Lighten up people! This picture of President Obama as a Witch Doctor has the left all wound up. Of course the template racism charge is the first insult hurled, and likely the one the MSM will go with. But let’s not forget the insult that has been leveled at actual Shaman in Africa.
Political correctness has reached epic proportions in the United States, we’ve known this for years. Now, you can’t even criticize the President without someone calling you a thoughtless, insensitive racist for crying out loud.
Take this story out of Florida, a neurosurgeon by the name of David McKalip has resigned over the fact that he forwarded the above picture in an email. The good doctor even went as far as appearing on a Tampa radio show to admit to all the world what a “bad mistake” it was. I think it’s pretty funny.
Do I think it’s racist? No, not really. But then again I’m not an African American. But I do recognize racism when I see it. And these days a lot of racial bigotry is coming from the left side of the political spectrum. Just for the record I don’t have a problem with Obama because of his color. Well, strike that, I do have a problem with his color: pinko.
The Obama Witch Doctor photo is rather funny, Obama all tribal fusion and such, with a bone through the nose and loin cloth to boot. But never mind the schematics of the photo, it’s the undercurrent, the subliminal, the unspoken that the left wants you to see.
What’s that you say? Well of course only a black man could be a witch doctor, right? Wrong again maestro. The dictionary says nothing about the race of a man who would be a witch doctor. Websters dictionary says and I quote:
• Main Entry: witch doctor
• Function: noun
• Date: 1718: a professional worker of magic usually in a primitive society who often works to cure sickness
By this definition, Barack H. Obama is a Witch Doctor, photo or not. Is he or is he not a professional worker of magic? Did he not turn the political world upside down on merely the promise of hope and change? Didn’t he get elected by speaking in grandiose terms with little or no facts to substantiate his claims? Tell me what, if anything this describes.
It also says a Witch Doctor works to cure sickness. This country is sick and Barack Obama is working to cure it. The sickness is freedom and liberty. Barack Obama the Witch Doctor is working hard on your behalf to cure it.
So when you take a gander at the Barack Obama Witch Doctor photo, think not about the seedier side of life that the American left would have you think about. Remember, Obama’s your witch doctor, he’s working his magic to cure what ailes your sick, sick country.
September 16th, 2009 at 7:46 am
You are a racist and if I were to comment that your immigrant parents should take their mayflower riding asses back to England and stand up to the Queen. You would be insulted. Your people are conquerers and when someone beats you at your on game. You can’t handle it and of course you go for the obvious insult because you are to stupid to come up with anything original. Thus let’insult his heritage. I pity your ignorance.
September 16th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Yes, the image is racist.
African witch doctors are portrayed as savages and ignorant in America.
Thus syncing that image with the president is racist.
Whoever created this image is a FOOL.
September 16th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
Hey potty mouth, what game exactly did Obama beat me at? Lying?
Actually I wouldn’t be offended if you told me to take my Mayflower riding ass back to England, although that’s not where my ancestors are from.
It might be a fun trip.
September 16th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Shannon: I have never heard a white call a fellow white primitive. The definition in your dictionary is therefore only directed at a non-white race.
September 16th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
Nice try, but the original picture is obviously of a man from Papua New Guinea. Papua New Guinea is in Asia.
But then all brown people look the same to the type of ignorant yahoo who would photoshop an image like this.
September 16th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Actually Yao the word primitive has no racial connotation whatsoever.
primitive
prim·i·tive [ prímmitiv ]
adjective
Definition:
1. first: relating to or occurring at the first stages or form of something
2. biology developmentally early: relating to or appearing in an earlier stage of biological development, particularly of an embryo or species
3. very simple in design: crudely simple in design or construction ( offensive in some contexts )
built a primitive shelter from palm leaves
4. with simple technological development: not using or relying on complex modern technologies to provide comfort and efficiency ( sometimes considered offensive )
primitive camping facilities
5. natural: arising from an inherent characteristic
6. arts artistically untrained: created by an artist with no formal training, especially using a simple style
7. arts early medieval: created by an early medieval European artist or a folk artist
8. linguistics used for deriving other word: having a word form from which another word is derived
The primitive root in “children” is “child.”
9. linguistics earlier in linguistic development: belonging to or constituting an earlier form of a language
noun (plural prim·i·tives)
Definition:
1. arts untrained artist: an artist without formal training, especially one using a simple style
2. arts early medieval artist: an artist or folk artist, especially a painter, whose work was characteristic of the style of early medieval Europe
3. arts work by early medieval artist: a painting or other work by an early medieval artist or a folk artist
4. somebody from culture with simple technologies: a member of a people who do not use or rely on complex modern technologies ( often considered offensive )
5. somebody or something from original stage: somebody or something from the first stage or form of something
6. comput basic element of computer program: a simple element of a computer program or graphic design from which larger programs or images can be constructed
[14th century. Directly or via French< Latin primitivus< primitus "in the first place" < primus "first"]
September 16th, 2009 at 9:58 pm
You’re so racist you don’t even know it.It seeps out of your pores like sweat…..and the cyber-stink can reach me from wherever you are.
September 17th, 2009 at 3:10 am
As Obama so eloquently coined, let this be a teaching moment for this person:
I am a Hispanic very educated (Ph.D.) woman. I was at a party once, in a very racist part of southern california (the O.C.)… She was a bit on the drunk side and said to me, “go back to the jungle.”
Now, …let’s see… jungle, hispanic, … shouild I be insulted? Or should I lighten up?
you be the judge… I for one am shocked at your naivete.
sincerely,
Dr. Lily.
September 18th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
I hate my Presidents’ Heart and Mind not his skin color.
September 19th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
Good show Shannon. Just listen to liberal froots bellyaching. This is the Jerk off-in-Chief we have come to know and love. He really should be wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt.