Dare to tell the truth, get attacked.
On Saturday night, the movie American Blackout, which looks at the career of U.S.Representative Cynthia McKinney from Georgia and the historical suppression of black voters in the United States, won a Sundance Film Festival Special Jury Award for Documentary Films.
On Sunday Cynthia’s front yard had VCR tape all over it, in an obvious reference to the award she received at Sundance.
Cynthia McKinney’s Home Vandalized
Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) found her front yard “toilet papered” with VCR tape Sunday when she returned from promoting her new documentary ‘American Blackout’ at the Sundance Film Festival.. The crime was reported to local police.
Her film ‘American Blackout’ chronicles voting irregularities and supposed disenfranchisement of some African Americans from 2000-2004
Tipped by Susan Hu
This is absurd! The hate act perpetrated against Cynthia is a chilling reminder of a not so distant past where the few minorities who dared to raise their voice had their walls plastered with hate messages.
We have to guard the back of every elected representative who dares to dive into voter disenfranchisement.
It serves US nothing if low income voters are blocked from voting by the dirty tricks of the right
