Listen:
You suckers know I work in books. I was at the front of my store, when I was confronted with this disturbing image.
Look:
I picked up the book just to make sure I was reading it correctly. I couldn't comprehend the horrid display that was before my eyes. I opened the book, and began tearing through the pages to see what other examples of horrid racism were contained in it's pages. However, it scanned like a normal anti Obama book:
Bailout, GM, etc, etc.
The only thing terribly offensive was the cover and the language used. Nobody can argue that the same tittle, picture, and use of the word thugocracy...
which isn't even a fucking word
...would have been used if the president was a white man. You don't have to like Obama. I certainly don't like everything he does. Yet I respect him on his own terms. I do not blatantly, and hostilely, disrespect him because he is a person of color. I almost feel like all of the hate directed at President Obama is because he's a person of color! Is this country so backwards and prejudice that we will allow the leader of our nation to be portrayed as a gangster thug on the cover of a best selling book; simply because he is African American?
#2 most evil politician Michelle Bachmann seems to agree with the person who wrote the books forward, Michael Barone. Barone started this terrible trend back in '09 with a reoccurring column, and now with the help of author David Freddoso, this plague has spread into bookstores everywhere.
Sick yet? If anyone can convince me that this new plan of attack against our nation's leader is not direct and utter racism I will bake you a batch of cookies. So much for a post racial society.
So it goes.
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