Post by devilschaplain2 on Dec 13, 2011 0:59:54 GMT -5
No, this movie isn't actually about African slaves who escaped a nightmarish life on a Southern plantation, it's actually a forthcoming piece of political propaganda being churned out by Dick Armey's FreedomWorks group--an organization known for disrupting town hall meetings on healthcare reform. According to the movie website:
It looks like the whole "progressive plantation" thing is becoming an increasingly popular political meme for the right, because if they can't actually help people of color with their policies they can at least try to bombard them with disinformation. Among the people interviewed in the movie? Thomas Sowell, who defended staunch segregationists like Charles Pickering while attacking Sonia Sotomayor as a racist; Allen West, who boasted about being the sole black member of a white supremacist motorcycle gang; Star Parker, who claimed that black family life was "more healthy" under slavery; Jesse Lee Peterson, who thanked God for slavery and, of course, failed presidential candidate and sexual harasser Herman Cain.
But, watch the trailer for yourselves...
From the creators of Tea Party: The Documentary Film comes a new documentary about freedom. Runaway Slave exposes the economic slavery of the black community to the Progressive, big government policies of the U.S. government. The film’s heroes are black conservatives who are speaking out so that all Americans can truly be “free at last.”
The film’s central figure is Rev. C.L. Bryant, a self-professed “runaway slave. A former NAACP chapter president in Garland, TX, C.L. abandoned an organization he felt was more about political posturing, and less about civil rights. As a former Democratic Radical who escaped the bondage of Progressivism and denounced the shackles of entitlements, he has committed himself to helping others secure the blessings of liberty that are guaranteed by the Constitution with his new found conservative values.
Rev. Bryant takes viewers on an historic journey across America that traces the footsteps of runaway slaves who escaped along routes that became known as the Underground Railroad to freedom. But in the film, he travels a “new underground railroad” upon which Black Conservatives are speaking out against big government policies which have established a “new plantation” where “overseers” like the NAACP and so-called “civil rights” leaders keep the Black community 95 percent beholden to one political party.
The film’s central figure is Rev. C.L. Bryant, a self-professed “runaway slave. A former NAACP chapter president in Garland, TX, C.L. abandoned an organization he felt was more about political posturing, and less about civil rights. As a former Democratic Radical who escaped the bondage of Progressivism and denounced the shackles of entitlements, he has committed himself to helping others secure the blessings of liberty that are guaranteed by the Constitution with his new found conservative values.
Rev. Bryant takes viewers on an historic journey across America that traces the footsteps of runaway slaves who escaped along routes that became known as the Underground Railroad to freedom. But in the film, he travels a “new underground railroad” upon which Black Conservatives are speaking out against big government policies which have established a “new plantation” where “overseers” like the NAACP and so-called “civil rights” leaders keep the Black community 95 percent beholden to one political party.
It looks like the whole "progressive plantation" thing is becoming an increasingly popular political meme for the right, because if they can't actually help people of color with their policies they can at least try to bombard them with disinformation. Among the people interviewed in the movie? Thomas Sowell, who defended staunch segregationists like Charles Pickering while attacking Sonia Sotomayor as a racist; Allen West, who boasted about being the sole black member of a white supremacist motorcycle gang; Star Parker, who claimed that black family life was "more healthy" under slavery; Jesse Lee Peterson, who thanked God for slavery and, of course, failed presidential candidate and sexual harasser Herman Cain.
But, watch the trailer for yourselves...
