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Oh how scary! The power of the "Obamamafia"! Did you not have a cell phone with you to call the police? (Most white people do!).
Maybe we can help you find this culprit with the following descriptions:
1: He is "blacker" than a piece of coal!
2: He had "nappy hair" (for further description on what "Nappy hair" looks like call Don Imus")
3: "I think he had gold teeth but his shining scalp full of Jerry curl nearly blinded me.
4: There were several "bootylicious" white girls in his back seat!
5: He was driving a purple Cadillac! (with expired tags!)
Yeah right... a guy is pushing me from lane to lane and I am trying to keep from crashing into someone else at 70 mph and I have to grab my cell and call...You never drove on a NJ highway at rush hour. Needless to say , I took the Cain Palin sticker off my car. He won.
I'm pretty much anti-censorship, but I'm interested in you elaborating on your point. Do you think the OP of this thread is determining that the painting is offensive because he doesn't like the President, or doesn't like Norman Rockwell, or doesn't like Ruby Bridges? Is that what you're saying?
What I mean is what would the reaction be if that same painting were hanging in the Bush White House?
Nothing is wrong with it. I just would have made a different choice. To each his own. It's really not a big deal to me at all, not in the least, the only reason I chimed in here was because I wanted to point out that one can disagree with this particular choice without disagreeing with education.
Oh, I'm with you!
Let's take down all the portraits of slave owners in the White House..."we" all know about that.
(There are more than ONE painting in the White House)
Let's take down all paintings of any wars hanging in the WH ..."we" all know about that.
Let's eliminate the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial...."we" all are born knowing about them.
Why in the world do you think I am NOT offended by the rewriting of one of the 19th century greats, and a MO native to boot?
Where did I say it was ok?
Because rewriting of classics is never ok, I put that on a par with revisionist history.
Glad you think that way we should never tamper with the truth no matter how painful it may be.Censorship is as bad as a book burning in my opinion.
No i am not stoned (thanks for the derogatory comment!)
just surprised a picture like this would be hanging outside the
or inside the white house
You are obviously in dire need of some art history classes, as well as some history in general classes.
If you dont understand what the painting is about, or why the POTUS chose this painting, you either didnt read the thread, or you know nothing about US history.
The Rockwell illustration is about an event in history. Do you not get that? Do you want all paintings that illustrate historical events sanitized to take out everything that might offend your kids? No blood or severed limbs in paintings of the Civil War. No dead trees or burning bodies in paintings of Hiroshima? A black president that has historical art depicting black history hanging in the White House makes perfect sense to anyone not trying to make a political mountain out of a mole hill. A little girl named Ruby Bridges walked past the "N" word graffiti on her historic desegregation walk and she helped open the doors to equal education for people like Obama. Deal with it.
Affirmative action is not about equality, it's about some getting treated special cause they have a handicap called skin color or a nationality that puts them at the front of the line. We have dumbed down our entire educational system for this so called "equality"
Affirmative action is not about equality, it's about some getting treated special cause they have a handicap called skin color or a nationality that puts them at the front of the line. We have dumbed down our entire educational system for this so called "equality"
Ok, I have got to ask, how do you go from Integration of Schools to Affirmative action? So you believe that we should not only abolish affirmative action which benefits White women more, but we should aslo go back to Segregation?
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