Yeas & Nays - Obama would make D.C. a ‘chocolate city,’ Lee says - Examiner.com
“The money’s going to other things,” he said. “That’s going to change though.” As applause escalated, he added, in a clear reference to Barack Obama, “We’ll have a real chocolate city.”
Does this mean I can start referring to black people as “chocolates?” Or does it mean that Spike Lee is a racist dumbass?
Has anybody asked Obama yet whether he’s going to turn Washington, D.C. into a “chocolate city?” That would make for an interesting press conference.
And how would that work, exactly? Line up all the honkeys at gunpoint and march them across the city line? If that includes all the appropriate members of Congress I might sign on to it, given that congressional business would have to halt for lack of a quorum. And it would leave us with a Supreme Court featuring only Clarence Thomas - I could live with that as well - although I doubt Obama or Spike Lee could.
Hey, though: Maybe old spike-skull is on to something here! (via Glenn Reynolds)
Submit to Stumbled Upon!
If it can succeed in Zimbabwe, it can work in D.C.
Note that my definition of “succeed” is “bring to a screeching halt”.
Was that ever in doubt?
The only real “chocolate city” in the U.S. is Hershey, PA - and, despite Spikey’s (and select others’) fantasies, that’s the way it’s pretty certainly going to stay, for a long, long time to come…
This is perhaps the dumbest racist post of I’ve ever seen. Lee, who was not speaking for Obama in any kind of capacity anyway, was quoting a title of a 1970s Parliament song about Washington DC (it’s a good song too), a majority-black city. It’s an understandable statement of pride in a black man’s accomplishments. How you can go from that to the moronic racewar fantasy fiction you post above says more about your prejudices than anything else.
Do you guys honestly believe black folks are just lying in wait to line you up against the wall? What kind of fantasy world are you living in?
Nobody said the “expert on Hurricane Katrina” spoke for Obama.
What the “expert” said was ““We’ll have a real chocolate city.”. Racist? You decide. I wouldn’t be so proud of a city with the criminal population of DC.
Actually, dumbass, I think the real racist fantasy world is the one inhabited by blacks who are predicting Obama’s assassination, and blabbering on as if there has been no improvement in race relations since slavery.
Spike Lee seems to be one of those true believers. I wouldn’t be much surprised to find out that you are, too.
Bill Quick, you ever actually talk to a black person? Because this caricature of yours suggests you haven’t. Of course, things have changed since slavery, but if you think that means anti-black racism doesn’t exist anymore, you need only look at the baroque conspiracizing throughout the right-wing blogosphere, which keeps trying to paint Obama as some kind black nationalist/communist/Muslim/whatever Manchurian Candidate. You clowns sure scare easy.
As for the fear of Obama getting killed, the secret service took it seriously enough to give him protection earlier than any other canditate. Sad to say, there are enough racist crackpots out there to make this a legit worry.
Dear dumbfuck moron:
In my office are 16 people. As of yesterday twelve of them were black (most with master’s degrees), 2 asian, and 2 white - of which one was me.
The general consensus among the (highly educated) blacks I work with every day is that Obama will either be murdered before the election, or immediately after, if he wins - especially because his veep will be white.
Further, the general consensus is also that white racism is at least as debilitating in America today as it was in the 1950s, although it is more carefully hidden - though no less pernicious. One co-worker - a black woman with a PhD - speaks often about the “ethnic cleansing” practiced against blacks in San Francisco by the racist white administration of Kevin Newsom. It never crosses their minds that were the situation as bad as they say it is, they would not only not have their degrees, they wouldn’t be able to get their jobs, degrees or not. Like many liberal ethnics of excellent education, they live in a fantasty world, as do you, where conservatives spend all their time trying to figure out how to lock nitwits like you up in fascist concentration camps, just because, well, just because.
You also are probably unaware that I live in SF’s black ghetto, and eighty percent of my neighbors are either working class blacks, or welfare class blacks. One of my fonder recent memories is of taking a picture of the “tombstone” that marks the entrance to “Hunter’s View” (the heart of the ghetto here, the home of “Straight out of Hunters Point” fame), and having a carload of thug-life gangstas pull up next to me, and advise me thusly: “Hey, mothafuck, don’t you know this tha ghet-toe? Get ya mothafuckin pale ass outta here before we blow it off!” (Latest local gangsta ride: elderly Lexi with jacked springs, huge tires, and spindly chrome wheels).
You’re a fuckwit, Judwit, and you beclown yourself every time you open your yap here. You’re a typically ignorant and self-deceiving lefty who thinks condescension substitutes for actual knowledge, experience, and rational thought, but then, most of you assholes are like that. Don’t stop, though. The comedy is priceless.
Hey, Bill — don’t confuse Justin K. with Judson.
Judson is the one who’s wrong about everything except race relations.
So far.
My mistake.
You know how it is.
They all look alike to me.
‘Kay, I’ve witnessed some serious stupidity already during the various stages of this Silly (POTUS Election) Season, but this one is just beggin’ for a bustin’ -
Stand by for fisking in 5…4….3…2…1…
Then you must have led a seriously sheltered on-line life, bubby - I’ve personally accidentally come across genuinely, stupidly racist crap that was far, far beyond anything that should be allowed out of a human mouth or brain; often enough, it came from calculatedly racist clowns like Al Sharpton.
The responses you see here are simply a mild-mannered matchup for the remarks of another racist clown - Spike Lee
Unless Lee has somehow conveyed the exact content of his thoughts to you, I can’t imagine how you divined this as his intent - it seems just as likely that he was echoing the comment regarding another city, by yet another racist clown.
No, it’s an entirely understandable statement of prejudice by the sort of black racist clown who titled his movie production company Forty Acres And A Mule, another racially-motivated reference (this time to a thoroughly-discredited legend regarding a supposed promise made to black people by the U.S. government after the War Between The States).
How you can interpret anything in the prior entries on this thread as “racewar fantasy fiction” says volumes about your moronic level of racial prejudice. There’s simply no way anyone with a fully-functioning adult brain could possibly interpret Lee’s remark as anything but racially-divisive - the comments made are clearly derisive of Lee’s statement, and rather mildly so - nothing more.
Maybe you could point out exactly where it is that anyone made any sort of statement about “lining people (of any color) up against the wall”
That little “racewar fantasy fiction” came out of your head, clown - nobody else’s.
No fantasy world hereabouts - but there seems to be some question regarding the atmosphere in your little universe.
What kind of distorted, moronic planet do you currently inhabit, at least inside your head?
One last comment: At this point, it seems highly likely that the next POTUS will be named Barack H. Obama. We can only hope that the emerging fantasies of racists like Spike Lee prove to be just that - fantasy - and that, as President, Obama fulfills at least some of the promise that he’s presently pitching to the electorate; that he refuses to be drawn into the kind of racially-motivated and racially-oriented governing that Lee and others like him dream of.
Personally, I believe that, if/when he wins, Obama will prove to be much more racially color-blind than a certain segment of his supporters. I don’t like his politics - but I don’t think he’s entirely stupid, at least not to the same extent as openly racist morons like Spike Lee.
Shelton Jackson “Spike” Lee is the son of successful blacks, raised in a upper middle class neighborhood and learned his racism in Atlanta universities. As a reaction to people saying he acted white Lee tried to become a “real black”. He does this by expressing hatred of whitey at every opportunity.
IIRC he once complained that he had to put $30,000.00 of the cost of “She’s Got To Have It” on his credit card. He is not now, nor has he ever been, representative of the black community. Most of his movies are racist or demeaning to women or both.
And go ahead, call me racist.
Cool portrait, genes - you’ve got a beautiful family, there…but then, you already knew that, right?
Yah, what he said. I think the only previous shot of your family was a dog picture, with a human incidentally included.
Careful, genes. Some dumbass will come along as ask you if you’ve ever talked to “a black person.”
Thanks, Steve must have missed the Thanksgiving pic. And of course it’s not on photobucket. As I’ve said, the family came ready made and nobody has ever questioned my relationship to the girls shopping, at school or the hospital. And we live in the South. In the 50’s we’d of had burning crosses every Saturday night in the north. So yes the country has come a long way.
Yep, nice portrait indeed. And I’m not the least bit suprised you and your family are accepted, especially in the South. Once we got over the hill we made amends. It’s not perfect, but as you say “yes the country has come a long way”.
Justin would actually prefer the old days, which is why he finds racism everywhere he looks.
Ya know, it just dawned on me, Bill works with a group of 16, 12 which are black, genes is married to a black woman, IIRC SteveF was married to a black woman and I think he’s white and now married to an Asian, and Clayton’s Mother in Law was black and I have no idea of Claytons color.
Yep, Justin, it’s a real racist bunch hanging out here.
Self-identified as black. Her ancestry is more-or-less equal portions of black, white, and amerind—which, by the tainted blood theory, makes her black. (My first child custody lawyer told me the kid should be with his mother because otherwise he’d be growing up in a racially mixed household. My lawyer told me that. Believe it or not, she wasn’t my lawyer much longer.)
Anyway, Barry, the focus on “color” misses the important distinctions among us. Sure, you’re just responding to Shitforbrains Lee’s and Justin’s comments, but still missing the point. The important point is, I’m the only Cthulhuist here, which means He’ll eat me last.
Okay SteveF,
What is a Cthulhuist? The only thing I can find on the net is some guy stating:
Interesting cosmology. Scientology has nothing on your reality. Of course I don’t know shit about this weird stuff.
That’s the one, Haverwilde. Though the guy you quoted got one thing wrong: it’s not that Cthulhu will eat everyone but His cultists, it’s that He’ll eat them last.
Cthulhu’s day is drawing near. He already has imitators.
I don’t recall it coming up before here, either. I’m white, with a dash or three of American Indian.
This is almost always the best place to start your researches. Or maybe you might start here instead.
What sort of education did you have that neglected to inform you of H.P. Lovecraft? ;^)
Man, after reading all this I just feel so white. In order to head off the onrushing flood of white guilt that is about to descend on me, I will state the following:
I’m of Scots/Irish/English ancestry with a drop of German that gave me my name.
However!
I married The Lady, who is of Russian Jewish ancestry. And that means, practicing or not, she’s a Jew! So I’ve got that going for me.
And for bonus points? The Lady’s whole academic background is African American history, continuing a long tradition of Jews (Boas, Levine, Herskovits, Hentof, Diner, Sobel, etc.) writing about African American history and culture. Domaine Mojo is a veritable repository of the history of the African diaspora in America. Walls and walls of books.
So, does this establish me with some diversity cred?
As for Spike? Clint was right: Spike really should just STFU…
I was raised in a strict Baptist home The writings of ‘Lovecraft’ or on ‘Lovecraft’ (in all its meanings) was not in the curriculum. Pity. Lots of make-up work to do. Where do I sign up for Bonehead Lovecraft?
This is some of the funniest stuff I have read here. And the most sad. Poor Justin. Imagine living in his world, where things are so — sigh — black and white.
By the way, my grandfather and his family were serfs in Russia. But the Kremlin repeatedly refuses to acknowledge my petitions for reparations. The racist bastards.
A three-part tutorial series:
Dating for Dummies
Relationships for Dummies
Sex for Dummies
More advanced works:
The Gift of Sex: A Guide to Sexual Fulfillment
Reclaiming Your Sexual Self: How You Can Bring Desire Back Into Your Life
Daily Sex: 365 Positions and Activities for a Year of Great Sex!
Since the tangential topics were probably glossed over as well, some more you should be aware of:
Fertility for Dummies
Sexually Transmitted Diseases: A Physician Tells You What You Need to Know
HTH.
SteveF, that was totally [heh] uncalled [heh HAHAHA] for.
SteveF,
Those texts look really great. You didn’t arrange the practicum and other lab classes yet, though.
We appear to be witnessing/experiencing an extreme thread-drift, here -
All the way from “chocolate city” to “Sex And The City(/Country/Everywhere/Anywhere)”…
Amazin’ and amusin’.
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm - chocolate…
Doh!
Never try to offer racist assholes like Justin ‘racial bonafides’. It serves no purpose. Way back when, I was called a racist by SHARP* skinheads while dating a mixed girl and living with two hispanice roommates–people like Justin have no grasp on reality even when they’re looking at it, and your comments look, to them, like you’re saying “I’ve got a lot of black friends”
Far better to not let those idiots know a damned thing about you.
SteveF, as a Cthulhuist, have you considered the Cult of the Machete?
One of the Great Oold Ones’ punishments for being such a disgusting worm infesting it’s planet is that those eaten will live, in utter torment for ten thousand years while being digested.
The Cult of the Machete is prepared.
When He wakes, they will sharpen their blades and rush to be ingested. Upon entering His digestive tract they will cut their way to a safer place within him and live, like a sentient cancer within His greatness.
Upon nearing the close of the ten thousand year span they will cut their way out and be re-ingested, ensuring another ten thousand year span. Repeat as necessary.
Immortality, guaranteed living space, AND all the sushi you can eat. Plus you get to carry a machete.
Perhaps. But he asked a specific question. I gave him a specific answer.
Oddly enough, though, while reading the responses, I had the same thought: All the drooling dumbass will think is, “Huh. Some of their best friends are black.”
[SNIP — ed.]
Note to Gus, the Drive-By Asshole: Why don’t you kindly go stick your head back up your own ass? It’s pretty obvious that you think your shit doesn’t stink, anyway.
I’ll join Chef Mojo here as one of the lily white readers. Don’t blame me for my Scottish/Irish/English/French ancestry. The last bit comes in handy only when I need to make white flags, but everything can be useful at some point so, you know, glass half full and all.
I grew up in the south and never, in my entire life, have I understood this obsession with race. Maybe I was fortunate in that my parochial school’s student body was mixed, but I’ve always thought of everyone as just “people”. I guess that makes me stupid.
Do I want to know what Gus said?
Apparently not.
But extrapolating from JS, my guess is he was boasting that he frequently had anal sex with himself.
Close, very close - he made a particularly disgusting and annoying accusation - which I will not repeat - with regards to the content of the original post. I felt called upon, therefore, to deliver the suggestion noted above.
I did not do the editing-out - but, on reflection, that was probably the more useful response.
genes, you didn’t have to ask what he said. As an editor yourself, you could go back to the unredacted post and see that Gus was stating that he wanted to star in a gay beastiality snuff flick. As qualifications he listed his experience in gay beastiality non-snuff flicks. I can’t say for sure, but I suspect the comment was cut because it exceeded DP’s “yuck” factor.
Who did the cut? It wasn’t me.
Not I. And I wouldn’t have snipped it in that way; I’d have edited it to make it sound stupid. OK, stupider.
By process of elimination, I think only Chef Mojo is left.
Oh, my. This is very weird all of a sudden. It was not I that performed the extended bris - not that it had to be extended much - upon the late, lamented Gus.
Drach, however, has not chimed in…
Curiouser and curiouser.
So nobody cut it? Perhaps the Web has developed an intelligence of it’s own? Couldn’t that play havoc with the world.
I did not see it, so it wasn’t me, although judging from his previous entries he probably should have had a rather permanent cut applied.
However!
As I recall, Gus was going on about taking Nancy Pelosi’s, uh, taco, and spreading it with a combination of extra crunchy peanut butter and Hormel chili (without beans, natch…) and then something about giving her “a botox injection” with his “syringe of love” that he swiped from the local large animal vet.
That being the case, who can blame the mystery editor for the snip…
Oh Thank the Diety. He has intevened in the lives of us mere mortals. He has established an Intelligent Design for the Internet and for Blog comments. He has ventured up from His throne and smote the Demon Gus. Thanks be to BloGod!
The Elder God Cthulhu’s time is coming. He drove Gus insane and then ate his comment. Gus’s miserable existence will soon come to a horrid and tentacly end. But don’t rejoice, unbelievers! You’re next.
If Cthulhu didn’t eat the comment, I guess it must have been Clayton. Everyone else has denied it.
Although…has anyone ever seen Clayton and Cthulhu in the same room at the same time? Kinda makes you wonder…
It’s the Web. It’s alive.(cue thunder and evil laugh)
You know, a few hours after this thread started drifting, a Cthulhu hat (scroll to 2nd picture) manifested itself halfway across the country at the Indy blog meet.
Disturbingly appropriate!
Free speech. A hilarious contradiction.
Eh?
Sorry, I’ve been wrapped up with work all day. I did it last night when I first saw it, shortly after JB posted his response. Since everyone is curious: As best I recall, Gus’s comment was, “Why don’t you just go ahead and say ‘nigger’? You know you want to. Own it!”
Aw, I got it. Gus thinks Robert Byrd (D) is commenting here.
No, that’s not quite it, Barry. Gus is Robert Byrd.
I’d have left it out and used it to point out that, as usual, the lefty dumbass was the first to use the word he was decrying. The left’s entire anti-conservative program is little more than a projection of what they hold within themselves. They peddle hate and fear, so they have to assume conservatives want to do so as well. They also would desperately like to forget that it was post-bellum southern Democrats who clung desperately to the word “nigger,” even as they continued to try to hold blacks in a state as close to pre-war slavery as they could manage.
No Republican ever has anything to apologize for versus Democrats in this area - the GOP was founded in order to end black slavery in America.