| # | Author | Message |
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| WilliamK99
Thu 5/15/2008 1:51a | http://www.ajc.com/wireless/co...514.html
That link is for those who think America is colorblind and think race will not matter..
Those shirts are horrible, but the fact someone is selling them says alot about where our country still is....we have a long way to go still... |
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| X-san
Thu 5/15/2008 3:04a | What's so horrible? Curious George is cute!
I think it's nice he's an Obama supporter. |
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| WilliamK99
Thu 5/15/2008 3:06a | What's so horrible? Curious George is cute!
I think it's nice he's an Obama supporter.<<
I think anyone older than 10 gets the reference that is implied by that shirt... |
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| X-san
Thu 5/15/2008 3:44a | Or maybe you just have to make everything about color! |
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| SingleParkPassholder
Thu 5/15/2008 5:20a | My wife likes green. I'm partial to blue. Both our vehicles are black. So's the cat. The dog's a beagle, so he's just confused. |
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| barboy
Thu 5/15/2008 8:54a | The shirt signifies overt racism and I'm glad the owners of the cartoon will try to put a stop to it.
Curious George is not just a monkey but a monkey with a very light/fair face, like Obama. The shape of Obama's head, face and position and size of his ears don't help either which appears monkey-like.
Some people just look like other animals I guess:
years ago a kid at our school, Bud(short for Buddy) resembled a bumble bee-- we just called him 'Buz'(no, I'm not kidding); we had a donkey lookalike too. Long ago I once worked with a woman who had the appearance of Eore and most of the staff called her that. |
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| DyGDisney
Thu 5/15/2008 10:27a | barboy, your stories remind me of the commercial where the kid has his friends on his "5" represented by animals: Giraffe, elephant, horse, etc... |
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| jdub
Thu 5/15/2008 10:42a | >>..we have a long way to go still...<<
Yeah, & it can be hard sometimes not to give up hope for the future.
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| mele
Thu 5/15/2008 10:53a | It's not just about the fact that Obama has a resemblance to Curious George. It might be something that was kind of cute if not for the fact that black people were called apes/animals for years while using them as slaves. Clearly some people still think of them as animals. (Remember when Rush Limbaugh pretended to not even know who Curious George was when he allowed a woman on his radio program to call Obama Curious George?)
Of course, there's also a lot of people who would just say that this store owner is just exercising his freedom of speech and refusing to bow to polical correctness. |
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| Kar2oonMan
Thu 5/15/2008 11:04a | >>Those shirts are horrible, but the fact someone is selling them says alot about where our country still is....we have a long way to go still...<<
Indeed. Ignorant incidents like this are about the most dispiriting thing there is. Everytime I think we have moved forward, there's some backward jughead out there wanting to yank us back into our national shame...
Worse still is when called on it, these dopes blink and try and act innocent -- as if we're as stupid as they are. |
