2 Assholes So Big They Can Be Observed From Space

[Jimmie Higgins]

I'm not a big fan of NGOs as a way forward for the left or progressives even, but this whole ACORN video-taped thing is bullshit! I saw a clip of the two trust-fund preppies that dressed in racist stereotypes of a pimp and prostitute to "prank" ACORN workers and I wanted to smash something (racism preferably).

The 20 year old woman who played the "prostitute" was saying that she was jogging one morning when she got lost and ended up in a "bad" (black) part of town she had never seen before. She said she got scared and tried to run back to the "safe" neighborhood (it's safer because it stays white out later in that neighborhood) and she ran across an ACORN office. She said: "I'd never seen one in real life before" - I guess when you have parents that buy you a condo or whatever, you don't know that poor people have a difficult time getting housing.

And in the interview linked below, the "pimp" said:
"It was serendipity, O'Keefe said Thursday. On that day in May, he was still burning mad after watching a YouTube video of ACORN workers breaking padlocks off foreclosed homes and barging in. "I was upset," he said."
Yeah, how dare ACRON challenge the right of banks to kick families onto the curb!

Anyway this story is really pissing me off especially because FOX is championing it and the other channels are calling it "60-minutes" style reporting while no one mentions that these privileged little shits are using racist stereotypes of black pimps from the 70s, and are going after an organization that the right-wing blames for Obama's election.

Given the history of organized and systematic black voter disenfranchisement in the US, how else can you see this attack but as attempts by the right to scare future black voter-drive efforts?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/09/17/ST2009091704852.html

[Jimmie Higgins]

Also, I don't blame the ACORN workers. Their job is to try and help people with housing and these two clowns walking in with housing questions. If I were one of the ACORN workers I would never believe that these clowns (take a look at the pictures, they look like they just left a frat-house "pimp and ho" party) anyone who has ever seen real pimps and prostitutes would never ever ever nerver neffer believe that they were actually what they said they were no matter how often they claimed it. I would think that they were two rascist little college students who think that the black experience is like what they imiagine hip-hop songs to be like.

[Rusty Shackleford]

i actually saw the footage and i couldnt believe that they actually pulled that off. and on some interview, the male "pimp" said "im so white" its fucking ridiculous ill try to find the clip. it was on the daily show though.

[gorillafuck]

Shit, funding for ACORN is being cut because of these assholes? That's terrible!:(

[Axle]

My favorite part of all of this is when the girl was on Hannity and he told her "You probably saved the country billions of dollars".

[La Comédie Noire]

I love how everyone freaks out about them giving housing for a brothel, but no one is dismayed that we live in a society where young woman have to sell their bodies for money.

I mean really it does exist and trying to ignore the not nice aspects of capitalism is childish.

[respectful87]

I'm not a big fan of NGOs as a way forward for the left or progressives even, but this whole ACORN video-taped thing is bullshit! I saw a clip of the two trust-fund preppies that dressed in racist stereotypes of a pimp and prostitute to "prank" ACORN workers and I wanted to smash something (racism preferably).

The 20 year old woman who played the "prostitute" was saying that she was jogging one morning when she got lost and ended up in a "bad" (black) part of town she had never seen before. She said she got scared and tried to run back to the "safe" neighborhood (it's safer because it stays white out later in that neighborhood) and she ran across an ACORN office. She said: "I'd never seen one in real life before" - I guess when you have parents that buy you a condo or whatever, you don't know that poor people have a difficult time getting housing.

And in the interview linked below, the "pimp" said:
"It was serendipity, O'Keefe said Thursday. On that day in May, he was still burning mad after watching a YouTube video of ACORN workers breaking padlocks off foreclosed homes and barging in. "I was upset," he said."
Yeah, how dare ACRON challenge the right of banks to kick families onto the curb!

Anyway this story is really pissing me off especially because FOX is championing it and the other channels are calling it "60-minutes" style reporting while no one mentions that these privileged little shits are using racist stereotypes of black pimps from the 70s, and are going after an organization that the right-wing blames for Obama's election.

Given the history of organized and systematic black voter disenfranchisement in the US, how else can you see this attack but as attempts by the right to scare future black voter-drive efforts?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/09/17/ST2009091704852.html

First off I am white and far from privledged (fyi I'v lived in the barrio) but lets call a spade a spade: Most minority areas are low on the economic scale and aren't exactly friendly to outsiders. They are usually crap holes. Not to say all white areas are nice (like trailer parks) but that just goes to show it is a class issue rather than a race issue.

Also it is ACORNs own damn fault for falling for this crap. Those two were SO over the top. They should have realised something was up. Also I am not defending what they did but honestly, should they really condone a women exploiting her body? They kinda crap crosses all racial lines in all societies.

Also the dude literally looked like he was the typical whimpy kid from a bad comic book. I still can't grasp the fact the fell for that.

Finally dude drop the moral high ground/PC bs please. By focusing on class rather than race we improve the siuation for all workers rather than those of a particular group. Anyways thats all I have to say.

[respectful87]

Also, I don't blame the ACORN workers. Their job is to try and help people with housing and these two clowns walking in with housing questions. If I were one of the ACORN workers I would never believe that these clowns (take a look at the pictures, they look like they just left a frat-house "pimp and ho" party) anyone who has ever seen real pimps and prostitutes would never ever ever nerver neffer believe that they were actually what they said they were no matter how often they claimed it. I would think that they were two rascist little college students who think that the black experience is like what they imiagine hip-hop songs to be like.

I really hate defending those two but bro your playing the race card and the personal attack against them really take away from your arguement. I surely hope you don't talk like this when you are trying to recruit more comrades?

Also I am willing to bet those worker have been around so how they fell for that is beyond me.

[Dimentio]

Also, I don't blame the ACORN workers. Their job is to try and help people with housing and these two clowns walking in with housing questions. If I were one of the ACORN workers I would never believe that these clowns (take a look at the pictures, they look like they just left a frat-house "pimp and ho" party) anyone who has ever seen real pimps and prostitutes would never ever ever nerver neffer believe that they were actually what they said they were no matter how often they claimed it. I would think that they were two rascist little college students who think that the black experience is like what they imiagine hip-hop songs to be like.

Well, but the ACORN workers has a duty to help people in need, haven't they? So even if the persons are obvious clowns...

[Jimmie Higgins]

First off I am white and far from privledged (fyi I'v lived in the barrio) but lets call a spade a spade: Most minority areas are low on the economic scale and aren't exactly friendly to outsiders. They are usually crap holes. Not to say all white areas are nice (like trailer parks) but that just goes to show it is a class issue rather than a race issue.

Also it is ACORNs own damn fault for falling for this crap. Those two were SO over the top. They should have realised something was up. Also I am not defending what they did but honestly, should they really condone a women exploiting her body? They kinda crap crosses all racial lines in all societies.

Also the dude literally looked like he was the typical whimpy kid from a bad comic book. I still can't grasp the fact the fell for that.

Finally dude drop the moral high ground/PC bs please. By focusing on class rather than race we improve the siuation for all workers rather than those of a particular group. Anyways thats all I have to say.

What the hell are you talking about comrade?

Was I saying anything about white people in general? I was angry at these elitist and racist comments made by these two right-wing twits. If ACORN were organizing primarily in chicano neighborhoods, they probably would have claimed to be smuggling in undocumented workers while wearing a sombrero.

These two twits are participating in a conservative effort to essentially race-bait and red-bait ACORN because they blame voter drives in black neighborhoods for Obama's election. This right-wing paranoia is not true, but what is the effect of this on other groups seeking to register black voters in a country where armed thugs and the legal system have systematically disenfranchised black voters? How easy will it be for similar NGOs to raise funds for low-income housing and increased minimum wages and voter drives?

Again, I think NGOs are dead ends politically, but we should stand up to any right-wing attacks designed to intimidate and smear groups like this.