Google and Michelle Obama “Offensive” photo
Posted by JDNov 25
I have asked this before and I shall ask again. Why is it only offensive to photoshop black people into looking like monkeys? I don’t get it. There are a a ton of GW Bush being made to look like a monkey and Google never apologized for putting them up on their images search. Here is a link to Google images where I found this photo by searching GW Bush Monkey.
Are black people saying they look like monkeys? Because crying foul and asking for apologies is the inference here. I just don’t get it. So its okay to goof on a persons appearance, providing they are white people? Its okay to ridicule and mock people because they are white politicians? Sarah Palin comes to mind here. I have seen photos where her face was photoshopped onto a porn stars body and Google didn’t apologize to her. No one seems concerned unless your black. JD
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Thank you William. I too hear the black folks at my workplace calling each other derogatory names. It all well and good when they say these things to each other, but if anyone else says it, they get fired. Great story about your father too. My family is Italian, and my dad used to call us names like that too. JD
Great point. I am a black man and I don't think I look like a monkey, but black people acting outraged over the image, and I saw the image, are basically saying that they think they look like monkeys. Furthermore, in black film and in my own family, I hear black people calling each other monkeys. My father used to tell me and my bothers and sisters to "Sit your monkey asses down" all the time. We used to laugh and act like monkeys. Not to mention that modern science is constantly telling us that we all are distant relatives of apes. I don't know what all the fuss is about.
Just stumbled on this website while looking for the disputed Michelle Obama pic. Found it (with difficulty). Shame that there is incipient censorship on the NET. Yes, the picture is insulting, but there is a very long tradition of insulting one's political enemies. If you're in politics, you just have to take it.
Calling people racists is the easiest (and sadly) most effective way of silencing them. Strangely, it is the inheritors of the Free-Speech Movement who are the most zealous censors.
Wow. Well said. You are so right. Its the very people who in the 60's were hell bent on having their collective voice heard. and now these are the very same people that ACT offended to silence opposition. Perhaps I will write about it. JD