Republican protesters openly admit using racist imagry

[Jaron]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/17/obama.witchdoctor.teaparty/index.html



Color me...not surprised. They may as well stop beating around the Bush, burn the cross on the White House lawn and break out in a hearty chant of "Come out Nigger! Come outside right now!"

[Jaron]

Posters portraying President Obama as a witch doctor may be racist, organizers of Tea Party protests say, but they reflect anger about where he is leading the country.

The Proof is in the pudding.

[Jaron]

"Now we have a black president, which means, on its most basic level, that a black man has more power than any single white citizen in this country," Cobb said. "Whether people want to admit it or not, I suspect the Tea Party crowd believes that the currency of whiteness has been devalued."

There's another wrinkle to the witch doctor controversy. Obama was mocked by some critics as the "magical negro" during the campaign because he was perceived to be a solve-all to nation's problems.

Enjoy, Languish. This is the party of Hansmeister and derspiess.

Goodnight. Give me something good to read when I wakes up.

[Eddie Teach]

Enjoy, Languish. This is the party of Hansmeister and derspiess.

You mean the two miscegenationists?

[Hansmeister]

I have to laugh at the sillyness of CNN of picking out a single protest sign out of hundreds of thousands in order to try to smear people who oppose Obamacare as racist.

@ Jaron:  Where does it say anything about this being "Republican protesters"?

[CountDeMoney]

@ Jaron:  Where does it say anything about this being "Republican protesters"?

They're not mentioned in the article, since they're showing up at Presidential appearances with weapons.

[The Minsky Moment]

I have to laugh at the sillyness of CNN of picking out a single protest sign

the one right next to it is just as bad.

[Faeelin]

I have to laugh at the sillyness of CNN of picking out a single protest sign out of hundreds of thousands in order to try to smear people who oppose Obamacare as racist.

@ Jaron:  Where does it say anything about this being "Republican protesters"?

You're right Hans. These are probably Democrats.

[Josquius]

Its more the hammer and sickle that has me

[Valmy]

Its more the hammer and sickle that has me

The Republican nutters are pulling out the stops by calling the Democrats Communists AND Nazis.  I mean Stalinobamahitler?  That is just first rate.

[Syt]

Its more the hammer and sickle that has me

The Republican nutters are pulling out the stops by calling the Democrats Communists AND Nazis.  I mean Stalinobamahitler?  That is just first rate.

Trotzkobamadolf.

[derspiess]

Now is that a black witch doctor, or some other ethnicity?  Because if the ethnicity of the body of the original witch doctor is not black, the poster is not racist by technicality

At any rate, I'm still not convinced the intent of the poster is racist, per se.  If the person who did the poster was trying to represent Obama as a sort of witch doctor, what should he have done-- made the witch doctor's body white or European looking?  Put Obama's head on a chiropractor? 

[Valmy]

what should he have done

What people always do in American politics: portray Obama as Hitler.  For the historically savvy they could use Dr. Mengele.

[Jaron]

Now is that a black witch doctor, or some other ethnicity?  Because if the ethnicity of the body of the original witch doctor is not black, the poster is not racist by technicality

At any rate, I'm still not convinced the intent of the poster is racist, per se.  If the person who did the poster was trying to represent Obama as a sort of witch doctor, what should he have done-- made the witch doctor's body white or European looking?  Put Obama's head on a chiropractor? 

Having reading problems, son?

They ADMITTED its racist:

Posters portraying President Obama as a witch doctor may be racist, organizers of Tea Party protests say, but they reflect anger about where he is leading the country.

[derspiess]

Now is that a black witch doctor, or some other ethnicity?  Because if the ethnicity of the body of the original witch doctor is not black, the poster is not racist by technicality

At any rate, I'm still not convinced the intent of the poster is racist, per se.  If the person who did the poster was trying to represent Obama as a sort of witch doctor, what should he have done-- made the witch doctor's body white or European looking?  Put Obama's head on a chiropractor? 

Having reading problems, son?

They ADMITTED its racist:

Posters portraying President Obama as a witch doctor may be racist, organizers of Tea Party protests say, but they reflect anger about where he is leading the country.

Si, puedo leer, Chancho.  Did it say the organizers were the ones who made the posters?