Racist Orange County Teabagging Republican Email: President Obama and His Parents Are Apes

[jefferson_dem]

ORIGINAL POST, April 15, 5 P.M.: Orange County might be a beautiful oceanfront locale, but it's also home to Holocaust deniers, vicious anti-gay bigots and freakish big-haired televangelists.

Here, one of our Republican politicians welcomed the inauguration of the first African American U.S. president in early 2009 by sending out an email that depicted a watermelon field in front of the White House.

That incident drew embarrassing international attention, but now another Orange County Republican has apparently topped the watermelon imagery with another racist attack on President Barack Obama.

The Weekly has obtained a copy of an email sent to fellow conservatives this week by Marilyn Davenport, a Southern California Tea Party activist and member of the central committee of the Orange County Republican Party.

Under the words, "Now you know why no birth certificate," there's an Obama family portrait showing them as apes.

Here's the image attached to the email:



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http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2011/04/racist_orange_county_republica.php

[CakeGrrl]

1. But don't call the Tea Partiers RACIST or anything.

:eyes:

[Lilyeye]

8. Typical of the disgusting racist tea party. But calling them that is pulling the "race card"

:eyes:

[sakabatou]

2. I hope to hell these people are recalled or step down

[CakeGrrl]

3. According to the article, she has no intention of stepping down

The unrepentant racist needs to be fired.

[vaberella]

5. Oh she's a she...I'm still unsurprised. n/t

[vaberella]

4. Yeah...In a week he'll be giving in his resignation or should. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

6. Goes too far even for many Pubs

If you read the article. A silver lining among the deep ugliness.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Am I the only one who's equally disgusted by the caption to the first photo?

Asking, so innocently, if the male ape is Obama's father - wha?

[pa28]

9. The image is disturbing but I'm glad you posted it.

This is populist conservatism in 2011 and it has nothing to do with mainstream values.

I'm sure there are quite a few loyal Republicans who would look at something like this and start to wonder if they are in the right room.

[and-justice-for-all]

10. Homosapians are related to Apes...

we share 96% of the same DNA with our evolutionary cousins.

But yes, that pic was intended to be racist.

[CakeGrrl]

14. But the point is that racists assert that

blacks aren't really all that far evolved from said evolutionary cousins.

[and-justice-for-all]

15. "But yes, that pic was intended to be racist."

that is what I said in my comment to which replied.

[joe1991]

11. her replies are priceless

"Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist."

"It was a joke."

"I have friends who are black."

"Besides, I only sent it to a few people--mostly people I didn't think would be upset by it."

"In no way did I even consider the fact he's half black when I sent out the email."

"the thought never entered my mind until other people tried to make this about race."

"I received plenty of emails about George Bush that I didn't particularly like yet there was no 'cry' in the media about them."

[NICO9000]

17. "I have friends who are black."

:rofl:

WTF year is it in this country anyway? Maybe she recently listened to this classic Lenny Bruce routine?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua0TT87KNwo

[Keith Bee]

12. BEYOND Disgusting

:puke:

[Zorro]

13. The story is all over the local LA news, complete with the offending photo

Even the head of the OC Republicans is calling for her resignation.

Quite entertaining.

[JuniperLea]

16. Entertaining, yes...

And shocking to see so much about this in the local news... and very shocking to see the instant push back by the local GOTPers.

I hope the GOTP sorely regret their TeaBaggers... they have empowered and emboldened a bunch of bigots, racists, and assorted idiots.