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		<title>New Racist Anti-Obama E-mail (hopefully not) Coming to an Inbox Near You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ryan barrett</dc:creator>
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My friend&#8217;s co-worker actually received this at her work e-mail address. From a vendor. Isn&#8217;t that crazy? Someone she barely even knows &#8211; someone who means to do business with her &#8211; is sending her this filth. The person who sent this must think everyone&#8217;s on the same page when it comes to race-hating. Which [...]]]></description>
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<p>My friend&#8217;s co-worker actually received this at her <em>work</em> e-mail address. From a <em>vendor</em>. Isn&#8217;t that crazy? Someone she barely even knows &#8211; someone who means to do <em>business</em> with her &#8211; is sending her this filth. The person who sent this must think everyone&#8217;s on the same page when it comes to race-hating. Which is scary, because it leads me to believe that everyone around this person <em>is</em> on the same page.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve never seen this particular e-mail before. I think the subject line is trying to be clever or something with the <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061735/" target="_blank">Guess Who&#8217;s Coming to Dinner</a> reference, but it seems the person who wrote it didn&#8217;t quite understand <em>what</em> s/he was referencing.</p>
<p>And the photo attached to the e-mail (a huge attachment, I might add &#8211; shown below) works hard to be beyond offensive. It manages to evoke the painful image of the <a href="http://africanhistory.about.com/od/slaveryimages/ig/Slavery-Images-Gallery/SlaveShipBrookes.htm" target="_blank">trans-Atlantic slave trade</a>, poke fun at African-American culture, depict Black Arabs as dirty and dusty, suggest dark-skinned people are nothing but animals (who can miraculously survive packed so closely together) <em>AND</em> drum up the newfound American fear of refugees.</p>
<p>I.e., <strong><em>These people</em></strong> are taking over our glorious country! And Obama&#8217;s their main man! So if he gets elected, they&#8217;re all hear to stay. Forever. Regular Americans will become the second-class citizens!</p>
<p>Sick and sad.</p>
<p><em>This piece was originally posted on Ryan&#8217;s blog <a href="http://ryanbarrett.typepad.com/cheapthrills/2008/08/new-racist-anti-obama-e-mail-hopefully-not-coming-to-an-inbox-near-you.html" target="_blank">Cheap Thrills</a>.</em></p>
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