Here on
Michael Dr., just a few houses down off of Wendy Dr., in Newbury Park,
California, just a couple of miles from Thousand Oaks, which is less then
an hour's drive north on a superb
freeway system from the Los Angeles International Airport, and an even
shorter drive from the Burbank International Airport, located in the San
Fernando Valley, you will find a stupendous neon sign installation, rising 14
feet above street level, built on a four foot high hill in my front yard, that
proclaims in bright red neon, ROMNEYS RACIST HEART (DOTCOM).
This neon sign
was built to point the American people to an internet website that provides
undeniable evidence that at the center of Mormon Doctrine, is a White
Supremacist, Anti-Black, Racist Ideology, the global distribution of which
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney has supported and
financed to the tune of millions and millions of dollars over the course of his
adult life.
After only one
week into its life, hits on this neon sign story are more than eleven pages
deep on the Google Search engine.
I worked over a
month building this sign installation, to the great curiosity of the neighbors,
as I would not tell them what it was for, that they had to wait until it was
finished to learn the secret.
I finished it on
Thursday morning, August 23, 2012, at 10am, when I threw the switch, and
it came alive in all of its brilliant glory for the world to see.
That afternoon, I
sent an email to every staff member, and reporter, at the Ventura County
Star, saying, "Please come and see! This is a stupendous sight."
That very evening,
a reporter from the Ventura County Star, Mike Harris, came by to see.
Mike Harris called
me the next morning, Friday, August 24, 2012, and declared that he was very
impressed, and that he wanted to do a story on it. I sat up straight in my
office chair, and did my first ever newspaper interview. The story ran, that
very afternoon, posted at 3pm on the Ventura County Star website. Yes,
only one day after the neon sign came to life, a story is run in the local
newspaper.
The next day,
Saturday Afternoon, August 25, 2012, a photographer from the LA Times
arrives at my door, and hands me the business card of a Los Angeles Times
reporter, Catherine Saillant, and mentiones that she had seen the story in the
Ventura County Star, and was interested in doing a story for the LA Times.
She wanted to talk to me that evening, and he wanted to take some pictures
for her story.
Shortly thereafter,
I called her up at her office at the LA Times, she was
working the weekend shift, and I proceeded to do my second ever
newspaper interview. Saillant wrote the story and published it on the LA
Times website about 9:30pm that Saturday evening.
Very shortly after
the story appeared on the LA Times website, KABC Channel 7 TV News
called me, told me they saw the story in the LA Times, and wanted to run
something immediately on their 11pm news show. Yes, this is still
Saturday Evening. I went out front and took a picture and emailed it
to them, and it presumably ran as a teaser that night and/or early the
next morning.
They wanted to
send their KABC TV Eyewitness 7 News van out here late Sunday morning
to get video and do an interview for their Sunday 4pm news show.
The next morning,
Sunday, August 26, 2012, when I arrived home from taking my mother, 85,
to church, the KABC TV Eyewitness 7 news van was already there and set
up and waiting. I did my first ever TV news interview with the KABC7
news reporter Q McCray, on camera, but not live. They stayed in the
neighborhood for quite some time getting the reactions of the neighbors.
This interview ran on the KABC7 news show at 4pm that Sunday afternoon.
After they were all
done, as the news van was pulling a way, a person on the corner engaged the
driver, reporter Q McCray, in a conversation. I heard the person say to McCray,
and quite loudly, "To Hell with the GOP, but I guess there are some good people
in there."
It was obvious that
this sign installation had forged, for a moment, a bridge of good will from the
people of Good will in the GOP, into the heart of one Democrat who before that
moment, wanted to throw the whole GOP into the trash can. Let that common
ground of good will expand. Let it expand.
On the next day,
Monday, August 27, 2012, KCBS2/KCAL9 news asked for an interview,
and their news van, and reporter Amy Johnson, and cameraman Joell,
arrived in the late morning. This was my second TV interview, and aired on
KCBS2 during their 5pm news show that Monday afternoon, and on the
KCAL9 news at 10pm that Monday evening.
In the very middle
of this interview, serendipity struck again, when a young black woman, with
her daughter in the passenger seat drove up, and stopped and asked if she
could take a picture of the sign. The reporter and cameraman moved
directly to her, to find out why she had stopped, and her response was so
sweet, it was impossible for them not to use it. Of course, she loved the
sign, and it was written all over her face. Yes, she made it into the segment
that aired.
Later that
afternoon, and this is still Monday, August 27, 2012, around 4pm, the
KTLA TV Channel 5 news van arrived on scene, with reporter Carolyn
Costello, and I did my third TV interview which would air during the 10pm
news show that night. But this news van stayed put through the whole
evening feeding live teaser shots to the KTLA Channel 5 station, I assume to
set up the 10pm interview. They were here for about six hours.
KTLA5 News Van Waiting to Broadcast Live Shots from Newbury Park
in the Late Afternoon of Monday, August 27, 2012
At about 7pm that
evening, and this is still Monday, August 27, 2012, another KCBS2/KCAL9
news van arrived, and set up to do live shots, raising up the towering
microwave masts way up in the air. And people are worried about how tall
my sign is? What a sight on Michael Dr., never before seen, two TV news
vans with their microwave masts hoisted up to the heavens. If you have
never seen this before, well, this is very dramatic.
I talked to
KCBS2/KCAL9 news reporter Juan Fernandez briefly. It was clear they
were here to get live neon shots as teasers for their own news show, in
competition with KTLA5, though their cameraman did catch me in what
turned out to be an argument with a Romney supporter. You cannot reason
with core Romney supporters. They always devolve into name calling, and
that is what I got an earful of when I walked away.
The next morning,
Tuesday, August 27, 2012, I woke up very early because I wanted to get
some video material of the neon installation in the pre-dawn light for a
YouTube video I wanted to make. As I walked out the front door just after
6am to turn on the sign installation, I found the KNBC TV Channel 4 news
van parked at the curb, and they are all set up for filming, yes with their
microwave mast fully extended into the sky. I later learned that they had
arrived at 4:30am in the morning, but because of their good manners, they
did not knock on the door very loudly.
They filmed me
turning on the installation, and the reporter, Antonio Castelan, indicated that
he wanted to do a LIVE interview for their 6:30am news show. Another
first. On camera Live. As we stood on the sidewalk waiting for the station to
give the go ahead for the interview, with the neon sign over my shoulder, the
sun peeked over the distant hills, and the interview began shortly thereafter,
conducted in the very process of the sun rising.
By the Grace of
God, I had in my mind exactly what I wanted to say, and the reporter asked
the very question I wanted to answer.
The cameraman
Jose, who has his own internet radio talk show, TwinTalkCast, which he does with his real TWIN brother,
Angel, invited me on for an interview later that evening. That was another first
for me.
All major Los
Angeles TV stations carried this story on their news shows, KABC7,
KCBS2/KCAL9, KTLA5, KNBC4, in the span of three days, August 26, 27,
28, 2012.
The FOX affiliate,
KTTV11, was notoriously absent.
Now, during the
course of that very day, Tuesday, August 28, 2012, the Republican Convention,
on its first day of official business, rushed to officially nominate Romney as their
presidential candidate as hurricane Isaac pressed on for its historic land fall upon
the City of New Orleans, on the 7th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Nature's
forecast for Romney? Stormy weather.
Facts on the
ground shifted that day with the Romney nomination. The five day effort,
beginning August 23, to get the attention of the convention delegates to
focus on Romney's connection to a White Supremacist, Anti-Black, Racist
Ideology did not succeed to the degree I had hoped. I hoped for the
introduction of my resolution (www.save-the-gop.com)
at the convention. That did not happen. But the story did make it to Tampa,
published on the Tampa CBS Affiliate,
Tampa
WTSP Channel 10 news website early on the morning of Tuesday, August 28, 2012.
Perhaps they ran the local interview done by Los Angeles CBS Reporter Amy Johnson. And
of course, the message was delivered to tens of thousands of eyes and minds in the Los
Angeles area. This was a great start. They know the truth, and they will never forget.
Our hope now, is
to get the attention of the American People to focus on Romney's
connection to a White Supremacist, Anti-Black, Racist Ideology, at the
center of Mormon Doctrine, and to begin thinking seriously about the
disastrous impact this would have on race relations in America, if Mormon
Racism is elevated to the level of legitimacy associated with the Highest
Office in the Land.
Remember this
principle that holds together the fabric of racial harmony in this nation:
SKIN COLOR IS NEVER
AN INDICATOR OF
CHARACTER CONTENT
And remember
that Willard M. Romney, as a passionate devotee of the Mormon Religion,
believes the OPPOSITE. Romney believes what Mormon Scripture says.
He believes that people who have black skin where cursed by God, with that
black skin, because of their degenerate character. And he believes what his
Prophet Joseph Smith said about everything written in the Book of Mormon,
that it is the Highest Truth on the Planet.
Everyone should
consider the implications for race relations in this nation, if the American
people elevate a person into the Office of the Presidency, who believes that
God is the Author of Racism.
In this regard, I would
bring this article to a close by quoting from my Convention Resolution which was unfortunately ignored by the
delegates to the Republican National Convention:
Whereas, no member of the
U.S. Army, of African American Descent, deserves to have this shadow of doubt
cast upon his or her character by a Commander in Chief who has been a lifelong
supporter of, and apologist for the White Supremacist, Anti-Black, Racist Ideology
embedded in Mormon Scripture,
Whereas, no member of
the U.S. Marine Corps, of African American Descent, deserves to have this shadow
of doubt cast upon his or her character by a Commander in Chief who has been a
lifelong supporter of, and apologist for the White Supremacist, Anti-Black,
Racist Ideology embedded in Mormon Scripture,
Whereas, no member of the
U.S. Navy, of African American Descent, deserves to have this shadow of doubt
cast upon his or her character by a Commander in Chief who has been a lifelong
supporter of, and apologist for the White Supremacist, Anti-Black, Racist
Ideology embedded in Mormon Scripture,
Whereas, no member of the
U.S. Air Force, of African American Descent, deserves to have this shadow of
doubt cast upon his or her character by a Commander in Chief who has been a
lifelong supporter of, and apologist for the White Supremacist, Anti-Black,
Racist Ideology embedded in Mormon Scripture,
The common sense and total
reasonableness and rationality of these statements cannot be gainsaid.
There are active, red-hot embers
of racism glowing within the American population. Elevating a person to the Highest Office
in the Land, who unquestionable believes that Racism was Authored By God Himself, which
is to say, that they believe skin color was intended by God to be an indictator of character content,
white skin good, black skin bad, will have the effect of fanning these embers into life. The
analogy of opening Pandora's Box would be useful framework in trying to grasp the magnitude
of the danger that Pro-Romney Republican Zealots, in their hatred for Obama, would bring
upon this nation.
This must be stopped. A believer in
the White Supremacist, Anti-Black, Racist Ideology at the center of Mormon Doctrine must
never be elevated to a position of honor and prestige in this society.
