Race/Politics Overflow
by Latoya Peterson
Some short items that I found in my inbox/bloglines reader over the last few days:
It was reported that Sandra Bernhard called Sarah Palin a “turn coat bitch” and said she “would be gang raped by blacks in Manhattan.” Gawker writes:
“[The gang rape comment] is part of a much larger, nuanced and, yes, provocative—that’s what I do—piece from my show about racism, freedom, women’s rights and the extreme views of Gov. Sarah Palin, a woman who doesn’t believe that other women should have the right to choose,” Bernhard said.
We didn’t immediately post on this, as I was able to find some quotes from the piece, but no one who could directly quote the “big black men” comment – most of the direct quotes from Bernhard revolved around the Old Testament and Palin’s “new Goyish crappy shiksa funky bullshit!”
Well, according to MSNBC, she now claims “she never used the term “rape” or “gang rape,” although she couldn’t recall the exact words she had spoken, explaining it was an improvisational act.”
No explanation of why she chose to include a black stereotype in her “nuanced” view of “racism, freedom, and women’s rights.” (Via Feministing.)
Just about a month until elections and people are finally starting to confront the racial stereotypes that have plagued Obama’s run for the presidency. Wendi Muse is still following politics while she is in Brazil, and sent through this link from USA Today about an Obama effigy being hung on a college campus in Oregon:
Officials of a small Christian university say a life-size cardboard reproduction of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama was hung from a tree on the campus, an act with racial undertones that outraged students and school leaders alike.
George Fox University President Robin Baker said a custodian discovered the effigy early Tuesday and removed it. University spokesman Rob Felton said Wednesday that the commercially produced reproduction had been suspended from the branch of a tree with fishing line around the neck.
My friend Lorelei also sent news of race baiting by a McCain campaign official:
The LA Times scoops the Virginia media with this column from the McCain campaign’s official Buchanan County representative.
You need to read this column to believe it. In “humor” [Bobby Lee May] accuses Obama of wanting to paint the White House black, supporting reparations, changing the national anthem to the “black national anthem”, teaching “black liberation theology in all churches”, and replacing the flag with a “star and crescent logo”.
Why has the Virginia McCain campaign not removed this guy already and publicly rebuked him?
The post was updated with the statement of resignation by Bobby Lee May and a formal statement from the McCain camp.
The LA Times article referenced in the Not Larry Sabato post is also worth a look, as it speaks directly to the racial stereotypes being fought by Obama supporters in key states.
When Cecil E. Roberts, president of the coal miners union that shapes politics in much of this mountain region, talks to voters, he tells them that their choice is to have “a black friend in the White House or a white enemy.” When Charlie Cox, an Obama supporter, hears friends fretting about Obama’s race, he reminds them that they pull for the nearby University of Tennessee football team, “and they’re black.”
Union organizer Jerry Stallard asks fellow coal workers what’s more important: improving their work conditions or holding onto their skepticism of Obama’s race, culture or religion. “We’re all black in the mines,” he tells them.
The presidential campaign, in the almost all-white counties of southwestern Virginia, has produced an outcome that few people expected: a frank discussion of race. Voters sometimes sound as if they are reasoning with themselves and working through their own complex views as they talk through the choice they face this November.
“I’ve never been prejudiced in my life,” said Sharon Fleming, 69, the wife of a retired coal miner, who spends hours at the union hall calling voters on behalf of Obama. “My niece married a black, and I don’t have a problem with it. Now, I wouldn’t want a mixed marriage for my daughter, but I’m voting for Obama.”
[...]
“Barack Obama Won’t Take Away Your Gun,” says one flier. “But John McCain Will Take Away Your Union.”
A new 18-minute video that the union is distributing in coal states features Roberts, the union president, talking directly about race as he addresses white workers, many them clad in jeans or denim overalls.
“I could just ignore the fact that Barack Obama is African American,” says Roberts, “but I’m not.”
Roberts challenges the notion that a believing Christian could base a voting decision on a candidate’s ethnicity.
“We go to church, sing our songs, pray, come out and talk about, ‘I can’t be for an African American, because of the color of his skin,’ ” Roberts says in the video. His voice rising, he then scolds the crowd: “Can’t do that if you believe in the Bible.”
Adam emailed a link basically saying that women who aren’t fans of Palin are haters.
Ah, women, the consistently, tragically underestimated constituency. What the Democrats learned during the primaries and the Republicans might now be finding out the hard way, I learned at my very academic, well-regarded all-girls high school: that is never to discount the ability of women to open a robust, committed, well-thought-out vat of hatred for another girl.
Women are weapons-grade haters. Hillary Clinton knows it. Palin knows it too. When women get their hate on, they don’t just dislike, or find disfavor with, or sort of not really appreciate. They loathe – deeply, richly, sustainingly. I do not say this to disparage my gender; women also love in more or less the same way.
Riiight.
Hortense over at Jezebel stumbled across another craptastic Palin quote and let loose with a rant that pretty much summarized the whole issue:
According to the Huffington Post, Sarah Palin flubbed a Madeleine Albright quote at a rally this morning in California. ” “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t support other women,” Palin said, when the actual quote is, “There’s a place in Hell reserved for women who don’t help other women.” Apparently, Palin got the quote from a Starbucks coffee cup and decided to share it with the crowd. Well, you know what, Sarah Palin? There are a lot of places in Hell, I’m sure, but I was raised to believe that Hell is for people who sell their souls to the Devil, in a metaphorical sense, by turning their backs on what they believe is right. And Sarah Palin, I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think you’re wrong, and there’s no way I’m going to Hell for standing up and telling you so.
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Jesse wrote:
Six reasons Sarah Palin scares the holy hell out of me:
1. She has no intellectual curiosity at all — the real world doesn’t matter to her. What matters is getting your friends in positions of power — see the way she governs Alaska, as the best qualification for a state government position is having gone to her high school. That means she is utterly unwilling to listen to experts on the subject. I could see her saying that it is perfectly OK to nuke Tehran while the experts at the State Department beg her not to. Speaking of which…
2. She says our troops are on a mission from god. Leaving aside the context for a minute, does she have so little self-awareness that she doesn’t see how that is going to play elsewhere? How stuff like that harms our troops’ ability to do their jobs? Self-awareness seems to be something GOP right-wingers have none of.
3. She thinks rapists should have the same rights as parents. Really. When you say that abortions should be denied women who have suffered sexual assault, the only reason you would is because you figure the rapist deserves a child. That’s the only logical reason I can come up with. She would deny women any control over their bodies unless they have the money. We’d be back to where El Salvador is right now. If you want to see a scary country for women, look that one up.
4. She’s a racist. She proved it in California. See her comments about “they don’t see America the way we do.”
5. Constitution? Oh, that…
I want to live without fearing I am going to be jailed arbitrarily and tortured.
Understand this: Sarah Palin may be an amicable person. But most of the people reading this blog are not human to her. We just aren’t.
My only consolation is that it looks like McCain will lose. I pray every day that more Americans come to their senses.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 7:06 am ¶
J.R. Bernard wrote:
I think that last response put it best. Right is right, and wrong is wrong. Just because you don’t support someone that happens to a women, black, gay, or any other demographic that is discriminated against, does not mean that you are anti to that cause.
One prime example being Jesse Jackson. I don’t agree with what he does, and his ‘role’ in the black community, but that doesn’t mean I am against rights for minorities. Not at all. I just think he is opportunistic (to a fault) and a hypocrite.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 7:34 am ¶
Chris wrote:
One thing I never got is why men think there’s a catch-all for all women. They all think the same, act the same, like and dislike the same thing, etc.
You know, the same sort of thinking that drives the sales of those “seduce any woman, every time” books.
Could it just be that, well, women can be INDIVIDUALS, and act in completely different ways?
Extrapolating that a bit, can’t all people be INDIVIDUALS, regardless of sex, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, or race, cand can act in completely different ways?
This is the crux of racism, sexism, homophobia, and the like, and it really touches a nerve when people fight against one form of stereotyping and then completely condone another, when in fact the root problem is the same.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 8:06 am ¶
atlasien wrote:
The article about race in Virginia is very well done.
This last week, I’ve spent almost every day calling voters in Republican strongholds here in Georgia trying to persuade undecideds to vote Obama. Some of them were well-informed, sane-sounding people. But I also spent a lot of time persuading undecideds that Obama is not a Muslim. I wish I could get to the stage of saying “but if he was, so what?”… but people are just not ready. Kind of like the woman from the article who was ready for her niece to marry a black guy… but not her daughter.
I feel a bit slimy after that latest volunteering experience, but also optimistic. Now I know for myself, many racist islamophobes can and will vote for Obama. Umm… yay?
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 8:31 am ¶
DEAF FEMINIST PUNK!! wrote:
I really fucking hate Sarah Palin.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 8:37 am ¶
Mogs wrote:
” When you say that abortions should be denied women who have suffered sexual assault, the only reason you would is because you figure the rapist deserves a child”
… or maybe because you figure that the child deserves a right to live.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 8:42 am ¶
gr8ful1997 wrote:
Thanks for your post, Chris; I agree. People are individuals and generalizations deny this reality, which I also find maddening. That being said, did you commit this very error in the opening line of your post, Chris, when you said, “…why MEN think…”? Do ALL men think this way? Do ONLY men think this way? Obviously not. Would it have been more accurate to say, “…why some people…”? Just checking.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 9:05 am ¶
Chris wrote:
@gr8ful1997 – Ack! Sorry, I meant to say “some men,” in reponse to the article, which turns out to have been written by a woman but submitted by Adam. I apologize for that =T
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 9:22 am ¶
Jamerican Muslimah wrote:
atlasien said “But I also spent a lot of time persuading undecideds that Obama is not a Muslim. I wish I could get to the stage of saying “but if he was, so what?”…”
*sigh* Some days I’d like to believe that the discrimination against Muslim isn’t so bad but when I think about the aforementioned I realize it is…
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 9:50 am ¶
Ken Arromdee wrote:
It seems there’s still a lot of smears about Palin floating around. For instance, the comment about being on a mission from God was that we should pray that our troops are on a mission from God. This one word drastically changes the meaning.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 9:53 am ¶
Mary wrote:
Some days this election gets so stupid and disheartening, I just want to crawl into bed and hibernate until November 4.
OTOH, living in North Carolina and seeing Obama bumper stickers literally every time I go out driving anywhere, is very heartening. Granted I live in the Triangle area and our political patterns don’t exactly reflect everywhere else’s, but it’s still nice.
I am about as much of a yellow-dog Democrat as it gets, but I can think of Republicans in which I’ve found something to admire: Chuck Hagel (the real maverick of his party, pardon the overused expression), Mitt Romney (at least seems to have a practical grip on reality), even Bobby Jindal, for all that his religious views scare me, seems like he’s in the job for the right reasons.
So when I say that I hate Sarah Palin, it’s not because she’s ideologically different from me, it’s because she is a willfully ignorant, greedy, misogynistic, race-baiting tool. She comes across to me as a Mean Girl, a circle queen, a Heather Chandler. She is a small, petty person, of both intellect and heart.
And her continual reliance on “hockey mom” and “Joe Six Pack” references seems like the most patronizing insult to the very people she claims to be representing, although her continued popularity suggests that not everybody is taking it that way. (In addition to the problem of implied whiteness of those terms.)
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 10:31 am ¶
Eva wrote:
I think Sarah Palin is truly evil, I just do.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 10:32 am ¶
Grandpa Dinosaur wrote:
I hate Sarah Palin, it doesn’t matter if she’s a woman or not. In fact it has nothing to do with her being a woman.
People are stupid.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 11:26 am ¶
butchrebel wrote:
Re: Sandra Bernhardt — an idyllic model of “hipster racism” (thanks, racialicious for teaching me that term and it’s definition!).
And I suppose she’d rationalize that it’s okay for her to say — in a very public forum — that Palin should be sexually “savaged” by a “gang” of black men because she has at least one black male friend (Paul Mooney and she say that they are close — or at least, that sentiment is implied in one of the interview portions of Mooney’s comedic films — I have no beef with Mooney — he is HILARIOUS, intelligent and subversive.)
White liberals’ race/racist rhetoric and attitudes endlessly intrigue me (and endless lybore me because I would *love* to see something truly new from a white liberal who conceives themselves as anti-racist. And let me be very clear that I am making a distinction — a radical distinction between true white allies and who are also (white)*leftists* like Tim Wise and Inga Muscio and white *liberals* like Bernhardt and Sarah Silverman — uggh! Vile, she’s just vile — did the folks here catch her latest ad/attempt to galvanize Jewish peoples’ support for Obama? Well-intended, piss poor execution.)
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 11:54 am ¶
A. wrote:
Sarah Palin is going to make things worse for women if she is elected.
She is going to shatter the Glass Ceiling and replace it with a concrete one.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 12:49 pm ¶
DMC wrote:
I was in the audience during Bernhardt’s controversial performance. The comments were part of a rant, where she went between being herself and taking on the persona of a black female ex-pat like Nina Simone. I was surprised that there was little outrage on the racial components of that passage, with the majority of the response being from white conservatives claiming that Sandra was anti-gentile.
http://theaterjblogs.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/this-blog-was-temporarily-hijacked/
I came out of the theater believing that the comment was part of a larger commentary of race relations in this country and the hypocrisy of Palin banning abortion even in the case of rape. For sure, taken out of context, it was highly inappropriate. But as is often discussed on this blog, it is hard to draw the line between racist comedy and comedy about racism. I am still trying to understand it myself.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 12:54 pm ¶
jvansteppes wrote:
Sandra Bernhardt has been around long enough to know better. I am ashamed on behalf of the pale queers, there is just no excuse for what she said, I don’t care what her intention was, she ought to be aware of the myth of the black male rapist and how this joke simply reifies it. Having looked up to her since her days on Roseanne I feel personally betrayed. My 12 year old self wants to write her a tear stained letter asking why, why!? Ahem, pardon my dramatic demeanor, it’s just that kind of day.
As for Madeleine Albright, she ought to remember that there’s a spot in hell too for people who don’t give a fuck about the number of innocent Iraqi people who died as a result of American sanctions.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 2:03 pm ¶
kakodaimon wrote:
I also don’t get why Sandra Bernhardt goes on a rant about what’s goyish and then refers to “the Old Testament.” What a fake.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 2:52 pm ¶
Ken Arromdee wrote:
I also don’t get why Sandra Bernhardt goes on a rant about what’s goyish and then refers to “the Old Testament.” What a fake.
Why’s that a fake? Because Jews believe it’s the only testament? She has to use some phrase that her audience understands; if she said something like “the Tanach”, no goyim would know what she’s talking about.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 3:13 pm ¶
Tara K. wrote:
Totally out of line.
Better options:
“I hope Sarah Palin gets slammed with the debt of all those rape kits she charged people for.”
“I hope Sarah Palin, who doesn’t believe in global warming, finds her Alaskan home flooded by a melted glacier.”
“I hope that as moose and bear are forced out of their habitat due to drill-baby-drilling, they seek refuge in Palin’s yard and crap everywhere.”
You can totally hate on Palin and wish her ills all day without having to resort to racist, misogynist crap.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 5:31 pm ¶
Joseph wrote:
Re:
Sandra Bernhard
I’m sure my perspective here is informed by the fact that I am a performer (and performance scholar) but:
I think it’s really difficult to “get” a performance by reading a transcript of it or even from seeing video of a small section. So much of what happens in a live performance is happening between the performer and her audience in the moment… and that can’t be captured and subsequently analyzed out of context.
I’m not willing to condemn a brilliant, transgressive performer like Sandra Bernhard on the basis of such slim “evidence” as this. Not when there are so many clear-cut offenders out there at the moment.
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 6:10 pm ¶
BSK wrote:
Jamerican Muslimah- Great points. Why do I still read that he is being “accused” of being Muslim? Doesn’t being accused imply that there is something implicitly negative about the assumption? People are accused of murder, adultery, lying… but not of being Muslim. What the hell! It’d be one thing to read that he is “mistaken” for being Muslim, but I read articles that are attempting to portray him in a positive light that still use such terminology. I don’t know what’s more disturbing: that people still think that he is Muslim despite all the evidence to the contrary; or that people think him being Muslim would be a bad thing.
Also, how ridiculous is all of this given that the same people generally portraying him as Muslim are also bashing him for his relationship with his Christian Reverend?
Not ONLY is he a Muslim, but he’s a bad Muslim, because he goes to Church. But it’s an evil church! OOGIE-BOOGIE-BOOGIE!!!
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 6:50 pm ¶
sparkle obama wrote:
i have followed the incisive, fearless sandra bernhard since “king of comedy”, letterman, “without you i’m nothing”, her “snatch pack” madonna years etc
she has ironically channeled nina simone, tina turner, sylvester, diana ross and a mentor chanteuse named “cardella de milo” for the lst 25 years.
she also channeled and lampooned barbra streisand, laura bush,her own mother and various jewish, asian and latino old people.
she probably did say something “racist” about siccing her “Black brothers” on palin, but sandy bernhard has earned the right to get stupid in the name of freedom…
i myself finally forgave bernhard for the sh*t she said about mariah carey.
it hurt; i’m mixed, too and i love me some mariah.
however, again, miss bernhard has earned it.
she has walked an heroic rhetorical high wire for 25 years, in the tradition of lenny bruce, richard pryor, lily tomlin and elaine may.
go sandy!
if you need to objectify *me* to curse out gov. palin effectively well…
go for it – you earned it, baby!
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 8:01 pm ¶
Ken Arromdee wrote:
“I hope Sarah Palin gets slammed with the debt of all those rape kits she charged people for.”
This would appear to be zero.
http://www.cityofwasilla.com/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=544
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 9:24 pm ¶
Asada wrote:
@ Mogs,
WHAT ,do pray, ARE YOU IMPLYING?
Posted 06 Oct 2008 at 10:57 pm ¶
kakodaimon wrote:
I think an audience which understood “goyish” and “shiksa” would probably also understand a word like “Torah”.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:07 am ¶
kakodaimon wrote:
Look, it’s not that she used the wrong word that bothers me per se, although “Old Testament” actually is a problematic term if you’re referring to the Jewish text, not the Christian one. It’s the presence of mind that it demonstrates, which despite allegedly being in a moment of angry ranting chooses to correct a more “understandable” term and NOT to catch a ridiculously racist statement like the “blacks in Manhattan” one. It also says something about her audience – I guess her act was supposed to be a moment of unguarded venting, and yet this suggests it’s really for people who would only understand the Christian terms involved, not other Jews. And that bothers me. Why (going back to Silverman) is there a market for Jews saying racist shit? Is it another example of using a minority as a screen to disguise the true feelings and mechanisms of power?
It’s kind of much to close-read an act like this, I know. But honestly, I can think of no circumstances in which Jewish people talking amonst themselves would refer to the “Old Testament” (unless discussing something about Christianity).
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:20 am ¶
Chris wrote:
@Ken: While you may be correct, you’ve gotta figure whether or not those rape victims chose to opt out of getting rape kits done because of the cost.
It’s hard enough for someone to even come forward and report a rape (RAINN notes that approximately 60% of rape cases go unreported), I’m sure it’s even harder to have to shell even a portion of the $1600 cost of the average rape kit out of your own pocket just to gather DNA evidence.
It’s like being violated two or three times over in addition fo the actual rape, both financially and in terms of privacy.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 7:07 am ¶
lxy wrote:
Sandra Bernhard and Sarah Silverman should go on a comedy tour together: White Hipster Racists Unplugged.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 7:39 am ¶
Ken Arromdee wrote:
I think an audience which understood “goyish” and “shiksa” would probably also understand a word like “Torah”.
I do not. “Goyish”, at least, has made its way far enough into non-Jewish culture that it’s understood by a lot more people, if only because they’re a lot more likely to hear the word. And “Torah” would be wrong, since it refers to only the five books of Moses. She’d have to use “Tanach”. I can guarantee you that it would be lost on a majority of the audience.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 9:11 am ¶
Atena wrote:
I’m annoyed at the comments that I’m reading that seem to say, “It’s okay for Sandra Bernhardt to say racist stuff because I like her.” You can let it slide if you like her so much, but that doesn’t make her crap okay. She hasn’t earned shit from the rest of us.
Look people, you can get a pass at home, or with your friends, or with your longtime artist workshop buddies if the people in those situations wanna give you a pass.
You are not entitled to a pass when you take it public. Doesn’t matter how cool or funny or fearless you are, or how many cool things you did in the past. Onstage, on television, in your books and songs and blog posts and generally NON-PRIVATE life, no one owes you a pass. Don’t expect one. Don’t expect the rest of us to give one.
Complacency is useless. You have to earn the respect I give you.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 11:13 am ¶
kakodaimon wrote:
I know the difference between Torah and Tanakh, although the former is very often used colloquially to refer to the latter. The point is precisely that she would rather use a word that’s problematic for Jews because it’s accessible for Christians, and what that says about her desired audience. And why the audience wants her to say it.
Atena: so much yes. It’s depressing.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 11:51 am ¶
Joseph wrote:
@Atena and Kakodaimon
I wasn’t encouraging you to enjoy Bernhard’s work if it doesn’t resonate for you. And I wasn’t defending her because I don’t think her work requires defending. I was speaking from my experience as an artist and art scholar…and someone who is extremely familiar with Bernhard’s work. I take what she is doing very differently than you do based on those things.
From my point of view she speaks the ugliness around her–sexism, racism, homophobia etc.–into the air by taking on the “voices” of the people who really believe those things. That is why I said it is difficult to judge her work by reading a transcript of what she said–without the context of a live performance an entire dimension is lost. Here is a different example: Barry Humphries, an Australian performer who is best known in the States for his drag persona Dame Edna Everidge has another character called “Sir Les Patterson” who is (among other things) a horrible racist. Humphries uses the character to satirize and thereby expose Australian racism but if you just read a transcript of his act you might be offended by the content.
I am all for deconstructing “hipster racism,” but when it becomes a reflexive anti-art posture then I get nervous. Frankly, I get enough of that from the far right. A phrase like “longtime artist workshop buddies” wouldn’t be out of character in the mouth of a Republican Senator.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 1:59 pm ¶
Atena wrote:
Joseph,
Consider that you are not the only artist and/or scholar around. It is possible that others understand exactly what you’re talking about, and still think it’s bullshit.
I’m not talking about enjoying her work. I’m talking about criticizing it. I haven’t seen much “reflexive anti-art” posturing in this thread – on the contrary I’ve seen some thoughtful criticism and analysis.
Whatever she is *trying* to do, maybe you should consider as an artist and a scholar that her technique in this case was not effective. It is possible that she tried and FAILED. This happens to artists frequently, and someone practicing their art as long as she has should be able to appreciate criticism of failure. That’s how artists (and scholars) grow in their practice.
You might consider trying to sound a little less condescending.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 5:02 pm ¶
Joseph wrote:
@Atena
I checked out your blog.
I liked your most recent post where you wrote, “Feeling superior helps nothing, advances nothing that I claim to be fighting for. It is a waste of my time, and there is more productive energy for me to harness elsewhere.”
How’s that going?
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 6:24 pm ¶
Sobia wrote:
@BSK:
“Not ONLY is he a Muslim, but he’s a bad Muslim, because he goes to Church. But it’s an evil church! OOGIE-BOOGIE-BOOGIE!!!”
hahaha….Love it!
It really amazes me that “Muslim” can be used as an insult.
Posted 07 Oct 2008 at 8:05 pm ¶
bdsista wrote:
Joseph, glad you like Sarah, but for those of us who prefer, Moonie or Chappelle or Monique (I’m just not into Jewish comedians that much and Sarah Silverman made me retch) the reference to black men and rape wasn’t cool. Didn’t work, she gets to be brilliant except for this part that didn’t work. Happens sometimes. I must admit Ilove Racialicious! You all have blown my productive evening, but you make me think, laugh and feel like I have spent the evening among friends. Here is the question I am waiting to be asked to both Palin and McCain. Since Palin refused to send anyone to acknowledge the Juneteenth celebration, being the first governor in AK history to ignore it and the Black community and was quoted as saying, “I don’t have to hire any Black people and I won’t” What does this mean in terms of your employment policies? Does that mean Black people need not apply to ANY government job or any job they are affliliated with? This openly racist attitude is what bothers me more. I hope the next time she goes moose hunting someone smears female moose attractant on her and she has to keep from being trampled and mooslested. That’s real mavericky.
Posted 08 Oct 2008 at 10:07 pm ¶