Posted by Rhonda
A few days ago, the PUMAs posted a series of videos–a movie version of the non-existent “Whitey” tapes that features an abundance of racist, anti-Islamic and anti-African stereotypes, complete with “actors” in …*drum roll* BLACKFACE!
At the center of their attack is Michelle Obama and a caricature of her based on completely unsubstantiated (and long refuted) rumors about both her and her husband.
At this point, do these folks still not understand why they aren’t allowed to “critique” the Obamas without being pegged as racists?
(h/t Ta-nehisi Coates)
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Karl Haye
I used to wear Pumas when I was a teenager. They were a staple of “Bed-Stuy cool”–midnight blue suede, with the icon of the puma racing across the sides. I think of footwear when I think puma. I think cool when I think puma. Now I’m being forced to think about middle class and wealthy, feminist bitter enders, women who feel their hopes have been dashed because Barack Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee. They’ve hi jacked the term PUMA in the same way that McCain, Bush and the Neocons have hijacked “patriot,” or Seam Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et al have hi-jacked the idea of being a “great American.”
Hillary hit just the right tone in her speech tonight. Did her backers support her or the ideals she represents? Frankly, Obama is a representative figure–nothing more. His personal aspirations aside, I support him because he represents the starkest, most dramatic instance of true change in this nation, a nation that has been largely defined by a one-sided vision of its greatness. We have paid lip service to the greatness of America, especially its wealth of potential for helping the ordinary man or woman achieve their dreams and fulfill their potential. Now we have an opportunity to make that ideal become a shining reality; not just for Blacks or the dispossessed, but for all Americans. People talk about Obama’s lack of experience. I agree, he is inexperienced, but that has nothing to do with taking the American experiment to the next level. America was inexperienced at being the arsenal of democracy in World War II, but we made the world safer for democracy with the same “can-do” spirit of personal sacrifice and individual achievement directed toward the greater communal good that America is bursting at the seams to display once more. Gov. Mark Warner got it right: President Bush failed to believe in the greatness of the American people to overcome the horrors of the attacks on 9/11. Relying on a select few, he chose to limit the vision of America’s uniqueness, trusting in its overwhelming military power to succeed where the simple humanity of the American people, trained upon overcoming the obstacles of a new and hostile world would have sufficed to bring some semblance of spiritual order to a chaotic planet screaming for violent recrimination. Yes, I’m bold enough to believe that the compassion and smarts and ingenuity of the American people was and is powerful enough to defeat the cynical self-abnegations of Al Qaeda, Bin Ladin, and his death-loving ilk. They mock us for loving life. Yes, we love life, or else, why live it? They don’t hate our freedoms. They bask in them daily, even as they try to subvert us through them. No, the terrorists despise our enduring hopefulness, a hopefulness the Bush administration has ignorantly squandered in a bid to satisfy the pedestrian desires of a jaded few. I hope the so called PUMAS remember that as they decide whether or not they will fulfill Senator Clinton’s expressed desire for true Democratic change, or whether they will lean upon their own misappropriated narratives of victimization and perceived slights.
Aug 30th, 2008
I'm Voting Obama 2008
The PUMA girls are scary. One of them was on MSNBC the other day, she remind me of Adolf Hitler, I am not kidding, her eyes shows no emotion, it was dark, evil, unpleasant, and discriminative in nature. He face was long, her hair was blond, and she talk with a straight face, her words where negative, her posture was extremist. Those PUMA ladies are radicals, and I think it is best for them to go back to their rat hole.
Aug 30th, 2008
Lynne
I honestly think the FBI should investigate these people. They are a danger, just as much as the Aryan Brotherhood. This is a hate group.
Aug 31st, 2008
Alexis
WTH? Somebody please investigate these people.
Aug 31st, 2008
Marilyn Bloch
I think you are a beautiful and talented lady and fit to be President yourself. It is hard for a woman to get elected President in the U.S. I think you have compassion for the people with those high priced school loans they cannot discharge in Bankruptcy Court, and I hear of those stories that Suze Orman tells on television and it is heartbreaking to hear of those people that have no way to pay back those school loans because the law does not allow them to be discharged from Bankruptcy Court but there are issues that prevent people from paying them back and the interest rates make the loans so high they could never be paid back. Please help the college student with this problem by talking to your husband. Thank you for all of the students with loans.
Marilyn Bloch
Oct 12th, 2008
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