"It just pisses me off that the right can get away with attacks on the organization while the left and progressives just stood by and did nothing to defend us."
Bertha Lewis, former President of ACORN, speaking about the demise of the advocacy group.
Yup. Not only should the racist class warriors of the RW feel shame for waging war on America's poor, so should the rest of us who sat back and let the wingnut demagogues falsely redefine ACORN until it became too awkward to defend.
Friday, June 18, 2010
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I heard Bertha interviewed on several left sites but didn't know what to do. What should we have done? Seems like any activism or conveying of the truth on our part ends up invisible.
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