Comments on: Racist Obama Doll?

By: minni

minni — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:57:34 +0000

Damn the doll is nothing compared to the hell we are in due to his policies and administration.

By: margotdarby

margotdarby — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 10:29:33 +0000

No offense taken.

By: margotdarby

margotdarby — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:29:33 +0000

No offense taken.

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:24:21 +0000

Hey,
As i said before, it is not ok to paint anyone as a monkey.

By: margotdarby

margotdarby — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:13:18 +0000

People have painted me and my friends as monkeys too, for hundreds and millions of years, but you don't see me complaining. No sir. My friend Bethany actually looks like an orangutan, so she should talk, haha! I don't care if you make a sock monkey out of me, just so long as I get some of the proceeds. I once went as a gorilla on Hallowe'en. I am completely befuddled about all this false sensitivity about monkeyness. You didn't see the younger President Bush whining when Max Gefiltefisch said he looked like a chimpanzee. Obviously he knew what he was doing. Likewise for Obama. You don't get to be head of Acorn looking like a monkey unless you do so intentionally. Pass the biscuits, Pappy!

By: Mary Jo

Mary Jo — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:03:45 +0000

It most certainly does NOT look like the president, it looks like a monkey. But they are selling it as the president. It is sickening.

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:07:12 +0000

No problem. Thanks for your comment. Well taken and you are absolutely right!

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:59:14 +0000

Sorry, Eric,
I was not directing my comments at you. I liked what you said. I clicked wrong.
thanx

By: Adrienne

Adrienne — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:19:56 +0000

Hey,
FYI, it is not ok to portray anyone as a monkey, and it is especially not OK to portray a black person as a monkey.
Why? For four hundered years and counting, someone has painted me and my friends like we are less than human beings. That we are scary, dangerous, radical, UN American and need to be controlled and or stopped, (jailed, shot etc.). Lots of folks benefit from these characterizations. This monkey portrayal is one more in a series of reinforcements for institutional and individual racism. Not calling it for what it is again says it is AOK to be disrespectful, mean nasty, cruel. Words and pictures do matter.
thanx

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 13:56:40 +0000

It's a free racist country…especially down there in Georgia.