Political funny pictures thread, part IV. Bring on the leather!

[nonobaddog]

THAT SAID, in the high school I went to in NW Indiana in the early 1970's, it was a yearly event for the Senior Civics classes to all go to the Lecture Hall and put on a Mock Convention to "nominate" a candidate for President.
It was in the spirit of learning and having some fun at the same time.

Groups of kids would be assigned to be the delegates from each state.
We held multiple ballots and made deals until a President and Vice President got enough votes.

Some kids would dress up as various people who had run for run for President in the past.

I got with a couple of other guys, and we did George Wallace, PURELY in the spirit of being absurd.

Borrowed a wheelchair, borrowed an old suit from my dad, and slicked my hair straight back with hair grease.
They rolled me around in the wheelchair.

I got BOOED, during the ballots the delegates insulted my Wallace character, and my classmates threw wadded pieces of paper at me, etc. LOL :-)

We did it PURELY to be absurd, and everybody got a laugh out of it.

Nobody in our class believed that it meant we supported some redneck like George Wallace.

THERE'S even a picture of me in costume sitting in the wheelchair with my "Campaign Manager" in our High School yearbook.

We had a somewhat similar auditorium class in college that was more like a congressional setting. We divided up in groups and made bills to present. I was a chem major and our group made a bill supporting making bio-fuel out of animal waste. We called it the chicken**** bill. It was very much like a real session of congress. The football team brought in a keg.

 

[nonobaddog]

THAT SAID, in the high school I went to in NW Indiana in the early 1970's, it was a yearly event for the Senior Civics classes to all go to the Lecture Hall and put on a Mock Convention to "nominate" a candidate for President.
It was in the spirit of learning and having some fun at the same time.

Groups of kids would be assigned to be the delegates from each state.
We held multiple ballots and made deals until a President and Vice President got enough votes.

Some kids would dress up as various people who had run for run for President in the past.

I got with a couple of other guys, and we did George Wallace, PURELY in the spirit of being absurd.

Borrowed a wheelchair, borrowed an old suit from my dad, and slicked my hair straight back with hair grease.
They rolled me around in the wheelchair.

I got BOOED, during the ballots the delegates insulted my Wallace character, and my classmates threw wadded pieces of paper at me, etc. LOL :-)

We did it PURELY to be absurd, and everybody got a laugh out of it.

Nobody in our class believed that it meant we supported some redneck like George Wallace.

THERE'S even a picture of me in costume sitting in the wheelchair with my "Campaign Manager" in our High School yearbook.

We had a somewhat similar auditorium class in college that was more like a congressional setting. We divided up in groups and made bills to present. I was a chem major and our group made a bill supporting making bio-fuel out of animal waste. We called it the chicken-s**t bill. It was very much like a real session of congress. The football team brought in a keg.

 

[2A_Tom]

I truly do not believe that any of this is a real issue. It is only the SJW climate we live in.

This is the minstrel show scene from This is the Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vPXWnpIbw. Not only are the men in blackface, but the blackface women are guys in drag

I watched this move a while back and thought it could never be made today.

 

[Fester]

 

[nonobaddog]

I truly do not believe that any of this is a real issue. It is only the SJW climate we live in.

This is the minstrel show scene from This is the Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vPXWnpIbw. Not only are the men in blackface, but the blackface women are guys in drag

I watched this move a while back and thought it could never be made today.

I can't see why anybody would want to.

 

[daddyusmaximus]

I can't watch this without thinking of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...


[video=youtube;RGsQES_OdrQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=109&v=RGsQES_OdrQ[/video]

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I can't watch this without thinking of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...


[video=youtube;RGsQES_OdrQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=109&v=RGsQES_OdrQ[/video]

I can see it! Especially when she says, "There are homeless people that can't even afford their mortgages."

 

[jamil]

They layed off mostly the grievance writers with the most intersections of oppression. Not so much because of the intersections, but they tend only to get clicks from a very narrow demographic. So Buzzfeed figured out that articles of interest to transgender lesbian crazy ass progressive poc aren’t all that click-worthy to a wider audience. Basically these writers are the ones who got degrees with the word “studies” in the title. That’s probably the most significant demographic, and not the color of their skin.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

 

[Kutnupe14]

I'm sure because he's a Democrat, this will just blow over.
A Republican would likely be run out of office.

That said, I would bet if we could go back in time and be in the room when this picture was taken, it was a couple of college kids dressing up in these costumes purely in the spirit of being absurd.

I would need more than this picture to believe that these guys support the klan and hate black people.


THAT SAID, in the high school I went to in NW Indiana in the early 1970's, it was a yearly event for the Senior Civics classes to all go to the Lecture Hall and put on a Mock Convention to "nominate" a candidate for President.
It was in the spirit of learning and having some fun at the same time.

Groups of kids would be assigned to be the delegates from each state.
We held multiple ballots and made deals until a President and Vice President got enough votes.

Some kids would dress up as various people who had run for run for President in the past.

I got with a couple of other guys, and we did George Wallace, PURELY in the spirit of being absurd.

Borrowed a wheelchair, borrowed an old suit from my dad, and slicked my hair straight back with hair grease.
They rolled me around in the wheelchair.

I got BOOED, during the ballots the delegates insulted my Wallace character, and my classmates threw wadded pieces of paper at me, etc. LOL :-)

We did it PURELY to be absurd, and everybody got a laugh out of it.

Nobody in our class believed that it meant we supported some redneck like George Wallace.

THERE'S even a picture of me in costume sitting in the wheelchair with my "Campaign Manager" in our High School yearbook.

YET TODAY, if I ran for public office, I'm sure somebody would dig up that old picture from the yearbook and claim that means I'm a redneck who believes all that segregationist racist garbage.
WHICH couldn't be further from the truth.

Obviously you are quite wrong, not only about how the Democrats are responding to this, but also concerning George C Wallace. His image had been pretty well rehabilitated amongst many people of color in Alabama.
I do find it interesting how quickly the VA governor's issued was seized upon, when other instances seem to have, shall we say, gone unnoticed?

 

[Kutnupe14]

I truly do not believe that any of this is a real issue. It is only the SJW climate we live in.

This is the minstrel show scene from This is the Army https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-vPXWnpIbw. Not only are the men in blackface, but the blackface women are guys in drag

I watched this move a while back and thought it could never be made today.

Mainly because, after the "who would want to see it" question, because the klan would probably be financing it, and they don't have as much money as they once did. So I also doubt we will also see remake of "Birth of a Nation."

 

[Dr.Midnight]

Let me get this straight. Black face and Klan garb 35 years ago is bad and the dude has got to go, but killing babies seconds before they leave the womb is a fantastic idea.

How did we get this ****** up?

 

[ghitch75]

Let me get this straight. Black face and Klan garb 35 years ago is bad and the dude has got to go, but killing babies seconds before they leave the womb is a fantastic idea.

How did we get this ****** up?

because dems are ****ed in the head.....

 

[nonobaddog]

The Virginia Governor (as a kid) was the guy in black face, not the phony Klan garb. To me, that is not as bad, after all it is just make up. Am I wrong? and if so, why?

 

[Kutnupe14]

The Virginia Governor (as a kid) was the guy in black face, not the phony Klan garb. To me, that is not as bad, after all it is just make up. Am I wrong? and if so, why?

I don't call 25 year olds "kids."

 

[KittySlayer]

Watched one of the Saturday morning "news" shows agonizing over how awful this was. In a later segment they were celebrating the beauty and grandeur of the pyramids built by slaves. So the fake news hypocrisy continues.

 

[nonobaddog]

I don't call 25 year olds "kids."

Yeah, I see your point but I have worked with the med school here several times and they seem like kids to me, partly because of the way they act and partly because I am old. So lets say they are not kids. Same question remains.

 

[Kutnupe14]

Yeah, I see your point but I have worked with the med school here several times and they seem like kids to me, partly because of the way they act and partly because I am old. So lets say they are not kids. Same question remains.

Blackface by itself, one could possibly believe it was a bad decision not fully considered, adding a guy in white robes kinda destroys that idea, and makes it seem there's a common belief/theme.

 

[2A_Tom]

Thanks for not quoting.

 

[jbombelli]

The Virginia Governor (as a kid) was the guy in black face, not the phony Klan garb. To me, that is not as bad, after all it is just make up. Am I wrong? and if so, why?

He wasn't a kid. He was in his mid 20s about to graduate medical school.

As for what's wrong? Context. It was obviously racial.