Ala. Lawmakers Apologize to Black Woman Raped by White Men 67 Years Ago
- Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:01pm by
Emily Esfahani Smith
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Alabama Legislature has officially apologized to an elderly black woman who was raped nearly seven decades ago by a gang of white men as she walked home from church.
The Senate gave final approval Thursday on a voice vote to a resolution that expresses “deepest sympathy and deepest regrets” to Recy Taylor, now 91 and living in Florida. She told The Associated Press last year that she believes the men who attacked her in 1944 are dead but that she still wanted an apology from the state of Alabama.
The House approved the resolution last month. It now goes to Gov. Robert Bentley, who said Thursday he’s not personally familiar with details of the case, but sees no reason why he wouldn’t sign it.
Reached by phone Thursday by the AP, Taylor said she welcomed the Legislature’s action.
“I think that’s nice,” she said. “It’s been a long time. I’m satisfied.”
The resolution by Democratic state Rep. Dexter Grimsley of Newville says the failure to prosecute the men was “morally abhorrent and repugnant.” He has said police bungled the investigation and harassed Taylor, and local leaders recently acknowledged that her attackers escaped prosecution in part because of racism.
The AP does not typically identify victims of sexual assault but is using her name because she has publicly identified herself.
Taylor was 24 when she was confronted by seven men who forced her into their car at knife- and gun- point and drove her to a deserted grove of trees where six of the men raped her in Abbeville in southeastern Alabama. She was then left on the side of the road in an isolated area.
Two all-white, all-male grand juries refused to indict the suspects after the attack. Recy Taylor’s brother, 74-year-old Robert Corbitt, said law enforcement authorities tried to blame the attack on his sister. He said his family was threatened after the attack, his sister’s house was firebombed and his father had to guard the house.
“I’m so glad they (the Legislature) decided to do the right thing,” Corbitt said.
Corbitt said Taylor is in poor health, but he hopes she will come back to Abbeville by Mother’s Day in May. Grimsley said he hopes to present her with a copy of the resolution at that time.
Taylor said officials in Abbeville expressed regret that she was not present earlier this year when her hometown issued an apology in the case.
“Since I wasn’t there, they said they should‘ve had somebody on the phone to let me know that they were sorry about the length of time that it’s been,” she said. “I don’t even know what they said. They said they did the wrong thing.”
Taylor has returned to Abbeville frequently since moving to Florida more than 30 years ago and said she expects to visit her brother there next month. She is not sure she will feel differently now that the town has apologized.
“A lot of people have gone on,” she said. “There’s nobody to fear there now.”
There was no opposition to the resolution in the Legislature and no debate in the Senate before Thursday’s vote.
“The family deserves someone to say that was a tragedy and the lady was done wrong,” said Republican Sen. Scott Beason of Gardendale, chairman of the Rules Committee that asked the Senate to approve the resolution.
Democratic Sen. Billy Beasley, whose district includes Abbeville, said Taylor wanted an apology and the Senate wanted to provide one.
“The state of Alabama apologizes for the incident that occurred to Mrs. Taylor many years ago, and we wish God’s speed for her and continued best wishes,” Beasley said.
Grimsley said the apology shows Alabama officials were able to do the right thing on a racial matter.
“I think it’s going to take things like this for the state to move forward” from the racial turmoil of the past, he said.
Grimsley said he pushed the apology through the Legislature for Taylor.
“I just knew I had to do something for her while she’s still here,” he said.
Taylor’s story, along with those of other black women attacked by white men during the civil rights era, is told in “At the Dark End of the Street,” a book by Danielle McGuire, a professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. Activists including Rosa Parks took up the causes of Taylor and others, but their efforts were later overshadowed by other civil rights battles.
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Comments (159)
dontbotherme
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:06amOh my goodness people. Humanity please. One Wrong must be Righted at a time if need be. There was no justice in those days for this woman. Race be dam_ed here. Read the story. Read the truth of History at that time. She was raped by a group of men & the “justice system” in power in those days treated her like an animal. I’m glad she got some justice with the apology for the injustice committed against her.
Report Post »garrthegreat
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:11amBless you… a beautiful rose of reason against thorns of ignorance.
Report Post »LittleLebowskiurbanachiver
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:59pmyou are a ghool! I hope hiding on message boards makes you feel like a big man. a young women was assulated and degregated on the way home from church and this is what you have to add. May God have mercy on your black and empty soul, you are truely the worst man kind has to offer.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:43am@Little Lebowski Urban Achiver (you meant achiever)
I’m not sure what a “ghool” is but maybe it is something like a “ghoul?“ What does ”degregated” mean? What is “assulted?“ You also misspelled ”truely“ and ”man kind.”
I always let one or two typos go, but this is ridiculous. You need to get to bed before your parents find out you are awake.
The content of your post is pure emotional argument. Here are the FACTS (not that they matter):
* Two separate Grand Juries failed to indict
* The alleged rape is yet to be proven
* Grand Juries fail to indict often, it happens every day, it is the essence of our Common Law jury system. Grand Juries must not rubber-stamp their True Bills. It means there was lack of evidence.
* Allegations of “racism” have not been proven
* The Alabama legislature back then had no part in the procedings
* The Alabama legislature of today had no part in the procedings
* The people who “apologised” have done nothing wrong
Conclusion: This is more race-hustling by the black community and tap-dancing by politicians. It is foul with mendacity and it is an embarassment to the state of Alabama to be cowed in this way.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:59amunder obama it is all about black liberation, entitlement and appeasement and reparations for 150 years ago.. that is how obama BOUGHT his American Black base. 150 years ago we fought to free the slaves so they can come get free free free benefits off of the rest us hardworking white Americans for these past 150 years and into infinity. (no Whites colonized 99% of Africa, that is why it is still poverty, disease, mud huts and bare feet and GOATS.) … it is all about the total destruction of white America, even tho the black majority does not understand= if whites do not WORK there is no tax money to redistrubute to them every month and there is no FOOD from the hardworking white farms to go into the STORES where the food stamps and welfare checks get cashed.
Report Post »pwatkins
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:06amThanks for the info, puts my mind more at ease for what I said. I feel every person that rapes or assaults someone should pay dearly and I know how bad it hurts to see someone guilty walk free, but if a person accused is innocent then that is just as bad. Many child rapist are walking free, especially if it was the first offense and many children are too young to fully explain what happened to them. They do not convict on heresay, but proof only.
Report Post »LittleLebowskiurbanachiver
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:58amHi there, first off, sorry about the spelling. You are correct, I was typing fast and mad. While I disagree with your view point on this one, we can do so respectfuly. The original post I was replying to has since been removed. It was vile and overtly racist.
Report Post »jzs
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:57pmCool bro. Nice, reflective comment.
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:56pmIt most certainly does NOT happen every day in Birmingham!
Report Post »ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:50pmThis story does not make any sense……. why would someone else apologize for some crazy persons actions…. Do they feel some kind of guilt ? I do not get it ??????
Report Post »Dale
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:10amThe state (government) did not prosecute when two (all white) grand juries failed to bring charges. The government did not do its job of protecting citizens (Recy Taylor).
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:39pmIs someone trying to stoke racial hatred. Bring out the FBI stats as already mentioned here. Maybe the White MSM crowd doesn’t know about these things.
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:34pmjackson should apologize for the false accusations of rape against the rugby team
Report Post »jeffyfreezone
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:31amI said a prayer for this lady, if she was raped may God heal her heart, if she wasn’t raped, may God heal her heart…
Report Post »Patriot Z
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:33pmawsome, now that thats overwith can we stop using race as a crutch and defaacto argument for dems? Geez while yes its sad and what happened was a tradgedy. why dont we just pass a resolution apologizing for everything from everybody? why waste time on this one at a time when we can pass the “OOOOPS MY BAD” resolution and that should cover everything for the last 5000 yrs…sorry for rome, egypt, alabama, my cousin stubbing his toe, me running out of toilet paper and having to wet hop it to the next stall. lets get it all out of the way so we can finally move on
Report Post »duane38637
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:29pmI guareentee there is alot more white women raped by blacks then ever blacks raped by whites wheres the stories?
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:32pmNot counting the white trash trading the “rape” for crack?
Report Post »garrthegreat
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:02amWell… you’re wrong… allow me…
After first conceding that we, as White persons, are not true ‘Americans’ in the sense that we originated from Europe and migrated (forcibly stole land in the process) and began a ‘new’ civilization here. Therefore, we must look back through all European history for the debauchery you speak of in this comment section. And would you look at that… we have quite a history of enslaving, scorning, and becoming down right violent against those of differing races.
Let all those without sin… cast the first stone…
You people making the ‘how about apologies for blah blah blah’ me sick… and I hope you have to experience what this lady went through at some point. Perhaps then, and only then, will the veil be lifted from your biggoted eyes and see the world for what it is. Evil is everywhere, in all cultures, and to make a violent crime into a political football is downright deplorable.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:08amGARR, We (the human race) are ALL from modern day Ethiopia, so direct your guilty conscious there.
Report Post »garrthegreat
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:22am@ Model
No thank you. I would rather start my data collection when civilizations actually existed. Ya know… societies.. with laws and such… a stupid nuance, i know. However, any time you would like to match wits feel free.
In the words of a famous ‘all white’ film:
You have been weighed
You have been measured
And you have been found wanting
:)
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:36amGARR, “Civilization” has sits origins between the and Tigris–Euphrates Rivers. You know, “The Cradle of Civilization”. Based on that universally accepted fact, would you care to revisit “your data” and correct the target of your guilty conscious? Didn’t think so. Ouch.
Report Post »Psonaught
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:50am@garrthegreat
wow your really on a roll, a full head of angry steam for sure.
A few problems with your comments, white people not american because they emigrated here. Then “native” americans don’t qualify either as they emigrated also i.e. not native. Talk about racist the comments about ethiopia alone… wow. The problem here is the alabama legislature were the ones who are playing political football, they did this for a reason, a political reason. that’s all. nothing good, only politics. Politics plays a role in so unfortunate much of the “social” part of society. It was intertwined forcibly long ago for the usual suspects, money, power, votes, ideology. We need to dis-intwine them I think for anything to get better for anyone.
Report Post »duane38637
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:26pmPolitical correctness not only are white women raped daily by black thewy are also murdered in the process wont hear no apoligy because of double standards in this fallin apart country under liberal thug rule.
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:26pmmr. obama should appologize to USA for hiding his birth certificate…….there is no birth certificate or there is something horrible on that birth certificate…can he appologize for being no who he is ……who is mr. obama? where was he born? why he hates USA ? he is intentionally devaluating USA dollar and destroying milllions and millions of lives, …….when will he appologize for being a undocumented man from kenya>
Report Post »PrfctlyFrank
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:25pmRape is rape, regardless, and any man guilty of it should grace the halls of the gray bar hotel for the rest of his natural life.. If he was a participant in a gang rape, burn him/them.. They’ve proven their needle worthiness..
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:19pmanything good happen to any black person ? is there a one black person that have a good story or just dark story ?? Hello ? anyone ?
Report Post »garrthegreat
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:52pmThe fact that you would ask that questions just shows how unprepared you are to tackle logical thought.
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:03amGARR, this is just a wild guess, but I suspect that you are a @20 year old junior college student, still living at home, who recently earned a B- in Sociology 101.
Report Post »Like I said, it’s just a guess. In any case, though, that is exactly the level of intellect at which you present yourself.
garrthegreat
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:18am@ Model
Thank you for your kind words. I am actually a 37 year old , Southern, White gentleman. Small business owner and father of a beautiful baby boy who I will also teach to think for himself.
Now, for your diagnosis:
50 plus year old , watches Fox News and listens to talk radio for your major news coverage, believes everything you hear from people that think like you, and probably 1 – 2 african-american friends that you claim when someone calls you out as a biggot
Did I hit the nail on the head? Or like you, did I just not get the point? :)
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:26amGARR, congratulations! You’re not an idiot JuCo student, you just have the intellect of one.
Report Post »P.S. 40 yrs. of age 11 years married, proud father of two, Big Ten university graduate, business owner and your vast intellectual superior. – Ouch.
KL
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:17pmCan you imagine what that must have been like for her, she was very young, walking innocently home from church. I hope the creeps that did that, had a horrible life. We all know what time in our history this took place, it was very different back then. This was long over due.
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:16pmwhen I was a young girl someone stole my beautiful white dog ……can someone appologize for that …….please…I miss my dog — that was many years ago…maybe I should go on dr phil tv program – we can talk about it…..the whole country can talk about it …..it damage me greatly – I am not the same person anymore…..someone must be out there to appologize……
Report Post »greggor
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:57pmGet real.
This is all about a crime that went unpunished, because of government people who didn’t do their jobs.
Put your “humor” aside. This poor woman suffered for a long time. And she is grateful and satisfied with the resolution.
How can you be so flippant about something like this? There is no humor in rape.
Report Post »thejackal
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:15pmWill Barrack Obama please apologize for all the white women and girls raped by black men. Since he‘s been in office it’s happened 100,000 times and climbing. Black men are responsible for 83% of all rapes on white women and girls and nearly 100% of rapes on black women. Check the FBI crime stats. How about an apology Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton? Anyone in the black community want to stand up and speak of the untold carnage caused on white people by your community? Didn’t think so.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:15pmAn apology is not enough for what this woman went through. There is another judgement
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:14pmbring on all of your dirty lundry….the whole world have dirty lundry ….we should make more shows and movies about dirty lundry….operah is not enough ……nothing goood is happening in this world – just dirty lundry…this is a dirty lundry time in America ….we need more of operah and dr phil so we can all swim in a people dirt !
Report Post »southernloyalty
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:11pmWhat happened to the woman if she was really raped was wrong. But are we going to get to see Jessie, Al, and Barrack start appoligizing to the thousands of white women raped by black men in the last 2 or three years?
Report Post »Killa From Wasilla
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:04amSo in your world only white women are raped??
Only black men do the raping ?????
Wow, I guess black and latino all over the country should feel safe now, they are not raped at all according to you.
Why don‘t we go back to the 1700 and 1800’s when American Indian women and black women were raped by the white man.
That’s how stupid your post is.
Report Post »BonnieBlueFlag
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 12:50am@SouthernLoyalty: Amen to that!
Did anyone see 60 Minutes last week? Beckett Brennan, a female basketball player, was gang raped by three black basketball players at the University of the Pacific in California. The local police told her she basically had no chance of a conviction and to use the school to adjudicate the matter. 2 of the players were back on scholarship within a year. Will the state of California apologise? How about for letting OJ Simpson go free? No they won‘t apologise and they shouldn’t. Juries aren‘t perfect but it’s the best thing we’ve got.
This is complete and utter B.S. This is antithesis to the jury system. This is about a public “whipping” of white people YET AGAIN.
According to the FBI’s own crime statistics, black men are three times more likely to rape than “white” men. And you know what? Their definition of “white” includes Mestizos. If you exclude Spanish-speaking Mestizos, the proportion of black to white rape (and all crime) is much higher.
State legislators who have nothing to do with these cases have no reason to apolotise and it is therefore a hollow apology anyway. Only race hustlers who blame whites for all their own peoples’ failings should apologise for covering up the truth. Al “******” Sharpton should apologise for distorting the truth about race in this country, as should the rest of the media-whores!
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_43.html
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:11pmIt’s tough not to think about bringing politics into this awful story. After all, horrible violence against Blacks in the Jim Crow south understandably brings to mind the KKK, which, as we all know, was a direct offshoot of one of the political parties at that time.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:30pmThat damned Wilson screening “Birth Of A Nation” in the white house I tell ya!
Report Post »MODEL82A1
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:42pmULY, Wilson screened “Birth of a Nation” in the White House in February of 1915. Mrs. Taylor was horribly raped in 1944. What point are you feebly trying to make?
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:09pmHorrible, those men hopefully are getting theirs in the afterlife.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:09pmA case of to little to late?
Report Post »NuckleChorris
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:23pmI am not sure we should have apologized. Did someone in Goverment rape her? The state of Alabama does not owe her an apology. Jurys are picked from your peers. I especailly love the ‘all white jury’ comment. Did they have PROOF to convict? This article assumes the jury was racist. How can we say that justice was not served? Oh, because the PC goverment appologized?
When will the goverment appologize to the majority (white people) for their continued racist laws? Afirmative action (racist), hate crimes (racist against whites – does not apply against MOST minorities), racial profiling (does apply against whites but no minorities or it is deemed as racism.) the list goes on and on.
Actually I want an apology for having to suffer through TV without a WET channel. Life just isn’t fair…
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:31pm@NuckleChorris
Report Post »The judicial system in Alabama failed her. It looks as though someone in Alabama has some decency, for the state to apologize.
garrthegreat
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:39pmMaybe we should apologize to the Native Americans we , the ‘great White hope’ , forced out of their God-given lands.
This is what I love about persons like yourself. I hate to break it to you and all the rest of your ‘like-minded’ brethren… but us White folk… have seen our time come and go. We are quickly becoming the minority.
Report Post »And to your ‘proof’ argument in 1940s America…. LOL. Follow your messiah Beck when he says ‘do your own research’… could you please refer me to the case logs of 1900-1950 and show me where african americans received all the fair and equal treatment for EQUAL crimes commited by a white person? I’ll be up for another hour or two if u want to get started.. but i‘ll give you a ’heads up’ … it ain‘t looking good for your ’position’ on the issue. :)
Psonaught
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 1:34am@garrthegreat The same ideology (probably yours) who did the unfairness to the black people 50-100 years ago are the same ideology creating the same unfairness now toward white people today. The same. The same. get that in your head. Your not getting back at the people who did bad things then, by doing the same things now to people who weren’t born then, your the same as them. The same.
Worry about the unfairness now, whoever the victim is. Fix the problems now, whoever the victim is. The same sort of people who did it to the blacks, jews then are doing it now toward white people. The same. Do you understand? It was for a purpose then, and its for a purpose now.
Report Post »SlimnRanger
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:17amMay God Bless this lady and God Bless the state of Alabama,i hope this lady can finally find peace in her soul
Report Post »techengineer11
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:07pmMaybe while they are at it they’ll aplogize to the two 11 year olds that were recently ********** by black thugs in CA and TX? Or would that not be worthwhile news for our wonderful Media in the US?
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:09pmthat s not going to happen ,,, you have to be black
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:28pmHi, Tech!
Kinda like “high tech,” huh?
Report Post »Had not heard of the incidents you mentioned. But that’s not surprising, is it, the trickling media being what it is?
smak
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 2:02amThey will be charged, tried and convicted.
Report Post »Read the article.
Bhaub
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 11:49amWhy isn’t that article on The Blaze? What are they hiding?
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:15pmSo the legislators have nothing better to do with their time than formally apologize for a crime how many years ago., that they had nothing to with? So let’s all petition the legislators to formally apologize for all the crimes that has been committed against all of us. Boy, do I have a long list.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:07pmFinally they came together and did the right thing.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:25pmIf I were that woman, I believe I would expect Governor Grimsley to go to Florida and give her the Resolution and have some press coverage. Wouldn’t it be good publicity for Alabama and for the woman?
Report Post »demint.disciple
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 7:43amObama sent letter saying they BETTER apologize or feel the rath of reparations…
Report Post »suetel
Posted on April 26, 2011 at 2:24pmi would hope the state financially compensates the woman! the least they could do along with their apology!
Report Post »No1YaKnow
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:07pmIt took them how many years to issue this? Why now? Not that I have a problem with them issuing an apology, it is well deserved, but AGAIN, why now? Why not two years ago when the first black man was elected president? Why not 20 years ago when race relations had become so much better? I am glad for her, but I again, would be asking why now???
Oddly–Law & Order SVU did this EXACT story line about 3 weeks ago. Hmmm….
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:23pmLaw & Order follows a true story line frequently.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:29pmWhy now? Because they are ‘ginning’ up the Race card for the ‘12 election. The professional race boys like Sharpton, Jackson et al. So when will the white women get their awards and recognition.
Report Post »FlatFoot
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:31pm– “Corbitt said Taylor is in poor health, but he hopes she will come back to Abbeville by Mother’s Day in May. Grimsley said he hopes to present her with a copy of the resolution at that time. Grimsley said the apology shows Alabama officials were able to do the right thing on a racial matter.” –
Ha! What a load of crapola. If they sincerely meant this so-called apology and sincerely wanted to “do the right thing on a racial matter” they‘d have flown her back ’home’ from Florida themselves, put her up in a beautiful hotel suite, paid all her expenses for food and whatever else she desired, and personally presented her with the resolution immediately instead of waiting for her to ‘hopefully’ make her way back at some time in the future. It would have cost them next to nothing compared to what they spend on themselves each and every month of the year.
Grandstanding politicians doing things to make –themselves– feel good. Go figure.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on April 21, 2011 at 11:33pmYour question of why now is fine, but the siding for the apology from a State legislature who had nothing to do with the rape itself in no form or fashion is of any value whatsoever. She’s happy with it and thats fine, but a State should not apologize for crimes of its citizens no matter what the color. Thats called collective justice or salvation. Since they no apologized on behalf of the citizens of that State, should now the citizens themselves (those who are white) also apologize. See where this goes? No where down a road of guilt and shame for those who had nothing to do with this crime against her.
Obama then should apologize to this nation for the hatred of his people that he has turned loose on all of us in the name of collective salvation. Where ya goin with that blade Sam? I’m gonna git me some collective salvation. We are doomed for this kind of thinking. Its Hitlers Germany part Two.
Report Post »sleazyhippo
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:28pmThere is NO truth to the recurring remarks that The Blaze hosts topics intended to bring out hurtful racist remarks and revealing but inappropriate supremacist comments. No one in their right minds would act like that!
Report Post »txn4justice
Posted on April 22, 2011 at 4:51pmPropaganda. TV is a social programming device.
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