ChicagoAvenger
06-21-2008, 05:14 AM
Insidious Depictions of Barack Obama as a Monkey Draw More Attention – and Anger
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008
By: Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.com
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
You saw it coming: The suggestions of not enough brain power, the rumors about the “angry” spouse, the cartoons, the T-shirts.
The steady drumbeat racializing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has gotten increasingly louder.
There have been T-shirts featuring cartoon monkey Curious George eating a banana with the words “Obama ’08,” as well as a Japanese commercial for a mobile phone featuring a rally with people in the crowd holding signs calling for “Change” and a monkey in a suit, holding up the phone:lol -- clearly meant to represent Obama.YOU HAVE TO LOVE THE JAPANESE!
“President Bush is often portrayed as a chimpanzee, but I see that as different in some ways; it’s really a way of calling him dumb. But when any African-American is portrayed as monkey or a simian in some way, it’s not calling him dumb. They are questioning his humanity,”rolfl
THAT'S RIGHT NIGGER!
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/movingamerica08/obamaasmonkey620
Date: Friday, June 20, 2008
By: Jackie Jones, BlackAmericaWeb.com
I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!
You saw it coming: The suggestions of not enough brain power, the rumors about the “angry” spouse, the cartoons, the T-shirts.
The steady drumbeat racializing Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has gotten increasingly louder.
There have been T-shirts featuring cartoon monkey Curious George eating a banana with the words “Obama ’08,” as well as a Japanese commercial for a mobile phone featuring a rally with people in the crowd holding signs calling for “Change” and a monkey in a suit, holding up the phone:lol -- clearly meant to represent Obama.YOU HAVE TO LOVE THE JAPANESE!
“President Bush is often portrayed as a chimpanzee, but I see that as different in some ways; it’s really a way of calling him dumb. But when any African-American is portrayed as monkey or a simian in some way, it’s not calling him dumb. They are questioning his humanity,”rolfl
THAT'S RIGHT NIGGER!
http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/movingamerica08/obamaasmonkey620