dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Exactly right Rose. These people on the Left do similar things to Trump every day and don't mind a bit. They also cheer when their fellow Liberals threaten to kill Trump, beat him up and so on. Nothing but hypocrisy every day. These people point out racism because they want to promote racism as a way of life so they the Liberal saviors can save the poor black race from those big ol racist Conservatives.

I wonder when they will be honest and point out that it was those Conservatives who did what it took to free the slaves, who passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Where were the Liberal Democrats then? Out to lunch as usual.

Dennis

Migradudetoo Loc: El Paso, Texas

It’s the only thing that will actually give Roxie a woodie.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Are you Joe Biden now? Of course Michelle Obama morphing into an ape is racist. Ask a black person.

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

If it were Melania Morphing to an Ape would you call that Racist?

LWW Loc: Banana Republic of America

Is a white person morphing into an ape racist?

Rose42

I don't know a black person who thinks its racist. Just stupid. Try again.

dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

My opinion: Rude maybe but not racist.

Dennis

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

No, ask a black person.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

No, ask a black person.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

Ask a black person.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

The ape/black person trope is centuries old, I'm surprised it still needs to be explained.

re: Roseanne Barr's tweet that Valerie Jarrett, was a child of the “Muslim brotherhood and planet of the apes.”

https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/the-social-thinker/201805/what-s-so-wrong-about-roseanne-barrs-tweet

But before we get to the science, let’s take a quick detour through history. To understand the context of Barr’s tweet, it is important to know that likening Black people to apes has a long, murky past. The idea that Black people were less evolved than White people, and therefore genetically closer to apes than Whites, was historically used to hide the justification of slavery and unequal rights in a cloak of science. Such “scientific racism” spread the false idea that Blacks are inherently inferior to Whites. As a result, the portrayal of Black people as apelike became an iconic representation in the 19th and early 20th century.

So when someone makes an analogy today, they are not just comparing an individual to an animal the way you would compare a woman with a long neck to a giraffe or a boy with large ears to an elephant. Comments comparing Blacks to apes cuts much, much deeper because they tap into a long, violent legacy of dehumanization and exploitation.

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

I asked two friends. They said Michelle is ugly.

letmedance Loc: Walnut, Ca.

She is but it is not her fault.

yhtomit Loc: Port Land. Oregon

I have never faulted her for trying to manage the card God dealt her.

Rose42

It doesn't. If you're a racist and/or easily offended you'll look at it as racist. If you view blacks like a poor little stepchild that need special handling - as "progressives" do - then you'll likely see it as racist.



You lose credibility when you use someone like Roseanne Barr as an example.



Yes they are the same, unless there is a racist intent which can't automatically be assumed as it tends to be by today's so-called "progressives". There used to be a person on here who would call people racists merely over differences of opinion. That's now nutty it has become.

With statements like this the author of that piece also loses credibility - " most Americans still unconsciously associate Black people with apes."

Its been pounded into them even today that they are victims and everything is racist. So-called "progressives" fuel racism. But more and more black people are not buying into the "progressive" narrative.