Posts Tagged ‘Black president’
Dan Rather Racist Obama Watermelon Slur »
While appearing on the Chris Matthews show, and speaking on the issue of President Obama's inability to get health care passed, Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather said “ Obama couldn’t sell watermelons if you gave him the state troopers to flag down the traffic.” [...]
Birthers still have issue with President Obama’s »
Recent comments from the likes of CNN's Lou Dobbs when he reported that, “Hawaii officials had destroyed Obama's original 1961 birth certificate,” without citing a source seems to be adding more fuel to the fire of the birthers' claim that the 44th U.S. President is not a citizen of the United States of America. (more...)
Obama – I will get shot if I try to break into »
President Barack Obama said “if I were to break into the White House, I will get shot.” The president was responding to a question by Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet, when she asked what he thought about the recent arrest of Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.? (more...)
Tennessee GOP Staffer depicts President Obama as a »
Sherri Goforth, a staffer in the office of Tennessee Grand Old Party (GOP) state senator Diane Black emailed a picture of the American presidents. The problem is the slot representing the 44th president, President Obama, was replaced by the head of a Golliwog. The Golliwog (originally spelled Golliwogg) is the least known of the major anti-Black [...]
Jim Roy, 1926 U.S. First African American President »
By Charles Mombo During a recent visit to Brazil, my ignorance was exposed when I commented to a tour guard that the people gathered at Chicago's Grant Park had nothing on the people of São Paulo, Brazil. I had wrongly assumed that the overwhelming Obama's craze sweeping Brazil was due to the fact that it has the largest population of [...]
Berlusconi – a history of controversial remarks »
The Italian prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi is known for making controversial, irresponsible, dumb, insensitive, groundless, racist, stupid and uncouth remarks. Premier Silvio Berlusconi has too often put his foot in his mouth. It's about time that he start kicking his own ass for ever dumb comment he makes. In July 2008, Premier Silvio [...]
Tyra Banks pays homage by dressing as Michelle Obama »
Tyra Banks covers and is featured in the September 2008 issue of the Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. In this issue Tyra poses as Michelle Obama and talks about how she has been inspired by the future first lady. Tyra also pays homage to Michelle Obama by dressing as the first lady. She and an African-American male model tried to invoke the Obama [...]
Rep. McKinney, the Second Black Presidential Candidate »
Georgia's former Democratic Rep. Cynthia McKinney is the presidential nominee for the Green Party of the United States and will appear on the ballot in as many as 36 states as the extreme long-shot rival to Democratic candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is the second black presidential candidate in [...]
Is Hillary Clinton a fighter or a divider? »
Obama now has a majority of pledged delegates to the Democratic Convention. Despite the daunting odds of overtaking Obama in the overall delegate count, Hillary Clinton remained defiant and promised to stay in the race. "You've never given up on me, because you know I've never given up on you," Clinton told supporters in Kentucky. With only two [...]
Team Obama faced racism while campaigning »
There have not been much in the news pertaining to information in the news about Senator Obama's phone-bank volunteers and campaign surrogates encountering a "RAW" and "PURE" racism and hostility that have gone largely unnoticed and unreported this election season. Doors have been slammed in their faces. They've been called racially [...]
