Behind the Veil of Racism
Monday, September 14, 2009
When people say they don't like Obama because he's a socialist and he's like Hitler, their ignorance is showing. Finally a black guy that it's alright to hate. They can wrap up their vitriol, call it "politics" and voila! You've hidden your racism.
I'm sickened at these signs that have appeared at the weekend rally in DC. Signs referring to Obama as a "long legged Mack Daddy" and one printed sign that was being passed out read "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy."
The rallies do nothing more than allow some conservatives' thinly disguised bigotry to pass for conservative rally slogans as they smugly admit when challenged, "I'm not a racist".
I've seen a lot of both thinly disguised and blatant displays of racism in my lifetime so I know it when I see it. I recognize it when I see it slyly hiding behind religion or trying to hide behind freedom of speech. When it looks like a duck and talks like a duck and it walks like a duck, you better believe it's a fucking duck.
I'm sickened at these signs that have appeared at the weekend rally in DC. Signs referring to Obama as a "long legged Mack Daddy" and one printed sign that was being passed out read "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy."
The rallies do nothing more than allow some conservatives' thinly disguised bigotry to pass for conservative rally slogans as they smugly admit when challenged, "I'm not a racist".
I've seen a lot of both thinly disguised and blatant displays of racism in my lifetime so I know it when I see it. I recognize it when I see it slyly hiding behind religion or trying to hide behind freedom of speech. When it looks like a duck and talks like a duck and it walks like a duck, you better believe it's a fucking duck.
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