Those Damn Monkeys
This is how preposterous this pretense of offense has become. Is this what we face with an Obamination in office? This never ending parade of offended whiners?
Black children clambering about in a tree were chastised to quit climbing about “like monkeys” and get down. Well, in this wrecked world of “tolerance”, that is sufficient to pull out the race card.
Moving to nip in the bud some potential bad press, White House hopeful Barack Obama’s campaign persuaded a delegate to step down after she was ticketed for calling her neighbor’s African-American children “monkeys.”
Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski, a Carpentersville village trustee, was elected as an Obama delegate to the Democratic National Convention. She sports an Obama sign in her front yard. On Saturday, two neighbor children were playing in the tree next-door to her house. Ramirez-Sliwinski “came outside and told the children to quit playing in the tree like monkeys…
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“Linda Ramirez-Sliwinski said she saw the kids playing in the tree and didn’t want them falling out of the tree and getting hurt. She said she calls her own grandchildren ‘monkeys,’ ” Kilbourne said.
The mother of one of the children did not see it that way, noting she and Ramirez-Sliwinski have clashed before. “She felt it was racist because of the fact the children were African-American,” Kilbourne said.
Told of the incident Monday by the Sun-Times, Obama’s campaign called Ramirez-Sliwinski and persuaded her to step aside as a delegate because the campaign felt her remarks were “divisive and unacceptable.”(Source)
I have little sympathy for Ramirez, an advocate for illegals, but she ought to have had her wits about her and turned the tables on Obama and questioned why he doesn’t utilize such opportunities to berate fools who use any and every opportunity to scream racism.
Perhaps he could use his position as messiah-in-training to suggest that this bloody sensitivity to banal and innocuous remarks serves only to obscure any actual racism that may occurs and ought to be addressed.
But there is no profit in that. Obama owes his existence to the race game, always has, and he will play by the rules which elevate “offense” and race to an altar upon which anybody or anything can be sacrificed.
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1
Aurora
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
Obama owes his existence to the race game, always has, and he will play by the rules which elevate “offense” and race to an altar upon which anybody or anything can be sacrificed.
Astute observation, Zee. He has no problem with who is sacrificed. It actually serves to focus the media spotlight on something which will serve as to dogwhistle his obsessive voters all the more, especially the black community.
2
zee
Thursday, April 10th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Really, though his supporters are a nasty lot, I wonder what they think when he keeps sweeping them under the rug.
Good point,they keep focusing on race, drawing attention away from his marxist beliefs and his muslim sympathies.
But this especially panders to his black constituency who are none to fond of Latinos.