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Vinnie From Indy
(10,820 posts)Simply wearing a mask of Obama is not racist.
It was extremely poor judgement and disrespectful to the office to wear the mask and pretend a bull was going to run down the President.
It WAS racist when the other clown played with the lips on the mask.
It was simply unacceptable that the incident occurred at a taxpayer funded, state sponsored event like the MO State Fair. This part of the story is why the clown and maybe the Rodeo Assoc. needed to be sanctioned.
The last layer is BY FAR the most racist element to this story - the online reactions on many of the comment threads at newspaper web sites and other web sites. The explosion of unvarnished racism in response to the story was quite a thing to behold. The use of the N-word and pictures of monkeys to depict the first family got so bad that the KC Star had to DISABLE their comments sections on stories related to the clown incident. Politico as well has had hundreds of "in your face" racist comments on their comment threads.
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