Comments on: Obama Sock Monkey Toy

By: Alan Biancchi

Alan Biancchi — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 07:17:24 +0000

Primate in Chief: A Guide to Racist Barack Obama Monkey Photoshops
Anyone who has been on the real Internet knows that the Obama-as-ape Photoshop actually predates the mainstream talk about his birth certificate. How prevalent is it? Very. Here’s a collection of artwork depicting the nation’s first-ever African American president as a primate, which builds on a long history of various racist Obama caricatures.
See the photo of Barack Obama Money on http://www.imageshumor.com/political/p1259-barack-obama-monkey-humor-the-president-of-the-united-stateshumor.html
A perfect example of the argument in action is the post accompanying the above “Primate in Chief” image. It’s the kind of reasoning commonly employed in the online political debat.

By: Anzu

Anzu — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 22:33:16 +0000

Its a sock monkey. U dont see a kid with a sock monkey and go that kids racist becuz hes holding a sock monkey?

The teady bear-Teddy Roosevelt,was made to resemble him and his nick name teddy, u dont go freaking out becuz a kid has a gaint teady thats Huge and go oh well ppl are making fun of roosevelt becuz he was hefty

Would u have freaked out if u saw this next to other sock monkeys or Maybe teady bear that looked Like roosevelt?

U see it how u see it, but honestly i think everyones freaking out over nothing but a doll.

Might we go into text of what the doll is gonna go through, A kid gets it as a toy let it be any race gender or age, its gonna cuddle it, love it, perhaps sleep with it.Clearly the kid loves oboma, now whats so racist after that?Nothing , its jsut another soft plush toy sold for ppl to buy and enjoy.

Im Japanese, lets go down this road a bit and enlighten a bit, I see a panda stuffed animal and i see it with one of the rice patty hats that are make of grass weaved. OMG its a panda with a sun hat >< angry rage. No thats not what u see.

the shirt ya thats a bit much, but dont complain about the doll being obama when u see so many other toys that are just as racist and single this out till you think about ALL of them.

thats my bit

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By: Luis

Luis — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:06:30 +0000

For those of you that missed the comment:

“Black people will never understand why this is so funny… it looks just like him… what a hoot.”

and

“Get over it… so what if you all look like monkeys… it how you act that counts… you know, like monkeys…”

Case in point. End scene.

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By: Davey

Davey — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:45:58 +0000

Seems rather… controversial….

By: caitlan

caitlan — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:06:04 +0000

I would not see this as offensive if I saw it in a shop. I have heard of the monkey thing but those old science sketches are so discordant with a little sock monkey that I would certainly not have made the connection. What is that phrase about ignoring racism being a “benefit” of privilege?

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Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:32:11 +0000

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By: ShapingYouth

ShapingYouth — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:29:07 +0000

For some levity, I’ll offer this “Pat the Politician” (pull & poke parody) that some friends of ours designed, in bipartisan splendor…
http://www.amazon.com/Pat-Politician-Political-Pull-Parody/dp/0974889105

And for folks like John’s comments, try AntiRacistParent.com, a great site for ‘getting up to speed’ on the diff. between Bush & Obama when portrayed as a chimp.