The first couple portrayed as apes

[JakeStarkey]

I think because of you people and Obama himself, the people will think twice before voting for another black man for president

and it's all because of BS like this over a picture

bravo to you all

Because of you and folks like Santorum and Perry, the electorate will never consider another reactonary for president.

 

[bodecea]

I think because of you people and Obama himself, the people will think twice before voting for another black man for president

and it's all because of BS like this over a picture

bravo to you all

Because of you and folks like Santorum and Perry, the electorate will never consider another reactonary for president.

Because all black men are the same. Right, Stephanie?

 

[Stephanie]

I think because of you people and Obama himself, the people will think twice before voting for another black man for president

and it's all because of BS like this over a picture

bravo to you all

Because of you and folks like Santorum and Perry, the electorate will never consider another reactonary for president.

lol, jake you're just so funny
reactionary
what do you call Obama pushing OScamCare on us...?
stable and clam?
no he was and still is a raving mad man over it
please stop

 

[Vigilante]

Racism, or Political Satire?....Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and the left who continually enjoys trying to point out if you don't kiss B. Insane's ring, you're a racist!

Truth in advertising 150 years ago?

 

[Unkotare]

Depicting Bush as a chimp is demeaning and disrespectful to the office of President
Depicting Obama as a chimp is demeaning, disrespectful to the office of President and RACIST

And there's a liberal for ya, failing to recognize his own racist assumptions and all.

 

[Zoom-boing]

No, YOU are a racist, that's why you separate them out as if one is different from the other. You see the black man as a monkey, so it offends the years of trying to control such racist thoughts by putting it out there like this for you. You only think it's poor taste for Bush because you see him as a white man who is superior, so it's just in poor taste.

Stop projecting your racism onto others.

I disagree with RW: I think the chimp photo is in bad taste and has racist overtones. You, on the other hand, are a birfer, constitutionally challenged, and engage in racial demagoguery, TASB. You are the type of person with whom people refuse to associate.

You have to understand the context of racism

Depicting Bush as a chimp is demeaning and disrespectful to the office of President
Depicting Obama as a chimp is demeaning, disrespectful to the office of President and RACIST

Think if I had made a reference to feeding Bush watermelon vs feeding Obama watermelon.......it is not the same

Nope. Equality for all. If it was fine for the left to depict Bush as a chimp then it is fine for the right to depict obama as a chimp. Stop whining.

You guys pounded the shit out of Bush then cry like girls when the exact same treatment is given to obama.



ftr, it's in poor taste for either side to take shots like this at the potus but wachagonnado.

 

[Unkotare]

I think because of you people and Obama himself, the people will think twice before voting for another black man for president

I won't think twice. I'll continue to vote for whomever I believe to be the best man or woman for the job; the person who would be best for AMERICA. Ah, but then I'm not a 'liberal'....

 

[Stephanie]

I disagree with RW: I think the chimp photo is in bad taste and has racist overtones. You, on the other hand, are a birfer, constitutionally challenged, and engage in racial demagoguery, TASB. You are the type of person with whom people refuse to associate.

You have to understand the context of racism

Depicting Bush as a chimp is demeaning and disrespectful to the office of President
Depicting Obama as a chimp is demeaning, disrespectful to the office of President and RACIST

Think if I had made a reference to feeding Bush watermelon vs feeding Obama watermelon.......it is not the same

Nope. Equality for all. If it was fine for the left to depict Bush as a chimp then it is fine for the right to depict obama as a chimp. Stop whining.

You guys pounded the shit out of Bush then cry like girls when the exact same treatment is given to obama.



ftr, it's in poor taste for either side to take shots like this at the potus but wachagonnado.

ain't gonna happen but good try
we watched these same people be lions with bush then turn into simpering whiny sheep with Obama. they need to look at themselves it's pathetic

and I don't like the Obama's and think that picture is disgusting, but I'm not going to demand our freedoms of speech be shut down over it

 

[rightwinger]

Depicting Bush as a chimp is demeaning and disrespectful to the office of President
Depicting Obama as a chimp is demeaning, disrespectful to the office of President and RACIST

And there's a liberal for ya, failing to recognize his own racist assumptions and all.

What would that racist assumption be?

 

[alan1]

The only way the pics could be seen as "racist" is if certain folks secretly harbor a sense that blacks are somehow more related to chimps than humans. So the real "racists" are the first ones who reached that conclusion and raised the battle cry. Are they decrying their own sense of guilt?
...

Don't know much about history, do you?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhzG9aeOn9w]Sam Cooke Don't know much about history - YouTube[/ame]

 

[alan1]

Our society has not had a history of portraying whites as apes

However, we have a 300 year history of portraying blacks as apes. We used it as a justification to enslave them (they are nothing more than animals) and to segregate them from society (who wants to sleep in a bed that a "negro" has used)

Even today, European Soccer fans throw bananas at black players. They do not do it for whites

That is why it is not equivalent

Until the left decided to depict Bush as one.

And when Bush was called or depicted as a chimp, it was because of his lack of intelligence, because he was dumb, because he was an idiot.

But with obama it's because he's black and 'YOU RACiST!".

You people scream the same shit when anyone disagrees with obama's policies but when people disagreed with Bush's policies it wasn't because he was white,it was because they disagreed with his policies.

Waddabunchofhypocriticalbananas.

Why do Conservatives struggle so much with equivalence and context?

Adults are expected to understand the meanings of words and symbols. They are not always the same

Calling a white an ape is not the same as calling a black person an ape
Watermelon and Fried Chicken does not have the same connotation for whites as it does blacks

Spoken like a true racist that believes those racist stereotypes.
Thank you for telling us where your actual racist stereotypes live.

 

[Mojo2]

Satire? I don't think that word means what they think it means.

Belgian Newspaper Accused Of Racism For Picture Of Obama And Michelle As Apes

De Morgen apologized for the image in its Monday edition, admitting it was guilty of "bad taste."

"When you consider the fragment apart from its context, which is a properly worked out satirical section, then you don't see the joke but just a picture evoking sheer racism," the newspaper said. "We wrongly assumed that racism is no longer accepted, and that in this way it could be the subject of a joke."

Unigwe, who lives in Belgium, went on to tweet in depth about the controversial spread, noting that the fault lies with Belgian society moreso than De Morgen:

I really can't find the possible humor angle. I guess I need to evolve more, or something.

At least now we know why there was no birth certificate.

 

[alan1]

From the link:

The article was reportedly a satirical piece that also joked about Obama selling marijuana. The newspaper packaged the photos as if they had been submitted by Russian president Vladimir Putin, Metro said Sunday.

The picture was joined by a message reading, “Vladimir Putin is the president of Russia. He sent us this attachment at our request, and chose to send pictures instead of text 'because he doesn't have a lot of time',” the Independent said.

While the article has many readers outraged, there are also readers who have come to the newspapers defense. "It was a joke," one Reddit user said.

"In their defense, there are tons upon tons of pictures and t-shirts with Bush drawn as an ape," another user wrote.

"When you consider the fragment apart from its context, which is a properly worked out satirical section, then you don't see the joke but just a picture evoking sheer racism," the newspaper said. "We wrongly assumed that racism is no longer accepted, and that in this way it could be the subject of a joke."

It was an Onion-esque joke in the satirical section of the newspaper. In Belgium.

Context counts.

And note, Bush was depicted as a chimp more times than anyone can count. I thought we could all trace our roots back to Africa anyway.

Stop whining and grow a thicker skin.

Depicting Bush as a chimp is not the same as depicting Obama as a chimp
One case has racial overtones the other doesn't

If the George and Laura Bush were going to an official dinner and I said.....Serve them Fried Chicken and Watermelon it would not have the same meaning as if I said it about the Obamas

I guess that if you think watermelon and fried chicken is somehow tied to race it might be racist.
Evidently, you do, so that makes you the racist.

 

[Stephanie]

From the link:



It was an Onion-esque joke in the satirical section of the newspaper. In Belgium.

Context counts.

And note, Bush was depicted as a chimp more times than anyone can count. I thought we could all trace our roots back to Africa anyway.

Stop whining and grow a thicker skin.

Depicting Bush as a chimp is not the same as depicting Obama as a chimp
One case has racial overtones the other doesn't

If the George and Laura Bush were going to an official dinner and I said.....Serve them Fried Chicken and Watermelon it would not have the same meaning as if I said it about the Obamas

I guess that if you think watermelon and fried chicken is somehow tied to race it might be racist.
Evidently, you do, so that makes you the racist.

Pretty soon these fascist will demand outlawing saying Fried chicken and watermelon...like all we are allowed to say now, it's the N WORD
we'll have to say, FC for fried chickenand that green sweet thing sometimes with seeds in them for watermelon

 

[Mojo2]

I think because of you people and Obama himself, the people will think twice before voting for another black man for president

I won't think twice. I'll continue to vote for whomever I believe to be the best man or woman for the job; the person who would be best for AMERICA. Ah, but then I'm not a 'liberal'....

As a Black man I gotta say if Obama is the best example of Negritude we have to possibly be POTUS, I wouldn't blame anyone for never again voting for a Black man for POTUS.

He is NOT a credit to our race.

He is a shameful example of what it means to be Black.

All the Whites in the Dem Party cared about was that he was clean, spoke like he was White and, like a Judas Goat, could lead his fellow Blacks AS WELL AS Whites, to the 'slaughter'.

Ask (Keep yall in chains) Biden.

Ben Carson and Allen West would be much better leaders but thanks to the Resident in Chief they will never be judged on the content of their character because of the degeneracy of Obama's.

 

[MisterBeale]

When it comes to government meddling in the affairs of sovereign private citizens? All government officials are apes. . . .

That being said, of course there has been a tradition to depict blacks as apes. To deny it is to be anti-intellectual. But to not understand the humorous irony here is to be woefully obtuse. . . this is the POTUS we are talking about. . . blacks are now, "THE MAN." They have been part of the establishment for some time. I remember a black Secretary of State. I remember a black Secretary of defense. To my recollection, there are minority congressmen and Senators. In fact, correct me if I'm wrong here, there have even been black supreme court justices going back several decades. It would be fool hardy to say that racism doesn't exist, but then again, it just seems that in this case, freedom of the press is probably a more compelling interest.

That is the whole point. Generally in the past when blacks were referred to as apes, they were done so because they were not in charge, they were a subordinate class. Now? Well, it seems it doesn't make sense any more to get so upset when such a powerful political figure is ridiculed, even if it IS racist. It does more harm than good, and it divides us more as a society than it unites us.

Frankly, it should say more about the magazine than the Belgian people or European society. But curtailing everyone's freedom over it is definitely wrong.

Truly it is being done as satire. The only way it could've been done in a racist way is perhaps if you think we live in a post apocalyptic world and the POTUS' policies were responsible for destroying the world and the Belgian people. Then I suppose they might have a notion to tell him this about his policies and his initiatives. . . .

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cdmqn9JIuzc]Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape! - YouTube[/ame]

http://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/apes-and-allegories-what-is-the-meaning-of-this

 

[Iceweasel]

Ben Carson and Allen West would be much better leaders but thanks to the Resident in Chief they will never be judged on the content of their character because of the degeneracy of Obama's.

I don't believe that at all. If either one of them won the nomination, and they could, Republicans would come out of the woodwork and vote for them. This time with the conservative base. Don't let the dems convince you that it's a racist country. Sure it exists but it is not the driving force with most folks. The extreme left uses it to get votes, I believe that's where most of the racism is.

 

[rightwinger]

Until the left decided to depict Bush as one.

And when Bush was called or depicted as a chimp, it was because of his lack of intelligence, because he was dumb, because he was an idiot.

But with obama it's because he's black and 'YOU RACiST!".

You people scream the same shit when anyone disagrees with obama's policies but when people disagreed with Bush's policies it wasn't because he was white,it was because they disagreed with his policies.

Waddabunchofhypocriticalbananas.

Why do Conservatives struggle so much with equivalence and context?

Adults are expected to understand the meanings of words and symbols. They are not always the same

Calling a white an ape is not the same as calling a black person an ape
Watermelon and Fried Chicken does not have the same connotation for whites as it does blacks

Spoken like a true racist that believes those racist stereotypes.
Thank you for telling us where your actual racist stereotypes live.

Actually, I do believe there are racist stereotypes and depicting blacks as apes and making watermelon references are at the top of the list

For conservatives to assume that those stereotypes appy equally to all races shows how out of touch they are with society

 

[DriftingSand]

When it comes to government meddling in the affairs of sovereign private citizens? All government officials are apes. . . .

That being said, of course there has been a tradition to depict blacks as apes. To deny it is to be anti-intellectual. But to not understand the humorous irony here is to be woefully obtuse. . . this is the POTUS we are talking about. . . blacks are now, "THE MAN." They have been part of the establishment for some time. I remember a black Secretary of State. I remember a black Secretary of defense. To my recollection, there are minority congressmen and Senators. In fact, correct me if I'm wrong here, there have even been black supreme court justices going back several decades. It would be fool hardy to say that racism doesn't exist, but then again, it just seems that in this case, freedom of the press is probably a more compelling interest.

That is the whole point. Generally in the past when blacks were referred to as apes, they were done so because they were not in charge, they were a subordinate class. Now? Well, it seems it doesn't make sense any more to get so upset when such a powerful political figure is ridiculed, even if it IS racist. It does more harm than good, and it divides us more as a society than it unites us.

Frankly, it should say more about the magazine than the Belgian people or European society. But curtailing everyone's freedom over it is definitely wrong.

Truly it is being done as satire. The only way it could've been done in a racist way is perhaps if you think we live in a post apocalyptic world and the POTUS' policies were responsible for destroying the world and the Belgian people. Then I suppose they might have a notion to tell him this about his policies and his initiatives. . . .

Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape! - YouTube

http://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/apes-and-allegories-what-is-the-meaning-of-this

Not to mention the fact that the Progressives are arguing that the depiction of the Obamas is "racist" based on the "history of THIS country." However, the pictorial occurred in a Belgian newspaper so that argument falls flat on its face.

 

[DriftingSand]

Why do Conservatives struggle so much with equivalence and context?

Adults are expected to understand the meanings of words and symbols. They are not always the same

Calling a white an ape is not the same as calling a black person an ape
Watermelon and Fried Chicken does not have the same connotation for whites as it does blacks

Spoken like a true racist that believes those racist stereotypes.
Thank you for telling us where your actual racist stereotypes live.

Actually, I do believe there are racist stereotypes and depicting blacks as apes and making watermelon references are at the top of the list

For conservatives to assume that those stereotypes appy equally to all races shows how out of touch they are with society

So if a black person says that he likes watermelons would he be considered racist? What if someone says that a white guy likes watermelons -- is that racist too? Just what in the hell do you want? Should folks just stop talking altogether? It seems that it doesn't matter what anyone says there's going to be some crybaby screaming -- RACISM. Sorry but I'm not going to walk on eggshells for you. I happen to know some black people who like watermelon. I happen to like it to. It's a tasty fruit and wonderful summertime refreshment (racist or not).