The behavior in and around these health care reform town hall meetings is really getting out of hand. A gun-toting protester is scary enough, but now even diminutive (and deceased) civil rights icon Rosa Parks isn't safe.
After a raucous town hall meeting organized by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D, Missouri) in Hillsboro, Mo. on August 11, mainstream media reports showed an angry black woman being hauled out of the event to audience applause. What caused her to act in such a stereotypical, angry, black fashion, you might ask?
Thanks to Hating Not Debating for showing the full context of what happened in a YouTube video.
In it, you see that a white participant James Winfrey, 67, got out of his seat and grabbed a poster of the late Mrs. Parks being held by black participant Maxine Johnson, 52. Posters were not permitted in the venue, although Johnson's was rolled up until a photographer walked over to her and asked to look at it. After Winfrey crumpled up the poster, Johnson rushed to retrieve it and a tussle ensued. Some mainstream media reports that evening showed Johnson being hauled out by police, although it turns out that Winfrey was later arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor assault.
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