GOP Shows Obama With Fried Chicken and Watermelon

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LogicalMama — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:33:58 GMT

I went and looked at the picture (thanks ShaLO)! It's totally a racist manuever. Yeah, the chicken, ribs, watermelon and Kool Aid is totally racist. Anyone who thinks otherwise, is either fooling themselves or hiding their own racism!

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chyna823 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:07:13 GMT

The head of that group is a dirty, ugly liar.

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ShaLO — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:45:44 GMT

Take a look at the actual picture: www.rightpundits.com

Can anyone seriously claim that it isn't racist? It's depicting Obama with ribs, fried chicken, kool aid, and watermelon.

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Sam — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:17:45 GMT

The blatant racism in the GOP campaign is disgusting. The should be ashamed of themselves for the propaganda that they are generating. Depicting an educated, wise, highly intelligent, black, presidential candidate with a bucket of chicken and watermelon is incredibly disrespectful, and totally racist. Allowing voters to believe the assumption that he is a terrorist, or Muslim is fear mongering, unacceptable, and also completely racist. Mccain needs to step up and make a public statement, for the respect of his future in the senate, and say that Barack is not a Muslim, that is not a terrorist, and apologize for allowing this propaganda to continue. Diane Fedele should be ashamed of herself, of her party, and she should apologize and step down, or be removed from her post. She is clearly uneducated, irresponsible, and racist, and should be fired for her actions.

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Manjari — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:03:34 GMT

C, you are either incredibly stupid, or you have a reason for not wanting to believe/admit that this flier was racist. I do not think for a minute that you are a racist if you don't vote for Obama. That is ridiculous. I think you are a racist based on your comment, though.

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MomofBeans — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:14:23 GMT

The use of watermelon and fried chicken imagery, when paired with a Black person, is historically very racist. It's an old stereotype: that Black people love fried chicken and watermelon...along with not being able to swim, and other such foolishness. This woman knew what she was doing. It was a calculated, racially motivated, depiction. It would be like showing an Asian candidate with an eggroll or a Hispanic candidate with a taco. It's a stereotypical characterization. And as much as I'd like to believe that we are all beyond this sort of behavior, I know that's simply not the reality.

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Neel — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:31:45 GMT

Some of you up above post exhibits thathave all the characteristics of the racists you belittle, when you so casually toss a generation of 'freedom fighters' into a bag you label 'racists and bigots'.

I'm 70 years old, probably the same age group as the grand father referred to by BettyWu. I clearly remember my generation dying, jailed, beaten, at places like Selma and Birmingham, where the 'white' blood flowed into the same gutters as 'black' blood, as 'brown', 'yellow', and 'pink'.

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Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:47:25 GMT

Good grief people. Since when does eating fried chicken, watermelon and ribs equal black?! I'd say eating fried chicken and ribs at the same time makes me picture someone overweight, which he is not.

What do you have against fried chicken?

(Oh, and I'm sick of people telling me if I don't vote for Obama I'm a racist and if I don't vote for Palin - um, she aint even running for president people! - I'm not a woman. Stupid people. I'll vote the way I vote because I hope it will be the best for the country. Deal with it.)

Oh, and "sweety" means you have to be, wait how old are you BettyWu? People who use that word to me aren't old, they're the annoyingly perky, but not cheerleader, girls with curly hair and such. Get your generalizations straight, would ya?

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Manjari — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:39:23 GMT

dfff, nowhere in the post did Ms. Sager (sweety to you, I guess) so much as imply that she would vote for Senator Obama because he is black. It's quite obvious to anyone with reasonable reading comprehension skills that she is saying she would never let his race keep her from voting for him, because that would be racist.

As for those CA republicans, they are just like so many republicans everywhere. I know I shouldn't be surprised by the level of sick bigotry in the country, but haven't we come any farther than this?

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BettyWu — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:02:15 GMT

"sweety?" Holy crap. My grandfather is commenting on Strollerderby! Don't worry Gampy, we won't let the darkies won't hurt you - the uppity women-folk either - just take your medicine and go baaaack to sleeeep.

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dfff — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:46:22 GMT

Are you voting for him strictly because he's black? Because you know, sweety, that in itself is racist as well.