Comments on: Give Me That Ole Time Racism: Obama "Monkey" Shirts Appear in Georgia

By: Alan Biancchi

Alan Biancchi — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 06:52:38 +0000

Primate in Chief: A Guide to Racist Barack Obama Monkey Photoshops
Anyone who has been on the real Internet knows that the Obama-as-ape Photoshop actually predates the mainstream talk about his birth certificate. How prevalent is it? Very. Here’s a collection of artwork depicting the nation’s first-ever African American president as a primate, which builds on a long history of various racist Obama caricatures.
See the photo of Barack Obama Money on http://www.imageshumor.com/political/p1259-barack-obama-monkey-humor-the-president-of-the-united-stateshumor.html
A perfect example of the argument in action is the post accompanying the above “Primate in Chief” image. It’s the kind of reasoning commonly employed in the online political debat.

By: emailbrown

emailbrown — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:02:49 +0000

And white people think that we as black people over react about racism, this shirt proves them wrong. I really hope that the author of the book sues this racist pig!!!

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By: James - Atlanta, GA

James - Atlanta, GA — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 17:48:20 +0000

Hey JM, doesnt appear you have a mind to boggle- This is disgusting, plain and simple. As a white Atlantan, I am repulsed that people are making this , let alone this is happening here in this city I love.

By: shagz

shagz — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:03:06 +0000

So then why not make a tshirt of him looking like a pale caveman? Any critism of him isn’t racist. But most critism of him does just happen to be. Hmm i wonder why? Mccain looks like a gothic mortician waiting to die. You dont see blacks making dried up prune tshirts do you? Nah we’re better than that. Apparently. It seems by your statement your people are embarrassing you and your trying to defend them with that silly reverse descrimination rant. Whats so reverse about it. Just by adding the word reverse you make it seem like descrimination only happens one way. Whites to blacks. We know it doesn’t so it doesn’t have to be called “reverse” its just descrimination. You racists keep digging bigger holes for yourselves. Can’t wait til Obama gets elected. Real change is coming.

By: JM

JM — Tue, 20 May 2008 10:33:19 +0000

For years the left in this country has portrayed Bush as Chimpy McHalliburton or some variation of a simian. Now that caricature is being applied to the New Messiah and you all don’t seem to like it too much. Same animal being applied to different people, sounds like reverse discrimination to me.

In fact any criticism or spoofing of Barry Hussein Osama Obama is considered rascist. He is allowed to invoke his middle name, yet anyone else who uses it is invoking fear. The hypocrisy of the liberal left is absolutely mind-boggling,

By: J.P.

J.P. — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:30:27 +0000

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/05/16/curious_george_publisher_may_sue_t_shirt_vendor/?p1=email_to_a_friend

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publisher of the Curious George books, may sue.

By: Darrell Diggins

Darrell Diggins — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:48:40 +0000

Yep, the racists and hateful white folk of metropolitan Atlanta (Cobb County, a northern suburb of Atlanta, that has steadfastly refused to allow mass transit (Marta) into its jurisdiction. “To keep out “crime” and the “undesirables,” as they have said many a time.) are up to their age-old pranks again. The owner of the establishment (Mulligan’s) who sells/manufactures the T-shirts is a unkempt and cruddy 60-ish white man with white hair, tattoos and a bandana; a Hell’s Angels’ biker-type.

He was on the news a few days ago defending his shirts, saying nothing about race entered his mind…he was just “struck by the resemblance…”

Of course, the publicity he has garnered has helped him sell out his T-shirts to like-minded blue-collar, red-necked white folks. (He even said he’s gotten an order for “a hunerd [100] of ‘em from someone in New Jersey.” …So don’t take too much comfort in living in the supposedly more “enlightened” North.)

Frankly, I think we should start to ignore these type of people and their ignorant neanderthal antics. Our rage–which is really valuable (and wasted) energy–is the fuel they seek to stay revved up.

…Let us remember that “Yes We Can” and we will–hatemongers, racists, and ignorant crackers be damned!