GOP attendee ejected-threw nuts at African American CNN camera woman-"This is how we feed animals"

[Blue_Tires]

David Shuster
@DavidShuster
GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying "This is how we feed animals." @TakeActionNews #TAN

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update to add:

http://crooksandliars.com/nicole-belle/rnc-evicts-attendee-throwing-nuts-bla

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021220816

[Ezlivin]

1. There's always a nutcase in every crowd

We have our share as well.

But it's more likely to happen at the RNC where the concentration of mentally unstable people is at its highest.

[alliswellinmyworld]

2. Brick thru your own window...

In other words, a plant. Why else choose a CNN camera person who is obviously poised to spread this far and wide and demonize the other side?

In any case, I love how it feeds into people's addiction to outrage. The ego loves any chance to feel separate from others...

[kwassa]

4. and you base this on nothing but your complete supposition?

New around DU, aren't you?

[blue moon 2012]

5. Not really...No, I am a veteran.

Like that makes any difference. In any case, wallow in self-pity if it suits you. I am just saying that people are jumping to conclusions. Do I think there are racist Republicans? Hell yes! But there are people on here savaging Mitt for being rich and yet many DUers make above-average salaries and brag about all the places they've traveled. If I didn't know any better, I would accuse THEM of being elitists!

[Blue_Tires]

3. CNN Camerawoman "Not Surprised" by Peanut-Throwing:

CNN Camerawoman "Not Surprised" by Peanut-Throwing: "People Think We've Gone Further Than We Have"

Source: Maynard Institute for Journalism Education

Patricia Carroll, the CNN camerawoman who was assaulted with peanuts and called an animal by two attendees at the Republican National Convention, told Journal-isms on Thursday that "I hate that it happened, but I'm not surprised at all."

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Carroll said no one took the names of the attendees who threw peanuts at her Tuesday on the convention floor and told her, "This is what we feed animals." She alerted fellow camera operators, producers and CNN security. The head of the delegation — she was not certain of the state — told her the perpetrators must have been alternates, not delegates.

But Carroll, 34, said that as an Alabama native, she was not surprised. "This is Florida, and I'm from the Deep South," she said. "You come to places like this, you can count the black people on your hand. They see us doing things they don't think I should do."

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"I can't change these people's hearts and minds," Carroll added. "No, it doesn't feel good. But I know who I am. I'm a proud black woman. A lot of black people are upset. This should be a wake-up call to black people. . . . People were living in euphoria for a while. People think we're gone further than we have."

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Read more: http://mije.org/richardprince/cnn-camerawoman-not-surprised-peanut-throwing

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014212892