DamnYankee
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Oh now you're being hyper-specific.
Dan Rather Makes 'Watermelon' Quip
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Oh now you're being hyper-specific.
Okay, show me where Rather has made such a comment in the past...
DamnYankee
Loyal to the end
How about I show you were a Republican had used the same fruit and was lambasted by black Democrats.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/25/national/main4827964.shtml?tag=topHome;topStories
THat looks to me like it was an attempt to sterio type the President, but again whats offensive about the steryotype.....?
Whats wrong with liking watermellon?
What your conservative friend Rather was doing was not even an attempt to striotype.
I find myself defending a Republican on this issue, what Rather said was not offensive.
DamnYankee
Loyal to the end
Its not what you think, but what the most vocal members of your Party do. Lib-tards were all over Mayor Dean Grose's email to a colleague, then silent over Dan Rather's quip on national TV.
Don't you see the hypocrisy?
Maybe you could explain how it is you think Rather statement was playing off of the racial stereotype that black people love to eat watermelon. I don't see it.
I have no idea what the fuck Rather was trying to say, but it seems quite clear that he was not saying that Obama has an innate fondness for watermelon because he is a black man.
Nor do I think that the people who passed out those bills were saying that anybody had an innate liking for certain foods yet we had many threads talking about their "racism". This is simply a version of where you forgive Dan, but immediately and irrevocably condemn another.*
*Not you personally, NT, "you" in the plural sense of a group of people that are willing to drop down at the slightest hint of racially charged message from one source but negate it from a different source.
Basically this is the same thing as Sarah Palin upset over one source talking about "retards" and not with another.
You have about zero credibility if your position is that you cannot distinguish between what Dan Rather said and this:
Had Dan Rather said that Obama couldn't sell watermelons, chickens, Kool-Aid and ribs with the state police flagging traffic then maybe you'd have a point.
You have about zero credibility if your position is that you cannot distinguish between what Dan Rather said and this:
Had Dan Rather said that Obama couldn't sell watermelons, chickens, Kool-Aid and ribs with the state police flagging traffic then maybe you'd have a point.
ROTFLMAO, good point... they even gave him donkey ears....
Again, I hate to be defending a Republican on this issue, but...
I dont think what Rather said was related to Obama being black, but it was related to items people sell on the side of the road.
I see people sell watermellon on the side of the road more than anything else, maybe that is just regional, but its what I see being sold. Second to watermellon is peaches or flowers....
I dont think what Rather said was related to Obama being black, but it was related to items people sell on the side of the road.
I see people sell watermellon on the side of the road more than anything else, maybe that is just regional, but its what I see being sold. Second to watermellon is peaches or flowers....
Why would we be for one and against the other, Rather is no Democrat....
Too much of a mouthful, nobody is going to list a litany of foods, one is enough. It would behoove Dan to select foodstuffs that are not linked to a stereotype.You have about zero credibility if your position is that you cannot distinguish between what Dan Rather said and this:
Had Dan Rather said that Obama couldn't sell watermelons, chickens, Kool-Aid and ribs with the state police flagging traffic then maybe you'd have a point.
The reality is MSNBC cut him off because they realized that it could be taken that way, it isn't just "republicans" who notice.
I winced when I saw those bills, knowing it would be absolutely used to relate racism to the party. I cringed when I heard this from Dan knowing, however innocent it may be meant, that somebody would take it that way.
Yes he is. He admitted so after he retired.
Ive never see that, but Ill look around.
Those bills are definitely absolutely without a doubt racist. There can be no debate whatsoever about that. With Rather, maybe some people think his comment was racist but I just don't see it. I don't see how the comment relates to the stereotype. Maybe you see it, I don't. And I think that most of the people making hay over it don't either, they love to shout "hypocrisy" and hate Dan Rather.
And Sarah couldn't see how Rush might be doing the same thing as Rahm.
What is that supposed to mean?
You still haven't explained how Rather's comment is an invocation of the stereotype. Need I explain to you how picturing Obama on a "United States Food Stamp" with watermelon, fried chicken, Kool-Aid and ribs is an invocation of a stereotype?
It is, because it is the stereotype. Dan is in a position where he fully understands these kinds of implications as well.
Tell me, exactly why do you think MSNBC cut him off? I'll give you a hint, unlike you they fully understood that it could be taken in that way.