RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Republican/Tea Party nutter Circulates Racist E-mail Targeting Obama

ORANGE COUNTY (CBS) — KCAL9 received a tip about a racist email circulated to some Republican Party members depicting President Obama's parents as chimpanzees.

This week Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party circulated what some are calling hate e-mail to an unknown number of her fellow conservatives.

Written under the words, "Now you know why — No birth certificate!", is an Obama family portrait depicting his parents as chimpanzees.

When asked if she thought the email was appropriate, Davenport is quoted as saying, "Oh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people–mostly people I didn't think would be upset by it."

Former Chairman of the California Republican Party Michael Schroder has demanded Davenport's resignation saying it's not her first brush with racist rhetoric.

In February 2009, Los Alamitos Mayor Dean Grose, another Orange County Republican, emailed the White House watermelon image and then apologized. While others demanded he step down, Davenport defended him. When a Newport City Councilman voted against installing grass turf near the beach because it would "attract Mexicans", Schroder claims that she supported him as well.

"That's three strikes," he says.

KCAL9 reporter Stacey Butler asked Davenport if she wanted to appear on camera but she declined. She blames the media for blowing this story out of proportion.

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This week Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party circulated what some are calling hate e-mail

Oh please, Gordon. It's a very well known and understood social 'no-no' to compare black people with monkeys. It's not like they used images of fat, lazy cats, sleeping hippos, or Dodo's looking clueless. They used monkeys specifically because he's black.

But, I assume your (and Wondy's, and Pariah's, and BSAMS's and Rex's and all the rest of the SuperRightwing Friends) mind is already made up based on insta-political bias. Just thought I'd throw some reality in here for e moment before Dave comes running in with fifty mentions of the words "Liberal Media"...

It's a very well known and understood social 'no-no' to compare black people with monkeys. It's not like they used images of fat, lazy cats, sleeping hippos, or Dodo's looking clueless. They used monkeys specifically because he's black. And they did it to his parents.

either call them out on it yourself or learn to fucking deal with it.

Arguably, it has nothing to do with racism andveverything to do with making fun of a political opponent for being an idiot. After all, liberals referred to President Bush as a chimp on a regular basis.

For example, we have this from the Huffington Post:

• Prior to reading this new study I was under the mistaken impression that Bush was a parrot, because of his apparent inability to say anything about Iraq except 'progress is being made', which he repeats mechanically every time the topic is raised. But now the scales have fallen from my eyes: Bush is a chimp. It seems so obvious now, watching him speak.

Were all those references racist?

Assuming that, yes, "chimp" = "racist", now google the terms "Bush chimp" and then "Obama chimp" in image search. You get approximately 77,000 more images of the former than the latter. That an approximate 38% difference.

Most likely, in each case, the posters of same were doing so in an attempt to insult a political foe.

And, if we follow your argument that depicting a president as a chimp is racist, then it would seem that there are at least 38% more racists on the left than the right. That's a pretty big difference.

Exactly. Each party should take responsibility for its more extreme elements, rather than trying to cover them in a blanket of complicity..

I don't remember anyone sending pics of Bush around with swastikas on his forehead (although, I'm certain some Leftwing nutjobwhomod did). It would be wrong either way. So, again, don't waste time defending what is obvious racism coming from the extremist Right. This is exactly what we bash Muslims about. If there is a less-than-extreme side to your group, then make that the loudest voice. Otherwise, it looks like you're just defending the lunatics, which just paints your entire race or group as wrong. Don't be afraid to slam some nutjob like this woman, or Wondy, just because they have an 'R' by their name...

Your personal idol, Whomod

To be fair to Pro:

• I don't think he's ever claimed to be objective any more than any of the rest of do.
  
  I read his post to specifically say he had little doubt that whomod had done such a thing.
  
  
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  I don't remember anyone sending pics of Bush around with swastikas on his forehead (although, I'm certain some Leftwing nutjobwhomod did)
  (emphasis added)

don't waste time defending what is obvious racism coming from the extremist Right. This is exactly what we bash Muslims about. If there is a less-than-extreme side to your group, then make that the loudest voice. Otherwise, it looks like you're just defending the lunatics, which just paints your entire race or group as wrong. Don't be afraid to slam some nutjob like this woman, or Wondy, just because they have an 'R' by their name...

So Pro's a lying cocksucker piece of shit, talking out both sides of his mouth. And is more liberal-extreme than the "right wing extreme" rhetoric he manufactures out of thin air.

They used monkeys specifically because he's black.

Why can't we all just set aside partisanship and politics and just make fun of the woman for being an idiot?

But the result is pitiably the same: you slander truth, you support lies, and you enable evil with what you choose to support against all evidence.

So Pro's a lying cocksucker piece of shit, talking out both sides of his mouth. And is more liberal-extreme than the "right wing extreme" rhetoric he manufactures out of thin air.

*crickets chirping*

As much as I hate political correctness, it's ingrained into our society to the point that I couldn't see how someone could write or even read a statement like such in regards to Obama and not have even a moment of thought of, "Hey! That sounds a little racist." At least not without being a little racist themselves, which, then, they wouldn't fucking care. Again, either way, the chick is stupid. Anyone trying to defend her is being equally stupid or blindly partisan to the point that you have to defend anyone with your same, overall, political beliefs even if you think she was wrong/stupid for what she did.

Again, to be fair, one of the sources said one or two people on the county committee who are friends of hers did defend her.

Granted, they did so under a theory of "she's a nice old lady who didn't mean it that way." Which is not the same as defending racism. However it is an attempt at a defense.

Again, that in no way tars the entire party, especially given that the leadership called for her resignation. But someone did defend her.

So you can't really say that "absolutely no one" defended her.

Each party should take responsibility for its more extreme elements, rather than trying to cover them in a blanket of complicity..

They just said she did something indefensible but she's still a nice lady, so give her a break. They defended her overall character, not her actions.

Yes?

As much as I hate political correctness, it's ingrained into our society to the point that I couldn't see how someone could write or even read a statement like such in regards to Obama and not have even a moment of thought of, "Hey! That sounds a little racist." At least not without being a little racist themselves, which, then, they wouldn't fucking care. Again, either way, the chick is stupid. Anyone trying to defend her is being equally stupid or blindly partisan to the point that you have to defend anyone with your same, overall, political beliefs even if you think she was wrong/stupid for what she did.