Posted on 04/08/2009 8:46:54 AM PDT by theruleshavechanged
Activist Kevin McCall says the name is "very offensive to African Americans." Another protest is planned for Saturday.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
NYC fried chicken joints under fire for Obama name
By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer
Friday, April 3, 2009
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/03/national/a093523D04.DTL
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"City Councilman Charles Barron said Friday that he will organize a demonstration next week outside Obama Fried Chicken in his Brooklyn district. Organizers said they may also target Obama Fried Chicken & Pizza in Harlem.
"People from the community were calling me and saying they were outraged by this racist connection to Barack Obama and fried chicken," Barron said."
http://www.1010wins.com/pages/4140573.php?contentType=4&contentId=3775956
That's "ex"-Black Panther Charles Barron...
Charles Barron: "My immediate response is 'take off the ex,' because I’m still a Panther at heart. And I’m proud to be a Panther because the Black Panther Party fed children breakfast. It had a clothing drive for struggling people in our communities. It led the research drive around sickle cell anemia, a rare blood disease peculiar to black people. As far as the guns and the actions with the police, that wasn’t even a major part of our program. That was for self-defense against police brutality."
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2003/06/local/barron
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From the Maoist Internationist Movement:
[1960s/original] Black Panther Party [BPP] Archives
From the article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROES
"On May 1st, May Day [1969], the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto's top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs. These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended themselves from the racist pig gestapo.
Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest. Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him.
The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that "the spirit of the people is greater than the man's technology."
To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp."
Source: Maoist Internationist Movement
Article: REVOLUTIONARY HEROS (May 11, 1969):
http://web.archive.org/web/20060717050055/http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/bpp/index.html
It's time to leave your Church's and run to the presidents!
Policy based on race sucks back then... and still sucks today...
It's offensive, dare I say evil, to have transfatty acids in them fried chickens.think about the children...
Hehehehe... good one.
It is not racist.
You would think after all that they would be sick of those foods though.
I taught a bunch of African-American kids last year and many of them (not all of them of course) said fried chicken was still a favorite food.
That doesn’t do much to get rid of that old stereotype.
cha cha cha chia!
And Kenyan coffee..
I hope there will soon be a dish called “Obama Crow.”
Gee whiz, even fried chicken is a black icon!
lol...no doubt. But I suspect few would have the honesty to eat it.
If its hard to swallow, it can be pureed.
I find many African Americans offensive. Who can I protest about that?
“People from the community were calling me and saying they were outraged by this racist connection to Barack Obama and fried chicken,” Barron said.”
Ya, just like the old people were calling Rep. Wexler about being fooled and disenfranchised during the 2000 election. Show us the phone records asshat.
Commander in ch-ch-ch-chief !!!
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