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Racist "Values Voters" Dress Obama as Aunt Jemima; Depict Candidate in Arab Garb
September 15, 2008 |
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Apparently, these folks' "values" include some really blatant racism.
Here's the AP, reporting on a particularly brain-dead form of "satire":
Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.
Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed "offensive material."Offensive? What do you mean, offensive?
The box was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix ...[...]
Joshua Holland is an editor and senior writer at AlterNet.
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