Posted on 07/10/2009 9:53:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
That is SOOOOOOOOOOOO sweet and kind and, and, TOLERANT!!!!
Bless his heart!
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Yes, but if I recall correctly, Jim's concern was in regard to criticism of the Obama children.
A far cry from KKK.
He looked fine and so did she. They were dressed the way typical American teenagers dress. There was nothing wrong with the hair, or the sun glasses or the nail polish. Many of the posts were hateful and ugly, and they were directed at Malia and her cousin. We should leave the kids alone.
Her hair looked just fine
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I guess your idea and my idea of hair looking *fine* wildly differ. Black Panthers and ghetto gangs come to mind when I see that and she does NOT wear her hair like that. It was a statement. We will agree to disagree. I will never agree with you on this.
Oh please. Sarah could be sitting at home with her family watching TV at night, curtains drawn...and the media would portray it as wrong.
Hardy. By associating me with Sandra Lee, you gave up a rational argument. Though it was a wise decision on your part.
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I agree that the children should not be targeted. Beyond that, I have no comment.
Yeah, you're so intimidating. /s
Sanctimonious is more like it.
Bump! Leave the children OUT OF IT!
Let me provide a counter-example. During the campaign, there was a skit on Saturday Night Live about reporters from New York being ignorant of Alaska and being asked to go up there and report on Sarah Palin. During that skit, there was a comment about one of the reporters wanting to see if Todd Palin was molesting his daughters. That’s been repeated as an example of the horrible insults made against the Palins during the election.
I saw that skit and interpreted it very differently. I saw it as making fun of the reporters and the ignorant over-the-top things they were believing about the Palins and it was a comment, along with the rest of that skit, about how ignorant they were about anything outside of their cushy big-city left-wing environment. In other words, I think one could make a rational case that that joke wasn’t as awful as convervatives have made it out to be. But the target and intent don’t matter because conservatives saw it in the much larger context of the unreasonable attacks on Palin and it looked a lot like those other attacks, thus it was interpreted as yet another over-the-top attack on the Palins.
While these sorts of things may make perfect sense to the people making the jokes, the larger context matters and unfortunately there is a larger context here, not only in the form of untrue left-wing stereotypes of conservatives as racist but also the over-the-line comments that show up when I open up a thread about Mrs. Obama and see a half-dozen or more messages deleted by the moderator or actually see them before they are deleted. Aunt Esther alone? Maybe entirely justifiable and perhaps even funny. Combined with monkeys, Aunt Jemimah, and screeds about how ugly she is? Not so good in that light.
On an official state visit to a summit site?
Sure...
The issue is not that the media portrays anything that Sarah Palin or conservatives do as wrong but whether or not people believe them. The more absurd the claim, the more people doubt them. The more supported the claim, the more people believe them. When you can show real live racists at a Sarah Palin rally, that’s supporting evidence for the claim that Sarah Palin’s supporters are racist. Similarly, when you can show real live racist things being said on Free Republic, or even things that look like they might be racist to the average person, it’s supporting evidence that this site is racist.
The right has had this disinterest in image and perception for a while and it’s killing us because it’s let the left control the message. Too many people believe all of those stereotypes about conservatives because we can’t be bothered with how we look and play right into those steroetypes. And so long as we live in a country with elections, what people think matters, whether conservatives like it or not.
Agreed. They also deserve parents who know better than to let them parade around like that on an official state visit to a foreign country.
Absolutely. We will disagree because I thought her hair looked fine and she was just as cute as can be. I still want to know what “statement” her hair made. Please
Why do you admit it. You chose Sandra Dee as an insult.
Are you such a weenie you won't even back your words?
She does wear her hair like that. There are many pictures of her hair like that. There is nothing about her hair that is associated with Black Panthers and ghetto gangs. It is a typical african-american hairstyle, and not a statement.
Here are pictures of the hairstyle from 2008
www.flickr.com/photos/31581086@N02/3002020512/
www.flickr.com/photos/26645163@N02/2508482883/
Here is one from several years ago.
www.flickr.com/photos/27690295@N04/2582656544/
Of course she does..and black panthers? ghetto?? I did not even see that coming. What a sheltered world I live in I guess. Thank you for posting the links to the pictures.
An example of being sanctimonious.
BTW, be careful if you watch TV Land. See, there's this old sitcom called All In The Family that they air. No doubt it will offend you.
This site is NOT racist. What is up with all of this today? Two talk shows are taking callers, discussing, yada yada yada...the huge racial issues in America.
Did someone send out talking points?
Anyway. There are a group of people who LOOK for racism where it doesn't exist. Those people make things up no matter what you say or don't say.
They're again throwing white guilt at the country. I won't buy it into it.
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