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Black pastor uses lynching photo to help get out the vote (Indianapolis)
NBC News ^ | 9/13/12 | Andrew Mach

Posted on 09/19/2012 1:53:22 PM PDT by Libloather

Black pastor uses lynching photo to help get out the vote
By Andrew Mach, NBC News
6 days ago

A pastor in Indiana has put up a sign that uses a historical image of the 1930 lynching of two black teenagers in an effort to recharge the black vote.

**SNIP**

“I don’t think it is as harsh as the fact that when we talk about African-Americans being murdered and killed at an alarming rate,” Thornton said. “It’s not as harsh as the fact we make up about 12 percent of the population and about 90 percent of the incarceration. It is not as harsh as the drugs that we are being exploited within our communities.”

Thornton, who said he’s received two complaints about the sign since it was put up, has no plans to take it down “until the Lord says so.”

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KEYWORDS: black; pastor; photo; vote
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Forward. Pic at the link. On the flip side -

Black Pastors Say 'Stay Home' Election Day
Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day.

1 posted on 09/19/2012 1:53:26 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

the KKK lynched two black guys...

the KKK were democrats.

is he telling them to go elect the klan to office??


2 posted on 09/19/2012 1:55:35 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Libloather

EVERYONE WHO IS OUTRAGED ABOUT THESE LYNCHINGS NEEDS TO SHOW UP TO CAST THEIR VOTE ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7!

AND TO REALLY STICK IT TO THE MAN, YOU NEED TO STAY OFF THE TELEVISION AS THIS DAY APPROACHES B/C PEOPLE WILL BE ON THERE IN DAYS LEADING UP TO TRY TO SCARE YOU INTO VOTING FOR ROMNEY!

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7! STICK IT TO THE MAN!


3 posted on 09/19/2012 1:57:04 PM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: Libloather
“I don’t think it is as harsh as the fact that when we talk about African-Americans being murdered and killed at an alarming rate,

A rigorous enforcement of truth in advertising law would force this bigot to post script his sermon with factual data saying that the majority of the murders of which he speaks are, in fact, caused by other African-Americans...

4 posted on 09/19/2012 1:57:54 PM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Libloather

So pastor, today it’s 99.9% of blacks killing other blacks. Anything to say about that? Naa, I didnt think so.


5 posted on 09/19/2012 2:00:05 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: Libloather

These idiots are living in the past same as the Muslims. These days the black on white crime rate amounts to a slow motion lynching. Rape for example is a black on white woman thing, rarely is it the other way around

White on black assaults murders rapes...minimal. Black on white rape, murder, assault is much more common


6 posted on 09/19/2012 2:02:15 PM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: sten

They would be outraged to hear that inconvenient truth about their beloved party.


7 posted on 09/19/2012 2:03:32 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Libloather

The last four years have been an abject lesson on why Africa is a continent ruled by bloodthirsty despotic dictators.


8 posted on 09/19/2012 2:04:14 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Libloather

“It’s not as harsh as the fact we make up about 12 percent of the population and about 90 percent of the incarceration.
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Hey Rev. Thats because 12 percent of the population is responsible for 90% of the crimes.

By the way are there white people coming to your communities selling that dope? If it is they should be easy to recognise and stop.

I kinda somehow think the dope is being sold to blacks by blacks.

And another thing Rev.How many young women in your congregation got knoced up last year and aborted their fetus? How many marriages are you performing in comparison to black babies being born? Is it true in your parish that 70% of black kids are born out of wedlock.

Take your black racist bigotry and stick it where the sun don’t shine fool.


9 posted on 09/19/2012 2:08:14 PM PDT by Venturer
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To: Libloather

He should take his show on the road to mecca with his cross and preaching. I bet the scumuzzys would have him in the picture.


10 posted on 09/19/2012 2:19:10 PM PDT by soycd
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To: Libloather
Two things:

When did these lynchings occur? I'm guessing probably more than 70 or 80 years ago.

I think the odds of any lynching happening go up exponentially if 0bama's gang holds on to power.

11 posted on 09/19/2012 2:19:35 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty ("Get that evil, foreign, muslim, usurping bastard out of MY White House!" FUBO GTFO!)
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12 posted on 09/19/2012 2:22:34 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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“I don’t think it is as harsh as the fact that when we talk about African-Americans being murdered and killed at an alarming rate,” by black people.
13 posted on 09/19/2012 2:32:26 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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Here are a couple of pictures they can put next to it:

Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian - raped tortured and murdered by the black thugs pictured above. January 2007.

14 posted on 09/19/2012 2:37:06 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Libloather
Here are a couple of pictures they can put next to it:

Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian - raped tortured and murdered by the black thugs pictured above. January 2007.

15 posted on 09/19/2012 2:37:06 PM PDT by Ken H
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To: Libloather
Why do they ignore the fact that Blacks were great fans of our first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln, as well as Frederick Douglass?

And, that it was the Republican party who pushed for civil rights legislation, way before LBJ found it to be a great campaign issue.

And, that it was the Democratic party which liked poll taxes and worked hard to prevent Blacks from having any political involvement.

And, that it has been the Democratic party which has preserved the plantation mentality to keep Blacks in their places.

16 posted on 09/19/2012 2:41:31 PM PDT by Slyfox
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other African-Americans...

In other words “Democrats”.

Abortion, murder, hopelessness. That’s what they get when they vote for “their” party...Freakin Idiots.


17 posted on 09/19/2012 2:43:55 PM PDT by liberty or death
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To: Libloather

He thinks that photo is bad(which it is) wait until they experience communism.


18 posted on 09/19/2012 2:47:35 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: SpaceBar

I think you mean “an object lession” - but “an abject lesson” is both correct and humorous!

It has indeed been abject!


19 posted on 09/19/2012 2:49:19 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: Libloather

The story behind the particular lynching

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Shipp_and_Abram_Smith


20 posted on 09/19/2012 3:01:33 PM PDT by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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