If You Don't Think This Picture of Michelle Obama is Racist, You Very Well Could Be a Racist Yourself.

(Link to article with photo, in question. No, I am not posting that shit photo on my blog, damnit!)

 

 

I have to confess. When I first saw the photo (a much smaller version than you see at the link) I was sorta leaning to thinking the picture was merely crude and rude, and way off base. But then I read the text (that originally appeared in a LA Times piece) linking this to the "Uppity" charge, some GOP dicks have been throwing at the Obama's for the past few years. That was enough for me to say, ya. Racist. Subtle, when you compare it to the more obvious racist attackers like Rush Limbaugh, who actually calls the Obama's flat out "Uppity" (and that was the precursor to calling out the lynch mob, back in the day.) But still, the idea behind this picture still rates as a racist dog whistle.

Deconstructed, the meaning of the picture is,"We can't have niggers thinking they better than niggers. Got to keep them niggers in place. Got to keep them down." Ya.

Seeing that spelled out should make it plain. But I am not done here. I am going to link this with something that shitnose Rick Santorum recently said, to prove Campaign 2012 is going to be the Racist's Ball, on the GOP side. (And those Dick Nose Weasels will deny it as they enjoy the cheap nasty misbehaving sixth grader pleasure in lying about what ever bad thing they just did and might just get away with.)

 

 

Rick Santorum Calls P. Obama a snob. Ya. he went there. The dick nose.

 

 

 

Now this attack is even more subtle than the awful picture of Michelle Obama with the obscenely over sized (think the artist was going for monstrous) arms, as a black Marie Antoinette. Santorum is attacking P. Obama for the "snobbery" of wanting kids to go to college?

Point is, the point in the sentence, in the paragraph on paper, if you will, clearly is not the point. The point here, is to call P. Obama a snob in a context Santorum might just get away with. It's playing the uppity nigger card in a very cowardly, if somewhat camouflaged way.

Here's the reality of the war so far. We have on one end of the obscene scale, Rush Limbaugh, calling the Obama's Uppity Niggers with out using the word nigger. Now you got these other bastids, doing it with out even using the word uppity. Well we call it a dog whistle with good reason. We live in 2012 in America. No matter how racist one's heart is, unless one can deal with the heat for being an out and out and proud of it racist, one must try to keep it subtle. But one (of that ilk) wants to signal out loud to other like minded people, on really knows the difference between their idea of that is "Us vs. Them."