It seems this cartoon has stirred up a bit of controversy. And not like you would think. Crazy things are happening, people are losing their jobs because of it. And to me, it seems that the “Teabaggers” (which really just brings gross images to my mind…could they not have come up with something less sexual?) are just throwing shit anywhere they can in order to get people to look in the other direction. Just like the monkeys in the zoo. Here are some of the statements I have read in rebuttal to this cartoon.
Members of the KKK during it’s heyday were Democrats, not Republicans, so we couldn’t possibly be racist. Seriously? That’s the best you can do? Is it not racist to compare President Obama to a monkey? The opening night speaker (and former Republican congressman) at the teabagger convention called for the return of a “literacy test” in order for people to vote. In his opinion, the Obama “mistake” would not have happened if only literate (read “white”) folks could vote.
The NAACP is racist. Mark Williams, a leader of the teabag movement called the organization racist on CNN going on to call them a “bunch of old fossils looking to make a buck off skin color”.
And my favorite – accusing USDA official Shirley Sherrod of being a reverse racist, causing her to lose her job. By yelling loudly and only giving a small part of the story, these asses were able to cause enough noise and smoke to create an impossible situation for Sherrod, one in which she had to resign from her job due to the mud slinging.
It seems to me that these people have kicked sand and are now crying because they have sand in their eyes. They are such children that they “can dish it out, but can’t take it”, as the saying goes. Don’t cry foul and unfair on one side when you are using the same sneaky, underhanded, dirty tactics that you accuse your opponents of on the other. You lose all credibility with rational Americans.
