tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post2753385145414288619..comments2024-03-22T20:34:13.792-05:00Comments on Indomitable | The online home of Chauncey DeVega: No Laughing Matter: The Tea Party GOP's Depictions of President Obama as an Ape are Motivated by Violence and HateLady Zora, Chauncey DeVega, and Gordon Gartrellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09138154899923808806noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-70131210300860263522011-04-23T22:48:37.535-05:002011-04-23T22:48:37.535-05:00All this monkey business reminds me of the emotion...All this monkey business reminds me of the emotional cripples at Harvard Business School who told me how horrible it was when, as blacks, they were mistaken for students at Northeastern. <br /><br />Racial traffic means nothing if it can't be implied that the same old stereotypical weapons will always find the heart, no matter what the armor.cabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828459874831026090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-71315440313082440772011-04-21T10:28:59.969-05:002011-04-21T10:28:59.969-05:00Mr DeVega:
1) Do you find it odd that when we rem...Mr DeVega:<br /><br />1) Do you find it odd that when we remove the "Non-White White supremacist" notion that a strike from a White man renders a more painful blow upon a Black - like you and I - the far more prevasive "Violence" against Black people are the very assaults that pass under your radar?<br /><br />2) Funny how when ONE Black male executes an assault and BIGOTS attempt to make inferences about ALL Black people - you are in the lead of calling out their generalizations<br /><br />3) The biggest evidence of "hatred and violence" that I have personally witnessed in the past 2 weeks was the news that the Detriot Public Schools had issued pink slips to all of its educators as the insolvent city reconsiles itself with the hard reality of the results of the economic policies that its leaders had promoted absent a force to check them. The diversions into "monkey pictures" as more important than good governance of our own INTERESTS is part of the "lessons learned" that clearly have not been learned.<br /><br />In closing - Mr DeVega - do you find it strange that in the conscious mind of our "White Brothers" it is their IDEOLOGICAL ALIGNMENT that serves as the firewall which allows Charlmers Johnson to be a "good White" while the one White lady with Photoshop who said that Obama's White mother is a chimp to be possessed with the "Bad White gene" - per your system of apprasial?<br /><br />Does it make you curious that DESPITE the SAME DAMNED OUTCOMES are produced WITHIN THE BLACK COMMUNITY - regardless of having "White folks who LUV" us or "White folks who HATE US as evidence of their CONSERVATISM" that there are MORE VARIABLES that your MODEL doesn't quite capture and thus it continues to collapse?Constructive Feedbackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13417405356099504421noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-84389091890803764242011-04-21T05:26:35.717-05:002011-04-21T05:26:35.717-05:00Just now I innocently came across a Bing thread ca...Just now I innocently came across a Bing thread called "Obama racist e-mail." It featured the instant monkey-shines and much, much more. Jeez-Louise, what an avalanche of bullshit. I suppose that we have the internet to thank for it all. Not only does the internet provide an easy means of creation and delivery, it also gives every Yahoo out there the mistaken impression that they are wise and well informed. <br /><br />Usually I studiously avoid this kind of pollution, because I'm really not sure how much my poor heart could stand. You seek it out for purposes of study and illumination, and God knows I worry about your health too on that account. It's all so beyond the Pale. Alas! Babylon! And poor President Obama . . . a high tech lynching indeed.fred chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812811681270634366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-27481100326249183192011-04-20T16:41:17.744-05:002011-04-20T16:41:17.744-05:00I notice they also tend to use that picture of Pre...I notice they also tend to use that picture of President Obama with his head tilted up and his nose in the air. I wondered why that bothers them so. Could it be because Obama is not looking down like they want him to?<br /><br />It's just an odd picture to choose time and time again.Tracynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-33249643856534704452011-04-20T09:32:34.631-05:002011-04-20T09:32:34.631-05:00It's easy for me to laugh at those old pic'...It's easy for me to laugh at those old pic's of Irishmen depicted as ruined primitives, guys who dressed for a fancy ball long ago and then never went home. Easy, even though I'm as Irish in the blood as almost anybody. Easy? Sure, because we're white, and were finally accepted as such. The Paddy Wagon is still the Paddy Wagon, but we can laugh at that too. It's a tougher row to hoe for the groups that are not white, but I hope that you all make it someday, in a post-white world, sincerely. (The secret word to allow this comment is "paties," who's idea of a joke was that?)fred chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812811681270634366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-28760148630636365222011-04-19T20:01:08.932-05:002011-04-19T20:01:08.932-05:00@Vesuvian. The truth. Please. I think it left the ...@Vesuvian. The truth. Please. I think it left the room a long, long time ago. We can keep fighting for it though.<br /><br />@Ish. Thanks as always. <br /><br />@Daniel. A fellow traveler. Good to have you. What type of work in PH do you do?<br /><br />@Sherry. There you go again crazy liberal racist. Didn't you know calling out racism by conservatives and their brethren makes you the REAL racist? Where have you been these last few years?chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-2142589897398079412011-04-19T14:01:38.656-05:002011-04-19T14:01:38.656-05:00Yet another in a long line of such "incidents...Yet another in a long line of such "incidents". I am so sick of the charade of the teabaggers and the GOP claiming their "racial" tolerance by parading their favorite GOP Negro as proof of their inclusivity. They are and have been an utterly racist group for a very very long time. Much as they play to the religious right, on various social issues, while not giving a hoot, they do the same in regards all peoples of color not white. It is disgusting and they need to be called on it at every opportunity. Of course, to do so invites from them the invective of "playing the race card." They are en mass a piece of work.Sherry Peytonhttp://afeatheradrift.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-85456456195570881772011-04-19T13:32:41.372-05:002011-04-19T13:32:41.372-05:00Excellent post.
(Long-time reader, first time com...Excellent post.<br /><br />(Long-time reader, first time commentator . . . since a great deal of my professional work focuses on structural injustice and inequalities in context of health, WARN is one of my daily reads. Love the fire and the uncompromising tone to most of the posts. Plus, even though I work on some of the same topics from a health perspective, I am a dyed-in-the-wool epistemic relativist and a fallibilist, so WARN is also helpful for highlighting what I don't know and don't get. Keep up the strong work, and I'll keep reading).<br />Kudos.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-89951737786634616902011-04-19T12:42:54.384-05:002011-04-19T12:42:54.384-05:00CDV, you know I read every last one of your blog p...CDV, you know I read every last one of your blog posts even when I don't comment. Always thought provoking. And all's well with me.ishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-4118863261923352772011-04-19T12:29:41.015-05:002011-04-19T12:29:41.015-05:00People have to spread the truth. There was a rampa...People have to spread the truth. There was a rampant ignorance back then that we fight to keep educated. Just like yesterday's "holiday" has ties to slavery, we just have to keep each other informed of as much as possible.Vesuvian Womanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062107777688049616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-88496817850817545472011-04-19T12:29:36.433-05:002011-04-19T12:29:36.433-05:00Thanks Ish. Been a long time. How have you been?
...Thanks Ish. Been a long time. How have you been?<br /><br />We shall see if this lands with a thud or an loud echo. I said what needed to be said...and what many I think are loathe to--the connective tissue with all this anti-Obama imagery and rhetoric is deep and old. There are many, and I rarely say this, who hate him. And from hate comes a propensity to do harm.chaunceydevegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09652406326490873337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57113078446695664.post-60922942851802765862011-04-19T06:14:05.089-05:002011-04-19T06:14:05.089-05:00Great post.
The portrayals of America's firs...Great post.<br /><br /><br /><i>The portrayals of America's first Black President as an ape or gorilla are racially explicit examples of a broad assault on his legitimacy and authority. In the eyes of contemporary Conservatism, Obama is not fit for the Presidency because he is not one of their tribe. </i><br /><br />THIS! It's why they are always making those weird digs about Obama using a teleprompter (after Bush, really???) because clearly the only way they can reconcile his speeches with their realty: the teleprompter makes them think of a trained monkey.<br /><br />Shame on anyone who perpetuates the lie that the teabaggers are only <i>fiscal</i> conservatives.ishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02750800388443950585noreply@blogger.com