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SkyWater · #15 (**permalink**) 07-28-2008, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Eightball

You didn't read my reply, as I said that much discussion on this topic is in forums, you can narrow down your search and find out the source or sources through the search engine.

Here's an example......
NAACP-NVF Ad "Byrd Vote-T.V." Oct. 2000

[Background sound: deep, eerie metallic; later fade in low clanking]
Renee Mullins (voice over):

" I’m Renee Mullins, James Byrd’s daughter.
On June 7, 1998 in Texas my father was killed. He was beaten, chained, and then dragged 3 miles to his death, all because he was black.

So when Governor George W. Bush refused to support hate-crime legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.

Call Governor George W. Bush and tell him to support hate-crime legislation.

We won’t be dragged away from our future."

NAACP National Voter Fund
"Byrd Vote-TV"
30 sec. TV spot run in AR, GA, IL, KY, MI, MO, NJ, OH, PA and WI starting Oct. 25, 2000.

Carol H. Williams Advertising
******
Renee Mullins: "I’m Renee Mullins. My father was James Byrd, Jr.
I still have nightmares thinking about him, the day three men chained him behind their pickup truck and dragged him three miles over pavement.

I can see skin being torn away from his body.

I can hear him gasping for air.

I can feel the tears in his eyes, the struggle of his brain as images of his life painfully bang through his head as the links of a heavy chain clinched around his ankles dragging him bump by bump until he was decapitated. [pause]

On June 7, 1998 this happened to my father, all because he was black. I went to Governor George W. Bush and begged him to help pass a hate crimes bill.

He just told me no.

I'm doing this commercial to ask you to call Governor Bush at 512-X and tell him to introduce a hate crimes bill in Texas.

Let him know that our community won't be dragged down by hate crimes.

Male Voice: Funded by Americans for Equality, a project of the NAACP National Voter Fund."

NAACP National Voter Fund
"Fly Byrd Fly"
60 sec. radio spot.

Carol H. Williams Advertising

I did read your reply and that's why I responded with:

Quote:

Originally Posted by SW

If the best source provided is message boards and such then the claim has no merit...

Here is what was claimed in the OP:

Quote:

Originally Posted by OP

Anyone recall back when GWB was running for President, how the opposition stridently announced that Black Churches would be burned by the myriads, Blacks would be lynched and dragged behind P.U. trucks if GWB were elected?

After asking for evidence the OP claim gets changed mid-stream because evidence cannot be provided to support the initial charge. Now it's being claimed it's about message boards...that is a very small part of the opposition so the illegal move here is to (A) not provide evidence and tell others to do your research to support your claim and (B) trying to use a small percentage to broadbrush the opposition as a whole. It's like saying since a few cops got busted for dealing drugs that must mean all or most cops are suspect.

As for the linked TV spot...it doesn't even come close to the OP claim. It was an ad pushing for hate crime. It was not saying if bush got elected prez then black people would get lynched. I don't even know how you got that spin from the ad. It's no different than when people pushed for Jessica's Law. Finally, where is the evidence to support the "burning churches" bit?