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NY weekly depicts Obamas as black sitcom actors
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| May 5
Posted on 05/05/2010 11:50:12 AM PDT by JoeProBono
GARDEN CITY, N.Y. (AP) -- A weekly newspaper publisher on New York's Long Island is defending its decision to portray President Barack Obama and his wife as characters from the TV sitcom "Sanford and Son."
Some local political leaders and others contend it's a racist depiction.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: jpb; obama; sanfordandson
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To: JoeProBono
“I’m coming to join you, Elizabeth, and I’m bringing the Wookie with me”
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:52:27 AM PDT
by
Hoosier-Daddy
( "It does no good to be a super power if you have to worry what the neighbors think." BuffaloJack)
To: JoeProBono
I don’t get it. Was almost everyone on that show black or what?
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:52:38 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
To: frogjerk
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:53:54 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:54:00 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: JoeProBono
A remake of “Dumb and Dumber” starring the Obungles would be both less racial and more accurate......
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:54:44 AM PDT
by
Mac from Cleveland
("See what you made me do?" Major Malik Hasan)
To: JoeProBono
It’s racist to parody them using “Sanford and Son”?
So, then... Redd Foxx must have hated black people?
I did not know that!
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:54:57 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
To: JoeProBono
Is there a link tot he pictures?
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:56:40 AM PDT
by
verga
(I am not an apologist, I just play one on Television)
To: frogjerk
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:57:51 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com << Get your science fiction and fiction test marketed)
To: verga
Haven’t found one...yet
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:58:42 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
LOL:
Barak: Who is it?
Aunt Michelle: It’s Michelle!
Barak: Michelle who?
Aunt Michelle: You know Michelle who! Open this door fool!
Barak : I can’t open the door!
Aunt Michelle: Why not?
Barak: You too ugly!
To: WayneS
I picture Barry as more of the Kid Dy-no-mite type...the laughable screw-up.
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:00:38 PM PDT
by
WOBBLY BOB
("The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants"-Albert Camus)
To: JoeProBono
Some local political leaders and others contend it's a racist depiction. So it's racist to portray black Americans with black actors?? I'm sorry, totally lost, what am I missing here??
To: JoeProBono
So Redd Fox and LaWanda Page were racists?
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:02:39 PM PDT
by
Sloth
(Civil disobedience? I'm afraid only the uncivil kind is going to cut it this time.)
To: JoeProBono
Looks like somebody pressed your face in cookie dough and made gorilla cookies.
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:05:51 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:06:09 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: frogjerk
Yes—there were mainly black actors on Sanford and Son. May they should have portrayed them on All in the Family?
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:22:47 PM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: basil
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:24:27 PM PDT
by
basil
(It's time to rid the country of "Gun Free Zones" aka "Killing Fields")
To: WOBBLY BOB
“Kid Dynomite” is a conservative.
To: Hoosier-Daddy
Good one, but I think MO would make a better Grady than Aunt Esther
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posted on
05/05/2010 12:43:34 PM PDT
by
sniper63
(Bang,Bang, Maxwell's Silver hammer........)
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