Analysts are suggesting that Sen. Barack Obama appeal to evangelicals to win Kentucky next week. According to a recent Rasmussen Report, Sen. Hillary Clinton is leading the state by twenty-five percentage points, 56 to 31. In preparation for Tuesday’s event, Obama’s campaign is distributing fliers that depict Obama in the pulpit with a cross overhead.
The flier recounts the day that Obama became a committed Christian: After graduating from Columbia University, Barack Obama moved to Chicago’s South Side to work as a community organizer in neighborhoods devastated by the closing of local steel mills.
Obama forged a profound connection with the people of these communities. At their encouragement, he visited a local church one Sunday. That day Obama felt a beckoning of the spirit and accepted Jesus Christ into his life.
The Obama campaign is also enduring some much less positive promotion. Mulligan’s Bar and Grill in Cobb County, Ga., is selling t-shirts with a picture of Curious George peeling a banana, with the words “Obama ’08″ underneath.
According to the AJC, the bar’s owner, Mike Norman, acknowledged the imagery’s Jim Crow roots but said he sees nothing wrong with depicting a prominent black person as a monkey.
He said, “We’re not living in the (19)40′s. Look at him…the hairline, the ears — he looks just like Curious George.” A few months ago, a caller on the Rush Limbaugh Show referred to Obama as Curious George. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the publishing company that owns the Curious George image, says it is considering legal action to stop the sale of a T-shirt depicting Barack Obama as the monkey from children’s books.
FIRST BLACK FEMALE SPEAKER
Check out the video of Karen Bass being elected the first black female Speaker of the California Assembly. Bass took office on Tuesday and is the first black woman in the history of this nation to lead a legislative house.
@ 50 Please, sit down and stand back up when you have a decent point . Suddenly , Obama is standing in a pulpit with a cross over his head .It he felt his religion matter in this election, he would have had that image way before now . People like you get on my damn nerves . Don’t get mad at me because Im standing outside of the box most of you are trapped in . I have never voted and never will! I deal with a higer power . Regardless if he wins the election or not ,it will hold no barings on my life’s cycle , only one can determine how my future events turn out and its not a damn president. Vote if you want , thats your right ,but please get over it because Im still going to feel the same way at the end of the day so stop wasting my damn time !!
Actually, G-DUB-YA looks more like Curious George than Obama does.
I live in a shanty in the shantytown.
We have no money so we had to sleep on the ground.
I played the music. My father he dig a ditch.
My mother she do laundry life sure was a bitch.
But ’till we killed the white people. Ooh we gun make them hurt.
Kill the white people yea. But buy my record first.
Ooh yea. Why don’t you buy my record?
We sing of freedom and ooh equality.
But we really don’t care we just want money money money.
We want to drive in a big black limosine.
Get so high off ganja we cant even see.
and then we kill the white people. Ooh we gunna make them hurt.
Kill the white people. Yea. Ooh but buy my record first ooh.
When u go in the record store. We gunna wait outside.
We gunna hit them in the head with a bat and make them cry.
but ’till we kill the white people.
Yea but buy my record first.
http://www.imeem.com/peop...hy_kill_the_white_people/
This is nothing new, I heard that Obama’s campain has been dealing with this race thing in each and every state. He’s field people being called nigga lovers if their white and doors slamming in workers face with I ain’t voting for no damn nigga!! It’s just the ignorance plan ignorance. I’m in Kentucky and you can cut the tention between the races here with a knife. Get out and vote every voice counts!!!!
The t-shirt is ridiculous..but it doesn’t surprise me. The owner says it’s not the 1940′s anymore, but yet puts out a t-shirt like that. He knew exactly what he was doing when he made those shirts. I hope the Curious George company sues him for every dime he’s got as well as i hope he loses all the buisness from the Black consumer. Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles didn’t make a shirt with a Saltine Cracker on it saying Clinton 08 now did they???? Idiot!!!
What’s up Bill!!!! Where u been? lol!
Congrats to Karen Bass!
It just shows ignorance and bigotry are alive and well in the US and nothing will ever change that fact!! To reduce one of the brightest stars of our time, the presumptive democratic nominee for President of the USA, Barack Obama to a monkey, just goes to show that it doesn’t really matter what this man, any of us as a race of strong, amazingly beautiful and talented people accomplish all white people like Mr. Norman see is NIGGA!!! They refuse to accept that the world is changing their will be more like Karen Bass, Oprah Winfrey and Barack Obama!!! I mean a white boy is graduating as valedictorian from Morehouse College, Go head Josh!! They world is changing and they can either roll with it or get crushed.
This will be Sen. Obama’s fight, so we must laugh at their ignorance and move on!!! Be strong and do not let ignorance affect you!! Have a blessed day!!
BARACK 08
@61 DIVAINVA: I agree with you 100%.
All these men (and women) do is make promises that that CAN’T and WON’T keep. Even if they are well-intended, they simply cannot solve the problems that are plaguing mankind today.
I’ve already cast my vote for the one who can and will solve all mankind’s problems, and he’s coming real soon!
yt folks always starting some ignorant crap-some of them anywayz!!!! go obama just turn your head and keep truckin with those who has your back!!!!
Blatant ignorance like comparison of barack to a monkey is such a pathetic attempt at racism. Those ignoramuses are to be laughed at. Black folks have bigger fish to fry. THese are the people that never matter in the big scheme of themes. Rush Limbaughs used those ignorant , (trailer trash) assess to say the things he is afraid to say because he knows that the backlash will be vicious. They use fools like these, who end up getting their businesses boycotted, to speak for racism. Look at Imus, now he has 2 blacks on his radio station. Ignorant trailer trash are the fall guys.
Prayer is power!!!!!!!!!!
wow… thats just wow..
too much … its sad.. cause just as we think we are getting ahead.. we find that we are still 50 feet behind…
i pray for Obama as he goes forth in this campaign … seriously..
I have a serious hate/love for the South. Sometimes I am just so ashamed to be born and raised here. He see no problem with his ignorance that is the PROBLEM.
Wow! Kinda shocked at the T-shirt. It’s just so confederate, backwoods, I thought that was said and done with by the 1980′s.
Hey we think he is a monkey too..So darn cute.
Hey, please read the whole post, Thanks!
I’m a white guy that stumbled onto this site by accident and got really caught up reading the post and yawl’s comments about white people and what they think (or what you think they think) about black people. I see a whole lot of references to “rednecks”, “white trash”, “ignorant trailer trash”, “AmeriKKKa’s”, “degenerates”, Effin racist”, “fool” , (and my personal favorite ) “DEVIL’S OFFSPRING” all followed up with statements like “Caucasians DON’T like Blacks…
They simply TOLERATE us” and references to “Kill all of the white people.” And its makes me say, “Wow and white people are the racist?”
Look, I don’t like white trash and I don’t expect black people to like them either, I’d be disappointed in you if you did…I don’t like trailer trash, not that ALL people that live in trailers are trash, but you know what I mean when I say that just like I know what you mean. I don’t like hicks (nobody mentioned that one) and I don’t expect black people to like them either. But what makes white people angry is when black people say they don’t like certain white people but they get so upset when anything negative gets said about anyone who is black even if its true. So why can’t black people understand that white people don’t like “SOME” people that are black. We pretty much feel the same way that a lot of black people feel (go to You Tube and watch Chris Rock on racism). Why can’t we feel the same way about people that you do. Everybody dislikes people of other races for reasons other than their race. I learned from this site that black people don’t like the white “DEVIL’S OFFSPRING” for several reasons other than the color of their skin. Why can’t we have the same liberty? Why do white people have to like everyone, nobody else does. Oriental’s don’t like anybody, and had white slaves as late as the early 1800’s. The middle Easterners had white slaves from the 1500 thru the 1700’s and historically hate literally everyone. Mexican’s don’t like Orientals or Blacks. Blacks, as is evident from this site, don’t like white people but all you here about are the WHITE DEVIL’S OFFSPRING that don’t like blacks. “Yawn”
I was raised to respect my elders, regardless of race, culture or class level. If I’m approached by a bum on the street that is older than me I still address them as “sir” or “ma’am”. I believe that even if I dislike or disapprove of some one they are still entitled to my respect as a person until they do something intentionally to disrespect me.
There are a lot of people that truly HATE us all and we need to come together.
Make a difference …by being different …and pray for everyone. Obama can’t change a person the person has to let God change them. We make the changes not the government. The kind of changes the government wants to make are the ones we don’t want.
1925 Rhea County, Tn Scopes Trial aka Monkey Trial
2008–not a lot of change in the south. 83 years later and still on the same page.
Just plain ignorant folks.
BTW I am white, female and 64.
STOP THE DRAMA VOTE OBAMA