It's not often that I visibly cringe. Yikes!

After looking at it again, I think Obama looks like a black Richard Nixon, must be the suit and mouth.

Very true. It's hard for some white people to understand the mindset of black people.

 

For what it's worth I hate when blacks are racist towards whites just as much. And thanks for your kind words. I'd feel better if I didn't know how much you hated Obama. :lol:

 

 

I think it is near impossible for one group, especially when others of their group were responsible for most of the discrimination, to understand what people in a specific group can feel. In this case it is Caucasians and African-Americans. For us we can't grasp it because we have never really known anyone who lived it or really had to suffer through it at any point. While I do suspect things are getting better and many African-Americans growing up today don't have to deal with much of what their parents had to suffer through, they have still seen remnants of it and there are some aspects that have not fully died out yet.

 

 

The only way I could come close to understanding it is through the lenses of religious persecution and/or discrimination. Louisville's Catholic community has a very distinct culture because of what they came into in this town in the mid to late 1800s. Considering the mistreatment of Catholics by the then Protestant majority, not to mention Bloody Monday, many of us who have families that are long standing from this town have an inherent sensitivity about us regarding certain things. When in religious discussions with Protestants we tend to get very defensive and bristle at comments we feel to be condescending then they are not meant that way. It is just our history. Now in our case that has mostly faded from our consciousness and just a few of us have that reaction. Even so we are still sensitive to it 120-plus years later.

 

The African-American community is less than 60 years from officially legislated equality, and I would hazard a guess that things really didn't start to change for most of them until the late 70s and early 80s. I would say that today is way better but most remember what things were like and how they were treated, hence their sensitivity to it. For those who have never experienced it, it is impossible to comprehend. Especially those that are in the WASP majority.

 

Just my two cents.

I find the watermelon the lesser of the creepy things about this. Its the propped up (tied?) to a post part that caught me. Sort of like a slave at auction. The actual clothes on it made it too realistic, a little to life like. This guy could have picked a better way to have his 15 minutes of fame...or infamous notoriety. Is he a relative of Fuzzy Zoeller?