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But Sadly, Every Time a Racist Criticizes the President, Someone Cries, ‘Racism!’
By Jeff Fecke | October 9, 2009
There’s absolutely no racial component to the criticism of Barack Obama, and I think all you liberals are the real racists for suggesting there is:
When you walk into the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar in Paulding County, you feel like you’ve walked into a different era.
Behind the pool tables stands a mannequin in a Klu Klux Klan costume, but it’s what’s outside of the Patrick Lanzo’s restaurant that has some people angry.
Lanzo put up a sign that reads “Obama’s plan for health-care: N*&%*r rig it.”
Only he didn’t say “N*&%*r” (to paraphrase Ralphie). He used the racial epithet, the big one, the queen-mother of racial epithets, the “N-dash-dash-dash-dash-dash” word. Spelled out for all to see.
Now, I know what you’re thinking. The guy is willing to use that word on a sign advertising his restaurant. He also has hosted a neo-Nazi rally, and his restaurant’s interior features “a number of racist images in his Georgia Peach Museum bar such as cartoons of Klan members lounging on lynched black men and items disparaging Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” It also features a mannequin of a Klan member in full regalia. So you’re probably thinking this guy’s a racist. Right?
Wrong! We know he isn’t a racist, because he says so:
Despite the sign, Lanzo said he’s not a racist.
He said he’s just against what he calls a “sub standard healthcare plan,” which he said President Obama is trying to push through.
Well, of course! I mean, obviously, he’s just making a reasoned point on health care reform that just happens to use the ugliest word in the English language to refer to the President of the United States who just happens to be of the ethnic background said word defames. How could you think he was a racist?
Now, vile as Lanzo is, I actually would defend his right to display his racist utterances. It makes him easy to identify as a racist, for one thing. But that’s beside the point. The point is that even this guy claims he isn’t a racist, just like every other teabagger out there. Because opposition to Obama has no racial element. The right keeps saying so, and maybe, if they keep saying it, eventually they’ll even start to believe it.
As for me, I’ll trust my lying eyes.
Topics: Barack Obama, Race | 5 Comments »
October 9th, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Wow…just, wow.
The level of hateful rhetoric and racist commentary about Obama seems to just get more loud, violent and prevalent.
And now that he’s won the Nobel Peace Prize?
I am so very, very scared for him.
October 10th, 2009 at 8:55 am
Some people who oppose Obama’s health care policies are racist.
Teabaggers oppose Obama’s health care policies.
Fecke concludes that Teabaggers are racist.
Isn’t this known as a syllogism?
October 12th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
My Comment: What is wrong is wrong and what is wright is wright: but then again, what is wright?.. even better, what is wrong?, and therein lies the problem, for many today the line is too blurred.
October 13th, 2009 at 2:24 am
Can someone remind them that Obama’s half white?
Anyone?
August 2nd, 2010 at 9:57 am
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