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Wednesday, August 5, 2009 | 1:00am
[RANT] Black Blogosphere’s Latest Racism Rally Cry: Obama/ Joker Mash-Up
racist, high art, silly or other?
A new act of Obama provocation has surfaced. The streets of Los Angeles have recently been littered with posters of the President, depicted as the Joker as played by the late Heath Ledger in “The Dark Knight.” The strong image is accompanied by the words “socialism.”
Some supposed “artist” is going around LA plastering posters of the first black prez made to look like Heath Ledger’s Joker in the “The Dark Knight.” Not only that, but the word “socialism” is prominently situated under the image.
Naturally the black blogosphere has been quick to mobilize the racism police and jump to the picket lines. Captain America Sharpton is preparing his soapbox and dry cleaning his suit. How dare they…uhhhh… create….uhhhh….art…. No, How dare they…uhhhh…make us think.
Lets get real people. Must we jump to the race card every time someone criticizes the President? We get it he’s black but even this message isn’t necessarily critical. In fact it has nothing to do with race but rather his policy. He’s the PRESIDENT people. He’s supposed to be disagreed with, he’s a politician. We as a black race need to be very careful that we don’t give him undeserved mulligans. Obama expects us to hold him accountable, that’s why elected him and why he ran. He’s supposed to be the voice of the people but if we don’t have one other than what he tells us we’re of no use to him.
So next time you race to yell “blood racism!” lets take a breath and actually think about what’s going on before we speak or blog. Pipe down!
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To me it’s silly. I don’t see any racism in this at all…if someone does, then please let me know your perspective. In times of crisis(our economy) or war, it’s natural to breed fear in any extreme goverment, either a tolatitarian government or a socialist/communist government, so the “artwork” doesn’t surprise me.
Great point. Thanks for put it in the perspective of a historical context. I see you Skinny.
Blacks are stupid to follow this man, who wants to Abort Black babies. He is not from the Black American Nation. He is NOT BLACK, WHITE PEOPLE VOTED FOR HIM BECAUSE HE IS MIXED. LOOK AT CONGRESS THE SENATE HAS NO BLACKS. SO they voted for Obama because they knew he was Mixed not Black. He thinks Blacks are the dumbest people on Earth. He puts them down in front of the world. He uses Hispanics to neutralize Blacks. He hate Blacks and the people Obama works for want him to destroy Blacks. Stop this sick behavior of supporting grown men. Obama should have talked about Statistics concerning the Poor in this country. He did not. He do not give a phuck about Blacks. Blacks need to grow up quick.
HE IS MIXED, AND HIS ILK, THINKS WHITE AND USE BLACKS AS THE SCAPEGOATERS OF THIS COUNTRY.
Not sure where you’re coming from. Black people are not stupid. Obama is black but that’s besides the point. Hispanics, as I can personally attest to DID NOT support him during his campaign and was almost a cause for his not winning the nomination. Mixed…whatever doesn’t matter. In fact it really doesn’t matter how he got here.
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The issue at hand is the fact that some black people have been quick to jump to defend the man when its not necessary. It creates an environment where when a true crisis arises, although not necessary as yet, our collective voice will be less powerful because we’ve cried wolf too many times already. Thanks for your comments. Lets try to stay on topic in the future though. Regards.
Enough already… I propose the Black Community create a committee to review all questionable incidents and to carefully assess whether they are racist or not before Black Folk mobilize the race card until it gets bent out of shape and frayed at the edges.
Exactly. A race card review board. Hmmm…removes Rev. Sharpton’s salary from the budget………recalculating…….recalculating. Yep! It works! Good job Thought!
It’ll never stop. The race card will never go away. Everyone uses it one way or another, whether joking or being serious. I joke all the time that I’m going to call “La Migra” on the people living on my block! Hell, let them take my in-laws back to Mexico! There aren’t doing anything but taking up space!!!! Sorry Juan, I needed to vent. You don’t know what its been like living with 10 mexicans in the same house!!! (talks to self) Just a few more months, just a few more months…..
I’m not against pulling the race card. But we’ve gotta be more calculated in doing so. Because the deck is only but so many cards deep. After a while your opponent know exactly what you’re holding in your hand.
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We need to be more discerning in our approach. Urban Thought will tell you.
No one did “art” of this nature on Bush or any of the other presidents (which were white, if anyone forgot). So, to everyone on this blog saying “it ain’t racism”, tell me what it is.
Actually, Vanity Fair did a version of George Bush as a joker some years ago. Do a Google search for “George Bush Joker” and you’ll see the pics. The article is still online as well.
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I’m not defending this situations, however, Bush has been parodied as a monkey before. It doesn’t hold the same connotation as it does for a Black person, but people stayed making fun of George Bush at every turn.
No need for the google search I got it right here.