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| Acquitted shooter's friend said some nasty things about Black people. |
Taaffe was one of the people who gave the conservative agitators the talking point about Martin hitting the man's head on the concrete "MMA-style". I must of miss this one because I wasn't concerned about it.
Until now.
I follow the blogs and one happen to catch my eye.
Janet Shan of The Hinterland Gazette published a story about this guy and I then went forth to GOOGLE. I looked up his name and checked on some of the stories.
I missed it. I missed it so much I almost want to hit myself for this.
This guy is unabashedly ignorant and sounds like he has issues with Black people.
He makes an appearance on a White extremist podcast to do a victory lap on the grave of Trayvon Martin.
Did you happen to listen to a portion of this nonsense. It was pretty unfortunate.
Mother Jones unearth the history of Frank Taaffe. For one thing, the man is a confirmed alcoholic.
He was pulled over in Orlando for being under the influence.
Taaffe was instrumental in getting the exclusive interview with That Guy Who Helped Obama Win.
the meeting on Fox News, Zimmerman asked him to share "several talking points" with the media. Taaffe obliged. Indeed, as Zimmerman's legal drama unfolded over the next year and a half, Taaffe emerged as his most visible and outspoken defender. He gave hundreds of interviews to media outlets, ranging from the New York Times to Fox News to CNN, and made near-daily appearances on cable news shows during Zimmerman's trial.
Taaffe used this platform to cast Martin as a drug-addled hoodlum and Zimmerman as a community-minded do-gooder ("the best neighbor you would want to have") who had every reason to suspect the black teen was up to mischief. He also railed against Zimmerman's critics, whom he accused of staging a witch hunt. "It's really sad that he has already been convicted in the public media and has already been sentenced to the gas chamber," he lamented in an interview with NBC's Miami affiliate last year.
Taaffe was hardly the ideal person to be weighing in on a case suffused with racial angst—or commenting on criminal-justice matters, period. A Mother Jones investigation has found that the 56-year-old New York native has a lengthy criminal record that includes charges of domestic violence and burglary, and a history of airing virulently racist views. Just last Sunday, he appeared on The White Voice, a weekly podcast hosted by a man named Joe Adams, who has deep, long-standing ties to white-power groups and has authored a manual called Save The White People Handbook. (Sample quote: "A mutt makes a great pet and a mulatto makes a great slave.")
During a previous White Voice appearance, on July 27, Taaffe argued that whites and blacks have no business mingling. ("They don't want to be with us and we don't want to be with them.") Taaffe also opined that if Zimmerman had racially profiled Martin, he was justified in doing so because "young black males" had burglarized homes in their neighborhood. "What if I—a middle-aged white man—wore a hoodie and went through Trayvon Martin's neighborhood?" he asked defiantly. Adams replied that "no sane white person" would dare walk down their "local Marcus Garvey Boulevard."
"I'd only be there for one or two things," Taaffe shot back. "And I'm sure the vice squad would want to be interested in that."
Later, Taaffe accused African Americans of committing "self-genocide" by failing to address the "ills and diseases that are festering" in the black community—especially the absence of black fathers, which "leaves young black males growing up without direction." And he bemoaned the fact that some white women choose to date black men, saying that they invariably end up becoming single mothers. "Guess who winds up paying the tab on that? You and me and the rest of America," Taaffe grumbled. "It's called entitlement, man. It's called food stamps. It's called welfare."
By the end of the show, Taaffe was so worked up that he was calling for a revolution. "This trial is waking up white America, man," he said. "I'm fed up with the bullshit and the glad-handing to this one group of people who now control what we do and say. Come on, man, wake up America!"
Taaffe's private Twitter feed (@pinsones) also reeks of racial animus. In one tweet, he bashed Michael Skolnik, who directs hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons' political operations, saying "how much nigga cock do u suck an one day or maybe u like it pounded up ur hebe ass." In another he wrote, "the only time a black life is validated is when a white person kills them."
If you want to read the rest of this, visit Mother Jones on this story.
I am kind of amazed. I missed this guy. I wished that we would have focused on this guy instead of the acquitted shooter's brother.
I am surprised that HLN (Headline News) gave this asshole a platform!
Hell I'm surprise this wasn't mentioned by the liberal agitators until now!
My question: Was this guy on the stand?
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