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By STEVE SZKOTAK
RICHMOND
Activists gathered outside a downtown strip club Monday to denounce as racist a banner depicting President Obama as the Joker from Batman.
"Not only is it an attack on the president, but also on all men and people of African descent," King Salim Khalfani, president of the Virginia NAACP, said of what he called "the abomination that's on the wall" outside Club Velvet.
The banner, unfurled within the past few days, depicts Obama as Heath Ledger's grotesque Joker character from "The Dark Knight." The president is shown with smeared red lipstick, a white face and darkened eyes. The word "socialism" is spelled out below the caricature.
Dancer Kaitlyn McGee handed out a statement from club owner Sam Moore, who did not appear. The statement described him as a "staunch libertarian" and said the banner was intended to show his displeasure with Obama's policies. McGee walked through the crowd with a sign that read "Strippers 4 Obama" to show that Moore is not opposed to the president himself.
"Mr. Moore would like to say that anyone who believes that his banner is racist is an ignoramus," it read.
But the activists said the Joker banner was typical of what they called escalating attacks on the president — from depictions of Obama as Hitler at rallies to South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst during Obama's recent nationally televised address to Congress.
"Racism is as American as apple pie," Khalfani said. "The presence of a president that as African blood is very, very troublesome to many in this country."
McGee, who described herself as a waitress and dancer, said customers had not complained since the banner was unfurled at the busy intersection in Shockoe Bottom, a historic entertainment and residential district.
"As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't really bother me," she said. "You could say a lot worse things about him."
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Yeah, it's all so one way..
except for those TV shows thinking it was funny, as you and yours no doubt found them to be, when Bush was shown with placards of "assassins wanted" attached. And the movie that ballyhooed Bush's assassination that nary a Dem or lib or leftist decried. Or the caracitures of Bush (or Thomas or Palin or Mccain for that matter) that presented him (them) as apes and worse.
You and yours have no credibility here, TR. I agree that many things, WAY TOO MANY, go over the line. I also don't think 2 wrongs make a right, in that because the side I generally oppose does something, then my side shoud also. But when the likes of you express only selective outrage, you're not going to be taken seriously. But don't let that stop you. Hypocrisy, for many of you, is no doubt a wonderful thing, is it not? Hmm?
This was a response to TR's post...
What happened to it?
Of course, the vile racist drek is not to be confused with....
... the vile hate-inciting drek like the wacko Hitler comparisons and the "President Obama is an enemy of humanity" inanity coming from Arizona Republican Congressman Trent Franks. That, from a US Congressman. Not from a 'moranic' FauxOpinion TeeVee nutjobber - that we get 24/7. But from a US Congress critter. Amazing. Elect a radical muslim half black man and the nation goes insane.
The NAACP seems to think
that anyone/anything that does not show "colored people" (taken from the name of their organization) in a positive light is racist. I personally think that organization has had its 15 minutes of fame and needs to go away. The banner is not racist because it's only meant to show that Obama is a joker, just like every other politician out there- black or white. He made promises during his campaign that he is not keeping. He is pushing his political agenda on citizens that do not want it. He is, in my opinion, a joke- and not a very funny joke at that. Before his presidency he was a junior senator with less time in office than John McCain had as a prisoner of war while serving this country. Not that McCain is perfect, but he is truly interested in what's good for America. Obama wants to make the hard working people pay for the lazy leeches of society and that is also not a funny joke. All I want to know is where can I get that banner so I can hang it on my front porch?
A happy medium
Mr. Moore publically expressed his views, and Mr. Salami and his group publically expressed theirs. The First Amendment is alive and well. (Well so far).
Let's Cry "Racism", Everybody!!!
"'Racism is as American as apple pie,' Khalfani said. 'The presence of a president that as African blood is very, very troublesome to many in this country.'"
Yet, apparently we're not racist enough to elect an African-American president in the first place. There are plenty of countries who are yet to elect a minority to its presidency, yet we are the only ones who are "racist"?
Weren't there likely just as many people who voted *for* Obama simply because he was black? And isn't that racism, too?
Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds...
Just what race...
is The Joker?
That said, to the NAACP, I say this: "just shut up"! You lying, despicable hypocrites were nowhere to be seen when Bush or anyone else of the Party you don't support were caricaturised in the media or at any staged public event. I recall the absence of you hypocrties who comprise the NAACP when it came to the degrading treatment Clarence Thomas received.
I think the sign is a hoot! I may get one to fly from the flagpost on my own porch! Just to push the buttons ot theu sual race hustling hypocrites and frauds of this life!
i have an idea
Why don't you have 1 or 2 made and give them to your 1 or 2 friends as Christmas gifts then the 2 or 3 of you can sit back and have a good ole chuckle.
I like that idea..
And YOU are going to be one of those amigos I acquire one for. We'll all be laughing our 'patooties' off.
See 'ya at Christmas (er, I apologise, I didn't mean to offend you, I meant 'Winter Celebration'). Be ready to yuk it up there, Gertz! Maybe we can dress you up in the same makeup kit and compare you to your idol! That would a be a hoot to, right?
I can't wait!!
you are forgetting
we aren't friends.