Coming from a guy who said Hillary Clinton didn't get it as bad as Sarah Palin did? C'mon. You have to be fair here. Bush and Clinton have been put in some ridiculous and offensive images. But that does not detract from the fact that this implies racial prejudices and evokes a racial thought. It is like saying "Barack the magic negro," is just 'funny.' And the racism of that is all 'perspective.'
Ignorance and hateful venom is not new to Obama--or Palin for you Repubplicans out there. We should still call it when it happens, but don't pretend your side is innocent.
Again, show me any instance where Hillary Clinton was portrayed as mentally inferior for her office, depicted as an insult to her gender or where Chelsea was attacked by mainstream sources to the extent that Palin's children were and I will start buying the idea that Hillary was treated the same as Sarah.
The "Barack the Magic Negro" bit was created by an LA Times reporter who was not making a racist point, but merely a point about how Obama and his black candidacy was being used by others. It was, in fact, an anti-racist sentiment.
I am not denying neither ignorance nor venom against Obama. Are there racist opponents of Barack Obama. Is a graphic comparing Obama's healthcare program to voodoo inherently racist just because Obama happens to be black? Absolutely not.
But, I do have to question this. It is an old southern archetype, one that obviously didn't stick into modern times but one a lot of people can find was prominent back in the day if they do some digging. Now, maybe this guy is making a stupid connection between Obama's healthcare plan and voodoo. That's fine I guess, but people should be aware that there are stereotypes out there that offend people. Take a look at that new Disney movie that's coming out. The main villain was a black voodoo sorcerer and people started getting up in arms because of the old stereotype, so the studio changed it to a white guy and I think took out many of the voodoo elements altogether.
Could the guy have picked less inflammatory image than a dark skinned witch doctor? Absolutely. But that doesn't mean the joke was a bad one, that the joke was intended to be racist, nor the man himself was racist.
Most of all, even if this guy attended Klan meetings, this has no business in the "Future of the Republican Party" thread, because this guy has as much to do with the GOP as you do.
I'm not calling them all racists. but they do seem to cater to them as a party. especially on the local level. you should go down to one of the local meetings here.(Dalton Ga.)
The topic of conversation has been the same for decades. Badmouthing the "colored folk" and Mexicans for everything. I've lived here all my life. They're not bad people. Just prejudiced as hell. But as long as people in the party defend them and condone it then it affects the entire party.
Instead of brushing this stuff off you should be making sure these people lose their positions in the party.
but hey go ahead and keep on keepin on. The country's not getting any whiter.
Finding a bunch of racist people in Dalton, Georgia is not quite as hard as you are painting it out to be. I betcha if I went to the local Democratic meeting and started making racist jokes, a few of them would join along.
Racism is no more a Republican issue than it is a Democrat issue. Its an issue of ignorance, intolerance and down right stupidity - all of which do not require party affiliation.
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