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Sunday, August 8. 2010

Racism Test


Do you like him any better now?


No?


Then you're not a racist.

Posted by Bruce Kesler in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 12:40 | Comments (19) | Trackbacks (0)

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What does liking (or not) Dennis Kucinich have to do with racism?

Oh, wait! That's not Dennis (the Menace), that's O in white face!!!

I dislike them both equally. Actually, it's the white half of O that I dislike the most! :-)

But then, maybe I'm black. If so am I still not a racist?

Isn't this a fun game?!

Jim
#1 Jim G. on 2010-08-08 12:58 (Reply)
Kucinich? I thought it was Bobby Jindal...
#2 Dan on 2010-08-08 14:06 (Reply)
My first thought was Alfred E Newman of MAD magazine fame.
#3 Ray on 2010-08-08 14:58 (Reply)
I knew I'd seen that face before.

Nice tie, btw.
#3.1 J.T. Wenting on 2010-08-09 03:36 (Reply)
Dan, I have to go with Ray. If it isn't Kucinich, it has to be A. E. Newman - and it fit's pretty good. We do have the "What, me worry?" president, don't we?
#4 Jim G. on 2010-08-08 16:22 (Reply)
Heh - good one.
#5 Tom Francis on 2010-08-08 19:42 (Reply)
If he says and does the same things as our POTUS, I don't like him any better than our POTUS. Or I dont' dislike him any less.

I am reminded of a line from HMS Pinafore: "supercilious sneer."
#6 Gringo on 2010-08-08 23:23 (Reply)
He certainly does look like Dennis Kucinich. Yechhh.
#7 ahem on 2010-08-09 14:01 (Reply)
At first I thought it was fleshed out Mitch Albom.
#8 J. Yates on 2010-08-09 15:12 (Reply)
Carter.
#9 KBL on 2010-08-10 00:16 (Reply)
Alfred E Newman look a like.
No we don't dislike Obama as a man. Its his talking down to peoples, mouth we dislike intensely. If he's not bowing before America's enemies, hes running down Americans .
Its his contempt for all that dazzles us.
Its what comes out of a man that defiles him. Not his outward appearance. He has one lying big set of lips.
JMO
#10 Revnant Dream on 2010-08-10 00:59 (Reply)
Is that John Edwards hair?
#11 Rip VanBullwinkle on 2010-08-10 09:38 (Reply)
I think I dislike him more as a white man. Does that make me a racist?
#12 amhealy (Link) on 2010-08-10 10:21 (Reply)
How could you condemn that hapless look? Reminds me of the Alfred E. Newman for Prez. posters I had in my room as a kid.

http://www.dccomics.com/mad/media/downloads/hopeless_poster.jpg
#13 Occam's Disposable Razor on 2010-08-10 11:32 (Reply)
Looks alarmingly like Jimmy Carter to me. Scary.
#14 Tonestaple on 2010-08-10 11:39 (Reply)
one does not have to be black to act like a niggah
#15 al capone (Link) on 2010-08-10 12:51 (Reply)
I wouldn't vote for Dennis Kucinich before, and I won't now.
#16 DaneilS (Link) on 2010-08-10 22:39 (Reply)
Well, seeing as though I actually hold Nancy and Harry MORE responsible for the state of our nation than Obama, Yeah I guess I am a racist. I hate white communists.

It's pretty fashionable to blame Bush, but someone needs to remind liberpukes that the economy and the country were doing pretty well until Nancy and Harry took over congress...pesky little facts....
#17 Robert (Link) on 2010-08-12 19:06 (Reply)
I think comrade Ray needs to be sent for re-education for the Alfred E Neuman remark.
#18 maddinosaur (Link) on 2010-08-12 22:50 (Reply)
But what happens in the event you think he's looks better white? People often tan for darker skin because it suits them.
So if I were to say he looks nicer and therefore prefer this person, it would be assumed I was racist.

This test is bad. Either way, to stop racism you simply have to stop talking about it; like sexism used to be, it'll one day be overlooked.
#19 James Parker on 2011-06-25 13:18 (Reply)

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