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.
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.
The continuing high rate of black unemployment is, in part, the result of a sizable and continuing drop in the number of African-Americans employed by state and local governments.
Over the last two years, the economic recovery, while sluggish, has caused a sustained increase in private sector jobs. But, because most states have laws that prevent them from accumulating huge deficits, unlike the federal government, local and state governments have severely pared back their employees as they continue to have funding shortfalls.
Data released Friday showed that while nearly every other sector showed job growth, 15,000 more government jobs were lost.
And blacks have been disproportionately affected; about 20 percent of black workers are in government jobs the federal, state or local level.
In a report this week, the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, estimated about 177,000 blacks have lost jobs in the public sector over the last five years. (Nearly sixteen million African-Americans are working in the U.S., while more than two million are looking for jobs) Across all races and ethnic groups, more than 450,000 public sector jobs have been lost in just the past two years.
African-Americans have not only lost a major source of work, but a lucrative one. Black Americans earn an average of 12.9 percent less than white workers in the private sector, but “the wage disparity between African Americans and whites is only 2.2 percent” in government jobs,” according to EPI.
In fact, for black public sector workers with a bachelor’s degree or an advanced degree, there is no racial pay gap, according to EPI. The EPI authors argue this pay equity is the result of stronger anti-discrimination protections in the public sector.
But these jobs now aren’t available for many black workers. And the layoffs are continuing, as many states around the country are still struggling to pay their bills.
Little help is likely to come from Washington. The 2009 stimulus billPresident Obama championed included billions in aid to states to prevent the layoffs of teachers, police officers and other public service workers, thousands of whom are black.
But that provision has become the centerpiece of the Republicans’ case against President Obama as a champion of big government. Obama was able to get a much smaller stimulus-style bill through Congress in 2010, but a larger job creation bill that has been pushed for the last several months is barely being considered by congressional Republicans.
The 13 percent jobless rate for blacks in April, while a dip from March, virtually guarantees the first black president will stand for reelection while at least one of every 10 eligible, working-age African-Americans is jobless. And the lack of government jobs and work overall is not the only major economic challenge for African-Americans.
“Forget the smiling faces on television citing the latest hopeful economic statistics. Forget the assurances of self-styled black intellectuals that we are in some sort of marvelous post-racial era in which anybody can realize his or her dreams,” wrote former New York Times op-ed columnist Bob Herbert in a recent piece in the American Prospect.
“The black community is shouldering its way through an economic calamity. More than a quarter of all black Americans are poor, as are more than a third of all black children. Doors of economic opportunity–in the workforce, in access to higher education, and elsewhere — are slamming shut at a breathtaking rate.”
Tyler Perry‘s Atlanta studio was decimated by a 4 ALARM FIRE on Tuesday, May 1st. Peraps this was a message to Perry: “Stick to wearing dresses. Do Not Talk About Racism. Do Not interfere with our business.”
Al Sharpton interviews actor Tyler Perry about his call for justice for two Florida non-white males — Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos — who mysteriously vanished under similar circumstances. Perry also wrote a lengthy report on being “racially profiled” by White enforcement officers.
Read portions of his report below:
A few days before President Obama was supposed to speak at my studio, I was leaving the studio, headed to the airport. Most times when I leave the studio I have an unmarked escort. Other times I constantly check in my rearview mirror to be sure that I’m not being followed. It’s a safety precaution that my security team taught me. As I got to an intersection, I made a left turn from the right lane and was pulled over by two police officers. I pulled the car over and put it in park. Then, I let the window down and sat in the car waiting for the officer. The officer came up to the driver’s door and said that I made an illegal turn. I said, “I signaled to get into the turning lane, then made the turn because I have to be sure I’m not being followed.” He said, “why do you think someone would be following you?”
Before I could answer him, I heard a hard banging coming from the passenger window. I had never been in this position before so I asked the officer who was at my window what was going on and why is someone banging on the window like that. He said, “let your window down, let your window down. Your windows are tinted.” As I let down the passenger window, there was another officer standing on the passenger side of the car. He said, “what is wrong with you?” The other officer said to him, “he thinks he’s being followed.” Then, the second officer said, “why do you think someone is following you? What is wrong with you?”
Before I could answer the officer on the passenger side, the one on the driver’s side had reached into the car and started pulling on the switch that turns the car on and off, saying, “put your foot on the brake, put your foot on the brake!” I was so confused as to what he was doing, or what he thought he was doing. It looked like he was trying to pull the switch out of the dashboard. I finally realized that he thought that switch was the key, so I told him that it wasn’t the key he was grabbing. I reached down into the cup holder to get the key, not realizing that the key had a black leather strap on it. As I grabbed it they both tensed up and I dropped it as I heard my mother’s voice from when I was a little boy.
My mother would always say to me, “if you get stopped by the police, especially if they are white policemen, you say ‘yes sir’ and ‘no sir’, and if they want to take you in, you go with them. Don’t resist, you hear me? Don’t make any quick moves, don’t run, you just go.” My mother was born in 1945 into a segregated hotbed town in rural Louisiana. She had known of many colored men at the time who were lynched and never heard from again. Since I was her only son for ten years, growing up she was so worried about me. It wasn’t until after I heard her voice that I realized that both of these officers were white.
The officer on the driver’s side continued to badger me, “why do you think someone is following you?” I then said, “I think you guys need to just write the ticket and do whatever you need to do.” It was so hostile. I was so confused. It was happening so fast that I could easily see how this situation could get out of hand very quickly. I didn’t feel safe at all. But one officer stopped his questioning and said, “we may not let you go. You think you’re being followed, what’s wrong with you?” At this point, I told him that I wanted to get out of the car. I wanted the passersby to see what was happening.
As I stepped out of the car another officer pulled up in front of my car. This officer was a black guy. He took one look at me and had that “Oh No” look on his face. He immediately took both officers to the back of my car and spoke to them in a hushed tone. After that, one of the officers stayed near his car while one came back, very apologetic.
I said all of that to say this: do you see how quickly this could have turned for the worse?
Now I know that there are many great officers, patrolmen and security guys out there. I am aware of that. But although we have made significant strides with racial profiling in this country, the world needs to know that we are still being racially profiled, and until this situation has improved greatly, I’m not sure how a murder in Florida can be protected by a “stand your ground law.”
Coon Chicken Inn was a small restaurant chain in the American West from the late 1920s through the 1950s. The restaurants were known for their entrances, which featured the head of a winking, grinning, grotesquely caricatured black man wearing a porter’s cap. The words “Coon Chicken Inn” were written on teeth framed by oversized red lips. Visitors entered through a doorway in the middle of the black man’s mouth. The menu included southern fried “Coon Chicken” sandwiches and chicken pie, as well as hamburgers, seafood, chili, and assorted sandwiches. Blacks (especially ones with very dark skin) were employed as waiters, waitresses, and cooks.
During the Jim Crow period a typical American kitchen had many products with images that portrayed blacks in negative ways; these included packaging for cereal, syrup, pancake mix, and detergent; salt and pepper shakers; string holders; cookbooks; hand towels; placemats; grocery list reminders; and, wall hangings. Any object found in a kitchen could be-and often was-transformed into anti-black propaganda.
In the 1880s, Chris Rutt, who had recently developed the idea of a self-rising pancake batter, attended a minstrel show that included a skit with a southern mammy character named Aunt Jemima. Rutt and his partner, Charles Underwood, decided that the mammy, dressed in an apron and bandana, would help distinguish and sell their pancake mix. When the R.T. Davis Mill Company purchased Rutt and Underwood’s company, they employed a real person to portray Aunt Jemima in their marketing scheme. Nancy Green, born a slave in Kentucky in 1834, became the first “real” Aunt Jemima. She impersonated Aunt Jemima until her death in 1923.
At the 1893 World’s Exposition in Chicago, Green, as Aunt Jemima, sang songs, cooked pancakes, and told romanticized stories about the Old South as a happy place for blacks and whites. Afterwards, her image was plastered on billboards nationwide, with the caption, “I’se in town, honey.” In her role as Aunt Jemima, Green made appearances at countless country fairs, flea markets, food shows, and local grocery stores. By the turn of the century, Aunt Jemima, along with the Armour meat chef, were the two commercial symbols most trusted by American housewives.
Racism On The Lawn
The lawn jockey is a decorative yard ornament that caricatures black people and promotes the idea of their servitude. Typically a cast replica about half-scale, it depicts a black man dressed in jockey’s clothing carrying a lantern or a metal ring suitable for hitching a horse. The black lawn jockeys often have exaggerated features, such as bulging eyes, large red lips, a flat nose and curly hair. The flesh of the figure is usually a glossy black color.
Traditionally, two styles of lawn jockey have been produced: the stocky, hunched “Jocko” and the taller, thinner “Cavalier Spirit.” Both styles were still manufactured in 2012. Many Americans, especially African Americans, feel that lawn jockeys are racially offensive. It is common for homeowners to repaint the figure’s skin with pink or white paint to avoid charges of being racially insensitive.
In the United States, all racial groups have been caricatured, but none as often or in as many ways as black Americans. Blacks have been portrayed in popular culture as pitiable exotics, cannibalistic savages, hypersexual deviants, childlike buffoons, obedient servants, self-loathing victims, and menaces to society.
These anti-black depictions routinely took form in material objects, such as ashtrays, drinking glasses, banks, games, fishing lures, detergent boxes, and other everyday items. This case holds objects that illustrate some of the major anti-black caricatures.
The Savage caricature showed Africans as animalistic, crazed, or comical cannibals, often with bones in their oversized lips. Drawn from the pseudo-scientific early anthropological theories of the late 1800s, the Savage represented Africans as primitives who were less evolved than their supposedly superior European counterparts.
Racist Cartoons
Between 1928 and 1950, America’s premier animators-Walt Disney Corporation, Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Merrie Melodies, Looney Tunes, and R.K.O. Radio Pictures-produced many cartoons that ridiculed the appearance, behavior, and intelligence of African Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities.
From its inception, the Jim Crow Museum had dolls, mostly Mammy, Tom, and Pickaninny versions. In 2010, Marc Charbonnet, a prominent interior designer in New York, donated a collection of dolls to the Museum, including some that defame African Africans and some that exalt them and celebrate African American culture.
Games And Toys
Games are effective vehicles for spreading racial stereotypes and prejudice. All of the common caricatures of blacks were represented in games. Players, often children, received messages through a game’s graphics and text that blacks were, for example, lazy or deviant and deserved to be mocked or hurt.
Racist Imports
In 2011, approximately one-fourth of the objects in the Jim Crow Museum were produced in other countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, England, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, and Taiwan.
The N-Word
The word nigger is a shorthand way of saying that blacks possessed the moral, intellectual, social, and physical characteristics of the Coon, Brute, Tom, Mammy, and other racial caricatures. Although considered by many people to be a hateful slur, the word is used in different ways and contexts to connote different meanings.
All of the objects in the Jim Crow Museum have market values. In 2011, there were more than 50,000 collectors of “Black Americana,” a category that includes racist artifacts. Generally, the more racist an object is, the higher the price it commands.
Mammy
From slavery through the Jim Crow period, the mammy caricature served the political, social, and economic interests of mainstream white America. During slavery, the mammy caricature presented the idea that blacks-in this case, black women-were content, and even happy, as slaves. Her wide grin, hearty laugher, and loyal servitude were offered as evidence of the supposed humanity of the institution of slavery.
The mammy caricature romanticized the realities of slave and servant life and obscured the unequal foundation of the master-servant power structure. Portrayed as an obese, coarse, maternal figure, the mammy had great love for her white “family,” but often treated her own family with disdain. Although she had children, sometimes many, she was, by mainstream standards, sexually unappealing. She “belonged” to the white family, though it was rarely stated. She was a faithful worker. She had no black friends; the white family was her entire world.
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An English toy based on a 1885 book with a character of the same name. Many people still believe that the toy is a relic of an earlier time when racism against black people was blatant. Recently the Supermodel Naiomi Cambell assaulted airline staff after reportedly being called a ‘Golliwog supermodel’
2. Chop Suey Specs
Made famous recently on Reddit - these spectacles manage to both amuse and offend at the same time.
3. Jogo Dos Grooms
A Portuguese game that involved shooting black soldiers with anything you could lay your hands on.
4. Darkey in a watermelon
The advert describes the toy: “Upon opening the watermelon which is made of papier mache, is found a little pickaninany, southern darky with cloth diaper fasted with miniature safety pin and small nursing bottle. His white eyes flash the whole face indicated perfect happiness.”
5. Dapper Dan the Coon Jigger
Not to be confused with the not-so-racist “Dapper Dan” that is currently available at Dapper Dan
6. Always did spise a mule
This was a mechanical bank popular in the late nineteenth century. The bank portrays an African American man riding a mule that, when pushed, throws the rider over it’s head as the coin goes into the bank. Displayed a violence against blacks that was acceptable at the time, and was also thought of as “fun”.
7. Hitler’s Limousine
Whilst not as obviously racist as the rest of the toys it ain’t something your is kid is going to take to “show and tell”
Racist toys are not just the play things of our grandparents. This monkey sock puppet of American Presidential hopeful “Barack Obama” was only released last month! (thankfully it’s no longer available for sale)
9. Greedy Nigger Boy
The racist intent is so obvious with this item, I am shocked that this used to be gift for young children!
10. Nigger make-up
The Advert says it all:
“The Outfit comprises a black stocking mask that can be slipper over the head in a moment, odd eyes, buck teeth and banana plantation straw hat.”
