The Willie Horton Ad and the Revolving Door Attack Ads

A segment on race and American politics from the award-winning documentary film Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story features Mike Dukakis, Sarah Palin Senior advisor Tucker Eskew, writer Ishmael Reed, and journalist Joe Conason discussing racial politics, the Willie Horton Ad, and the Revolving Door Ad.

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[peacelord]

Yeah he kept America safe by buiding military bases in Saudi Arabia and making America vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Great job, dipshit.  Horton was evil but we trained Bin Laden

[BOB JACKSON]

I knew the kid Willie Horton killed.The kid was a teenager.He gave Willie all the money he had at the gas station and Willie Killed him anyway.He's and animal and should have never been let out.The kid was robbed of his life,and Willie has no remorse.murderers should be well screened for and rights in prison.Some people kill in a barroom brawl or trying to protect themselves,or other non pre meditated ways.Those should be treated differently

[NB3K]

But u would have be believe what

[Moonbiot]

you probably think that god exists hahaha there is no god

[Moonbiot]

So... if Willie Horton had been white, then this wouldn't have worked?

Then weekend passes would be ok then?

It would be less of an outrage?

Willie Horton is the racist, for encouraging negative stereotypes about black people.

Also, the revolving doors ad isn't representative of the actual American prison population.

If it were a direct proportional mapping, it would be about half black.

[budstattfgangsta]

people still fall for there shit and everybody know all of them are full of more shit

[Aegius]

In the ad of the revolving door nearly all the prisoners that were being released were Caucasian. The focus on the Black man came from Democrats. The Democrats focused on race and not the Repubs and they made it a racial issue, not the Repubs.

[Roger Snowden]

This completely ignores the creation of the Willie Horton issue by the Democrats, in the first place. If Willie Horton is a racial issue, then it is because Democrats made him so.

[tmat1973]

Excerpt from an awesome documentary on a sociopathic man who rose to the top.

[stopthemadness99]

"Alright, alright, my name is Uncle Ruckus, volunteer corrections officer. Our next stop will be Willie Horton Maximum Security Prison."

And now I know why that line is hillarious.

[sandra Black]

Ashotjan, you are correct except for a slight oversight, Conservatives are racists according to liberalelitiststatist period! A liberal racist is anyone that calls a conservative racist!

[sandra Black]

The leftist alien looking tard of a news broadcaster talking of "here he is, the one to be afraid of" like this character was being singled out, well if it were really being as they portrayed then why not really go all out and only have that black man in the video and he alone,,,hum,,,,?????? But,since they have criticized that the black man is "isolated" for looking up, then they need to have intellectual honesty and bring forth how ALL the others appeared, such as bearded man looking imposing?