Race..really?

When does it ever quit. I came across these articles and can't help but wonder that people will screamracists! at the drop of a hat anymore.

"The entertainment during the bull riding contest featured a clown wearing a mask of Obama with an upside down broomstick attached to his backside. Spectators were asked if they wanted to see "Obama run down by a bull." Many in the audience responded enthusiastically...."
Seriously? He's a sitting pres. that isn't very popular right now and this really raises a big stink? If this had been Clinton or GW at one of their low points and the crowd roared, wouldn't even make the news unless it went along with a current popularity poll.
https://news.yahoo.com/mo-state-fair-bans-rodeo-clown-mocked-obama-183933790.html

And this guy gets denied service because of a dress code/tats? If this is vanilla ice and he gets denied for the same reasons, does that make the news?
https://xfinity.comcast.net/articles/entertainment-eonline/20130811/b447818/

Am I that out of touch or something, I just really don't get it. Making fun of a sitting pres. is racist, denied service because wearing a tank top is racist? I'd really like to hear some decent opinions here and there are no right or wrong ones, they're just that, opinions.

J

It seems like the guy is playing the racist card not the restaurant from what I'm reading.

"According to the celeb's numerous tweets following the incident, he was told by one of the managers on duty that his ink was threatening to other people dining at the restaurant."

Maybe his tattoos are offensive and that's the reason he was refused service and not the fact that he had on a tank top or was black?

Two different restaurants in two different cities, is this a conspiracy by the restaurant chain to deny him service? Or did both restaurant personnel find his tattoos offensive?

It also mentioned that he and every other patron needed to wear sleeves to eat in the restaurant. It's the restaurant's dress code.

I used to bounce in a bar and we didn't let men in with tank tops. It didn't matter what race they were, no tank tops allowed.

So if he tried to go into a restaurant with a dress code of jacket and tie, they'd also be profiling?

I don't know I'm must offering my opinion after reading the article.

I was denied for wearing a Perry Ellis shirt into a restaurant once. I am not Vanilla Ice, but I am White.

It's fair to make fun of the President. Having some white guy in an Obama mask is not racist.

What went over the line when the other clown, a white man, started playing with the mask's lips. Here's the Kansas City Star:

Witnesses said another rodeo clown bobbled the lips on the Obama mask.

The only reason that was done was because this mask depicted a black person.

I don't have to explain that whites have been humiliating black people about their lips for decades, do I?

If you don't get why that's racist, well, then yes, you are that out of touch.

Rodeo clowns have been mocking celebrities and politicians for years. They also go up to each other and pull their noses, smack their butts and yes, they may bobble a lip a two.
Racists made it a racist act. It may have been in bad taste to some. But it was not a racist act.
I bet there are hundreds of Obama pinatas out there being beat right now.

The internet brings out the worst in people....


"If this is how America most often uses the vast resources of the Internet, we’re in trouble."

Private restaurant can decide what kind of dress code they want. Private rodeo can decide what kind of entertainment they want. If people don't like their choices they can boycott these establishments, bring all kinds of negative publicity onto these establishments, but for goodness sakes, keep the government out of this.

Keep the government's hands off the Missouri State Fair!

You don't know what you're talking about.

The Missouri State Fair is a creation of state law. It received about $400,000 in state funding this year.

"Keep the government out of this" is about as stupid a statement that a person can make about this.

BTW, anyone remember how the American right reacted to the Dixie Chicks when one of them merely expressed that she was ashamed to be from the same state as President Bush?

It hurt them so bad that they went on to win 5 Grammys and song of the year....

In 2006, with Maines still acting as lead singer, the Dixie Chicks released Taking the Long Way. The album subsequently won five Grammy Awards (including Album of the Year).

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