Obama's race police now on patrol
Published on April 8, 2008 By Island Dog In Democrat

In another case of liberals tripping over their own political correctness comes this story.

Moving to nip in the bud some potential bad press, White House hopeful Barack Obama's campaign persuaded a delegate to step down after she was ticketed for calling her neighbor's African-American children "monkeys."

What?????  Monkeys?  She must be a racist....right?

On Saturday, two neighbor children were playing in the tree next-door to her house.

Ramirez-Sliwinski "came outside and told the children to quit playing in the tree like monkeys. The tree was not on Ramirez-Sliwinski's property," Carpentersville Police Commander Michael Kilbourne said.

Ramirez-Sliwinski admitted she used the word "monkeys," but said she did not intend racism. She said she was only trying to protect them from falling out of the tree.

But that wasn't good enough for the Obama campaign, you know, the person who will "unite" America.

Told of the incident Monday by the Sun-Times, Obama's campaign called Ramirez-Sliwinski and persuaded her to step aside as a delegate because the campaign felt her remarks were "divisive and unacceptable."

Wow.  So people can't say the word "monkey" anymore because the Obama camp thinks it's "divisive".  How ridiculous.

 


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on Apr 08, 2008
Don't kid yourself. It wasn't THAT well thought out.

Good subject matter, but only 4 lines of commentary! Something needed to be done.
on Apr 08, 2008

Seriously, the offensive thing about it for me is that someone would take the word "monkey" offensively. Seriously, you can call me a monkey. I don't care.

Try it.

You're the Darwinists anywyays.

on Apr 09, 2008
You gotta love minority on minority political correctness.

What really bothers me about this story is the fact she was ticketed for this.

Ramirez-Sliwinski's $75 ticket was for "disorderly conduct," which Kilbourne defined as, "when a person does something that alarms or disturbs another."


With a definition that broad, I think we'd all be getting multiple tickets every day.

And, by the way, how about calling the police because you think someone said something "racially insensitive" about your child? The only thing stupider is that the police responded... and acted on it!

Wait, I have to consult an atlas. This is still America, right?


(Richard Roeper comments on it at this link.)

 

on Apr 09, 2008
In Australia 'monkey' is a racist epithet for Malays - that's pretty common throughout the region, actually.

So my first thought was that it's always been off-limits when used to describe other people. Of course, the particular circumstance goes a long way towards justifying it - climbing in trees is like monkeys, so I'd say even a $75 fine was overboard. Telling her not to be such a damn fool next time would have been a fairer move.
on Apr 09, 2008
Telling her not to be such a damn fool next time would have been a fairer move.


And that is where we disagree. Children playing in trees are like monkeys. And to ban that speech because some moron with an IQ of silly putty might get offended is to abolish free speech. After all, there are a lot more morons than thinking people. And everyone is offended by something they do not understand.

Niggardly anyone?
on Apr 09, 2008

Let me get this straight.

Obama camp is offended when someone uses the word "monkey" in a non-racist fashion.

Jeremiah Wright  goes on racial rants and.....what?

 

on Apr 09, 2008

Let me get this straight.

Obama camp is offended when someone uses the word "monkey" in a non-racist fashion.

Jeremiah Wright  goes on racial rants and.....what?

on Apr 09, 2008
And that is where we disagree. Children playing in trees are like monkeys. And to ban that speech because some moron with an IQ of silly putty might get offended is to abolish free speech.


The employee of a candidate for a racially charged election must meet a higher level of conduct than an ordinary citizen. If she's so stupid she stuffs up like she did, she doesn't deserve her job with the campaign.

But she shouldn't have been fined. The police officer should have been able to figure that one out with a quiet word about appropriate and inappropriate times to describe other people as animals. Your own children/someone you know well/1950s - go for it. Anyone else - rethink it.
on Apr 09, 2008
The employee of a candidate for a racially charged election must meet a higher level of conduct than an ordinary citizen. If she's so stupid she stuffs up like she did, she doesn't deserve her job with the campaign.


But she's not an employee, unless I missed something. She was assigned or elected (however it works in that particular state) to go to the convention as a delegate who will cast a vote for the party nominee.


Obama camp is offended when someone uses the word "monkey" in a non-racist fashion.

Jeremiah Wright goes on racial rants and.....what?


Yep.

on Apr 10, 2008
The employee of a candidate for a racially charged election must meet a higher level of conduct


I love this part. The irony is that the "racially charged" is coming from the candidate himself. As he tries to appeal to the greater population, while still using racism (or actually just the charge of it) as a shield to avoid tough issues and questions.

No, the election is not racially charged, but like all american liberals, he plays the victim very well.

And he is still wrong and full of crap.
on Apr 12, 2008

WAS IT A GHOST THAT CALLED THE CHILDREN MONKEYS? IS THIS QUESTION DIVISIVE?

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