GOP Playing the Race Card? Uh, Yeah…
At the Values Voter Summit this weekend, vendors sold an item called “Obama Waffles” featuring a racist cartoon of Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on the box front — with “popping eyes and big, thick lips” — and another image of him wearing an Arab-like headdress on its top flap. Its creators, Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, said it was meant as “political satire,” and sold the box for $10 from a booth at the Family Research Council event. CNN’s Lou Dobbs stopped by the booth and exclaimed, “My wife will love this!” A photo shows Dobbs with a box of the mix in his hand …
Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed ”offensive material.” The summit and the exhibit hall where the boxes were sold had been open since Thursday afternoon. ….Read ON
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
OMG i can’t even watch the whole thing. the box reminds me blackface and other horrible exaggerated stereotype artifacts! This is VERY different from the New Yorker magazine cover. The New Yorker cover was a play on the ridiculous attacks and statements made by the Republican campaign. This is NOT a play on senseless attacks. This targets the interest of racist a**holes.
How can these 2 sit there and compare Aunt Jemina (sp?) to Newman’s own. If i’m not mistaken there is NO negative stereotype being perpetuated within Newman’s picture on his OWN product. On the other hand Aunt Jemina (sp?) depicts the classic stereotype of black woman as the asexual mammy! (i could go on….)
“Aunt Jemnia mean quality” give me a BREAK. I’m thinking about coming out with dunce caps in the shape of McCain’s face. this is to comment on the fact that he was practically in the bottom 1 per cent of his class. that should get some laughs right.