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[novapsyche]

Curious George publisher may sue over T-shirt: Cobb bar selling shirts combining book character's picture, Obama's name -- there were people in ljdemocrats who actually believed this was not racist

Edwards gives long-awaited endorsement to Obama -- This pleases me. By the way, Edwards got 7% of the vote in WV yesterday.

Abortion rights group endorses Obama, angering Clinton fans -- Why would they be angry? Why wouldn't they just be disappointed?

Third House loss shakes GOP, raises fears for fall

Scandal-plagued attorney general of Ohio resigns

Hillary Agonistes: Why Doesn't She Concede?

Vatican: It's OK to believe in aliens

Ants swarm over Houston area, fouling electronics

US inflation eases but food soars

Comments

[rialian.livejournal.com]

===Well, you know...there is the depiction of George W Bush as a monkey.....

===Yes, I can see the racist aspect of the shirt. But I can also see the counter-argument.

[bonerici.livejournal.com]

omg, that curious george is totally old style racist, it's like aunt jemima on a syrup bottle/amos and andy selling pepsodent toothpaste 1930's caricatures. Totally retro.

[blackwinterbyrd.livejournal.com]

1) how is that not racist?

well, I suppose George Bush has been compared to a chimp countless times, but that is harmless and irrelvant considering that it has been said, with a straight face, in an academic/scientific setting, that POC, particularly Africans, are more closely related to/physically similar to apes than us angelic europeans.
and the white power morons are STILL citing it.

2) Aliens? are you kidding me? Hello, credibility. What? you can't stay? aww, thats a shame.