<<Fifteen times?
<<Someone being that persistant would be on the mike.>>
If you can't distinguish one word in all that ambient noise, how could you distinguish it if it were repeated fifteen times or fifteen hundred times? It'd still be lost in the ambient noise that drowned out all the other words, each and every one of them. Furthermore, look at that angry mob - - this wasn't one guy saying "nigger" fifteen times, probably it was fifteen guys, (or women) yelling "Nigger" at Congressman Lewis as he passed by. Why would you think that in a racist mob, only one member is designated to use the N-word? That's absurd. HAD to be more than one guy. Probably many more shouts of "Nigger" too, but the Congressman only heard about fifteen. NO OTHER SINGLE WORD IS DISTINGUISHABLE IN THAT DIN. So why would "nigger" stand out, repeated once, fifteen times or fifteen thousand times? There were hundreds of folks in that mob, each of them shouting something, yet absolutely none of it distinguishable over the angry roar of the mob, but you think "nigger" has some kind of unique sonic quality that enables it to be heard above the roar, which no other word in the English language (or in the limited selection thereof available to those redneck racist morons) can possess.
<<I consider it unproved just because it is barely possible that the persistant pest was following the congressman closely , long enough to chant the opprobrious words distinctly fifteen times.(At a low level.)>>
That is absurd. The whole fucking mob was probably shouting "nigger" at one time or another (when they weren't shouting "faggot" or "baby killer" or "traitor" or "socialist") but it didn't stand out any more than any other of their vile abuse. It's hilarious, your conception that amongst that shouting mob, one man, and only one, is following Lewis around, muttering "nigger" at barely audible levels.
<<What seems more likely to me is that a politician engaged in theater might lie theatricly. This is unproveable. That the microphones do not pick it up indicate that he is lieing , but do not prove it absolutely.>>
Well, let's explore your scientific theory a little more closely. Why do you think, since the microphones did not pick up any other word in the entire cacaphony of shouts, cat-calls, insults etc., why do you think that of all the words shouted or hollered by that mob, that the microphones should have been able to pick up "Nigger?" Inquiring minds need to know.
<<There is also the possibility that what he heard and what was shouted was diffrent , Whipoorwills don't really want you to whip poor ol will , their hoot just sounds a bit like that , Bobwhites are not related to Robert White, their whistle just sounds a bit like that.>>
Sure, that's plausible. What do you think he heard 15 times that sounded like "Nigger?" Trigger? Bigger? "Jigger?" "Digger?" (could he have been mistaken for an Australian?) "Figger?" "Rigger?" You know what I think? I think it could easily have been ANY of those words, but it couldn't have been "Nigger!" No way.
<<When exposed to incomprehensable croud noise and lots of anxiety a person might really hear what he is thinking.>>
Yeah. That's it. He's never heard "nigger" shouted at him by an angry white mob before, so it's really hard for him to know it when he hears it.
<<By the way on a related topic , did you know that there was no necessity for the congresspersons to walk through the croud?
<<Usually they travel from their offices to the Capitol building via an underground tram , but it is hard for hams like these to avoid a good theatrical gesture .>>
Yeah, I thought so - - it's all HIS fault. He could have snuck into the Capitol underground where no decent self-respecting white man or white woman would have had to see him, but instead he had to rub it in and walk there in broad daylight. Serves the bastard right, doesn't it?
