"It was feeling like some kind of Klan rally"

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Jhhnn

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Your argument began that rural Missouri is so obviously Southern in its people and culture and compared it to one of the most infamously racist and segregated towns of Alabama. To respond to IrishScott's post that criers of racism cannot "claim 150 year old baggage", you brought up the fact there was a failed secession attempt and a small violent pro-Confederacy movement present in Missouri, and then mention "the whole point of all this coy denial of racism". You don't explicitly ever state the logic as concisely as above, but unless you're bringing up anecdotes about Missouri from 150 years ago with no intended purpose of linking them to the argument that this rodeo was fueled by racist fervor, it's pretty obvious what your intent is.

And from what I can tell, the James-Younger Gang was a band of assorted outlaws with no explicit racial message even if they were comprised mostly of ex-Confederate soldiers and vagabonds. More guilt-by-association fallacies from you.

Obviously, you've never spent any time in rural Missouri, either.

I liked it a lot better when racists were open about their beliefs. They still believe in the same things in an almost unconscious subconscious utterly insensitive way, but they hide it because it's socially unacceptable in our larger society. They even hide it from themselves, a form of denial so pervasive that it effectively prevents them from achieving mental victory over concepts they know to be wrong headed.

Despite all the obfuscations & denial, Missouri was most definitely a slave state, with all the cultural baggage associated with that simple fact. Old ways die hard, particularly when outside cultural influences are weak to non-existent, & actively rejected. Such is and has been the case for 150 years in rural regions of former slave states, not just Missouri.
 

Darwin333

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Yeah, it's like putting a swastika up in your front lawn. You might just like the tacky design but some uppity folks might get offended by it.

So wearing an Obama mask and making fun of him is just like wearing a white hood and burning crosses?

Sorry but you lose all credibility with the "middle of the road" people whose minds aren't already made up when you bring up wild claims of "just like a klan meeting" because people made fun of a president they disagree with who is also black.
 
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So wearing an Obama mask and making fun of him is just like wearing a white hood and burning crosses?

Sorry but you lose all credibility with the "middle of the road" people whose minds aren't already made up when you bring up wild claims of "just like a klan meeting" because people made fun of a president they disagree with who is also black.


Agree. He just doesn't like that obama is being attacked. What a hypocrite, I doubt he had a problem when they did it to bush.
 

bshole

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2. We live in a free country where we are free to disrespect the President any damn time we want, and I'm grateful for that.

I agree with that.

It is rather difficult to disrespect a President who has done as stellar job as Obama. He is the greatest president of the 21st century. That is a rather heady accomplishment.

If you take out Syria, attacks on freedom of the press and the attacks on privacy, his presidency has been flawless. Three strikeouts and many many homeruns. This guy is a keeper. I really and truly regret that he can't run for another term. IMHO he is the doctor who is administering the medicine that America so desperately needs. I say this as a completely non-partisan, objective and informed bystander.

Final thought: People should remember that when they diss President Obama they are really dissing themselves.
 

Angry Irishman

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I agree with that.

It is rather difficult to disrespect a President who has done as stellar job as Obama. He is the greatest president of the 21st century. That is a rather heady accomplishment.

If you take out Syria, attacks on freedom of the press and the attacks on privacy, his presidency has been flawless. Three strikeouts and many many homeruns. This guy is a keeper. I really and truly regret that he can't run for another term. IMHO he is the doctor who is administering the medicine that America so desperately needs. I say this as a completely non-partisan, objective and informed bystander.

Final thought: People should remember that when they diss President Obama they are really dissing themselves.

Wow....
 

Svnla

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I agree with that.

It is rather difficult to disrespect a President who has done as stellar job as Obama. He is the greatest president of the 21st century. That is a rather heady accomplishment.

If you take out Syria, attacks on freedom of the press and the attacks on privacy, his presidency has been flawless. Three strikeouts and many many homeruns. This guy is a keeper. I really and truly regret that he can't run for another term. IMHO he is the doctor who is administering the medicine that America so desperately needs. I say this as a completely non-partisan, objective and informed bystander.

Final thought: People should remember that when they diss President Obama they are really dissing themselves.


:eek:

Methink NSA hacked into this poster's account and White House staff just wrote that post.

The poster "forgot" about the 16 Trillion USD debt and climbing with no end in sight, majority of jobs creation lately are part time with little or no benefits, attack on US embassy in Libya, Fast and Furious gun running in Mexico, green companies that went bankrupt such as A123/Solyndra, fat cats on Wall Street are still laughing all the way to the banks, sweetheart deals with UAW, spying on US citizens,Guantanamo Bay prison is still running, amnesty for illegal immigrants, and on and on, too much to list.

Informed? Let the readers decide.
 
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palehorse

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I agree with that.

It is rather difficult to disrespect a President who has done as stellar job as Obama. He is the greatest president of the 21st century. That is a rather heady accomplishment.

If you take out Syria, attacks on freedom of the press and the attacks on privacy, his presidency has been flawless. Three strikeouts and many many homeruns. This guy is a keeper. I really and truly regret that he can't run for another term. IMHO he is the doctor who is administering the medicine that America so desperately needs. I say this as a completely non-partisan, objective and informed bystander.

Final thought: People should remember that when they diss President Obama they are really dissing themselves.
My meter just exploded... LOL! :D
 

Caravaggio

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I agree. they shouldn't have done that to bush or Obama. but it is not racist.
if you been to rodeos then you know a good portion are African-American. i don't see this as a race issue but as a bunch rather independent people that don't like the government much.

The video of the event shows no black faces as far as I can see. One or two Hispanics perhaps. I have never been to an African-American rodeo but if you can provide a link, I promise to watch with interest.

If the clown playing with the lips of the Obama mask is not a racist gesture, then why did the state fair make a public apology for the incident?
Interesting to learn that the state fair in question gets a $500,000 annual tax payer subsidy.
Insulting presidents is fair game but this was not a political comment.
 
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So wearing an Obama mask and making fun of him is just like wearing a white hood and burning crosses?

Sorry but you lose all credibility with the "middle of the road" people whose minds aren't already made up when you bring up wild claims of "just like a klan meeting" because people made fun of a president they disagree with who is also black.

This went beyond just making fun. Plus these people are the prime demographic who dislike Obama in no small part because he's Muslim/Foreign/Socialist (but not Black, oh no). The problem with that (as if it's not bad enough already) is the one they deny so vehemently is the only one he's actually guilty of.

Wapo has a pretty good article looking at this:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...3cf0-05b8-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story_1.html

This sums up the whole thing up ideally:
“If you’re a white man in a black mask in a former slaveholding state with a broom lodged in your rectum and you’re playing with your lips, you will be confused with a racist,” Beam said.

I'd only add that it goes for folks in the crowd cheering him on as well.
 
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SlickSnake

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Did you even bother reading it?

Or are you completely blinded by hate?

A hater calling out another "hater"?

Seriously?

You just got to love the faceless hypocrisy of the internet.

Too bad I can't fix it for you like you try to fix it for everyone else around here.
 

RFE

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Anyone who thinks Rush does anything worthwhile these days needs their head examined.

http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/04/13/rush-limbaugh-shows-his-softer-side-61329

Each year Rush Limbaugh devotes the better part of his three-hour radio show to a fund drive for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Cure-a-thon. This year, the 23rd year, was no different.
Limbaugh announced during his show that he and his wife, Kathryn, would kick off the event by donating $500,000.

His Two if By Tea company donates to The Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Foundation
http://www.twoifbytea.com/support.html
 

SlickSnake

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more liberal tolerance. Make fun of Obama lose your job, get banned from your job for life. Force everyone that follows to take 'sensitivity' training. Fuck Obama and Fuck you intolerant libs.

Your like the Muslims that protested because of some Muhammad cartoons.

Tolerate gays, tolerate illegals, tolerate Muslims, etc etc.

Someone wears an Obama must. KILL HIM.

Uh huh.

Haters just gotta hate, you know?;

Seriously, why is this deranged douchebag still posting away here?

He brings nothing to most discussions other than angry, spiteful, and hateful rhetoric with a nice dash of racism mixed in.
 
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SlickSnake

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http://www.bizpacreview.com/2013/04/13/rush-limbaugh-shows-his-softer-side-61329

Each year Rush Limbaugh devotes the better part of his three-hour radio show to a fund drive for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Cure-a-thon. This year, the 23rd year, was no different.
Limbaugh announced during his show that he and his wife, Kathryn, would kick off the event by donating $500,000.

His Two if By Tea company donates to The Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Foundation
http://www.twoifbytea.com/support.html

That's fantastic, really it is. And when he dies the devil will merrily take him straight to hell in spite of all his good deeds.

Just because someone does something good once in a while, does not negate the bad karma they WILLFULLY generate NATIONWIDE on the radio daily, now does it?
 

michal1980

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Uh huh.

Haters just gotta hate, you know?;

Seriously, why is this deranged douchebag still posting away here?

He brings nothing to most discussions other than angry, spiteful, and hateful rhetoric with a nice dash of racism mixed in.

Typical brain dead liberal response. The art of personal destruction refined to nothing more then repeating the same shit over and over again.
 

michal1980

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That's fantastic, really it is. And when he dies the devil will merrily take him straight to hell in spite of all his good deeds.

Just because someone does something good once in a while, does not negate the bad karma they WILLFULLY generate NATIONWIDE on the radio daily, now does it?

The only bad karma comes form people like you.

The drones that think everyone should just line up and tow the liberal line. It's amazing how much hate the left has for any other view point. Yet if they are challenged, or someone attempts to limit their speech, they scream like a little girl.

for example - rodeo clown.
 
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I agree with that.

It is rather difficult to disrespect a President who has done as stellar job as Obama. He is the greatest president of the 21st century. That is a rather heady accomplishment.

If you take out Syria, attacks on freedom of the press and the attacks on privacy, his presidency has been flawless. Three strikeouts and many many homeruns. This guy is a keeper. I really and truly regret that he can't run for another term. IMHO he is the doctor who is administering the medicine that America so desperately needs. I say this as a completely non-partisan, objective and informed bystander.

Final thought: People should remember that when they diss President Obama they are really dissing themselves.

Anyone that actually believes this should have their heads examined. You don't care about the Constitution, do you?
 

waggy

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The video of the event shows no black faces as far as I can see. One or two Hispanics perhaps. I have never been to an African-American rodeo but if you can provide a link, I promise to watch with interest.


well since you asked..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWAlEh-jh1A gotta skip half way..

you wan't tickets to go? http://www.ticketmaster.com/National-Black-Rodeo-Finals-tickets/artist/889012

blacks have been involved in the rodeo far far more then most think. It's no "white mans" sport at all.

wanna know a secret? most "cow boys" in the wild west were black men...shocking i know.
 

Attic

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Yup, just another race baiting thread from my main man homer.


Making fun of the president has gone on forever. But, of COURSE, when it happens to obama it's "Racist".



So let's get this straight.... They treat obama EXACTLY like every other president.... and it's racist. You would prefer they treat him different because he's a medium brown, and that is not racist??



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This.


Similar to Affirmative Action, watch how quickly the true racists clamor and mourn if it were based on economic status of individuals upbringing instead of skin tone.