Protesters hurl slurs and spit at Democrats

"Washington (CNN) - Civil rights icon and veteran Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, said anti-health care bill protesters Saturday repeatedly yelled the "N" word at him as he left a heath care meeting and walked to the Capitol.

"I haven't seen heard anything like this in more than 40 years, maybe 45." Lewis said. "Since the march from Selma to Montgomery really."

"Yeah, but it's okay," Lewis added. "I've faced this before. So, it reminded me of the 60's. There's a lot of downright hate and anger and people are just being downright mean."

The incident was confirmed by Rep. Andre Carson, D-Indiana, who was walking with Lewis at the time. Protesters were yelling, "'kill the bill, kill the bill' and the 'N' word several times," Carson said.

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Missouri, released a statement late Saturday saying he too was called the "N" word as he walked to the Capitol for a vote and that he was spat on by one protestor who was arrested by U.S. Capitol Police. Cleaver declined to press charges against the man, the statement said.

Protesters also hurled anti-gay comments at Rep. Barney Frank, D-Massachusetts, who is openly gay, as he left the same health care meeting that Lewis attended in a House office building.

A CNN producer overheard the word "faggot" yelled at Frank several times in the lobby of the Longworth building. Frank said he heard someone yell "homo" at him.

"I'm disappointed," Frank said. "There's an unwillingness to be civil."

Frank, who said he rarely hears such slurs anymore, said the health care issue has become "the proxy for a lot of other sentiments. A lot of which are perfectly reasonable but some of which are kind of ugly."

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Isolated un-acceptable Behavior..... But I do not care. I want to know why Dems want to Commit political Suicide to get this bill passed ...whats in it?

tea baggers just a bunch of mad white people. if you every watch the crowd at a tea baggers meetings. they are all white, there leaders Sarah palin. or Michell buckmen. both are nuts.

So Quick to use the race card to cover the Whole movement. Your wrong we are MAD AMERICANS.....

Your movement has a large element of racists, the most ignorant of Americans...just saying "so quick to use the race card" as a defense does NOT excuse this kind of speak.

Own it...

bottom line is republicans cant take it. they lost the election. as i recall in 1994 republicans had control of the house and senate. so for republicans to say they are being left out of government process. is a joke. you no what they say about payback.

Your just as Raciest for thinking a few Idiots taint a whole Movement

Yes we lost and now Sadly Americans will Learn next time a Politician says we need CHANGE ask him what type.....Or did he just mean CHANGE was all middle class Americans would have in there pockets by 2012 and his end of term?? One wonders

nahh not really

what they are is a just left wing version of O'Reilly and Beck. Propagandists using half truths and manipulated facts to bash those who believe differently, There's no difference between them and the right-wing propagandists

funny these same tea baggers. did not come out while bush was in office.

Good point since the Dippic was running up record deficits right in front of them...

...also they were watching POX for their "news"...ignorances via RW propaganda rules these people....they are not into reality. They just hate that a black man is in the White House...that's their basic problem...they were okay with excessive spending until a black man has to continue the spending to avoid a Depression. The HC bill will set us into the right direction in reducing the deficit and improving HC for Americans...HOW can they (T-baggers) be against that? "Stupid is as stupid does" I guess...

Wrong on All Counts but u have no Worries Im sure u will be one of the Guards in the Gulags/FEMA camps they all shove us into...Along with Gary. They Count Medicaid Cuts Twice....Premiums will go UP and the IRS will take all of our disposable cash making all of the middle class the Blood sucking Government Vampires u love so much ...but then again that`s the Idea aint it? To make us all poor? So they can Increase there Voter base?

Heh, I can smell POX puss all over that post...the reality is that the GOP are corporate shills...the GOP is a wholly owned subsiderary of BIG business...perpetuating the Corporate Socialisms that have ruined our country.

Try CNN for a few weeks then maybe you'd have a clue...

You mean The Communist News Network ....no thank you

wow, you guys get pretty , personally insulting sometimes....

anyhow, I am no fan of teabaggers, but I also think it illogical to paint the whole MOVEMENT by the ignorant actions of a few. If people did that they would think all white folks were serial killers and all black folks were thugs,, and it just aint so folks,,,

seems funny you say something about tea baggers. if you say there racist. its bringing up race card. but the point is if not racist. where are people of color in the tea bagger movement. simply question. if there not racists. where are people of color.

I havent watched them THAT closely, I will be interested in hearing a response from a 'teabagger' about that though,, if they choose to respond.

Are you implying there are NO black teabaggers? If thats true,, it may be a BIT better argument towards racism than just some idiots spouting off their mouth.

Huh. So Democrats calling people who oppose the Health Care " plan " " communists " or " nazis " is perfectly acceptable.

It's utterly hilarious to me the hypocrisy involved when someone like the OP bashes one side for hurling insults, while finding it perfectly ok for the side he agrees with to do the same kind of thing.

I would laugh if it wasn't so pathetic.

Really? Once again your showing your ignorance. Tea Party protesters are from all walks of like and there is a huge African American presence in them. I honestly dont know why I even bother with you sometimes.............

The ad-hoc conservative protests against an expanded government role that started shortly after President Obama was inaugurated last year is growing into a "Taxed Enough Already" movement that is backing candidates for political office and influencing public policies. Among these movement conservatives are a small but increasing number of black conservatives and libertarians who - attracted to the tea party movement's call for smaller government, lower taxes, and less government spending - are getting involved in the protest movement.

Kevin Jackson, a former ACORN and union organizer who currently works as an advocate for the homeless in Charleston, S.C., began attending tea party events "because I saw the Left under Obama seeking to destroy the freedoms that we as Americans have fought so hard to have, and the Left's determination to take socialize, to over the state", he said.

Although he has been active in Republican Party politics, Ron Miller, an information technology consultant in Huntingtown, Md. who is running for the Maryland State Senate, said that the tea party rallies were his first foray into protest movement activities. "The movement embodied my beliefs in limited government, low taxes, individual liberty and free enterprise", he said. Miller organized and emceed the first tea party in Maryland last year, and has been a featured speaker at four tea party rallies. He has attended many other tea party events, including the large 9/12 March On Washington event last autumn.

http://www.thegrio.com/politics/some-blacks-back-tea-party-despite-movements-racist-reputation.php

OR

Lloyd Marcus' conservatism started when he was 9.

His family had just moved out of the "ghetto" to a brand-new high rise in Baltimore -- within months, he said, the "dream come true" turned into a nightmare, as the building of welfare-collecting black residents became a den of crime.

His father moved the family out as soon as he got a job with the city fire department, but "my cousins never escaped," Marcus said. He cried as he told the story.

Marcus, a black conservative who is now involved in the growing tea party movement, attributes the problems of his childhood neighborhood, his extended family and the black community in general to a "cradle-to-grave government dependency" that in the case of his cousins enabled an idle life of crime and drug abuse.

To Marcus, President Obama's policies perpetuate that dependency. That's why, he says, it baffles him and other black conservatives when the tea party movement is dismissed as somehow anti-black, as a rowdy bunch of ignorant, white protesters who have it in for the nation's first black president.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/01/19/black-conservatives-lead-role-tea-party-movement/

I provided two links at the bottom, I have more if you want.