Kansas tea party illustration draws racism claims

[proud2BlibKansan]

http://hutchnews.com/Todaystop/tea-party-skunk--1

HUTCHINSON, Kan. -- A tea party group in Kansas says its depiction of President Barack Obama as a skunk is satire, not racism as the leader of a civil rights group alleges.

Hutchinson-based Patriot Freedom Alliance says on its website that like the president, the skunk is "half black, half white, and almost everything it does stinks."

The Hutchinson News (http://bit.ly/vT6l8u) reports local NAACP president Darrell Pope sees no humor in the depiction, which he calls a blatant statement of racism.

Local tea party supporter Chuck Sankey says former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been the target of worse insults than what's on the website.

Patriot Freedom Alliance meets regularly and has hosted rallies in the Hutchinson Sports Arena.



Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/11/4115701/kansas-tea-party-illustration.html#ixzz1gI46edHD

[Odin2005]

1. They aren't even hiding it.

[CakeGrrl]

2. The second anyone's skin color is invoked, it's racist.

That's my benchmark.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. That's it -- a photo of a skunk without comment is one thing

but why point out that it's half-white, half-black? Why dwell on his race in a negative manner unless you're trying to dredge up racist feelings?

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. I had that same thought

Idiots.

[Skittles]

5. CORRECT

[one_voice]

6. Exactly....

you don't have to mention race/skin color.

[The Genealogist]

3. Blatently racist

It is as bad as the racist jokes my father and other of my male relatives told. And as for this statement: "Local tea party supporter Chuck Sankey says former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been the target of worse insults than what's on the website:" two wrongs don't make a right.

[krucial]

7. Can not be racist

Tea Partiers ,Republicans,and the right can never be racist.The only hatred, Racist and racism we see today,is coming from Obama,Blacks,and Liberals,.
I have come to learn that information from Republicans Tea partiers birthers,and Many Goodly Godly Christians.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Many Goodly Godly Christians.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. Yep, that's fairly explicitly trying to make political capital out of Obama's race. N.T.

[LeftinOH]

11. It's too bad that right-wingers have virtually taken ownership of the word "patriot";

we need to take it back.

[Hoyt]

12. Bill Maher: "Two things Republicans don't like, being called a 'racist' . . . . . and Black people."