Originally Posted By WilliamK99 <a href="http://www.ajc.com/wireless/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/05/13/mulligans_0514.html" target="_blank">http://www.ajc.com/wireless/co...514.html</a> That link is for those who think America is colorblind and think race will not matter.. Those shirts are horrible, but the fact someone is selling them says alot about where our country still is....we have a long way to go still...
Originally Posted By X-san What's so horrible? Curious George is cute! I think it's nice he's an Obama supporter.
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 What's so horrible? Curious George is cute! I think it's nice he's an Obama supporter.<< I think anyone older than 10 gets the reference that is implied by that shirt...
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder My wife likes green. I'm partial to blue. Both our vehicles are black. So's the cat. The dog's a beagle, so he's just confused.
Originally Posted By barboy The shirt signifies overt racism and I'm glad the owners of the cartoon will try to put a stop to it. Curious George is not just a monkey but a monkey with a very light/fair face, like Obama. The shape of Obama's head, face and position and size of his ears don't help either which appears monkey-like. Some people just look like other animals I guess: years ago a kid at our school, Bud(short for Buddy) resembled a bumble bee-- we just called him 'Buz'(no, I'm not kidding); we had a donkey lookalike too. Long ago I once worked with a woman who had the appearance of Eore and most of the staff called her that.
Originally Posted By DyGDisney barboy, your stories remind me of the commercial where the kid has his friends on his "5" represented by animals: Giraffe, elephant, horse, etc...
Originally Posted By jdub >>..we have a long way to go still...<< Yeah, & it can be hard sometimes not to give up hope for the future.
Originally Posted By mele It's not just about the fact that Obama has a resemblance to Curious George. It might be something that was kind of cute if not for the fact that black people were called apes/animals for years while using them as slaves. Clearly some people still think of them as animals. (Remember when Rush Limbaugh pretended to not even know who Curious George was when he allowed a woman on his radio program to call Obama Curious George?) Of course, there's also a lot of people who would just say that this store owner is just exercising his freedom of speech and refusing to bow to polical correctness.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>Those shirts are horrible, but the fact someone is selling them says alot about where our country still is....we have a long way to go still...<< Indeed. Ignorant incidents like this are about the most dispiriting thing there is. Everytime I think we have moved forward, there's some backward jughead out there wanting to yank us back into our national shame... Worse still is when called on it, these dopes blink and try and act innocent -- as if we're as stupid as they are.
Originally Posted By DAR There's a Chicago Cubs player named Fukidome. There was a vendor selling shirts with Fukidome's image on the shirt with long time Cubs announcer Harry Carry's signature phrase Holy Cow, instead it was Horry Cow. Of course the vendor hid behind the idea that it was his top seller.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder The Cubs have gone to great lengths to ban those shirts, but the vendor keeps popping up, now on ebay.
