Comedian Wayne Brady has grown tired of liberal pundit Bill Maher’s racist caricatures, revealing his angst on the matter during a podcast yesterday. Maher has often complained on his HBO show that President Barack Obama does not act enough like a stereotypical “scary black man,” according to excerpts republished on The Blaze. At least twice when referencing President Obama’s lack of aggressive nature in the White House Maher stated he was behaving like a Wayne Brady figure. The comedian is not laughing at his personality being used to denote the persona of a weak black man.
Brady’s rant against Maher during the podcast interview focused on his extreme dislike for being used a way to “diss” Obama as passive. Brady discussed Maher’s alleged experience with black prostitutes named Ebony, Fox, Cocoa and Fancy, formerly known as Tyrique. The hired sex worker comments during Brady’s podcast may have been meant as a jesting dig at Maher or offered as fact, the statements will inevitably be left to the interpretation of listeners.
“If he once said I want to know how black Wayne Brady is – that chip on my shoulder says that rarely do you threaten a man and you should not fear anyone. Now, I’m not saying I’m Billy Badass, but if bill Maher has his perception of what’s black wrapped up, I would gladly slap the shit out of Mill Maher in the middle of the street, and then I want to see what Bill Maher would do. Now, Bill Maher would call the cops and he would have his lawyer – I’d get sued and lose my house and it’s not worth it for me, but the black man part of me would be so satisfied to slap the shit out of him,” Brady said during the podcast.
A 2007 study by Roland Fryer and Michael Greenstone has found that graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) suffer a wage penalty relative to their counterparts who attend Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs). The authors conclude that in comparison to black students who attend PWIs, graduates of HBCUs earn 20% less on the job market than their counterparts.
The effigy is suspended from a makeshift gallows with a noose of yellow rope, has a doll in its right hand and a rainbow-colored gay pride flag in its left.
In a telephone interview with The Huffington Post, Jones said the flag was meant to call attention to Obama’s stance on same-sex marriage and that the baby doll is there because the president is “favorable toward abortion.”
Jones also said that radical Islam is “the most dangerous threat to life and national security in America.”
There is also an Uncle Sam dummy standing at the base of the gallows outside the DWOC. Jones told HuffPost that the Obama effigy had originally been positioned to be hanging Uncle Sam when the display went up two weeks ago, but that the church changed the display on Wednesday.
The words “Obama is Killing America” are printed on a trailer nearby.
In addition to its higher profile controversial moves, the Dove World Outreach Center has also been criticized for its internal rules, which The Smoking Gun has called “cult-like.”
In the church’s Academy Rulebook, written by Jone’s wife and published in 2007, prospective ministers are directed to cut off most contact with family members.
This is not the first time that an effigy of the country’s first black president has been hanged.
Keith Judd, federal prisoner and presidential candidate
An incarcerated 53-year-old man is beating President Barack Obama in eight West Virginia counties following the state’s Democratic Presidential Primary Tuesday, according to the latest figures from the West Virginia secretary of state.
Keith Judd, who is currently serving a 210-month sentence at a correctional facility in Texarkana, Texas for extortion, is trailing the president 42.28% to 57.72% in the state based on the unofficial vote totals, but is leading in eight counties.
Obama has not had electoral success in West Virginia, a reliably red state in presidential politics. He was crushed by then-Sen. Hillary Clinton in the state’s Democratic presidential primary in May 2008 by a 67% to 26% margin. And he lost the state to Sen. John McCain, the then-Republican presidential nominee, 56% to 43% in the November 2008 general election.
The Mountain State‘s Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and junior Sen. Joe Manchin have also recently distanced themselves from the president ahead of their 2012 elections.
In Tuesday’s election, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney received nearly 70% of the vote, according to the latest unofficial figures, while former candidate Rick Santorum garnered over 12% support and Rep. Ron Paul captured just over 11% of the vote.
