Obama-Curious George Tee an Instant Cobb County Classic

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Obama-Curious George Tee an Instant Cobb County Classic
Mollygood found this 5/14/2008 on www.radaronline.com [flag]
Non-racists in Cobb County, Georgia, must be so proud of their national media hits, especially when one involves a Marietta bar owner hawking a T-shirt depicting Barack Obama as a monkey. No word whether its creator, Mulligans proprietor Mike Norman, got [link]

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Surprisingly, Racism's Not Dead
Published 5/14/2008 by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood at Mollygood
As Barack Obama gets closer and closer to locking up the Democratic nomination, the hootin’ and hollerin’ about him being a buh-lack Muzzlin is gaining volume. The t-shirt at right is for sale in a bar in Cobb County, Georgia; in Indiana, one Obama campaigner was told by a citizen: “Hang that darky from a tree!“; and it is widely accepted that part of the reason Obama was defeated by such a huge margin in West Virgina’s primary election yesterday is because of the color of his skin. This from ...

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