The Rundown
Ok, so we all know about the heated debate going on in the nation over healthcare reform. I'm not really going to get into that but the video above was from Senator Claire McCaskill's town hall meeting on healthcare reform. This was all over news networks yesterday but they really only talked about the woman. Apparently, there were several other women and a little more to the story than what we saw.
A few ladies brought Rosa Parks posters to this town hall meeting, but when the crowd began yelling and booing at them they rolled the posters up. If you watch the video above, you can see that about half way through a lady unrolls a poster to show a journalist (Watch the bottom of your screen in the middle). Then you see an angry man in a blue shirt, dart over and snatch the poster away from the lady. The lady then runs after the man and her poster and is then dragged and pushed out by security.
You can also hear Senator McCaskill's attempt to regroup the crowd and feed them whatever she wants them to believe has happened.
My Question
The whole time I see this I'm thinking, why the heck is there a Rosa Parks poster at a healthcare meeting? Sure the women may have been trying to use it as a visual aid because of her prominent role in the civil rights movement. But healthcare affects all of us whether you're: black, white, green, blue or red.
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