RNC keeps racist pics on Facebook for nearly a week

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By Daniel Tencer
Monday, October 26th, 2009 -- 11:15 am
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Perhaps no one noticed. Perhaps no one cared. But hours after a liberal news forum brought attention to a series of days old controversial photos on the Republican National Committee's Facebook page, the photos were finally taken down.

Among them was a picture of President Barack Obama eating fried chicken, subtitled with a call to prohibit interracial marriage. The photo's caption read: "Miscegenation is a CRIME against American Values. Repeal Loving v. Virginia."

Miscegenation refers to the "marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races." Loving v. Virginia was a landmark Supreme Court case that, in 1967, struck down all of the US's laws against interracial marriage.

This is the photo as it appeared on the GOP's Facebook profile on Monday:

RNC keeps racist pics on Facebook for nearly a week | Raw Story

Now perhaps it was a troll who posted it, perhaps not. But it was left there for 5 days.

If the RNC can't manage a little thing like their own social networking site, how can they be trusted to manage a country?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

By Daniel Tencer
Monday, October 26th, 2009 -- 11:15 am
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Perhaps no one noticed. Perhaps no one cared. But hours after a liberal news forum brought attention to a series of days old controversial photos on the Republican National Committee's Facebook page, the photos were finally taken down.

Among them was a picture of President Barack Obama eating fried chicken, subtitled with a call to prohibit interracial marriage. The photo's caption read: "Miscegenation is a CRIME against American Values. Repeal Loving v. Virginia."

Miscegenation refers to the "marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races." Loving v. Virginia was a landmark Supreme Court case that, in 1967, struck down all of the US's laws against interracial marriage.

This is the photo as it appeared on the GOP's Facebook profile on Monday:

RNC keeps racist pics on Facebook for nearly a week | Raw Story

Now perhaps it was a troll who posted it, perhaps not. But it was left there for 5 days.

If the RNC can't manage a little thing like their own social networking site, how can they be trusted to manage a country?

Care to explain how that picture is racist?

 

[rightwinger]

By Daniel Tencer
Monday, October 26th, 2009 -- 11:15 am
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Perhaps no one noticed. Perhaps no one cared. But hours after a liberal news forum brought attention to a series of days old controversial photos on the Republican National Committee's Facebook page, the photos were finally taken down.

Among them was a picture of President Barack Obama eating fried chicken, subtitled with a call to prohibit interracial marriage. The photo's caption read: "Miscegenation is a CRIME against American Values. Repeal Loving v. Virginia."

Miscegenation refers to the "marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races." Loving v. Virginia was a landmark Supreme Court case that, in 1967, struck down all of the US's laws against interracial marriage.

This is the photo as it appeared on the GOP's Facebook profile on Monday:

RNC keeps racist pics on Facebook for nearly a week | Raw Story

Now perhaps it was a troll who posted it, perhaps not. But it was left there for 5 days.

If the RNC can't manage a little thing like their own social networking site, how can they be trusted to manage a country?

Care to explain how that picture is racist?

Just curious....

Why would anyone choose a picture of the President eating fried chicken?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Why is Obama eating chicken racist? I don't get it. Whatthe hell? Is this where we have come to?

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

What if it were a picture of Dubya eating chicken.. what would your reaction be?

 

[Lonestar_logic]

By Daniel Tencer
Monday, October 26th, 2009 -- 11:15 am
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Perhaps no one noticed. Perhaps no one cared. But hours after a liberal news forum brought attention to a series of days old controversial photos on the Republican National Committee's Facebook page, the photos were finally taken down.

Among them was a picture of President Barack Obama eating fried chicken, subtitled with a call to prohibit interracial marriage. The photo's caption read: "Miscegenation is a CRIME against American Values. Repeal Loving v. Virginia."

Miscegenation refers to the "marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races." Loving v. Virginia was a landmark Supreme Court case that, in 1967, struck down all of the US's laws against interracial marriage.

This is the photo as it appeared on the GOP's Facebook profile on Monday:

RNC keeps racist pics on Facebook for nearly a week | Raw Story

Now perhaps it was a troll who posted it, perhaps not. But it was left there for 5 days.

If the RNC can't manage a little thing like their own social networking site, how can they be trusted to manage a country?

Care to explain how that picture is racist?

Just curious....

Why would anyone choose a picture of the President eating fried chicken?

What? Only black folk eat fried chicken? Only white folk can be against interracial couplings? If you see it as racist then perhaps you're the one with the problem.

 

[manu1959]

how is a picture of obama eating chicken racist....

 

[paperview]

And there you have it folks...

 

[Lonestar_logic]

And there you have it folks...

Yep.. it's plain as day... liberals see racism where it doesn't exist.

 

[L.K.Eder]

And there you have it folks...

Yep.. it's plain as day... liberals see racism where it doesn't exist.

"miscegenation is a crime" posted under obama eating fried chicken, no that is not racist. no no. of course not.

"kill this ******" under the same pic, would that be racist? i guess not.

 

[Modbert]

Yep.. it's plain as day... liberals see racism where it doesn't exist.

So either you're racist or ignorant.

Miscegenation (Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups, that is, marrying, cohabiting, having sexual relations and having children with a partner from outside one's racially or ethnically defined group.

The picture is calling it a CRIME with a picture of Obama eating chicken on top of it. Generally, a racial stereotype against African Americans is exactly that. So educate yourself.

 

[Modbert]

More ignorance from Republicans in this thread:

Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)[1], was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, by a 9-0 vote, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.

Yes, because it's not racist at all to want and overturn Loving v. Virginia. Ignorant much?

 

[Dr.Traveler]

And there you have it folks...

Yep.. it's plain as day... liberals see racism where it doesn't exist.

Even if the the racist nature of the picture is debatable, the caption is not. That certainly gives the picture above a racist connotation. After all, why choose that picture if your motive is to argue an essentially racist concept.

I'd also put forward this for thought: Perhaps the fact that many Conservatives don't understand why the photo could be offensive is the reason that the Conservatives, and the GOP as a whole, are losing out with minorities.

 

[paperview]

More ignorance from Republicans in this thread:

Loving v. Virginia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967)[1], was a landmark civil rights case in which the United States Supreme Court, by a 9-0 vote, declared Virginia's anti-miscegenation statute, the "Racial Integrity Act of 1924", unconstitutional, thereby overturning Pace v. Alabama (1883) and ending all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.

Yes, because it's not racist at all to want and overturn Loving v. Virginia. Ignorant much?

You have to consider the source.

 

[beowolfe]

Why is Obama eating chicken racist? I don't get it. Whatthe hell? Is this where we have come to?

The picture in and of itself is not racist. But when place in the context of interracial marriages being a crime, it becomes racist. Don't tell me that you're not smart enough to figure that out yourself?

 

[Modbert]

Well come on Lonestar, Soggy, and Manu. Come back and tell me this isn't racist. Don't be cowards.

 

[sitarro]

Actually, Barry makes a perfect poster boy for what happens with mixed race kids. Father leaves before he is 2, raised by Mother who tries another race and finally gives the kid to her parents to raise. The kid is given all of the trappings of a wealthy little white boy and grows up to be an angry adult that only identifies with his father's race, all while throwing the woman (that was kind enough to provide his ungrateful ass a life)under the bus as soon as it was politically handy. Now uses the race of father he never knew to become the historic first "black" President in history.

What is the result if you are the white woman.......... stuck with a goofy kid that doesn't fit in anywhere, holds his mother and grandparents responsible for no relationship with his deadbeat dad, grows up with a giant chip on his shoulder that makes him hate half of who he is, gets immersed in drugs, becomes an anarchist and then makes deals with numerous devils to get into college, the state senate and finally the Presidency. He is now in a position to fuck up the country and people he hates........... all because his white mama fucked a stinking African.

 

[paperview]

Did anyone else click the story and see the other pictures posted there?

"Other photos causing consternation included one of Mother Teresa, in which the revered religious activist was shown feeding a child. The caption underneath read, "Enabling scab-eating mouth breathers will do them no good. How do we expect them to take care of themselves?"

 

[manifold]

Care to explain how that picture is racist?

By itself, it's not racist. But combined with the added text, it certainly is.

Unless of course you can explain to me how laws forbidding interracial marriage are not racist.

 

[Modbert]

By itself, it's not racist. But combined with the added text, it certainly is.

Unless of course you can explain to me how laws forbidding interracial marriage are not racist.

Lonestar will not likely show up again and admit he's wrong like a man.