Yeah, dude...it's all about race.
Posted on 08/14/2009 5:47:02 AM PDT by markomalley
Early last week I posted a brief blog noting the appearance of those "Obama Socialism" posters, in which the president's face is made up to resemble Heath Ledger's Joker character from The Dark Knight. That Batman-film derived image had been Photoshopped by Firas Khateeb, but up until July hadn't appeared as any sort of guerilla art. When the picture was first reported as having been pasted on Los Angeles freeway structures (the public gallery of choice for street artists and taggers) it generated a firestorm of controversy. The outrage extended to L.A. Daily, which received more than 120,000 hits within the week on this subject - a high number for a short post on an alternative newspaper blog. I was soon on the receiving end of hundreds of comments to L.A. Daily - for days my Inbox was chiming every few seconds.
The outrage wasn't about the poster's content -- most of the comments were attacks on me for saying the image appealed to conservatives: I didn't have a sense of humor; I was rubbing people's faces in race when race had nothing to do with the poster; I had said nothing when the L.A. Weekly featured a cover image of George W. Bush with vampire fangs, etc. The most interesting aspect of this is how often anti-Obama commentators accused me and anyone else whose remarks displeased them as playing some kind of race card. In fact, all I did was accurately point out that Obama was in white face.
(snip)
No, dude, it's all about race. Racial anxiety and racism are social pathologies that adapt to changing conditions and evolve over time. Conservatives don't burn crosses at their rallies - contemporary political theater and its language have moved on with the times.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.laweekly.com ...
Yeah, dude...it's all about race.
This guy is milking it for all it’s worth!
I dont care.
DNC Death Panel: "You voted wrong and pray to God. Your healthcare is hereby terminated!!"
Don’t take an apathetic approach to the playing of the race card -
actively mock and ridicule anyone that uses it.
We are SO beyond race now. We’re actually the “anti-racists” now, fighting against the racism of the left, and their use of the government to implement it.
Please, some one throw the race card......
=.=
Frankly, he should just give it up. We've hardly begun smacking the Leftwingtards around for their anti-"W" propaganda. There's Ronaldus Magnus, Richard Nixon, Jerry Ford, Ike, and others to make up for.
The mind boggles!
Equality demands some pretty nasty stuff doesn't it.
"It's okay when we do it!"
Typical shit for brains LibCreep...If you can’t win an argument, screech “Racism!”! ‘In the Clique’ Meatheads.
Must be nioice not to ghave to use your brains, and just let the “cool” people make all your decisions, and give you all your pat answers. Who acres if there is a shred of truth to them....All the other Bedazzled goons will back you up with *their* lies.
It’s all about race alright...
Any form of speech in which one is critical of, or even mildly ironic about The One is racist.
These libdolts apparently never read “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.”
My question is, and has been all along, is Obama black or white?
I think the true racists in America are the ones “claiming” him as their own.
On a trip this week I was pleased to see Obama joker posters taped up on interstate highway signs in Ohio (I70 wb between Columbus & Dayton)
Nice job Buckeyes!
I shut down a poster on YouTube when he threw the race card. I asked “White or Black? Obama is both.”
He then went into a hissy about “wingnuts” being bigots.
I told him that Republicans voted for a real black man, Alan Keyes. They voted for a half white guy. Are they scared of a REAL black man?
excellent
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
