Posted on 11/03/2014 2:42:11 PM PST by BenLurkin
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Southland civil rights leaders Monday called for an investigation into what they described as a racially offensive campaign against local Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
Posters featuring a black-and-white illustration of Waters bordered with the words “Poverty Pimp” have been plastered on streets and near freeways and businesses throughout Los Angeles, Inglewood and the South Bay.
KNX 1070’s Claudia Peschiutta reports the ad portrays a wrinkled caricature of Waters depicted with red dollar signs in her eyes and the words “N—-s Betta Have My Money!” behind her.
The ads were captured in images posted online in front of such Southern California landmarks as The Forum and Randy’s Donuts in Inglewood, and even allegedly in front of Waters’ private residence in Hancock Park.
Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson and other activists began taking down the posters at various locations Sunday and are demanding a “fast track investigation” by the California Fair Political Practices Commission.
“We’re highly offended, we’re disgusted by it, we hope this is not the start of something that we’ll continue to see not only in politics, but beyond in Southern California,” said Hutchinson.
While it’s unknown who is behind the posters, there was no indication Waters’ Republican opponent in Tuesday’s election, political writer John Wood Jr., had anything to do with the campaign.
In response to the report, Wood released the following statement: “All I can say is that, people have a right to free speech, but that I represent a fundamentally different brand of politics. Whatever people think of Maxine Waters, we should try to call attention to our differences and challenge our opponents on them without being disrespectful. That’s really what my campaign has been about.”
There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Waters.
The Democratic lawmaker is up for reelection Tuesday in California’s 43rd District, which includes Inglewood, Hawthorne and Torrance.
Fantistic!
Went to jail on federal charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion.
So, what’s racist about it?
The accusation of being a “poverty pimp” is quite reasonable, and bears no racial invective. There are scum-sucking politicians of all colors that exploit their constituents, and via their policies intentionally create additional poverty and misery in order to ensure dependency upon the state. A political figure should not be immune to criticism, and it would be even worse to imply that politicians of a certain race are immune to criticism simply by virtue of their color.
Are the screeching children on the left implying that the use of common language on the background is racist, perhaps? I’ve heard far worse in Grammy-award winning rap music, perhaps we should launch a civil rights probe into racist rap music? Or better yet, a civil rights probe into the Grammy awards?
As far as the term itself, I recall reading a poll recently that indicated a majority of “African-Americans” self-identify by the term “Niggas” rather than the terms “Black” or “African-American”.
Really, isn’t it more racist for stuck-up liberal social justice warriors to try to impose some white-liberal-terminology upon America’s duskier brethren? If a majority of, well, whatever white-liberals want to call them this week, if a majority of this demographic identifies themselves as “Niggas”, wouldn’t it be more racist for the self-appointed liberal thought-police to call them something else?
I mean, after all, if white liberals feel uncomfortable calling a given people by that peoples’ name for themselves, is it really appropriate for white liberals to come up with their own pet-names for said ethnic group? Isn’t that a bit, I don’t know, racist or condescending or whatever the hell liberals are supposed to be against this week?
This comes as South Central LA is being ethnically cleansed of black people, often at gunpoint. Compton—Compton!—is now only 30% black, the rest Latino. But let’s worry about satirical posters.
I thought it was called ‘art’...right libs?
Truth be told, Maxine proly did this herself for sympathy.
The cries of “racism” are amusing in their predictability.
She’s a crook who lives off of the poverty of others, and so keeps her people down to enrich herself.
Dey be cray cray
I thought it was called ‘political satire.’
Oh the whore of it all.
It’s called freedom of speech.
Deal with it.
FReeper PGalt called it.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3222481/posts?page=21#21
>>(but watch it declared “hate speech” in 5…4…3…2…1…)<<
Yeah, and we have been offended for about 50 years.
Wag the dog.
they were probably put up by the democrats to rile up the constituents...I think that they call this kind of effort an, ‘untrue banner’ or something...
The Peters poster is nice, but obviously not as collectable as the Waters one.
Maxine is all ‘bout that bass, ‘bout that bass......
Looks like Jean Shaheen got the same treatment.
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