It seems like, for the most part, peoples' resounding answer to our "Is It Racist?" posts is "NO." They think (and fair enough, everyone is entitled to their own opinions) that we're being overly sensitive, and that not everything has to be a race issue. For example, most of you said "NOPE" when we asked if Mitt Romney saying
"no one questions where I'm from" during a speech. And for the most part, you guys said "NOT RACIST" to the
kid dressed in black face for a project on MLK Jr.
However, I'm not sure if anyone could possibly say that this week's edition isn't racist. I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to find someone that didn't think this f***ing thing isn't racist as hell:
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's not a vague threat on Obama's life that's wrought with racial undertones at all. No no no! Of course! He just
really means that he wants Obama to "hang in there!" like the
kitten in a tree poster from your elementary school counselor's office.
Via
Gawker:
"It's my attitude for it," he told Fox 11 News. "Everybody's picking on Obama. It's the attitude of 'hang in there, buddy!' It isn't over ‘til you're done kicking."
Savka says the noose was merely thrown in to grab people's attention. "That got your attention," said Savka. "It got you to look at the sign."
True enough, but what about the sign's apparent allusions to the racist practice of lynching? "This has nothing to do with color," Savka insists. "It's to get people's attention. If they're taking that direction from it, they're not reading the sign."
My favorite part is the "till your done kicking," as though we're all so stupid as to not get he's
still talking about hanging the President of the United States. He probably thought that line over for hours, so proud of himself for thinking of a BRILLIANT line that the dumb liberal media would
never understand.
Either that, or this guy is serious. He genuinely meant "hang in there!" like the
kitten in a tree poster from your elementary school counselor's office, and is just so ignorant that he didn't realize the awful implication of a noose next to the name of a black man. I just really can't decide which one it is.
What do you think? Is it racist?
