Republican Lynches Empty Chair in Racist Presidential Effigy in Northwest Austin

[Nbadan]

Chumpy?

http://www.burntorangereport.com/upload/lynched-chair.jpg


Today, Burnt Orange Report received the photo at right, taken in front of a home in Northwest Austin. The resident, a Republican, lynched an empty chair from a tree in his yard, which one can easily interpret to represent a racially motivated act of violence against the President.

Now, one could easily argue "it's just a chair, what's the big deal? That's not racist!"

However, in light of Clint Eastwood's speech at the Republican National Convention, in which he had a largely one-sided conversation with an empty chair he pretended was Barack Obama, this imagery is now associated with the President.

The image of the chair is associated with the President. Now, lynch that chair from a tree, and you've got a pretty awful racist sentiment calling for lynching the first African-American President!

Lynching was a horrific and commonplace act in Reconstruction-era Texas and continued until the mid-1940's, spurred on by Ku Klux Klan groups. Texas is third amongst all states -- behind Mississippi and Georgia -- in the total number of lynching victims between 1885 and 1942. Of those 468 victims, an overwhelming number were African-American.

Perhaps the most well-known and horrific lynching in Texas occurred in 1916, when Jesse Washington was accused of raping and murdering a woman near Waco. He was sentenced to death, and lynched in front of a crowd of onlookers, after which members of the mob castrated him, cut off his fingers, and hung him over a bonfire. Pieces of his body were sold as souvenirs. The gruesome event became part of the NAACP's anti-lynching movement.

Most recently, in 1998, James Byrd Jr. -- for whom the Texas Hate Crimes Prevention Act is named -- was lynched by being dragging behind a vehicle in East Texas.

We have a sad and awful history of white people lynching African-Americans in Texas, and this history is exactly what this Republican's front yard display taps into.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/12756/republican-lynches-empty-chair-in-racist-presidential-effigy-in-northwest-austin

[Jacob1983]

What if instead of a chair, it was a tampon or maxi pad? Would that be a hate crime toward women?

[Creepn]

Chump would be the last person to do that bullshit.

[Nbadan]

Chump would be the last person to do that bullshit.

After attacking other poster's children, that's good to know...

[FuzzyLumpkins]

After attacking other poster's children, that's good to know...

Somebody have ugly kids or something? what did i miss?

[ChumpDumper]

I said I hope SA210's daughter doesn't die because SA210 is too stupid and proud to have her immunized, even though he had all his childhood immunizations.

He and dan are on the defensive about their respective 9/11 non-theories, so they claim I attacked the daughter.

I admit the remark was out of place and we started a new topic about that stupidity, but I would never retract that statement. I've seen to many kids suffer from easily preventable diseases.

[ChumpDumper]

Chumpy?

http://www.burntorangereport.com/upload/lynched-chair.jpg



http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/12756/republican-lynches-empty-chair-in-racist-presidential-effigy-in-northwest-austinMan, you're really busted up about the paint chips.

[Wild Cobra]

Man, you're really busted up about the paint chips.
Yep.

Looks like he can no longer find the leaded ones. Only unleaded.

[ChumpDumper]

This guy lives a couple miles away from me tbh.
Updated 6:28 p.m. I called the homeowner to ask about his display, citing my concerns as a fellow Austinite. He replied, and I quote, "I don't really give a damn whether it disturbs you or not. You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you. I don't give a shit. If you don't like it, don't come down my street."

Ironically, the homeowner in question, Bud Johnson, won "Yard of the Month" in August 2010 from his Homeowners Association. I guess his display was a little different that month? :lol

I am a little surprised the HOA is letting this go.

[mavs>spurs]

This guy lives a couple miles away from me tbh.:lol

I'll be using this information to my advantage.

[ChumpDumper]

I'll be using this information to my advantage.Are you going to try to Wild Cobra my location?

[TE]

Are you going to try to Wild Cobra my location?


That type of effort and pinpoint accuracy would be difficult to match tbh

[ChumpDumper]

That type of effort and pinpoint accuracy would be difficult to match tbhI agree.

I've stated my general location several times. I don't know how it could be used to anyone's "advantage."

[boutons_deux]

just another proof that right-wingers hate the n!gg@ primarily because he IS a n!gg@. and Repug politicians and other right-wing rabble rousers blow those racist dog-whistles all the time.

[Capt Bringdown]

h4ZyuULy9zs

[TeyshaBlue]

just another proof that right-wingers hate the n!gg@ primarily because he IS a n!gg@. and Repug politicians and other right-wing rabble rousers blow those racist dog-whistles all the time.

lol proof

[clambake]

those chairs suck. it had it coming

[boutons_deux]

lol proof

TB :lol

Repugs know how to dog-whistle to chair-lynchers, and know their base is rotten with racists and xenophobes.

do you think the chair-lyncher is probably a Democrat? :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

Actually, I thought it was kinda funny. But then again, I'm not predisposed to an opinion like you and your dog callers.

[TeyshaBlue]

cut and paste boutons. Good Boy!

[boutons_deux]

I'm not predisposed to an opinion

TB :lol

[TeyshaBlue]

Rollover bou. Good Boy!

[DarrinS]

There are always nutbags that do this kinda crap, but I'm painfully aware that this one is special, because Obama is half black.


Here's one of Palin

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/Marcus%20Gilmer/2-McCain-Palin-Effigy.jpg

[DarrinS]

And aren't these cute?


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SPLGItqj_SI/AAAAAAAAWXg/U1_UIY0pOTQ/s400/palin+c-nt.JPG

[DarrinS]

Good thread tho

[George Gervin's Afro]

Good thread tho

irony alert.. lol

[ChumpDumper]

And aren't these cute?


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/SPLGItqj_SI/AAAAAAAAWXg/U1_UIY0pOTQ/s400/palin+c-nt.JPGHmm, not quite the same as the lynching, is it?

[DarrinS]

Hmm, not quite the same as the lynching, is it?

I find the t-shirts more offensive than a chair hanging from a tree.

[ChumpDumper]

I find the t-shirts more offensive than a chair hanging from a tree.You're a very sensitive person when it comes to people being meanies to Republicans.

[DarrinS]

You're a very sensitive person when it comes to people being meanies to Republicans.


I would find those shirts respulsive no matter whose name was on them

[ChumpDumper]

I would find those shirts respulsive no matter whose name was on themSure you would, Darrin.

Sure you would.

[clambake]

I would find those shirts respulsive no matter whose name was on them

then why did you post it?

[CuckingFunt]

There are always nutbags that do this kinda crap, but I'm painfully aware that this one is special, because Obama is half black.


Here's one of Palin

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/Marcus%20Gilmer/2-McCain-Palin-Effigy.jpg

I find this pretty offensive, if it makes you feel any better.

[ChumpDumper]

I find this pretty offensive, if it makes you feel any better.Yeah, her hair doesn't look anything like that.

[Spurminator]

but I'm painfully aware that this one is special, because Obama is half black.

:lmao Downplaying Obama's blackness as if half-blacks were never the subjects of violent racism.

How fucking stupid are you? It's baffling. There are people who post some stupid shit on here, but a lot of times you can tell they're trolling or being disingenuous on behalf of supporting their side, but you are actually sincere in your stupidity.

[Spurminator]

I mean this was a pretty stupid thread anyway, since this is just some dumbass private homeowner making a misguided statement, but Darrin had to come in and take it up a notch.

[DarrinS]

:lmao Downplaying Obama's blackness as if half-blacks were never the subjects of violent racism

:dramaquee

[ChumpDumper]

:lmao Downplaying Obama's blackness as if half-blacks were never the subjects of violent racism.Hey, Sarah Palin had sex with a black dude.

And Todd is 1/8 Native American!

[DarrinS]

Must have been very painful for him growning up in segregated Hawaii

[ChumpDumper]

Ah, the ol' "there isn't any racism anymore (except reverse racism)" gambit.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

There's been plenty of racism against white people, have you ever heard of the Holocaust?

[Winehole23]

Downplaying Obama's blackness as if half-blacks were never the subjects of violent racism. if Obama were fully white he'd automatically qualify for victimhood in DarrinS's scheme of political correctness, but his biracial heritage brands him indelibly as a member of the black oppressor class.

[Spurminator]

Must have been very painful for him growning up in segregated Hawaii

Well shit, then his race isn't significant at all, so why'd you even mention that he's half black?

[Winehole23]

it's hard to tell which half Darrin resents him for more

[Jacob1983]

Wasn't Obama raised by white people pretty much most of his childhood?

[Winehole23]

that's right. ergo, he's not really black.

[Spurminator]

The Old South was very tolerant to black kids raised by white parents, tbh. And products of interracial marriage. Treated them just like one of their own.

[Jacob1983]

Is it racist and ignorant for people to ignore Obama's half whiteness? Isn't that basically a fuck you to his mom and her parents that basically helped raise Barry?

[clambake]

Is it racist and ignorant for people to ignore Obama's half whiteness? Isn't that basically a fuck you to his mom and her parents that basically helped raise Barry?

i think you are exactly where you belong.

[Spurminator]

Is it racist and ignorant for people to ignore Obama's half whiteness? Isn't that basically a fuck you to his mom and her parents that basically helped raise Barry?


What does Obama's half-whiteness have to do with any of this?

[CosmicCowboy]

Question. Everyone keeps saying Obama's father was black, but technically wasn't he dark skinned Arabic? Do you consider that to be the same as African? I know the Arabs don't consider it to be the same.

[Jacob1983]

Everything


If you talk about Barry's half blackness, you have to acknowledge his half whiteness too. Equality, brah.

But seriously, I just laugh at people when they throw the black label on Obama. It's like "well that's what he looks like so that's what he is". Who cares that his mom was white right? Calling Obama black is on the same level as saying that he is a radical African Muslim that is going to take away your Bible and guns.

[DarrinS]

if Obama were fully white he'd automatically qualify for victimhood in DarrinS's scheme of political correctness, but his biracial heritage brands him indelibly as a member of the black oppressor class.


Lol @ you guys trying to push this on me.

I'm merely pointing out that effigies of politicians are nothing new -- and not even unique to American politicians.

But hell hath no fury like a butthurt Obamabot scorned.

EDIT> The last comment not aimed at you, WH.

[Clipper Nation]

Just goes to show what the rabid hate for Obama among neocons is REALLY driven by, tbh.... if it was really about policies, they'd have been supporting Ron Paul instead of Willard, Newt, Frothy, or Bachmann, tbh.....

[Spurminator]

Question. Everyone keeps saying Obama's father was black, but technically wasn't he dark skinned Arabic? Do you consider that to be the same as African? I know the Arabs don't consider it to be the same.

What would the racists in 1600-1960's America have considered it?

[Clipper Nation]

Ah, the ol' "there isn't any racism anymore (except reverse racism)" gambit.

Ugh... the phrase "reverse racism" is a pet peeve of mine, tbh.... white is just as much a race as any other race, and racism against white people is just plain old racism....

[Spurminator]

Lol @ you guys trying to push this on me.

I'm merely pointing out that effigies of politicians are nothing new -- and not even unique to American politicians.

But hell hath no fury like a butthurt Obamabot scorned.

You said half black. You must have meant something by that. Don't try to back out of it you racist coward.

[Clipper Nation]

Wasn't Obama raised by white people pretty much most of his childhood?

How exactly does that change his skin color and ethnicity?

[Clipper Nation]

I would find those shirts respulsive no matter whose name was on them

Oh please.... if they said "PELOSI IS A Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_" instead, you'd be on here crying about :cry freedom of speech :cry tbh....

[Jacob1983]

If you say Obama is black, you're not being factually accurate. Isn't the more correct term "biracial"?

[Edward]

Is it racist and ignorant for people to ignore Obama's half whiteness? Isn't that basically a fuck you to his mom and her parents that basically helped raise Barry?
:lol pretending you give two shits about Obama's mom

[DarrinS]

Oh please.... if they said "PELOSI IS A Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Luck_The_Fakers_Lu ck_The_Fakers_" instead, you'd be on here crying about :cry freedom of speech :cry tbh....

Ha ha.

[DarrinS]

You said half black. You must have meant something by that. Don't try to back out of it you racist coward.

Fuck off. I didn't start this "racist" thread.

[Spurminator]

Fuck off. I didn't start this "racist" thread.

No, but you reinforced it.

[Drachen]

h4ZyuULy9zs

Just heard about a week ago that the writer of that song died.

[ChumpDumper]

Must see:

http://www.weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_4292.shtml

:rollin

House pictures and shadows for m>s's triangulating pleasure.

[clambake]

Must see:

http://www.weareaustin.com/news/top-stories/stories/vid_4292.shtml

:rollin

House pictures and shadows for m>s's triangulating pleasure.

:lol bud "one crutch" johnson hung it from the tree cuz he likes to cut his grass!

:lmao

[clambake]

so, xray's real name is bud johnson?

[johnsmith]

I for one am shocked, absolutely shocked that this guy lives in Texas.

[johnsmith]

Tolerance is what Texas is all about....I mean, WTF?

[DarrinS]

Let's just go ahead and add this to the list of racist dog whistles:


The list
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angry
Chicago
food stamps
birth certificate
welfare
crime
empty chair

[ChumpDumper]

Poor, oppressed Darrin can't be open about his birtherism.

[DarrinS]

Poor, oppressed Darrin can't be open about his birtherism.


Fail, as usual

[ChumpDumper]

Fail, as usualYes, your birther posts failed pretty miserably. You're still trying to live them down.

[DarrinS]

Yes, your birther posts failed pretty miserably. You're still trying to live them down.


Yes, my infamous birther posts. Where are those again?

[ChumpDumper]

Yes, my infamous birther posts. Where are those again?With all your other posts whining about how oppressed you are.

[DarrinS]

With all your other posts whining about how oppressed you are.

Where are the posts saying I am oppressed?

Good luck finding those too.

[ChumpDumper]

Where are the posts saying I am oppressed?

Good luck finding those too.You just made one.

[Capt Bringdown]

http://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/confederate-angry-old-man.jpeg


Burnt Orange reports that when one woman complained to the Texas homeowner, he said, “I don’t really give a damn whether it disturbs you or not. You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you. I don’t give a shit. If you don’t like it, don’t come down my street.” The man has since added an American flag to the chair.

- more -> (http://www.salon.com/2012/09/20/invisible_obama_chair_lynchings/)

LOL victim card:


UPDATE: KEYE TV in Austin has uploaded a reluctant interview with the Texas home owner, who took down the chair and moved it because, “Does anybody else that’s got a chair sitting out receiving the same harassment that you guys are giving?”