Richard Cebull’s Racist Obama Email To Be Investigated By 9th Circuit Court

04/ 6/2012

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/06/richard-cebull-obama-email_n_1408064.html

French ELLE Article’s Racist Remarks Spark Boycott

If a fashion writer for French Elle is to be believed—and she is not—African-Americans weren’t stylish until the Obama family came into office.

“For the first time, the chic has become a plausible option for a community so far pegged [only] to its street wear codes,” writes Nathalie Dolivo in a post translated from the magazine’s website titled ‘Black Fashion Power.’

And if this sweeping stereotyping and flat-out ignorance weren’t already off base, Dolivo goes on to explain why the so-called Obama renaissance of style is so “chic.” According to her assessment, it embraces “white codes” while still making what she calls “a bourgeois ethnic reference (a batik-printed turban/robe, a shell necklace, a ‘créole de rappeur’) reminiscent [of] the roots.”

Dolivo’s story was inspired by a recent New York Times article about a popular website called Street Etiquette, which curates and interprets black men’s fashion through a historical lens.  “I truly believe there wasn’t any malice in [Dolivo’s] remarks,” site co-founder Joshua Kissi told Shine in an email. “With that said, I think she wasn’t perfectly equipped in discussing the often muddy issues of ‘ethnicity’ and ‘fashion’ in the same vein.”

The reaction from commenters after the post went up was less forgiving. One reader put the author straight: “How, in 2012, in a France where there are at least three million blacks and mixed people, can you write such nonsense? You are too kind when you write that in 2012 we have incorporated the white codes … what do you think, in 2011, we dressed in hay and burlap bags?”

Another wrote: “You really think we waited until the Obama’s to know style and let go of our ‘street wear’ proclivities?”

The disturbing blog post has since been removed from Elle’s website, but the firestorm is just getting warmed up.

Fellow fashion writers are taking a stand against Dolivo’s message. The Cut’s Alex Rees describes the post as “misguided and prejudiced.” Sarah Nicole Prickett of Canada’s Fashion Magazine labels the article itself a “white supremacist.”

“We are not one monolithic group to be written about like zoo animals,” admonishes Fashion Bomb Daily’s Clair Sulmers.

Read More: http://shine.yahoo.com/fashion/french-elle-articles-racist-remarks-sparks-boycott-222900939.html

November 16, 2010

An anti-President Obama sign with a misspelled racial slur was knocked down Saturday, but property owner Larry Ford says he’ll put it back up.

“The sign will be repainted,” said Ford, who has been at the center of similar controversy in the past. “There’s a lot of white trash keep tearing it out.”

The battle between unknown vandals and Ford has been running for more than a year. Recently, two signs with various spellings of a racial epithet appeared on his vacant lot on Beal Parkway.

One complaint came Oct. 13 from a school bus driver reporting that the children were reading the signs and becoming upset.

That same day, the signs were torn up and Ford called the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office to complain, according to call history records. Even with the vandalism, the racial epithet was still legible, but Ford declined to cover it up, the deputy noted.

Ford blamed “liberals,” “white trash” and other racial and religious groups for tearing up his signs. He refused to say whether he had painted the slurs on the sign, saying it didn’t matter.

“What makes a difference about who put what on what,” he said. “The sign has a right to be there and these people won’t leave it alone. That’s the point.”

The signs were torn down again on Nov. 1. When a deputy went back to the site Nov. 2, Ford was painting the same offensive word, the deputy noted.

Laura DeMara of Miramar Beach is one of the passing motorists offended by the language on the signs.

“That word,” she said Tuesday. “And they don’t even know how to spell. It’s obvious what the intent was and we don’t need to have discrimination like that in our community.”

But Ford pointed out that the sign is an example of something to be celebrated.

“The one nice thing about it is we live in a country where we can do things like that. We can put our point of view out there.”

http://www.newsherald.com/news/sign-88629-owner-knocked.html

fousheezy:

thedailywhat:

Heartwarming Gesture of the Day: President Obama contributes to Dan Savage’s It Gets Better Project.

[whitehouse.]

*roll eyes* I love how he tries to chime in about how it’s ok to be gay after he has done NOTHING in his presidency to actually support the LGBTQ community. He declared June gay month… great? Why bother appealing the DADT decision? Why fight gay marriage?

I’m not saying he should have sided with gays on those issues, what I”m saying is that when he does his policy that way and then turns around to the gay community and says “hey, I”m on your side, and y’all are great and it gets better” I wonder if he thinks we’re actually just retarded. That’s the disrespect I hate. It’s purely for votes.

(via dancingbull)

Anonymous billboard targets Obama, Democrats; called ‘juvenille’ by GOP, ‘racist’ by Dems

Thursday, October 14th 2010, 3:28 PM

A “racist” billboard attacking Democrats and President Obama is getting burned from both sides of the political aisle.

The massive sign, erected along the I-70 Business Loop in Grand Junction, Colo., depicts four caricatures of Obama, one as a suicide bomber, another as a gangster, the third as a Mexican revolutionary and the fourth as a homosexual.

The four cartoonish men are playing poker, surrounded by rats with words written on them such as Trial Lawyer and IRS, and two vultures bearing tags that say Soros and U.N.

Across the top is written “Vote DemocRAT, Join the game.”

“It’s beyond disrespectful,” Mesa County Democratic Party Chairwoman Martelle Daniels said, according to the Grand Junction Sentinel. “You would like to think that we all would show respect for our commander-in-chief, but this is just beyond that. It’s racist, it’s homophobic, and it’s really cowardly.”

Her GOP counterpart, Mesa County Republican Party Chairman Chuck Pabst, also called it offensive.

“That kind of political positioning and statements, I think, are in bad taste,” he said, the Sentinel reports. “To ridicule somebody in this manner is juvenile.”

It is unclear who is behind the billboard. The artist, Paul Snover, refused in an e-mailed statement to say who paid for its creation.

“I am not allowed to say who (paid for it) at this time,” he said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/10/14/2010-10-14_anonymous_billboard_targets_obama_democrats_called_juvenille_by_gop_racist_by_de.html

Carnival Solves Racist Obama Situation By Suffocating Him in a Bag

By Michelle Collins

Earlier this week, we brought you video from a carnival in Seaside Heights, N.J. which encouraged patrons to pelt a racist likeness of President Barack Obama for prizes.

People were obviously outraged. So the folks at the carnival did the right thing and decided to take down the statue. Oh, wait:

Mmmnope, they decided to suffocate him in a plastic bag like yesterday’s dry cleaning. Good thing carnivals in general are creepy murder playgrounds or I’d actually be offended.

http://www.bestweekever.tv/2010-08-12/carnival-solves-racist-obama-situation-by-suffocating-him-in-a-bag/

Associated Press
Updated: 08/04/2010 08:28:18 PM CDT

 

 

 

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The head of an eastern Pennsylvania amusement company has yanked a carnival game in which players shot foam darts at an image resembling President Barack Obama.

Irvin Good Jr. pulled the target-shooting game after receiving a complaint from a Massachusetts woman attending a fair in Roseto, about 65 miles north of Philadelphia. Good said Wednesday his company, Hellertown-based Goodtime Amusements, won’t offer the game again.

“It was just a big, big mistake in judgment, and I feel sorry about it,” he told The Associated Press. “I can’t take it back, but I can try to make it better.”

The game, dubbed “Alien Attack,” featured a large painted image of a black man wearing a belt buckle with the presidential seal and holding a scroll labeled “Health Bill.” Players could win prizes such as stuffed animals by hitting targets on the image’s head and heart.

The game was featured in late July at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Big Time Celebration, an annual fair that raises money for the Roman Catholic parish in Roseto.

Kathryn Chapman, 55, of Medford, Mass., who spent part of her childhood in Roseto and was in town for a family reunion, spotted the game and complained to Good.

“What is the message you are sending kids, that if your views don’t agree with somebody else’s, shoot them? I just found it incredibly disrespectful and violent,” Chapman said Wednesday. “And this was the president, the highest office in the country. It was absolutely appalling.”

Read More: http://www.twincities.com/news/ci_15678569?source=rss

Billboard linking Obama, Hitler draws complaints

By LUKE MEREDITH, Associated Press Writer Luke Meredith, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jul 13, 10:30 pm ET

DES MOINES, Iowa – A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.

The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin beneath the labels “Democrat Socialism,” “National Socialism,” and “Marxist Socialism.”

Beneath the photos is the phrase, “Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive.”

The co-founder of the roughly 200-person group said the billboard was intended to send an anti-socialist message. But Bob Johnson admitted Tuesday that the message may have gotten lost amid the images of fascist and communist leaders.

“The purpose of the billboard was to draw attention to the socialism. It seems to have been lost in the visuals,” Johnson said. “The pictures overwhelmed the message. The message is socialism.” He said he didn’t know of any plans to remove the sign.

Read More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_iowa_obama_billboard

Obama uses powers to expand federal rights, benefits for gays and lesbians

By Michael D. Shear

Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 22, 2010

In the past year and a half, President Obama has quietly used his powers to expand federal rights and benefits for gays and lesbians, targeting one government restriction after another in an attempt to change public policy while avoiding a confrontation with Republicans and opponents of gay rights.

The result is that scores of federal rules blocking gay rights have been swept aside or reinterpreted by Obama officials eager to advance the agenda of a constituency that strongly backed the president’s 2008 campaign.

Among the changes: Gay partners of federal workers will now receive long-term health insurance, access to day care and other benefits. Federal Housing Authority loans can no longer consider the sexual orientation of applicants. The Census Bureau plans to report the number of people who report being in a same-sex relationship. Hospitals must allow gays to visit their ill partners. And federal child-care subsidies can be used by the children of same-sex domestic partners.

On Wednesday, the Labor Department is expected to announce that federal officials have rethought the Family and Medical Leave Act, concluding that under the law, a gay federal employee may take leave to care for a child with a gay partner.

Individually, none of the changes is especially dramatic. But taken together, they significantly alter the way gays and lesbians are viewed under federal law.

The administration’s effort, made largely under the radar — and outside the reach of Congress — has alarmed opponents of gay rights, who accuse the president of undermining traditional marriage even as he speaks about respecting it.

“He’s been a supporter of married mothers and fathers in name only,” said Jenny Tyree, a marriage analyst for CitizenLink, an affiliate of Focus on the Family. “He speaks very passionately and touchingly about how he grew up without a father. And yet there is this huge disconnect in how he’s undermining that same opportunity for other children.”

In a Father’s Day statement Sunday, Obama called fathers “our first teachers and coaches, mentors and role models” and said that “nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a stepfather, a grandfather, or caring guardian.”

Tyree called the inclusion of “two fathers” in the proclamation a “very troubling” decision to promote a “motherless family.”

But gay rights advocates have greeted the changes as evidence that Obama has not abandoned them — even as he has frustrated some by failing to act quickly on campaign promises to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act and bring an end to the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Church fire suspect to plead guilty

Haskell charged in 2008 Macedonia Church fire

Updated: Wednesday, 16 Jun 2010, 8:15 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 16 Jun 2010, 6:25 AM EDT

• Anthony DiLorenzo

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - One of the three men accused of a fiery hate crime — burning down a predominantly black church the night Barack Obama was elected President — is expected to admit he did it today in court.

Benjamin Haskell will appear in Springfield Federal Court for a change of plea hearing on Wednesday. He is expected to tell a judge he helped burn down the church because “it was a black church.”

Haskell is charged with conspiracy against the rights of citizens. Authorities said the crime was motivated by hatred.

Haskell had pleaded not guilty, but a person informed of the change told The Associated Press that Haskell will change his plea to guilty. The person asked not to be named ahead of the hearing. Haskell’s attorney and the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not comment on the matter.

Haskell’s two other alleged accomplices — Michael Jacques and Tom Gleason — are maintaining their innocence.

The three men are charged with dousing the Macedonia Church of God in Christ with gasoline and lighting the vinyl siding on fire, just hours after President Obama was elected on November 5, 2008.

The fire ultimately destroyed the church, but church leaders have vowed to rebuild . TD Bank has agreed to finance the multi-million dollar church reconstruction project.

Obama Parody: Was it Racist

or Satire?

Tralkin’ Trash Burns Smithtown Rag

By Timothy Bolger on Jun 3rd, 2010

Critics called it racist. Supporters called it satire. But opinions aside, a local weekly newspaper’s photo spread last month comparing President Obama and the first lady to Sanford and Son spawned a proposal to sanction the Smithtown Messenger, reigniting the debate over the sanctity of legal notices—and putting Suffolk County’s race relations back in the national spotlight in the process.

The controversial photo array of presidential couples, published in the paper’s April 29 issue, started chronologically with Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and ended with Barack and Michelle Obama, showing pictures before and after their time in the White House. The punch line was the “after” shot of the Obamas: an image of actors Redd Foxx as Fred Sanford and LaWanda Page as his sister-in-law, Aunt Esther. Esther has a scowl on her face and her fists raised to Sanford, a junk dealer, as their friction was a running joke in the 1970s sitcom.

Obama Effigy Burned in Wisconsin Bar

By Jeff Mays on May 21st 2010 11:42AM

A Wisconsin bar is being investigated by the Secret Service, after a bartender burned an effigy of President Barack Obama.

A videotape of the incident was caught on tape. People in the bar can be heard screaming as the doll goes up in flames.

What looks like duct tape appears to be around the doll’s neck.

Aside from the racist overtones of putting duct tape around the neck of a black doll and setting it on fire (strange fruit) the Secret Service has an obligation to investigate possible threats to the president.

While the bartender’s actions may not have been illegal, they are still troubling.

http://www.bvblackspin.com/2010/05/21/obama-effigy-burned-in-wisconsin-bar/

Group aims to be proactive, offer help

BY ERIC D. LAWRENCE
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

When someone left a racist note on her front door and a bag of dog feces on her front porch early last month, Maggie May Lamar got angry.

The African-American resident of Canton said the incident reminded her of life growing up in Mississippi.

“It made me feel like I wasn’t even counted as a human being,” she said. “It changed my whole view.”

The note, which included a version of the N-word, was just the latest in a string of incidents Lamar said she has experienced since placing pro-Barack Obama signs in her yard during his campaign for president.

The signs were knocked down, and then she began finding dog feces in her yard and driveway on a regular basis. Canton police are continuing to investigate.

The incident and a handful of others in the last few months provide a challenge to the Canton Response to Hate Crimes Coalition. Canton police Sgt. Mark Gajeski, who recently began attending the group’s meetings, said the coalition formed in October as a way to be proactive about hate crimes.

http://www.freep.com/article/20100513/NEWS02/5130437

Wash. group that stood with Obama hit by hate graffiti

Members of the Washington Community Action Network,” also known as Washington CAN!, found broken windows and hate graffiti scrawled on two of its vehicles. The word “rahowa” and the numbers 88 were scrawled on one vehicle.
   
The Anti-Defamation League says “rahowa” is short for “racial holy war” and “88” is a neo-Nazi symbol. Both are commonly used by white supremacist organizations.

By FRANK SCHULTZ ( Contact )   Saturday, May 1, 2010

JANESVILLE — Members of the Parker High School student newspaper staff went room-to-room Friday to apologize for publishing side-by-side photos of President Obama and Buckwheat, a character from the old “Our Gang” series.

Some view Buckwheat as an offensive stereotype. Above the photos on Page 4 was the headline: “Political Look Alikes.”

Papers were being distributed to students in their advisory classes Thursday when Principal Steve Schroeder ordered all copies collected.

Schroeder and senior district administrators said they do not believe The Odin staff had any malicious, racist intent.

Students on the staff of The Odin intended to make fun of a Florida congressional candidate, Carey Portier, who was criticizing the president and the health care reform bill recently when he said: “Listen up, Buckwheat—this is not how it is done.”

A satirical caption based on Portier’s words was inadvertently left out of The Odin, school officials said.