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Showing posts with label WTF?. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WTF?. Show all posts

Friday, June 5, 2009

Feeling the Hate In Jerusalem on Eve of Obama's Cairo Address

How Small is Earth?

Big Africa!!!

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Man With 21 Kids!!!!



He was called to court last week where he appeared on the docket eleven times to answer for 15 of his 21 children who haven’t received child support recently. The mothers of Hatchett’s children are supposed to get anywhere from $25 to $309 a month, but the government is only allowed to take up to 50% of his pay check, and when that’s split so many times some women only get a $1.98 a month.

Thursday, March 12, 2009

"Hail to the Chimp" video game? WTF?


UPDATE: To the ones who would minimize the offensiveness of this game, especially with ignorant comments, be gone. You probably weren't offended by the "gunned down chimp" news story either.

This game was released in June 2008, a few months before Obama was officially elected. Even if it were initially about Bush, it would STILL be offensive NOW. How can a country thrive without respecting its leadership?
The reality is that given the continued racism in this country and the FACT that blacks have been portrayed as "CHIMPS" and the FACT that we now do have a black president, this game IS offensive and should NOW be pulled from distribution.
Having my young BLACK son looking at the game and ask, "Why are they showing President Obama as a CHIMP is IMPORTANT to ME!!!!! If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and walks like a duck, it IS a duck.
As an avid game player who buys video games on a weekly basis, I have NEVER seen this game in Gamestop, BestBuy, or any other store that sells games until recently. Why would there NOW be a stack of the games at a local store NOW, especially given the nature of the race relations in this country.

WTF? I went into a BestBuy store (Willow Grove, PA) today and saw a XBox360 game titled, "Hail to the Chimp, The Presidential Party Game."

I actually thought it was a cruel, insensitive joke. I looked around to see if this was part of a hidden camera show....No camera crew was there....
When I got home, I discovered that it is an actual game being sold across the nation. If you don't believe me, check out this link to the game on the amazon.com website.

Everyone (as least those who are "educated") knows the history of blacks being portrayed and dehumanized as monkeys.

Now I am not one of those "hypersensitive" blacks who cry racism every chance I get....But damn, this is so obviously racially insensitive and/or downright intentional mockery of our black President Obama.
This is how the game is described:

Name: Crackers the Monkey
Home: Congo [Africa]
Bio: Crackers was the right-hand monkey to the King Lion before he was ousted from the throne. Rumor has it that Crackers' whole campaign is a ruse designed to restore his old boss to the throne, ensuring a cushy lifestyle for his favorite monkey.

Although this is the animal kingdom's first attempt at democracy it doesn't take these candidates long to figure out that the goal is to win at all costs. With that in mind players are free go at it alone or team up with competitors to gang up on the rest of the field. Each combination of characters creates a different special move that unless stopped, can decimate opponents, dashing presidential hopes and making an election year debate look like a tea party.

The GRR News Network
Taking political humor and satire to new levels, at least for a video game, Hail to the Chimp also features its own news coverage, the GRR News Network. Hosted by anchor Woodchuck Chumley, not only does GRR keep track of player standings in the election and broadcast candidates victory speeches direct from the podium, it also holds a wealth of additional game content regarding the candidates and their platforms. This mix of TV smears ads, talk show segments and commercials are in part available immediately on entry into the game and unlockable as the game progresses, providing relentless humor and hours worth of additional play time to a game destined to become a hit in every state whether red or blue.

Quick History Lesson
Excerpt from an article posted by the ScienceDaily website:

Discrimination Against Blacks Linked To Dehumanization, Study Finds
ScienceDaily (Feb. 8, 2008) — Crude historical depictions of African Americans as ape-like may have disappeared from mainstream U.S. culture, but research presented in a new paper by psychologists at Stanford, Pennsylvania State University and the University of California-Berkeley reveals that many Americans subconsciously associate blacks with apes.
In addition, the findings show that society is more likely to condone violence against black criminal suspects as a result of its broader inability to accept African Americans as fully human, according to the researchers
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Click here for the full article.


Does anyone remember last year's new story about the OBVIOUSLY racist T-shirt in which Obama was depicted as a monkey?


Does the "Hail to the Chimp" video game offend anyone else? Please comment and share your thoughts.

Saturday, August 30, 2008

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Saturday, August 9, 2008

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Jail for Sagging Pants?

I must first say that I don't personally wear sagging pants.  However, I believe that if I wanted to wear sagging pants, I should have the right to. Yes, it looks ignorant to me.
However, this is a "slippery slope" of a situation. If we accept this law, what else is under the radar?
Do we then make laws against wearing "wave caps" a certain way?
Do we then put restrictions on how small or big one's clothes have to be?
(Some could argue that this is yet another way to target young black men for arrest or for police intimidation)
Imagine a law stating that women or men cannot wear shirts or pants more than two sizes too big or one size to small. 
Would we then have "fashion police" measuring people and fining people for wearing a size 14 dress when they are really a size 10?
Ridiculous? Yes, it is. But, I think you get the point.
People should have the "right" to dress how they want to....regardless of how ignorant it looks. It is called personal expression. Once we allow the government to dictate how clothes should fit us, other personal expressions will start to be regulated as well.   
What do you think?

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Police to Seal Off D.C. Neighborhoods

According to an article from the examiner.com, a controversial new program announced today created so-called "Neighborhood Safety Zones" which would serve to partially seal off certain parts of the city. D.C. Police would set-up checkpoints in targeted areas, demand to see ID and refuse admittance to people who don't live there, work there or have a “legitimate reason” to be there.
WTF? Do we live in a "Police State?"
  • Well, considering the current state of crime in urban and poor communities, I actually agree with their plan.
  • Would this violate some peoples "rights?" Yes, and I don't care. If a "checkpoint" kept ignorant criminals out of a neighborhood by determining that they have no "real reason" for being in that area, I would wholeheartedly support the plan.
  • What reasonable middle class homeowners honestly want random people walking around their neighborhood? If I saw any unfamiliar faces walking around my neighborhood, I would feel cautious and concerned about why they were in my neighborhood.
  • Urban middle class communities will become "ghost towns" if the people in these communities do not feel safe. No urban middle class = no strong school/real estate tax, both which result in poor, disadvantaged communities.

What If Gas were over $12 a gallon?


Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Ghetto Cribs?

Where do they find these ignorant folks? Have they no shame or decency?