with True the Vote. Get over it. And as far as this lie: “Mr Christian Adams, you, me, and everyone else knows that voter fraud doesn’t occur.” Try this out:
http://pjmedia.com/blog/voter-fraud-and-democracy-how-damaging-is-dojs-failure-to-enforce-voting-law/
http://electionlawcenter.com/2010/09/08/oregon-voter-fraud-social-security-fraud-identify-theft-the-whole-ball-of-wax.aspx
http://dailycaller.com/2011/07/29/mississippi-naacp-leader-sent-to-prison-for-10-counts-of-voter-fraud/
Who’s jobing who around here Brutus?
“………….If we are perceived as striving to suppress this fundamental American right, we will ultimately lose.”
so you are saying the “perception” of unfairness framed and sold by libs is more important than the truth and reality that no suppression is actually taking place just efforts to make sure only citizens can vote (once)? And we should just give that up and HOPE they like us more? (hmm sounds familiar)
Ah, Brutus. Axelturfing again? How much do they pay you per post? Whatever it is, I suggest you get your money up front. Barry and the boys have a bad habit of stiffing those who work for them.
If voter rolls would be purged like they are supposed to be of dead people, felons and illegals the democrats would rarely win. It is essential that we the people become activists and make our voices louder than La Raza, the communists, the ACLU to make sure voter rolls are purged and illegals do not vote especially in this election. I don’t think Patty Murry would have won in 2010 without the illegals help and vote. It was shown that illegals were working for her campaign Taking back our country is going to be hard but not impossible. And, we need to write to every congressman and demand that people caught doing vote fraud serve time. My Uncle did not die, or my father be in a prison camp during World War II so these kinds of people to be a threat to our democracy. The are the bottom of the barrel where morals and ethics are concerned and should be treated as such.
News21: Unless It’s Bashing Conservatives and Socialist, It’s Not News!
If the leftists can’t vote early and often, including the dead and illegal, they are toast this election cycle.