Rampant Exclamations

Greetings!  I’ve been playing a fun new game the last few months, and I want to share the fun with the world!  It’s called That’s So Racist!, and it’s a phenomenon that’s sweeping the nation!  How you play is simple: you hear/read/see/experience/infer/intuit/dream/make up ANYTHING, then figure out how that is racist!  A minute to learn, a lifetime to master!  In fact, I’m gonna play this game right now, and whenever I come up with new ones I’ll share. 

First, go to this article link from the Wall Street Journal.  It’s an editorial about the fitness of past Presidents, and how Barack Obama having no body fat and eating well makes him look elitist.  It has such illuminating dialogue as, “I won’t vote for any beanpole guy,”, a statement from a Clinton supporter, and, “Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day,” a statement from McCain campaign manager Rick Davis.  Now although those lines, along with the bulk of the article, qualifies this as stupid, it’s not necessarily racist.  Until, however, you look at the picture that goes along with the article.  (Make sure to click “See Enlarged Image” for the whole pic.)  Still haven’t clicked the link?  Please do so, I’ll wait.

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It’s a lineup of past and future Presidents, showing their weights and heights.  It’s got Taft on there, an ASTOUNDINGLY small George Washington (5′4″, 98 pounds??), McCain and George Bush in nice suits, and then…Barack Obama, 6′1″, 170lbs, in a warmup outfit, palming a basketball!  Do you see?!  THAT’S SO RACIST!!  Sure, put the black man in his basketball uniform, cuz that’s all he’s good for!  Barack can’t run the country, he’s too busy scoring double-doubles for the Atlanta Hawks right?  I’m old and confused and Negroes with basketballs scare me!  Way to go, Wall Street Journal, for setting our race back another…I don’t, what do you think?  3 months?  Sounds about right.

And yes, you could point out that they also have Bill Clinton in a tshirt and Umbro shorts, but everyone knows he’s blacker than Obama anyway.

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