And Here…We…Go.
| October 13th, 2008Barack Obama’s going to win this election.
That is not going down well with this guy.
Nor with the Freepers, who have a suggestion for a role that Barack Obama could play in a McCain administration:
Ha! You see, it’s funny because it’s horribly racist.
Is this stuff appalling? Disheartening? Sickening? Yep. Surprising? Not so much. The racists — and there are a lot of them — can’t be dealing well with the notion that their president is going to be a man who they’d rather see shining their shoes…or dangling from a tree. And while they’ve done a good job of keeping the masks in place so far, referring to Obama as a “celebrity” instead of “uppity,” for example — we’re three weeks and a day away from their belief in white superiority being destroyed for all time, and they’re bitter about it.
The McCain campaign isn’t responsible for this stuff directly, of course, but they’re playing their part, telling Virginia supporters to tie Obama to al Qaeda via Bill Ayers, because “both bombed the Pentagon,” and running the aforementioned celebrity ads, which were long on racial subtext and short on sanity.
Unfortunately for the racists, it won’t work. Most Americans can accept an African-American leader. That doesn’t mean racism is cured in those Americans — everyone in this country harbors internalized racism (and sexism, and homophobia), and we all need to be aware of that, and we need to work to eliminate it. But there are still a lot of people who harbor more than internalized racism, who are active racists, even if they try not to view themselves that way. And those people are only going to get more vicious, more ugly, and more frightening as the election draws near.
October 13th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Well, back in the day, you know what they used to say to us, about Nixon, Reagan, et al? LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT, BABY!
I won’t miss them. Bye!
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October 13th, 2008 at 9:34 am
This sort of thing absolutely is appaling, but I’d like to point out that the photographer of the original image (Ted Szukaiski, whose name appears in the watermark) apparently had nothing to do with the vile, poorly-executed Photoshop alterations. You might want to consider removing the watermark, or adding a disclaimer to clarify this.
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October 13th, 2008 at 9:59 am
we’re three weeks and a day away from their belief in white superiority being destroyed for all time
-that’s a bizarrely optimistic comment. White supremacy is more than just one political office. I will, however, enjoy watching the hyper-patriotic white supremacists tying themselves in knots for the next eight years.
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October 13th, 2008 at 11:51 am
Daisy, that was a billion kinds of AWESOME. Oooooh, I hope I get to say that someday. (I have a few particular people in mind already.)
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October 13th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
This reminds me of 4Chan. The big difference is that those kids are mostly 15 year olds giggling because they feel like they’re “breaking the rules”
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October 13th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I know, Thene, but I still think they view it somewhat like that — the very idea that a black man could actually win is shaking them to the core. And while it won’t destroy white racism, it is a big hit to it. And the lashing out at that is going to be severe.
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October 13th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
The most striking image I have seen today is the photo attached to this “ticker” post.
Look at the young woman on the left side, in glasses and a red long sleeved shirt. She is holding up the standard “McCain Palin/ Country First” sign handed out to supporters at the GOP candidates’ rallies. But look closer: on the sign is scrawled in black “MY HUSBAND/ DEPLOYED AGAIN.” And then look at the face of the woman holding the sign. In contrast to the people smiling around her, she looks almost ready to cry.
Despite what we have been seeing and hearing over the past week about McCain supporters’ personal hostility toward Obama and conviction that he’s a “terrorist,” “Arab,” “bad guy,” etc., it’s worth keeping in mind that for some folks, McCain’s support for the war in Iraq, and his pushing forward a surge strategy that may have made that war less dangerous for U.S. troops this year, is a reason to want him to win.
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October 13th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
God Bless America– the USA is about 3 weeks to electing a black man as president.
This comment was written by drydock.These white racists are the ones that are going to be disheartened, probably going into permanent depression.
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October 13th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
To be fair, the country would be much better off with both McCain and Obama shining shoes than with either one making critical policy decisions.
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October 13th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
[...] It’s come to my attention via this thread that I should point out that Ted Szukaiski, the photographer of the original photo, and whose name [...]
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October 15th, 2008 at 10:21 am
Brandon - I guess we’ll find out as of January, won’t we? But in general I’m past tired with people who wave a hand in apathy and say that both of these people are equally unsuitable for the presidency. Because they’re not, and the statement says way more about the speaker than about the candidates.
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