Brookfield Fire Dept. Obama Email Stirs Controversy

[hue]

Source: WISN News

NAACP Calls For Investigation Into Distribution Of Email

BROOKFIELD, Wis. -- The Waukesha County's National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter is calling for an investigation into the distribution of what it said is a racially offensive email distributed by members of the Brookfield Fire Department.

An internal investigation is under way at the Brookfield Fire Department after 12 News brought to their attention an email sent by a concerned resident who saw it'd been forwarded by several Fire Department employees last week from their work email accounts.
The email includes a photo of a trailer carrying an oversize piece of black rock or coal, and the caption reads "I-90 will be closed tomorrow across South Dakota. They are hauling a 200-ton lump of coal so they can add Obama to Mount Rushmore..."

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Racial undertones from Waukesha County Wisconsin. They prob got a little slap on the hand.
This article shows a glimpse of what we are dealing with!! :-(

[Scuba]

1. As a former resident of Waukesha County, I'm aware that many there...

...are right-wing, racist, teabagging idiots. OK, that's redundant, but you get the point.


Not all, though. Just ask PeaceNikki.

[MsPithy]

9. I grew up in Brookfield, WI.

There is no place where the Hemingway observation is more true, broad lawns and narrow minds.

[Scuba]

13. Timely. Thanks.

[HereSince1628]

16. Brookfield is just up the road from Gerke's Corners...

Hometown to Judy the Hollywood wannabe (Doris Day) in the movie "It's a Great Feeling"

Half a century later Waukesha doesn't give off such great vibes.

[midnight]

2. This women is correct in stating this is the beginning of

a hate crime...

[roody]

3. That is a joke!? It is not even funny to a racist.

[No Elephants]

5. To paraphrase Bette Midler, "Fuck 'em if they can't make a joke."

[hue]

6. Too true! this is a perfect example of the stupid, little minds of racists. n/t

[No Elephants]

4. Ugh.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

7. actually, it's pretty funny

to think that that is the best racist comment they can concoct.

Talk about lame, stupid, unfunny and just pathetic. Must have a strong Tea Baggery influence. I just wonder if they spelled all the big words correctly.

[FarLeftFist]

8. Conservatives are terrible at comedy.

[MsPithy]

10. This is more true than you know.

Comedy takes really high level brain function. Conservatives are trapped in their lizard brains.

[FarLeftFist]

15. Exactly. Plus paranoia and fear are rarely funny.

[stanwyck]

11. Yes. Yes they are. No funny rightwingers. They only succeed at

being mean-spirited. Unless you count PJ O'Rourke -who I don't. The poor guy is the only person laughing at his jokes. He always cracks himself up.

[SomeGuyInEagan]

14. I noticed that when O'Rourke is on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" - only he laughs at his lines.

I believe that when it comes to comedy, nearly anything/anybody is fair game if done well. Well-crafted comedy can actually work well to diffuse tough topics or get people to see things differently.

He has just always come across a bitter and sad. I've read four of five of his books and rarely does he deliver a joke, either in content or form. And he seems to be the "cream of the crop" of "funny" conservatives.

[libinnyandia]

12. Obama on Mt Rushmore

We can look at it this way: they may be acknowledging that President Obama is a great President and deserves to be on the Monument. If we help him and we make it through the mess the Republicans created, maybe someday.

[mojowork_n]

17. Racism is a major workplace issue there.

At least judging by my limited experience. (I was right on the
line between Brookfield and Waukesha, not that far from Bluemound
and Barker Rd.)

After my old manager quit, and *his* boss got shuffled off
to a completely different area of the company, the new
dept. head was this smug a-hole who wanted to talk about the
daily, imminent nuclear threat posed by Iran.

And America's need to fight against global terrorism,
in every corner of the world, as well as at home.

If he hadn't been such a weak-chinned, weak-minded
louse (the rumor was he'd gotten his engineering degree
from the back of a cereal box, or a mail-order diploma
mill), he might have reminded me of the Sterling Hayden
character from Dr. Strangelove. ("the precious bodily
fluids of the American people are being threatened...")

...well, a few months later I found myself talking to a
nice lady from the State of Wisconsin's Dept. of Job Services,
or whatever it's called, fighting the company's claim that
I'd been terminated for job-performance related issues.
In other words, they were fighting my right to collect
unemployment. In my phone interview on that question, I was
told that one of the accusations made by the H.R. person
at the company was that I had posted an 'offensive, racial'
cartoon in my cubicle.

This is it:



Edit add:

For the record, I don't think I had too much trouble
beating the 'he did a bad job' smear. But it was a
Kafka-esque experience, getting let go for what another
dept. manager referred to as 'political reasons.'
(I did my job, but I had the wrong politics.)

Double Edit:

And I guess the real kicker is, I'm European-American.
Born over there and came over here as a little kid.
But I'm not culturally crippled by narrow-mindedness,
and I really can't stand stifling, lock-step
conformity. (Ooops, I guess they did have cause. At
least I'm pretty happy -- much happier -- in my new
job.)