A guy in South Carolina named Bob Cramer (who is totally not racist, by the way) is selling t-shirts featuring that image of President Obama dressed like a witchdoctor with a bone through his nose. You know the one — it was all the rage during the Death Panels Will Kill Us All era of the Obama presidency.
Bob has been told that it’s racist, but it’s not, he says. It’s political, he says. Besides, no black people have said shit to him about it, so… no fuss, no muss.
Anonymous
They are who we thought they were.
Baud
You’re the real racist, Imani.
Culture of Truth
this is all political correctness run amok!
Alison
And if the people in those “black neighborhoods” did try to mess with him, well…all that would do is prove who the REAL RACISTS are. Because it’s totally reverse racist to be bothered by blatant racism. When it’s done by white people.
Honestly? Sometimes I’m glad that those fucks don’t consider Jews to be white, because I sure as fuck hate sharing any bit of biology with them. Yuck.
Chris
One of the benefits of being a racist is that you don’t have a hell of a lot of black friends around to tell you that sort of thing.
arguingwithsignposts
@Chris: I have heard that they all have at least one black friend.
Alison
@arguingwithsignposts: I bet they all have the *same* black friend. One dude who just makes the cracker rounds on alternating weekends.
Jay C
@arguingwithsignposts:
Who, of course, has never said shit about anything to them – evah!!!
Roger Moore
In other news, CNN reports “Producer of popular gun-related videos found fatally shot“. If only he had some way of protecting himself from criminals, this would never have happened.
Jebediah
@Alison:
What kind of short straw do you have to draw to get that “privilege”? Or is it some kind of anthropological research?
Mike in NC
I’m reminded by stuff I read virtually every day: Too small to be a Republic, too large to be an Insane Asylum
Narcissus
@Jebediah: Maybe he’s an alien, like a brother-from-another-planet sort of situation
Alison
@Jebediah: Maybe it’s recon. You know, for that race war they keep warning us about…
rikyrah
they are who we thought they were.
and, I know there’s a ‘ Black section’ of town…why doesn’t he put on the shirt and wear it there.
serge
That’s just how us folks here in SC is. My fellow citizens, in numbers too many to be ignored, can be pig-ignorant even of their ignorance. Dumb-ass retarded simpletons like this fellow are held down by a shitty education system just as institutional racism holds the blahs back from birth to the grave. Oh, and wetbacks too, but who else would maintain the courses at Kiawah and Wild Dunes? We kinda have to give them a by…
South Carolina is one big fucking Walmart. We elect the dumbest politicians, and when one isn’t dumb, he’s one mean son of a bitch. Alvin Greene? Jesus fuck…I’m still waiting for the truth of his story to come out, and it will be a whopper. Tim Scott in the Senate!? Sweet Jesus in a sinking boat this is the stuff of a horrid midnight tale told in a thunderstorm. The kids won’t sleep for a week. Wait ’til they find out it’s all real.
Thanks for letting me vent…
Roger Moore
@arguingwithsignposts:
Yeah, and he’s as imaginary as their empathy.
Joel
Aren’t these guys just real life trolls?
AkaDad
He’s comparing Obama to a doctor. Doctors are professionals, respected by their community. He’s actually giving Obama a compliment.
You should apologize.
nellcote
@Joel:
Right up to the moment they shoot someone.
gogol's wife
@serge:
My sympathies!
Villago Delenda Est
@AkaDad:
“Doctor Bombay! Doctor Bombay! Emergency, emergency! Come right away!”
BGinCHI
For South Carolina, that shirt sounds kind of liberal.
gbear
Someone should sneak up to his truck and slap a nice big rainbow flag sticker on the liftgate.
cckids
@serge: Ya know, I thought I disliked it here in Vegas, but you do beat my attitude! Are you looking to get out? We are, we are coming up with a solid 2-3 year plan to bug out of here. Life is too short to live somewhere we dislike this much.
Roger Moore
@gbear:
Maybe a “My other car is a Prius” sticker instead. And they should steal his truck nuts while they’re at it.
Cargo
He was HOPING that some blah folks in the blah neighborhood would give him shit about it, then he could “feel threatened” and shoot them all. Stand your ground! Stand your ground!
Mr Stagger Lee
When I see stories like this, remember this President Obama has been re-elected, there is nothing more these dumb peckerwoods can do jack shit about it. So let these dumb crackers show their ass, every day is more day closer to the collapse of their confederate fantasy land. Let them DIAF and bury them in the hole but not before I piss on the casket.
Joseph Nobles
“I’ve got black neighborhoods I can drive through” is a new one on me.
Joseph Nobles
FYWP
Roger Moore
@Joseph Nobles:
It’s a particularly dumb one, too. Does anyone thing random black people on the street are going to see his truck, associate it with the t-shirts, and do something to him as he’s driving through? If he really doesn’t think those shirts are offensive, let’s see him walk through those neighborhoods wearing one.
Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.)
Oh, yeah, but who would know better whether something’s racist than an enlightened white man? I mean, hell, if you listen to those people, well, hell, everything’s racist. They should just sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up, and let nice Mr. Cramer tell them what is and isn’t racist.
Just once, could one of these asswipes own up to their racism? They won’t come out and say what they want to, “I hate the president because he’s a nigger, and I hate niggers!” They won’t say that because they know people will know they’re loathesome asshole racists. But the thing is, they’re already loathesome gutless asshole racists, so just being loathesome asshole racists would be a step up for them.
Fuck. These are the same tough guys who are forever going on about what great warriors they are, and we’ll have to tear their guns out of their cold, dead hands, and we liberals had damned well watch out, ’cause they don’t take no bullshit, no way, no how! They’re so fucking tough, but they’re scared to say what they believe because people will say mean things about them. Fuck.
kc
Once again, I apologize for my state.
Viva BrisVegas
I know I’m being a pain in the arse pedant, but that isn’t a witchdoctor with Obama’s face stuck on him.
It’s a New Guinea highland chief, or Bigman.
Not that it matters in the racism department, but it does mean that Obama is almost certainly more closely related to this chief through his mother than through his father. So too with this Cramer character.
But with racism, it’s always the thought that counts.
RSA
@Alison:
It’s as if “those people” can disagree with him without physical attacks on person or property. If anyone noticed.
jshooper
THERE YOU GO AGAIN !!!…You Obama-lovers can’t deal with policy based criticism.So you call anyone who dares to go against Dear Leader a “racist”.
/ Firebagger, Teabagger,Paultard, Greenwald, Hamsher etc etc
majii
The black folks in those neighborhoods are too pre-occupied with laughing at his ignorant butt to even think about laying a hand on him or his vehicle. People like Cramer give us lots to laugh at. Guy’s so stupid that he doesn’t know that the joke’s on him. Only in America can an ignorant tool think he’s doing something important while others are laughing their asses off.
Ruckus
@serge:
Lived in Charleston in the early 70’s. Back one time in the early 90’s. Sorry to see that it hasn’t gotten any better. But then why would it, it hadn’t gotten much better in the preceding 100-150 yrs either.
Ruckus
@Zapruder F. Mashtots, D.D.S. (Mumphrey, et al.):
Why do you think they wear pointed hoods that look like dunce caps?
Michael Scott
Translation:
“Ipse Dixit, N*gg*r!”
Fred
I lived in Greenville SC for four months in ’79. It was way too long.
I remember the time I was talking with some good Christian boys and they started going on about wanting to lynch a black guy who was in jail on suspician of supposedly stabbing a white guy in a bar. I guess they don’t have courts down there. But it was all bullshit ’cause those weanies weren’t going to do anything. It’s just the way they talk in Greenville.
That gomer should get hisself a booth over ta Anderson Auction. They’d go nut fer that shit over thar.
gelfling545
@Roger Moore: Don’t you think people would just avoid him? Most folks don’t stop to chat with the obviously insane.