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Republican Official Sends Racist Pictures of President Obama

This clearly racist photo was sent by Marilyn Davenport – an elected member of the central committee of the Republican Party of Orange County and Tea Party activist with the caption “Now you know why – no birth certificate!” Davenport insists it is not racist, just humorous.

The picture was sent in an email from Davenport, who expressed surprise that it offended people. She said “I simply found it amusing regarding the character of Obama and all the questions surrounding his origin of birth . . . In no way did I even consider the fact he’s half black when I sent out the email. In fact, the thought never entered my mind until one or two other people tried to make this about race.”

To their credit, various Republican leaders have denounced the picture. She, however, remains on the Central Committee and GOP officials have expressed doubt over the ability to remove her under their bylaws. I find it odd that a political organization cannot remove someone who has espoused racist or hateful views to the embarrassment of the Republican Party.

Source: NY Daily News

100 thoughts on “Republican Official Sends Racist Pictures of President Obama”

  1. first thing i thought of when i saw the picture was that someone has the photoshop ability of a 3 y/o

  2. I really have to agree with those who think racists are morons.
    You racists really are idiots that should read a birth control for dummies book. The very least, please stop making contact with the general public.

    That being said please work with me on these next two paragraphs and allow me to show by example, with a comparison on how this picture is viewed by people.

    Think of a picture of beautiful sunset. The sun is glowing from just under the horizon. Imagine the sky and how it looks. Notice how it is reflecting a radiance of colors off the atmosphere as it fades off from left to right and over your head to the east behind you. Looks pretty awesome huh? If you included clouds or anything else in the sky you have my kind of imagination and can be called “CREATIVE”. You created that yourself without outside influence from me. I never suggested adding them. That was all you. Good job

    Now, think of a picture of the most physically attractive person whom you never have met but would like to meet. Notice how their hair has been groomed. How well does the light you created reflect from their eyes? Did you place them in your new sunset? Visualize what they are wearing and notice how well it is completing their figure.

    If you are now realizing you need to add clothing to this picture or if you had a thought about a sexual interaction with this person, guess what? You could be labeled a “PERVERT”. I’ll admit I am a little perverted cause I visualize a beach at sunset with sheer clothing almost every time.

    I don’t make the rules, know who you are and accept it, change it or keep denying it. It’s your choice and you have to be happy with who you are. It really comes down to what YOU CHOOSE to see in the picture as to what kind of person you really are.

    Now this particular picture of our president is not the first one of its kind nor will it be the last. There was never a discussion about race when a previous president was depicted in similar fashion. I myself did not in any way think about race when I first saw this picture. I, like most people only thought of it as a way to express controversy on tracing origin of birth with a little humor. It also at the same time serves well at poking some fun towards intelligence (or lack thereof) and behaviors just like the similar pictures of the previous presidents have. It was meant to be humorous as the caption clearly reveals. Race never came to mind until racists pointed it out.

    It would have to be said that those who first think this was about race and continue to say this is about race are in fact a “racist”.

    I don’t make the rules, know who you are and accept it, change it or keep denying it. It’s your choice and you have to be happy with who you are. It really comes down to what YOU CHOOSE to see in the picture as to what kind of person you really are.

    You may have thought the picture was comic in nature when you first saw it. You may of not. If you did not, bugger off…
    Beauty as well as humor is in the eye of the beholder. Mother Nature has more control over us on what we perceive as funny or beautiful then what our first thoughts are when we first see someone.

    Again
    I don’t make the rules….

  3. Elaine:

    I now know why Obama gave back the statue of Winston Churchill and gave the Queen such a lousy gift. Quite frankly, had that been my grandfather, I would have given them the cold shoulder.

  4. “she didn’t show up at the committee meeting because she feared for her life.”

    From who ?

  5. Racism appears to be inherent to some members of the Teabagger Party:

    “Appearing on a radio show hosted by the New York Post’s Fred Dicker this morning, Trump took on the “frightening” level of support that President Obama enjoys from black voters, bragged that “I’ve always had a great relationship with the blacks,” and saluted Hillary Clinton — whose 2008 campaign against Obama was dogged by occasional suggestions that it was catering to racial and cultural resentments — for all the work she’s done for “the black population.”

    http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/04/14/trump_the_blacks/index.html

    It’s “frightening” … “the blacks” … nah, no racism here, folks …

  7. Mike S.,
    Well said. This creep didn’t need to analyze the email to know that it was racially offensive. She is upset that her secret is out. Her comment that she didn’t show up in person because she feared for her life is another racist statement. Only a racist thinks that the big, bad black man is coming to get her!

  8. The E mail was racist beyond doubt and dispute. Anyone who would deny this is stupid, disingenuous and/or racist themselves. To me the interesting thing to look at is how many racists are so ashamed of their feelings, or so aware that they are beyond the pale of social behavior, that they deny the obvious fact of the racism expressed.

    This to me is a sea change that has occurred in the last 60 years or so. Back then racists were proud of and outspoken about their bigotry, just as the NAZI’s were outspoken in their hatred of the Jews. Today these maggots avoid admitting the reality of their hatred and bigotry. I’m not sure whether this is a good thing because I’d rather deal with an outspoken bigot, than one who is unable/unwilling to admit to their hateful bias.

  9. eniobob,

    People who aren’t racists would trash an email like that and not forward it to other people. We wouldn’t have to think about its “historic implications.” Notice that Davenport said what she did was “unwise”–not wrong.

  10. What pressure will make people do.

    “The California Republican who e-mailed a racist “family photo” of President Obama because she thought it was funny offered up a second, less defiant apology Monday.

    Marilyn Davenport delivered the apology not in person, but through a statement read to the Orange County Republican Central Committee by fellow member Tim Whitacre. Davenport said she didn’t show up at the committee meeting because she feared for her life.

    “To my fellow Americans and to everyone else who has seen this e-mail I forwarded and was offended by my action, I humbly apologize and ask for your forgiveness of my unwise behavior,” the 74-year-old wrote.

    “I say unwise because at the time I received and forwarded the e-mail, I didn’t stop to think about the historic implications and other examples of how this could be offensive,” Davenport said.

    “I would never do anything to intentionally harm or berate others regardless of ethnicity,” she said in her apology. “Everyone who knows me knows that to be true.”

    Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/04/19/2011-04-19_goper_says_sorry_again_for_racist_obama_email_claims_to_have_received_threats.html#ixzz1JySXKnc7

  11. Raf –

    It really isn’t that difficult to do if you can separate your needs and feelings from everyone else’s. Leadership can induce a sort of sociopathy where your goals are more important than other people lives.

    Li Peng, the leader that ordered the massacre at Tiananmen Square own son was thrown out a third-story window an killed by the government during the Cultural Revolution. Twenty years later he had no problem ordering the murder of many other sons and daughters.

  12. We got us some HUGE racism out here…. And these people seem proud of it… Astounding..

    NOW I understand what ‘The Great Orange Wall” really means…

  14. Elaine,
    Great find! How can Obama sit still when Pvt. Manning is being abused when his own grandfather was a torture victim?!

  16. Off Topic:

    I was listening to Here and Now on NPR today. There was a discussion with Caroline Elkins about the British torture of Mau Maus/Kikuyus in Kenya in the 20th century. Some of the things that the British were said to have done to the Kenyans are horrific. A small group of Kenynas who claimed to have been tortured by the British decades ago brought a lawsuit against the British government. Elkins is a Harvard historian who was an expert witness in the trial and authored a book that uncovered British atrocities to suppress the revolt. BTW, I had lunch today with a former teaching colleague and close friend who had lived in Kenya in the 1960s. She confirmed the things that I had heard about the British torture of Kikuyus on NPR.

    http://audio.wbur.org/storage/2011/04/hereandnow_0418_london-mau-mau.mp3

    **********

    Castration and conspiracy: How British government covered up torture of the Mau Maus – including Obama’s grandfather – for 50 years
    By LIZ HAZELTON
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1373650/Mau-Mau-rebellion-Torture-rebels-including-Obamas-grandfather.html

    Excerpt:
    – ‘Torture victims’ in court for landmark claim against British government
    – Files exposing abuse were flown out of Kenya on eve of independence
    – 50 year cover up as damning papers languished in Foreign Office
    – Successful case could open floodgates from claims around world

    The full horror of a brutal campaign of torture meted out by British officials on Kenyan rebels including Barack Obama’s grandfather has emerged for the first time.

    A cache of secret documents detailing efforts to suppress the Mau Mau uprising has lain hidden in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, in London, for 50 years.

    Removed from Kenya on the cusp of independence, they were uncovered in January after five Kenyans launched a lawsuit against the British government.

    The claimants say they suffered castration, sexual abuse and severe beatings in detention camps administered by the British government and want an apology and financial compensation.

    Obama’s grandfather Hussein Onyango Obama was rounded up in 1949 in the very early days of the rebellion and spent two years in a high security prison.

    Once a cook for a British officer, his family claim Mr Obama was horrifically tortured, whipped every morning and evening until he confessed.

    His third wife Sarah Onyango said white jailers would squeeze his testicles with parallel metallic rods and pierce his nails and buttocks with pins.

    Mr Obama, whose involvement with the rebellion has never been clear, was left permanently scarred and bitterly anti-British.
    His account tallies with the experiences of the five elderly Kenyans now suing the British government.

    The claimants, represented by law firm Leigh, Day & Co, say they were ‘subjected to gross abuse and torture.

    ‘Such abuse included whippings, beating, castration and sexual abuse of men and women . . . in many cases the abuse and torture was so brutal and dangerous that the detainee died.’

  17. People like Marilyn and the other verbal gaffers in Orange County drift further from reality daily. In Costa Mesa, there’s a revolt against four city councilmen. The councilmen got “a taste of Wisconsin” and decided to cut half the city workforce. One worker jumped to his death the day that he received his notice. What did the Councilmen do? Party at one of their buddy’s Irish bars on St. Patrick’s Day!

    Demography and stupidity like this is going to come crashing down hard on the local GOP here, and they are going to flip the freak out.

  18. gerald

    and yet you capitolized the word liberal. watch out buddy, they’ll kick you out of the klan/tea party

  19. So, what is wrong with this,it looks normal to me. This piece of trash Obuma is running this Country like chimp with a mental disorder. No good trash Liberals!!!!!

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