If you’re curious about the origin of this T-shirt, read this article from today’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (Thank you, Dre.)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
skip to main |
skip to sidebar
Alex Chilton on UBM-TV
Blog in the spotlight
The Twitterati...
UBM's Greatest Hits
- 'Run, N-gger, Run'
- A positive spin on the Ku Klux Klan
- America's first non-white vice president
- Attack of the GIANT NEGROES!!
- Ballad of the Fake-Ass Indian
- Before They Were Porn Stars
- Black men 'injected' with syphilis? Never happened.
- Nazi jazz mindf*ck
- Playlist: Eccentric blackness revisited
- Q&A: David Simon (pt. 1)
- Q&A: Eldridge Cleaver (pt. 3)
- Q&A: Ice Cube (pt. 2)
- Q&A: Oprah Winfrey (pt. 2)
- Q&A: Vanessa Del Rio
- Racist political witchcraft
- Roundtable: The 'N' Top 10
- The most racist songs ever recorded
- The Vice President and His Mulatto
Background vocals (ladies)
- Afrobella
- Artsy & Ambitious
- Black Women, Blow the Trumpet!
- Champagne and Chittlins
- Change From Within
- Days Like These
- Eclectique|916
- Ephphatha
- Evolution and Flashback
- ExpatJane
- Eye of the 'Drea
- HicktownPress
- Inner City Truths
- Invisible Woman
- Keep It Trill
- Light-skinned-ed Girl
- MrsGrapevine.com
- Must Love Movies
- New Black Woman
- Sicka Than Average
- The Old Black Church
- TheSkeptikOne
- Tidbits by Tiki
- Two Exes and Several Zeros
- Wandarful
- What About Our Daughters
- What Would Thembi Do?
- Whatever Lola Wants
Background vocals (fellas)
- Black Market Index
- Citizen Ojo
- Crosscut Saw
- D W JazzLover
- daddyBstrong
- Diary of a Mad Black Man
- False Hustle
- Harlem Writer
- Hochmah and Musar
- Ian Casselberry
- Kenn Bivins
- Moveable Feast
- PostBourgie
- Shane Schleger
- Soul Conviction
- soulbrother v.2
- Stuff Running 'Round My Head
- Superbizzee Chronicles
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- The Abstract Index
- Tyrone Takes America
- uglyblackjohn
- Urban Mac User
- Varneer
Guest rappers
Turntables
Lead Guitars
Rhythm Guitars
Kalimba
Horn section
Can't stop the flow!
Special thanks to:
official fan club
now get your jam on...
- Afrofunk Music Forum
- All About Jazz (free downloads)
- Black Rock Coalition
- Bold As Love
- Coverville
- Hard Bop Homepage
- Home of the Groove
- KEXP Blog (free downloads)
- Likembe
- Pampelmoose (free downloads)
- rap, lies & videotape
- Red Bull Music Academy (free downloads)
- Soul-Patrol.com
- SoulBounce
- Soulful Detroit
- Stepfather of Soul
... then get your grin on
friends with blogs
Back catalogue
- December 2006 (5)
- January 2007 (21)
- February 2007 (23)
- March 2007 (25)
- April 2007 (23)
- May 2007 (48)
- June 2007 (51)
- July 2007 (70)
- August 2007 (80)
- September 2007 (79)
- October 2007 (70)
- November 2007 (69)
- December 2007 (99)
- January 2008 (71)
- February 2008 (100)
- March 2008 (89)
- April 2008 (104)
- May 2008 (79)
- June 2008 (83)
- July 2008 (75)
- August 2008 (97)
- September 2008 (92)
- October 2008 (97)
- November 2008 (102)
- December 2008 (82)
- January 2009 (80)
- February 2009 (59)
- March 2009 (62)
- April 2009 (72)
- May 2009 (8)
- June 2009 (23)
- July 2009 (81)
- August 2009 (78)
- September 2009 (72)
- October 2009 (58)
- November 2009 (46)
- December 2009 (45)
- January 2010 (43)
- February 2010 (43)
- March 2010 (41)
- April 2010 (1)
Copyright 2006-2010
Knee Deep Productions, Inc.
Knee Deep Productions, Inc.
23 comments:
Why am I not surprised.
A few months ago cafepress.com was selling "Tap Dancing for Obama" t-shirts. The character was dressed like Uncle Sam and bojangling it up in black face. :rolleyes:
You wanna know the fucked-up thing? The accompanying poll question asked whether the t-shirt was racist or fine? It was virtually a dead-head 50.65% racist, 49.35% fine.
But we're making progress though.
Sigh--is it really that hard to do the right thing? And just like the Tiger Woods/Fuzzy Zoeller moment, why is it the Black part of a person that's made fun of? Couldn't they have done an American Gothic spoof Barack and Michelle to make fun on Barack's Kansas roots?
Jesus. Words fail me.
This is fucked up but not surprising. What's weird is that comment where he mentions "noting physical similarities" between the two. It sounds like he just lifted the story from the caller on Bill O'Reilly's radio show. A bunch of unoriginal racists as usual.
This is why liberal progressives aren't taken seriously. Last week, Obama's best friend was claiming that the America government, i.e., white supremacists, invented AIDS to kill blacks and we weren't supposed to think anything of it. And now, we're supposed to be up in arms about a picture that comports with liberal evolutionary theory?
I'm surprised the "Curious George" folk haven't sued the guy yet. No accounting for the stupidity of people, I guess.
Someone down in Georgia told me this was on his local news affiliate:
"The owner of the "Mulligan's Bar" in Marietta Georgia commissioned 50 t-shirts with an image of Barack Obama as "Curious George" to be sold at his bar to raise money for the MDA.
The MDA then released a statement to the owner saying they want nothing to do with his money and would appreciate it if the man never associated their charity with his views again."
thordaddy, I thought you had gone away to that great burning cross in the sky. Oh well, that 25% that support Bush really does exist.
deangelo,
Why can't you just account for this cognitive dissonance within liberal progressives?
And since I don't believe that man (wouldn't that be black man?) was descended from ape, I don't find the shirt all that representative of those who believe as I do.
Don't even get me started. It just makes me sad.
Kellybelle, I LOVE the idea of the American Gothic Barack and Michelle t-shirt. Print some and I'll buy one. He needs to play up his American roots. It seems that many people think he's not American. Again, don't get me started.
Thank you Kellybelle. Surely it has to be alright to make fun of him. That's what dissenters do right, make fun of someone they don't care for, but what these people don't understand is that making fun based on the very characteristic that has been used to oppress is a no go.
Would you consider this video: Hilary's Downfall going too far? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6Lstkiexhc
Can some body say West Virgina? Proof that hate is alive and well.
This is the tip of the iceberg. Some of Obama's white (and black) supporters have been taken aback by the racism they've encountered.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/12/AR2008051203014.html?referrer=emailarticle
There's also stories about some WV-ians saying they flat-out won't vote for a black presidential candidate and others suddenly being unable to articulate why they won't vote for Obama other than to add "I'm not racist". It'll only get worse once the GOP machine starts up.
I hope the Curious George publishers sue the pants off them. And besides, Obama has very thick eyebrows.
Gwen Ifill commented the media is talking about "race" in this election chatter, but not addressing "racism" in their commentary or analysis.
How one respond depends on how one wants to spend their time. As George Lakoff says:
If you keep their language and their framing and just argue against it, you lose because you are reinforcing their fram.
As a descendent of the Confederates including Robert E. Lee told me over the weekend (and she's gone the opposite directipn of her ancestors), we reconcile the old stories with "the new story." Turning pages isn't easy, but it's gonna happen.
Per the previous mention:
"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt did not nor would we ever authorize or approve this use of the Curious George character, which we find offensive and utterly out of keeping with the values Curious George represents," said Richard Blake, the company's spokesman. "We are monitoring the situation and weighing all of our options."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1131ap_obama_shirt_protest.html
Yet, no one can explain to the rest of us why we should be so offended at the implied truth of liberal evolutionary theory?
And the fact that Jeremiah Wright was lauded by so many now crying racism, what are we to make of this selective hyper-sensitivity?
^ You dropped your bait in the wrong fishin' hole, Thordaddy. I thought you knew better.
and on the back of the t-shirt it says: banal humor for banal people.
If you haven't already seen it, you should check out the video clip in which the seller of the tee-shirts was interviwed.
...fock the seller of the tee shirts. Folk of that ilk will always be here and there's nothing that we can do about changing them. They can hate all they want because it's about navigating thru those assholes, all the way to the bank. Shite, let em all cut there noses off to spite their faces.
(sigh) sad sad humanity sometimes
Mr. Mills,
Don't you just cringe watching these white self-righteous liberals feigning outrage over such trivial transgressions of the liberal orthodoxy?
I mean, can you articulate why those of us not stuck in the 60's black radical mentality should be so outraged at this t-shirt?
Isn't your beef with evolutionary theory and the ideas it espouses?
Post a Comment