Some Old White Republican From South Carolina Calls Michelle Obama a Gorilla. Yeah, We’re Not Sure How This Qualifies As News, Either.
Posted by thefarmerjones on June 15, 2009
And his name is Rusty. Really? They couldn’t have come up with a “Bubba” instead? These fucking crackers are so predictable.
Back in college, I made a road trip with some friends to East Carolina University, which is actually in rural North Carolina, but same shit. We got to town late on a Friday night. We were crashing at some girl’s sister’s place, and we met up with her and her friends — mostly white girls and a couple of black dudes — at some bar. The black guys walked away, and this drunken white girl I’d met two minutes earlier turns to me and says, “If my daddy knew I was talking to those n*ggers…”
Except she left out the asterisk.
That was about 15 years ago, and it’s one of the few times in my life I’ve felt what I would describe as “shock” at a social interaction. This shit today, with Rusty? It’s like dude’s not even trying.
mutoni said
my favorite part is that dude tried to blame michelle for the comment. pure class.
thefarmerjones said
I also like that he said it was a joke — meaning he’s racist AND he doesn’t believe in evolution. Which, you know, he wouldn’t.
Khalid Salaam said
i mean, what are you gonna do? And people wonder why we as a nation can’t ever get past this shit.
thefarmerjones said
I’m gonna blog, Khalid. Join me.
Izzo said
The man’s name is Rusty and people are surprised?
see/dub said
“I’m as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone. The comment was clearly in jest.”
My man clearly needs a speechwriter/PR person, as he obviously spends too much time beating his way around a bush. That kind of time-wasting shit will eventually eat into your morning commute and seriously affect how much time you have in the evening to prepare dinner and scan the new posts of the day on the Stormfront message boards.
I would’ve recommended something a little more direct, as in, “I apologize if you’re too fucking stupid to see what I was trying to do there. You know, with the thing about the gorilla and the black people and the evolution and all. So if you took offense at all that, I apologize. If not for myself and my own anachronistic, shitheaded hick sensibilities, then at least for your failure to meet me on that level.”
Mine’s a little longer, but I still feel it conveys the point more effectively.
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Shannon Booher said
I like your ECU anecdote, Ryan. Similar situations happened to me all the time. Most of my middle/high school friends were black, but when I found myself in a whitewash situation, I’d be privy to all types of racist jokes/comments/etc. Still happens to this day, actually. It’s like I need a tattoo on my forehead that says, “I’m white, but act like I’m not and keep your racist jokes to yourself”. Or alternatively, can I somehow profit off my status as a “race spy”?
thefarmerjones said
There has to be money in the race-spy gig. Please look into that and let me know. I would be interested as well.