Boston.com blogger meets Palin fan from East Coast White Unity. Yup.
The Tea Party protesters rolled into the Boston Common yesterday, their leaders in two enormous buses.
This is me with a member of the ECWU, or East Coast White Unity.
As a member of a universally-respected international news organization said, when we spelled out that acronym for her: “Are you serious? That’s f---ing scary.”
He’s not everybody, but he and his organization were here.
A person came up to me and a friend near a hotdog stand, screaming. We weren’t sure why he was screaming at us, other than maybe because we looked young. (A good amount of the protesters were sarcastic young people, holding signs like “Palin/Voldemort 2012.”) We weren’t sure what he was screaming about, either, but it was something about guns. Eventually, after our calm accidentally eased him down, we began getting to know each other.
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In the past two years, for various different assignments, I went to Scott Brown's victory celebration in the Park Plaza Hotel and Barack Obama’s campaign stop on the Common in 2008. There were never any white supremacists there. There were plenty here.
More:
http://boston.com/community/blogs/todays_soundtrack/2010/04/soundtrack_on_common_ground.html?camp=facebook_fanpageHat-tip to:
http://twitter.com/jbnbpt/status/12224927453 and
http://twitter.com/GregMitch/status/12225285609See Also:
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