Racist connotations?

[sp1814]

Leaving aside the question of Obama's place of birth (I thought that story had already been put to bed months ago), would you say that sending out an email, depicting Mr Barack as progeny of apes...is just the tiniest bit racist?

Or at the very least, massively naive?

http://abclocal.go.co...nge_county&id=8078594

[Ankou]

racist or not, it seems a ridiculously stupid email for a public authority figureto send out.

[rov1100]

Probably Obama is stll seething about our treatment of the Mau mau terrorists. His grandfather was heavily involved in the mau mau and although no racist overtones were made they did act lke savages.

[sp1814]

rov1100

Sorry, but what has that got to do with the email sent by Marilyn Davenport?

[Ankou]

come on sp, it talks about africans and savages in the same sentence, snarf snarf.

well funny innit.

[jno]

good grief.

In a word, yes. Majorly racist.

<waits for the usual suspects to turn up saying 'It's PC gone mad!'>

[bazwillrun]

"ome on sp, it talks about africans and savages in the same sentence, snarf snarf."

no smoke without fire !

arf arf !

[Ankou]

what about smoke machines ?

[joggerjayne]

It is pretty poor taste.

On the other hand ... if you go into politics, you need to be thick skinned.

He's going to get a lot worse than this when the next election comes around.

[mccfluff]

vry racist and very very stupid

[birdie1971]

The article states, “Marilyn Davenport [who sent the email], a tea party activist...”, which pretty much tells you all you need to know about the mentality of Marilyn – ultra right-wing with racist tendencies.

If you go to The Tea Party's website and click on the “What is the Tea Party?” link and scroll down to “Non-negotiable core beliefs” you find this gem - “Illegal Aliens Are Here illegally”. How quickly the current occupiers of the North American continent have forgotten their very recent history...


“Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.” - Robert Orben