MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts Discusses Race-Baiting In NOM’s Secret Court Documents
MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts discusses the groundbreaking revelations of corporate-sponsored race-baiting locked within the just-unsealed secret NOM court documents.
We covered this groundbreaking story this morning. For the complete documents and important excerpts, read our report: “NOM’s Confidential Court Documents Reveal Worldwide Corporate Strategy Of Divisive Racism.” The gist:
Confidential court documents created by NOM, the National Organization For Marriage were unsealed and obtained yesterday by HRC, the Human Rights Campaign. These documents reveal a shocking and sickening corporate strategy of using race to divide Americans, creation of false positioning between Christians who do and do not support equality, and identifying “beautiful†people to embody their messaging, among other strategies, like “sideswiping Obama,†and painting him as a “social radical.â€
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>>> we wanted to get on the record this morning with new information that just came to light in regard to the national organization for marriage. nom as you may recall is an organization who fights tirelessly against marriage equality . well, the state of maine has an ongoing investigation for campaign finance activities there in the unsealed court documents distributed by the human rights campaign show that the confidential nom 2009 literature titled “winning the marriage battle” defined its agenda by saying the strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks. two key democratic constituencies find, equip, energize and connect african-american spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage . as a civil right, provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots. it also identifies a plan to attract latinos to the cause by saying our ultimate goal is to make opposition to gay marriage an identity marker. a badge of youth rebellion to conforming assimilation to the bad side of anglo culture. another discusses a $1 million plan to quote expose obama as a social radical, develop side issues to weaken political leaders and parties to develop an activist base of socially conservative voters raise such issues as pornography, protection of children and the need to oppose all efforts to weaken religious liberty at the federal level . we reached out to the national organization for marriage for comment on this. and we are awaiting a reply. if something
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