So, she cracked a joke; big deal. How many people honestly didn’t laugh? The world is too serious over photo’s, but not over bigger hard-core issues! A lot of people are assuming that Davenport is racist because the president is black and she is white (I’m assuming). In the end no one really knows if she is or isn’t.
We have bigger problems..the gas prices are through the roof. Why? Black Gold! Masjid’s are being burned, kids aren’t eating proper meals, homeless is still on the rise, Hala food is expensive-why? The American dollar isn’t worth spit. Muslims are still being harassed-slaughtered by military government and targeted as a political campaign vote. The list of real issues goes on..99 problems and a photo ain’t one!
Come’on! The Powered Government has people at each others throats over photo’s. They are using everything they can to throw Americans off from the bigger picture-that we are being enslaved by what they want us to see-telling us how we should think..over photo’s. Let’s talk about these private jails that are being funded by who_________, popping up everywhere; for who______ . Why are there so many private jails?
We get upset over small irrelevant junk, but not big problems that effect our homes, jobs, property, raising children, parents being forced to have their children vaccinated in order to enroll them in school, soil issues for crops, big company’s using haram (bad, harmful) products-forcing small farmers to evacuate or give-in. Or let’s talk about the millions of dollars that goes into sports, but not into home-schooling programs or used to fund public schools that are closing/have closed. Or technology becoming the new god! Burka’s that can’t be worn. REALLY! 99 problems and a photo ain’t one!

I respect everyone’s comments. This is my opinion…you don’t have to like it, agree with it, or read it. If you feel the need to comment back, inshallah (God Willing) you do so with peace.

*isn’t racist

“Wow reaal professional. Even if it isn’t considered racist would you want to find out that your elected official is acting like a dumbf&@$ photoshoping pictures like a stupid high schooler trying to impress her friends and look cool. Disgusting I can’t beleive these people are taken seriously.”

I wouldn’t even call this “politics” anymore, but some mutation of what politics used to be. When I was younger, politicians acted immature, but not on this level. I have a theory about what is going on, but it most likely isn’t the whole story. I think the Republicans and the Tea Party are going as Far Right as they can in order to make “regular” Republicanism look “normal”, so they will keep up this crazy train for a few more years until the people have had enough and will cry for something “normal.” At this point, the Republicans will present the same kind of rhetoric they did in the late 1990′s and people will think it is “normal” in comparison to the insanity that they have had to endure for five or six years.

It appears that the Right is taken cues from the Far Left in this country, the people who made “ridiculous, fringe demands” that they never hoped to actually attain, but it would open the door for a more progressive atmosphere in the future. Unfortunately, the Right appears to be doing the same thing but to open the door for a regressive future.

LOL, Marwan LOOOOL

That picture makes no sense. Why are both Obama’s parents depicted as chimps but he looks human?

“I have friends who are black.” What do they think about it, then?

And what about all the hatred against Bush? I didn’t hear you complain when he was compared to a chimp!

Typical. Get caught out over their racism then they attempt to back peddle and start ranting at the liberal media – where as lesser stories have been blown out of all proportion by their beloved fox news..

@Jacque, thanks for describing some of the racist history of the U.S. I already knew some of that, but haven’t done a lot of research into it myself. One of my teachers said that a white psychologist even came up with a “mental illness” called drapetomania, which made slaves want to be free, back in the 19th century. I just wasn’t/isn’t sure that this was necessarily meant to be racist. It still shows a complete lack of taste and tact from the person who sent it. For example, Obama’s “mother” in this photoshoped picture looks darker than his “father”, but the President’s real mother was a white woman. But given the history of racism in this country, the fact that people would *perceive* it as such (especially some people from her “base”), I think she is still accountable for her actions and should just stick to the “socialist muslim communist atheist martian” nonsensical rhetoric.

The font in this article is a bit messy.

Anyway, I’ve noticed that a lot of people are oblivious to their own bigotry. They don’t seem to have the mental capacity to differentiate between what is acceptable and what isn’t. Regardless, it’s well known that racism and xenophobia aren’t taboo amongst far rightwing loons. In fact, it’s quite the opposite—this incident will probably boost Davenport’s credentials amongst teabaggers.

I have friends who are black.

Zuhdi Jasser is “friends” with (or, was friends with) loons who have openly called for genocide against Muslims, e.g. Pamela Geller.

“Besides, I only sent it to a few people–mostly people I didn’t think would be upset by it.”

In other words, she sent it to her racist friends only.

I’m not at all defending this bigoted photo that was sent out, but I’m still not 100% convinced that it is necessarily racist. That doesn’t mean it isn’t very meanspirited and prejudiced. The reason I say this is because I recall a lot of photos of George W. Bush depicted as a chimpanzee, monkey and a gorilla when he was President. Nobody said that was racist. If it is because George W. Bush was white and Obama is multiracial, then isn’t calling that racist a form of racism itself? By that I mean, isn’t that saying you agree that there is a racial connection between a black person and a chimpanzee but don’t make the same racial connection when a white person is depicted as a chimpanzee, monkey, etc?

I know that context matters when dealing with bigotry, but sometimes racism takes the form of anti-racism in my experience, as paradoxical as that sounds.

I have disagreements with Obama, but this is NOT the way to get people to listen to your side. Be logical and reasonable for god’s sake