From The Daily Voice:
"To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds." Photo caption of Michelle Obama speaking to her daughter Malia posted on The Free Republic.
Disclaimer on The Free Republic: "Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government. "
For those of you who have argued vociferously with me that we are living in a "post-racial America" rather than an America in which Jim Crow is on steroids, you apparently have not read the daily diet of racism that the readers and bloggers on this site consume and then regurgitate. The photo caption above was posted with a blog in which comments included:
"Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?"
"They make me sick .... The whole family... mammy, pappy, the free loadin' mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin', and especially 'lil cuz... This is not the America I want representin' my peeps.
First, it is easy to dismiss these comments as isolated incidents posted on a right-wing vestige. To do so of course would completely miss the point. Moreover, these comments show the continuing significance of race in a country that has become so enamored with the election of its first Black President. In fact, far too many of us are content only with the symbolism and dismiss the substance. I have heard many say that he can't tackle race in his first term but that he will do it in his second.
The result is that too many of us have accepted racism as a creature of the past and we use the election of President Obama as unequivocal proof of this.
The reality is that Bull Conner, the Grand Wizards and members of the KKK and the Aryan Nation have been replaced by the writers, editors and owners of The Free Republic who through the use of technology have more power to spread hate and racism that any of the three aforementioned entities combined. The Free Republic is the modern day racist engine that a majority of Conservatives rely on to indoctrinate an old and new generation of race peddlers and demagogues. Of course, the site owner is also a "sensitive" man.
According to site owner, Jim Thompson, "We should steer clear of Obama's children. They can't help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig."
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