That’s weird; attacking an African-American candidate by using tragically long-standing stereotypes to compare his appearance to that of a monkey–Mike Norman sure looks just like a racist.
It’s difficult to believe how people can be so narrow minded and hateful. I can’t imagine how Obama deals with people like this.

That’s weird; attacking an African-American candidate by using tragically long-standing stereotypes to compare his appearance to that of a monkey–Mike Norman sure looks just like a racist.
It’s difficult to believe how people can be so narrow minded and hateful. I can’t imagine how Obama deals with people like this.

That’s weird; attacking an African-American candidate by using tragically long-standing stereotypes to compare his appearance to that of a monkey–Mike Norman sure looks just like a racist.
It’s difficult to believe how people can be so narrow minded and hateful. I can’t imagine how Obama deals with people like this.

Down home, we’d call that “putting on airs.”

Oh, I agree with you. As I pointed out above, it’s only very recently that “reporter” became a professional-class job that required a college education. Before that, it was strictly a skilled trade that you learned on the job, not something you went to school to learn.

My brother is very good at his job, has a very successful business, and has contributed far more to the world than, say, Paris Hilton. And yet most people in this society look down on him for working with his hands and look up to her because she was lucky enough to be born into a rich family.

The low-life bar owner who is selling the shirt, Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman, of Mulligan’s Bar and Grill, has gotten a little shot across the bow from Houghton-Mifflin:

Rick Blake, a spokesman for publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which owns Curious George, said Wednesday that the company didn’t authorize the use of the character’s image, but hasn’t been in touch with anybody selling or manufacturing the shirts.
“We find it offensive and obviously utterly out of keeping with the value Curious George represents,” Blake said. “We’re monitoring the situation and weighing our options with respect to legal action.”
…Norman acknowledged the imagery’s Jim Crow roots but said he sees nothing wrong with depicting a prominent African-American as a monkey.
“We’re not living in the (19)40’s,” he said. “Look at him . . . the hairline, the ears — he looks just like Curious George.”
….Norman said he fielded calls throughout Tuesday about his T-shirts. An ajc.com story about the controversy was picked up on the Drudge Report. “One guy in New Jersey wanted me to send him 100 shirts,” said Norman, 63.

Faulkner understood a *lot* about the south.

MKK–former southerner

So, when Mike Norman, the owner of the tavern in Cobb County, calls himself ultra-conservative, then I take it that he is opposed to all change, favors tradition - would probably return to the middle ages if he could.

Unfortunately for America, it’s people like Mike Norman, who’re the reason why we’re struggling to cope with a global economy in the 21st century. While countries like India, China etc are spending billions to educate their population to perform in the 21st century, we’re being dragged down by the likes of Mike Norman and Jeremiah Wright. And all we do is complain about “foreigners taking our jobs away” and hurl endless abuses at each other. Whether we like it or not, change….big change is upon us. We can either adapt, and adapt fast, OR we can fight it and eventually be reduced to “erstwhile superpower” status.

Norman, Wright et al are people still living in the past, not willing to move on, not willing to let others move on either. Their kind is irrelevant to the future. Devoting time and attention to them will only slow America down and drag us further back into the morass that we have been wading in for the past 8 years.