How Is President Obama Being Un-White Today?

[Coyotl]

We are sorry to be the ones to have to tell you this, but not only is Barack Hussein Obama “exotic,” but also he is 47 percent negro (because MATH) and some sad crackers in the South and Arizona, the South of the Southwest, have some Feelings about that.

Tell us about your Feelings, sad crackers.

“He’s 47 percent Negro,” 77-year-old Ron Enderle shouted at one point, later telling the Republic that he was “ashamed” to have Obama as Commander-in-Chief.

According to the Republic, at one point critics of Obama sang “Bye Bye Black Sheep” and at least one sign in the crowd read “Impeach the Half-White Muslim.”

Well that is pretty straightforward. The president is very, VERY black. (He is not actually that black. We remember some dumb fucking waah from 2008 where all sorts of people complained the president was not a real the black.)

So those are some ignorant honkeys, doin’ as they do. Is there anyone we might expect to not be a dumb fucking Klansman when talking about the president....

http://wonkette.com/524987/how-is-president-obama-being-un-white-today

[BumRushDaShow]

1. I know of no black person

including myself, family, friends, or co-workers who use the word "honkey". I wish writers who think they are somehow "hip" (another '50s/'60s cast off term) would stop using it.

I know they mean well but FFS.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. +1

The only person I ever heard say it was a t.v. character named George Jefferson.

[RockaFowler]

4. And I believe it was the last person to say it, too!!

[Ken Burch]

15. Richard Pryor used it in the "Word Association" sketch on SNL

That was the one where Chevy Chase was giving Pryor a word association test(as part of a job interview) and the words Pryor was asked to associate with became increasingly racist.

It got to this point:

Chase(reading the words):"Negro"

Pryor(unable to believe that Chase just quoted that word): Honky

Chase: "N____r"

Pryor(Incredulous now) EAD Honky!

(the sketch went on a bit longer, and then Pryor's character was told the he'd got the job).

[JustAnotherGen]

19. Paul Mooney

Wrote that one!

[msanthrope]

20. Here's the transcript of this hysterical sketch...

(NOT SAFE FOR WORK, and OFFENSIVE TO SOME....do not click and whine!!)

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75ginterview.phtml

I can't find a video clip, but it was a damn funny sketch....

[Bandit]

5. While I understand the terms Honky or Cracker or Gringo or Yank or Howlie or ??? are supposed to

be insulting to white people, I don't understand how.. I never felt insulted by any of those terms. Maybe someone could explain to me how they put me down...Why I should feel insulted...I accept all of those terms of just who and what I am. I am also White so Whitey doesn't bother me either..

[Coyotl]

6. Does Cracker refer to whites?

[Bandit]

8. I believe it does, yes.

I think it is hard to come up with an insult for white people based just on their color. Practices of genocide, slave holders/traders, war criminals, all might apply and be insulting but a word just for white people is not insulting IMO.

[SomethingFishy]

11. A friend told me the term "cracker"

doesn't mean "Ritz". It comes from being the Whip Cracker. A person who cracks the whip.

[Coyotl]

13. That makes sense. Like calling someone a slaver.

[ariesgem]

9. yep...

[malaise]

3. Sick fuggs

seriously

[treestar]

7. I'm appalled, and 47%?

Did Barack Sr. have a white great great grandfather ?

[loyalsister]

10. 47% has become an adjective

You would think 50% would be the most offensive descriptor. But somehow 47% has become a word that means is the worst of the worst.

[City Lights]

12. 47%, eh?

I don't know whether to or at that idiot.

[mick063]

14. The President had it all in his hands

All he had to do was stand by Social Security, rein in the surveillance state, include union leadership in trade discussions, and appoint people outside of the big financial institutions to his cabinet.

He would have had a groundswell of sustained support, as opposed to gradually diminishing support, that would have dwarfed the topic of race. I find it difficult to defend his actions as President. What it means is that instead of arguing to look at his actions instead of his color, all I can say is don't look at his color.

I am confined to arguing against discrimination instead of arguing for great vision. Certainly a worthy cause, but the cause could have included so much more. I am a little less inspired if my argument isn't for all the disadvantaged as opposed to a subset of the disadvantaged.

[IncessantPerfidy]

17. You choose to argue against discrimination and that is fine but you don't have to

Everyone knows a large percentage of people, mainly the GOP Base, find the President Exotic which being a white male I immediately knew was a typical racist dog whistle. I and my Exotic friends had a good laugh at the new AWG term for N___er now.

Unless you are on the Administration’s Payroll you don’t have to defend anything the President does, does not do or attack made against him he has plenty of people who do it for him. When you are around those who see the President as Exotic, there is nothing you can do or say to change their minds all they see is black and they are so full of hate you will never change it.

Just laugh at the fools, give em the finger and move on.

[Number23]

16. What is up with that video? Is that supposed to be funny?

[NickB79]

18. Blazing Saddles is one of the best movies ever made!

You've never seen it?

[Number23]

21. No I haven't. And judging by that clip, I don't think I'm missing anything.