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Quit monkeying around with racism

onebigdog.net — There are 142,000 results in Google for the search phrase “chimpy bush” so it is safe to say that the phrase has been used quite a bit. Add the nice Hitler phrases to it and you have people equating our president with a maniacal killer who happens to be one of the most despised people of all time. And yet, people are upset about Obama being..

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  • IconoclastStill, on 05/13/2008, -0/+3Comment FTA:
    "I want to know when it became bad to call a black guy a chimp but OK to call a white guy one. "

    Because only conservative white people may be treated this way.

    At best, the shirt *is* in very poor taste, though. A picture of obie supporters with their heads in the sand, or with no heads, wearing their dunce caps, drooling in their diapers . . . now, such would be accurate and not racially offensive.

    I have an idea for a great tee should obie become the nominee. It's even printable.

  • Qong, on 05/14/2008, -0/+1While I agree that any website or picture making fun of our president is uncalled for and completely ridiculous. That doesn't make that T-Shirt acceptable. I just saw the Shirt a couple of hours ago; it's clearly meant as a racial statement, no matter what its creator says. Racism simply isn't acceptable; especially considering the many flaws that Barack Obama does have that should be in the spotlight instead of idiotic things like this.
    All that T-Shirt, and any other racist comments about Obama does it make him look better to people. Which is not a good thing for our country.
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