Just how dense do you have to be to be a complete racist without realizing (or admitting) that you’re a complete racist? Dense enough to like, comment and share on a hate page on Facebook like Barack Obama’s Dead Fly. Full of the typical right-wing garbage and lies, Jade Helm conspiracy theories and blatant stupidity, this bastion of conservative ignorance has hundreds of thousands of followers from sea to shining sea, eager to bash everything that has anything to do with being black.
They use the popular “it’s not racism, it’s the truth” line along with “I would say the same thing about them if they were white,” as they vilify a man for carrying a bottle of air freshener while applauding the lunatic who aimed his rifle at federal agents in support of the criminal during the Bundy standoff.
In the latest episode of disgusting bigotry, the page posted what would be an adorable picture, had they not felt the need to do this:
First of all, the bear has a valid point. This meme could almost funny if it were used in the proper context, supporting an actual issue. The right-wingers, however, decided to use this as some kind of a poke at a real issue, documented at restaurants and bars all across the country by black people who sit for half an hour while the white people around them enjoy fast service and tasty appetizers.
That’s not racist against whites, it’s true. See what I did there?
The meme, in four digits on shares, harbors a comment section where the ignorant can come by and drop a racist joke or a meme, claim they aren’t racist and leave. This particular “not racist because it’s true” comment is about the most stereotypical, unoriginal shot at black people imaginable, and the haters eat it up:
“Polar bears are quiet, cordial and happily follow the rules because following the rules benefits everyone.”
You have to remember, these are the same people who for years, before the publicity of unarmed black men being gunned down by police, who posted skulls with “I will not comply” for their profile pics. “Resist or die,” “Don’t Tread on Me,” and “III%,” Revolutionary War slogans used by neo-cons to show their reluctance to follow rules have somehow been replaced by “stop breaking the law and you won’t be summarily executed.”
Racist memes always come with racist meme replies in the comments. These people decided that in the spirit of “not racist fun,” they’d add some “not racism” of their very own. You know, because it’s true:
Har har. Making fun of a movement sparked by the cold-blooded murder of unarmed black men, because you think execution is a perfectly acceptable punishment for not having your license on you, selling loose cigarettes or having headphones on sure does prove you’re “not racist.”
You can hate whoever you want, but if you honestly want people to believe you take hate on a case-by-case basis and don’t hate entire races, you may want to stop commenting on pages like Barack Obama’s Dead Fly.
The animal theme keeps the racism looking breezy and cute, doesn’t it? Thank goodness Cecil the lion was illegally hunted and taken for a trophy. Otherwise they might not have these adorable bits of child friendly racism.
And then there’s the obvious:
Good for you. Being born is the only thing you’ve ever accomplished that’s worth a damn, and you don’t even deserve credit for that.
Then there’s the one-liners. In and out with a little taste of racism they probably justify with “oh, it’s just a little joke. I’m not a racist.”
Yes, yes you are:
And that is how the right-winger turns an innocuous picture of a bear into good ol’ fashioned social media racism.
All images are public posts on the Facebook page Barack Obama’s Dead Fly
I have a brother-in-law that is a full blown liberal. Me? I swing the other way. Now, if I were to apply your logic to how I should react to him and his position, I would judge him by the most bat-shit crazy liberal loon on the internet. Lucky for him (and my marriage), I don’t. I find common ground with the man. He has served this country from the latter days of Korea through Afghanistan. I have nothing but respect for him because of that. While we don’t agree on many issues, we have common ground and maintain respect for each other (if only out of fear of the women in our lives). It seems that you are feeding your readers a meal full of division. Whatever can keep us separated. Shame on you…………..
I bet you didn’t expect that for a first comment……………..
Given your comment history, you sound like a racist who doesn’t realize he’s racist. You dismiss black people being killed by cops by bringing up the black on black crime statistics (which ignores the fact that most white people who are victims of crime are also targeted by someone of the same race). You call black people who are killed by the cops, “thugs”, as though any of the crimes that have been protested were somehow worthy of death, even though some of the black people killed by police had committed no crime (like John Crawford). Some of them were framed for crimes, like Floyd Dent, who had crack planted on him by a dirty cop to justify the beating he gave him. You even told the #blacklivesmatter movement to, “get a better martyr”.
You can post a happy meme if you want to, but the fact remains that you’re blinded by white privilege and that causes you to put black people under a higher level of scrutiny you wouldn’t apply to yourself or other white people.
That is one heaping load of horse crap. I will defend any person from any evil. I don’t qualify either of those groups with a color, race or religion.
You’ve missed entirely my position. It goes something like this: Do black lives matter? Absolutely. If you had to choose between protesting for a little girl, killed by cops while sitting in her grandmother’s lap or a criminal who is killed in the course of his criminal endeavors, I’d have to choose the little girl. The Left have chosen their martyrs and it ain’t the little girl. It’s the thug.
Black lives only seem to matter if it can drive a bigger wedge between us.
You say I am a racist that enjoys white privilege. Why? Because I point out some unpopular truths? Do you want I should lie? If I must be labeled a racist for speaking the truth, so be it? The alternative is to turn a blind eye to truth, reason and logic.
Blacks make up about 13% of the population and yet they are victims in about half of the murders. Half of all murders are committed by blacks. 92% of black victims are killed by other blacks.
Since blacks kill and kill each other at almost twice the rate of whites, addressing that issue will go further to reduce the number of blacks death.
I dare say that addressing this problem would subsequently reduce the number of interactions with police and decrease the possibility of those deaths.
Anyone who says there are not underlying causes for black actions is just fooling themselves. Address those problems and choose your martyrs well…………
I agree with Rick. You are a racist who can’t see how racist he is. And I’m white.
OK. I’m a racist. Now can we talk about the problem?
I don’t get it. I have friends who are black. My best friend is a black man. The woman who raised me was black. I have civilized discourse with blacks. I’ve worked with blacks. Served with blacks. I have black neighbors. No one has ever accused me of a hate crime. I’ve never called someone a ni**er. I didn’t start getting accused of being a racist until I first got online.
I used to believe that in order for someone to be a racist, they would also have to be a bigot. Of course that was when bigot was defined as someone who refused the truth and embraced a lie.
Today’s definition is slightly different. “A person who is intolerant toward those holding different opinions.” See how changing the definition changes the word completely.
It turns out I don’t have to hate anyone to be a racist. All I have to do is state an opinion contrary to what “you” believe…………
No, you still don’t understand the word Racist. Just because you aren’t racist in the way a torch carrying, black man hanging KKK member is, doesn’t mean that you aren’t “racist”, in the way a white person can be completely blind to his own privilege as a white person. Sure, most black murders are committed by other black people-but the vast majority of ALL murders are committed by a person of the same race. So, it’s a non-argument, and we are frankly tired of hearing it. If you cannot see how persons of color (and not just black people, but even shades of brown) are treated differently, as “lesser” or “more dangerous”, by not just cops but by the majority white society surrounding them, then I have no problem calling you a racist. This despite the fact that you have “black friends”.
Look, I’m white. I grew up white, surrounded by white people, and it took me awhile to see my own privilege. I’m not perfect, I’m sure that sometimes I say stupid things or persist in stupid stereotypes, but at least I try. I’m willing to admit that my life experience is a great deal different than if I were black. For instance, I have *never* once been pulled over for not signaling a lane change, even in front of a cop. That cop was profiling Sandra Bland, and three days later she was dead in jail. The same week a white “sovereign citizen” actually REACHED FOR HIS GUN in front of a couple of cops-and yet, they managed to resist the impulse to kill him. I don’t believe for a second that had Dylann Roof been black and had murdered 9 white people in a church that he would have lived through his being taken into custody, much less allowed a run through a local fast food drive through on the way to the station because the poor little POS terrorist was hungry. (Honestly, if I was the cop taking him into custody I would have had great difficulty not “accidentally” shooting the f^@&*%r dead. Maybe it’s good I’m not a cop.)
I don’t have much hope that you will actually learn anything from what I say-conservatives are generally not known for their ability to learn and grow. But, now maybe you understand what I mean when I call you “racist”.
You are not seeing it.
Blacks commit over half the murders. Is that a lie? (Then talk to the DOJ)
Blacks make up 13% percent of the population. Is that a lie? (Then talk to the Census Bureau.)
171 whites have been killed by police, so far this year. 100 blacks. Is that a lie? (Then talk to The Washington Post.)
The truth can not be racist.
OK, I’m trying again. Since I tried to post actual links to my back up my comments earlier, this site wouldn’t post them.
According to the FBI, Black Americans commit about 39% of the murders, and the vast majority of murders (over 90%) are committed by a person of the same race, across all races.
Over 500 people have been killed this year by police (until June 10th). Among the first 500 deaths, 49.6% of people were white, 28.2% were black and 14.8% were Hispanic/Latino. According to the 2013 census, the US population is 62.6% white, 13.2% black and 17.1% Hispanic/Latino. That means blacks are killed by police at over twice their representation in the population, and whites and latinos are killed at a lesser rate.
Additionally, more than one in every five people killed so far in 2015 – 108, or 21.6% – were unarmed. A significant disparity in the proportion of black and white people killed who were unarmed, which was reported last week by the Guardian, has since narrowed slightly. While 30.5% of black people killed were unarmed, 16.1% of white people killed had no weapon.
You are right, the truth is not racist. But you are. You simply refuse to see it.
Not only am I not able to post links, but pics won’t take either.
Let’s use the numbers you provided. At a population of 13.6% black and 62.6 white and at 39% crime (I know you just said murder but, for the sake of convenience) committed by blacks and 61% (I’m gonna do what the DOJ does and lump Latino and Asian crimes, as “white”) committed by whites, blacks are committing crime at almost 3X the rate of whites (or all others races).
If we don’t address this disparity, we won’t “fix” the problem.
If cops are paid to confront criminals, wouldn’t it stand to reason that they would interact with criminals? At 28%, blacks killed by police, does’t meet your 39% rate of black crime.
While you might argue that about 90% of victims are the same race as the perpetrators, if whites were as criminal as blacks, the crime rate would be greatly increased (by about 100%).
You need to get a sense of humor.
So funny! 😀
Of course their kind do this. I still think it’s funny that people with high IQ tend to lean liberal while those who have extremely low IQ tend to lean conservative. No matter how many times you show conservatives the inferiority of their thinking. They keep thinking the way only their kind will think. They also turn out to be extremely racist. I mean look at all those Honkeys, they are deranged killers and psychopaths. They shoot up schools and rape. Yet they have the nerve to say any other ethnicity are a bunch of animals. What if white people were exterminated? It’s not racist it’s the truth.
“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.” –John Stuart Mill
Why is it that the more racist they become, the less literate they are? Hmmmm…..correlation, anyone???
That’s funny. I believe that the more liberal a person becomes, the less they rely on truth and instead embrace the emotion. Someone killed a lion! The horror. Now ask the African villagers what they think about the death of this predator or the fact that a rich American came to kill it. They probably rejoiced in the death as well as the bounty of meat. Maybe they are culpable, also……………
Well, then, perhaps you don’t have the vaguest idea about what makes a liberal, or whether all liberals fit the little “box” that you’ve decided to put them in. I was responding to actual spelling and grammar, not a vague description of emotional content. The African villagers got a lot of benefit out of that lion, due to the tourist money he brought in. Perhaps you’re reacting emotionally because you just want to best a liberal. Silly….
So, which is more important to you, the death of a “famous” lion (that no one had heard about) or the fact that Planned Parenthood is ripping unborn children from their mother’s womb and selling their little parts?
Stop spreading lies. That heavily edited video has been thoroughly debunked many times. It’s OK if you hate women, but at least tell the truth about it…
Calling me a liar won’t change the truth. You can see the original videos (before editing) on youtube. You call it debunked, I call it excused. Their excuse is not acceptable to me.
You wouldn’t admit the truth if it slapped you directly in the face. The people who took those videos are terrorists, and should be treated as such. The unedited videos show the truth-that PP is NOT selling “baby parts”. Multiple investigations by multiple heavily conservative states have found no wrongdoing. Yet, here you are, still repeating their lie for them. Conveniently ignoring the fact that only 3% of what PP does is related to abortion-and abortion is not covered by federal or state funds in any way. In addition to being a racist, you also appear to hate women.
The hate is strong in this one……………
That’s right-use a photo of a 7 1/2 month illegal procedure performed by an unlicensed individual who DOESN’T work for PP and who was prosecuted for such activity to “prove” that PP “sells baby parts”. Do you do any research at all? Or do you just automatically believe what the the far right bigots tell you like some sheep?
From Fact Check .org, this is what PP does:
Contraception is one of the group’s largest categories of services provided — 33.5 percent of services in 2010. But that means Planned Parenthood provides other services, too. The largest category is testing and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (38 percent). Cancer screening and prevention services — which would include breast exams — made up 14.5 percent of all medical services. Abortion made up 3 percent, with 329,445 abortion procedures in 2010.
In how many of the million or so legal abortions performed by licensed individual are the arms and legs ripped from the fetus? I want the whole thing stopped, you know, because I hate women……………