The first image above is a button that was on sale at the Texas GOP Convention. According to Politico’s Ben Smith: “The speakers were generally respectful of Obama, the Dallas Morning News reports, but this is the sort of stuff that the RNC has been warning state parties about for months.”
From P+P contributor Ryan Barrett: “I’m actually happy the GOP is being so idiotically obvious with their bigotry. Crap like this will do nothing but seal the Democrats together. Like glue…So GOP, go ahead and bring on the blackface. I double dog dare ya.”
Honestly, nothing would suprise me at this point. Although it’s not overtly stated, I’m assuming this was not sponsored by the GOP organizers. Regardless, it speaks volumes to the massive racial fissures between red and blue states.
By that standard, the dustup in Salt Lake City over the Obama sock monkey screams it. As if the utter ignorance in missing the monkey’s offensive potentcy as a symbol wasn’t implicit enough, the people who tried to sell it before they were overwhlemed with virulent opposition decided to whine to the Salt Lake Tribune and dig the hole about 10 feet deeper:
We at TheSockObama Co. have some questions to pose. What’s really going on in America? In the good ol’ fashion spirit of entrepreneurialism ; free enterprise has been censored, and TheSockObama politically plush toy has been discriminated against in the marketplace of the United States of America.
Double standards appear to be a common thread here. It’s okay for there to be hundreds of thousands of Google sites containing references to our current president’s resemblance to a chimpanzee. However, it’s not okay to make that same association regarding our possible next president. Isn’t this the very definition of hypocrisy? We find this to be both obvious and curious in the same breath.
To the black person brave enough to be first set foot in Utah, when you choose to cross into those uncharted waters, you have a long task ahead of you.
Thanks to Ryan for the tips on both items.
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More on the epic Wyclef performance from Chris Nelson, including a sick photo gallery and descriptions of the electric vibe at the event.
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June 19th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
Scary stuff, and sad.