Didn't see this anywhere
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/poli...as_racist.html
A California Republican party official who sent out an e-mail of President Obama's face super-imposed onto a chimp says she's sorry, but insists she wasn't trying to be racist.
Marilyn Davenport, an elected member of the Orange County Republican central committee, sent the e-mail on Friday. The "family photo" features the commander-in-chief as a baby chimpanzee with two chimp parents.
Along with the offensive image was the tagline "Now you know why -- No birth certificate."
The supposed gag refers to the belief by so-called "birthers," who insist - even after the White House released a digitally scanned image of his Hawaii birth certificate in 2008 - that Obama wasn't born in the U.S. and is ineligible to be president.
Davenport admitted to passing it around to her "friends and acquaintances," reported the Orange County Weekly.
The Tea Party activist then offered up a half-hearted apology.
"I'm sorry if my email offended anyone," she wrote, according to the OC Weekly. "I simply found it amusing regarding the character of Obama and all the questions surrounding his origin of birth."
Davenport wrote she hadn't considered that Obama is "half black."
"In fact, the thought never entered my mind until one or two other people tried to make this about race," she wrote.
The GOP committeewoman then blamed the "media" for trying to make a big deal out of the racist e-mail, insisting that the "average person knows and agrees is much ado about nothing."
Davenport has since sought to hunt down the "cowardly" person who leaked the e-mail, said Republican Party of Orange County chairman Scott Baugh, who was one of the original people who received the "highly inappropriate" Obama e-mail.
"It's a de able message, it drips with racism and I think she should step down from the committee," he said.
Davenport, however, has already refused to quit.
"I will NOT resign my central committee position over this matter," she wrote to the OC Weekly.
"I have never seen anything like this before from an elected official," Michael Schroeder, former chairman of the California GOP Party, told CBS 2 News in Los Angeles. "It's stunning."
He noted that in 2009 the former Republican mayor of Los Alamitos, Dean Grose, e-mailed a photo showing a watermelon patch in front of the White House last year, Davenport defended him. She also backed former Newport Beach City Councilman Nichols for making an offensive remark about Mexicans.
"She has managed to top both of those incidents by comparing African Americans to monkeys," Schroeder told the OC Weekly on Saturday. "She has disgraced herself and needs to resign."
In March 2010, Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Walt Baker was fired after forwarding a joke via e-mail equating First Lady Mic e Obama to Cheeta, Tarzan's chimpanzee sidekick.
congrats on buying in/spouting off about bull soap-opera style drama surrounding a false left-right paradigm while our country gets led into the noose. While you sheep follow these force-fed meaningless/mindless stories meant to distract and keep your eyes off the thieves stealing from you and yours, the futures of future generations are going up in flames.
again. congrats
Way to and steer clear of all the bull soap-opera style drama.congrats on buying in/spouting off about bull soap-opera style drama surrounding a false left-right paradigm while our country gets led into the noose. While you sheep follow these force-fed meaningless/mindless stories meant to distract and keep your eyes off the thieves stealing from you and yours, the futures of future generations are going up in flames.
again. congrats
This is not an apology."I'm sorry if my email offended anyone,"
wow bunch of ing hypocrites. i guess i could be described as "independent" which allows me to point out the blatant hypocrasy of everyone comparing bush to chimps. is that racist too? gtfo everyone.
No, you didn't even have to try.
Repugs, the repugnant party of the old, white, country-club, wealthy, racist Have-It-Alls, the party of all Human-Americans.
As dubya said to the NAACP: "We value the black VOTE" (but value black people? ...)
This would never happen to a white POTUS, like Bush.
Tea Potty!
so what's your point dummy?
hey mcfly, how many of the photos that you posted were sent by a US Congressman?
get back to us on that...
Last edited by George Gervin's Afro; 04-19-2011 at 08:15 AM.
who ing cares about this.
dubya was/is ridiculed as ignorant, stupid, affirmative-action-exploiter, fils-pourri, failed, born-on-third-base asshole and murderer.
Barry is trashed because he's an educated, accomplished, articulate, uppity , aka, the un-bubba.
I didn't know president Bush was black...
Apparently the liberals do. Playing the race card with it. OK to compare president Bush with a monkey, but not Obama... That is clearly a racist act!
you stupid idiots that think it's racist.
It's only racist if sent by a senator?
dang it... didn't read the article corrrectly..she was not a congresswoman... so either way making bush or oabama into a monkey is stupid.. but it is common knowledge that racists from the past compared black folks to monkeys...It's only racist if sent by a senator?
Why cant you racists live in the present rather than the past? leave the old primitive ideas out of the equation, and be color blind?
GGA is not a racist. GFY.
Maybe not, but I will call using the race card that anyway.
she sent a written apology.......on a watermelon.
Recognizing/acknowledging racism is not a racist act. Nor is it playing the race card.
And the idea that connecting the image sent to the longstanding history of comparing the physiology of people of color to that of apes is somehow resurrecting long dead assumptions is laughable. Those assumptions haven't died, though their prominence has understandably lessened, and a photoshopped image depicting Obama as the descendant of chimpanzees is problematic no matter the contexts. Additionally, the comparison jacksommerset attempted to make between the Obama image and those of Bush (which, for the record, I find equally counterproductive and unfunny) is flawed due to the fact that the Bush images undermine his intelligence, rather than his humanity. Kind of an important difference.
nuances..
OK...
I guess using the race card on unproven perceived racism is just to be called terrible stupid.
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