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Is Suburban Obama Sign Racist?
Daily Herald ^
| 10/15/08
| Josh Stockinger
Posted on 10/17/2008 3:59:18 AM PDT by Past Your Eyes
It might be offensive, but it isn't illegal.
That's the conclusion police reached about a campaign sign in unincorporated Kane County that contains a "racial slur" in reference to Barack Obama.
The homemade sign, posted along a well-traveled stretch of Route 47 north of Lily Lake, shows a caricature of the nation's first black presidential nominee wearing red-colored hair and a red nose modeled after Chicago's famed Bozo the Clown. There's a red circle with a line through the Illinois senator's head and two words in all capital letters: "NO BROZOS."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: antichrist; bro; obama; racist
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To: Hot Tabasco
You know what, on 2nd look I do believe it is. The sign appears to be metal and I can see no reason for the barbed wire fence there other than the sign. I hope the guy reads FR and will at least consider my idea about the nose lighting up.
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posted on
10/17/2008 5:14:21 AM PDT
by
WildcatClan
(The world is full of fatheads; so I invented Diet Shampoo)
To: Past Your Eyes
I thought use of Ebonics was advocated by the left. Part of what makes this so damn funny. It is NOT racist. Period.
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posted on
10/17/2008 5:23:33 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: bert
Uh...actually, it’s hanged.
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posted on
10/17/2008 5:24:30 AM PDT
by
Lee'sGhost
(Johnny Rico picked the wrong girl!)
To: WildcatClan
The owner of the sign said he had put up an earlier sign which was vandalized so he build a fence around this one. He didn’t say anything about electricity, though.
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posted on
10/17/2008 5:25:05 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: codercpc
Please explain to me how this could ever be construed as racist?
I can try, but you need to suspend disbelief.
In the state of Virginia, in 1993 I attempted to get personalized license plates with my nickname (Drumbo).
The DMV computer "flagged" my application and it was rejected on the grounds that "Drumbo" constitutes a racial slur. Stunned, I appealed the decision and eventually spoke with a supervisor. The reasoning went, that "Drumbo" was akin to "Sambo" which the PC crowd had recently banned in the state (both the children's story from libraries and a popular pancake house on Atlantic Avenue in Virginia Beach called "Lil' Black Sambo's").
"How do you conclude that 'Drumbo' resembles 'Sambo' any more than it resembles 'Dumbo' the Disney elephant, 'Bozo' the famous clown or any of several Marx Brothers"? I asked.
In true bureaucratic fashion, I was told that under the "rules" of the DMV, which I assume was supported by some useless state legislation, any epithet resembling 'Sambo' was considered racist and summarily rejected. The suffix 'bo' was especially damning because it was a contraction of "Boy", an equally damnable racist phrase. You can't fight City Hall FRiends.
I reapplied with a new variation and received my new plates with no problems.
Evidently "Boy" had not been programed into the computer as a rejectable phrase. I covered the "Y" with white tape and drove happily with those plates for years.
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posted on
10/17/2008 5:45:19 AM PDT
by
Drumbo
("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
To: Past Your Eyes
Could you do something about the use of “and” instead of “an”? I see it all the time. Makes me nuts.
To: Marmolade
I must admit to doing that myself on occasion. I usually catch it and fix it but, trying to be clever, witty AND fast, I don’t always fix every typo. Sorry.
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posted on
10/17/2008 9:16:48 AM PDT
by
Past Your Eyes
(You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
To: Past Your Eyes
No apology needed. It’s just something I noticed a lot, this past year. Sometimes in random posts, but what really got me was an online petition that had it in it.
But, as I say sometimes, if this is the worst of life’s problems, I can surely live with it.
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