{"id":16078,"date":"2012-10-17T14:45:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/?p=16078"},"modified":"2012-10-17T11:35:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T18:35:43","slug":"is-it-racist-hang-in-there-obama-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/is-it-racist-hang-in-there-obama-sign\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Racist? Hang in There Obama Sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like, for the most part, peoples&#8217; resounding answer to our &#8220;Is It Racist?&#8221; posts is &#8220;NO.&#8221; They think (and fair enough, everyone is entitled to their own opinions) that we&#8217;re being overly sensitive, and that not everything has to be a race issue. For example, most of you said &#8220;NOPE&#8221; when we asked if Mitt Romney saying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/is-it-racist-mitt-romneys-birther-joke\/\" target=_blank>&#8220;no one questions where <i>I&#8217;m<\/i> from&#8221;<\/a> during a speech. And for the most part, you guys said &#8220;NOT RACIST&#8221; to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlinebootycall.com\/blog\/is-it-racist-kid-dresses-in-black-face-for-mlk-report\/\" target=_blank>kid dressed in black face for a project on MLK Jr.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m not sure if anyone could possibly say that this week&#8217;s edition isn&#8217;t racist. I think you&#8217;d be pretty hard pressed to find someone that didn&#8217;t think this f***ing thing isn&#8217;t racist as hell:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bcu2-shared.onlinebootycall.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yep, one Wisconsin citizen named Thomas Savka thought it was just a fantastic idea to put up this sign on the side of the freeway for everyone to see, although now that he has been confronted about it, claims it&#8217;s not a vague threat on Obama&#8217;s life that&#8217;s wrought with racial undertones at all. No no no! Of course! He just <i>really<\/i> means that he wants Obama to &#8220;hang in there!&#8221; like the <a href=\"http:\/\/thorandlokicats.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/hang-in-there-cat.jpg\" target=_blank>kitten in a tree poster<\/a> from your elementary school counselor&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5952302\/wisconsin-man-who-put-up-hang-obama-sign-swears-hes-a-huge-fan-of-the-president\" target=_blank>Gawker<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s my attitude for it,&#8221; he told Fox 11 News. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s picking on Obama. It&#8217;s the attitude of &#8216;hang in there, buddy!&#8217; It isn&#8217;t over \u2018til you&#8217;re done kicking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Savka says the noose was merely thrown in to grab people&#8217;s attention. &#8220;That got your attention,&#8221; said Savka. &#8220;It got you to look at the sign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>True enough, but what about the sign&#8217;s apparent allusions to the racist practice of lynching? &#8220;This has nothing to do with color,&#8221; Savka insists. &#8220;It&#8217;s to get people&#8217;s attention. If they&#8217;re taking that direction from it, they&#8217;re not reading the sign.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My favorite part is the &#8220;till your done kicking,&#8221; as though we&#8217;re all so stupid as to not get he&#8217;s <i>still talking about hanging the President of the United States<\/i>. He probably thought that line over for hours, so proud of himself for thinking of a BRILLIANT line that the dumb liberal media would <i>never understand<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>Either that, or this guy is serious. He genuinely meant &#8220;hang in there!&#8221; like the <a href=\"http:\/\/thorandlokicats.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/hang-in-there-cat.jpg\" target=_blank>kitten in a tree poster<\/a> from your elementary school counselor&#8217;s office, and is just so ignorant that he didn&#8217;t realize the awful implication of a noose next to the name of a black man. I just really can&#8217;t decide which one it is.<\/p>\n<p><i><b>What do you think? Is it racist?<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-16078\" data-postid=\"16078\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-16078 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems like, for the most part, peoples&#8217; resounding answer to our &#8220;Is It Racist?&#8221; posts is &#8220;NO.&#8221; They think (and fair enough, everyone is entitled to their own opinions) that we&#8217;re being overly sensitive, and that not everything has to be a race issue. 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