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President Obama Introduces Norman Rockwell’s Painting About Racial Tension Into The White House

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President Barack Obama last month approved the installation of Norman Rockwell‘s famous work, The Problem We All Live With. The painting depicts the racial tension at play as 6-year-old Ruby Bridges makes her way to William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans, escorted by U.S. Marshals dispatched by President Eisenhower. Bridges is known as the first black child to attend a formerly all-white school following court-mandated integration. (She lives in New Orleans to this day, where she is now chair of The Ruby Bridges Foundation.)

Politico notes the painting’s placement in the White House has never been mentioned by President Obama publicly. But evidently, it was Bridges herself — with the help of Louisiana’s Senator Mary Landrieu (D), Georgia Rep. John Lewis (D) and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick (D) — who convinced the President to display the painting in the White House:

“It did have a lot to do with this particular president,” Bridges said. “He is a president of mixed race. So I believe he is about the same things that I am. You cannot look at a person and judge him or her by the color of their skin. … I did feel if anyone would hang the painting, it would be him.”

Last month, Bridges stopped by the White House to see the painting in its new — though temporary — home.

“I think it’s fair to say that if it hadn’t been for you guys, I might not be here, and we might not be looking at this together,” Obama told her, according to a videotape on the White House website.

You can take a look at that video below, which includes a closer look at Rockwell’s painting:

The Politico piece is worth a read because it delves deeper into Obama’s (public) attitude towards race and racism (An example: “‘I can’t pass laws that say I’m just helping black folks. I’m the president of the United States,’ Obama told [White House reporter April] Ryan in a December 2009 interview. ‘What I can do is make sure that I am passing laws that help all people, particularly those who are most vulnerable and most in need. That, in turn, is going to help lift up the African-American community.’”), but it got us wondering: What artistic contributions have former U.S. presidents (and First Ladies) deemed worthy of being showcased in the White House?

Below, have a look at a few of the more controversial, meaningful, powerful and iconic pieces of art that have made their way into the White House (or onto its lawn):


h/t Politico

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  • Anonymous

    Amazing they found wall space .

    King Obama has over 300 framed photos of himself on the walls , changed every week .

  • Juan Wonders

    Said the Racist-In-Chief.

  • Yy

    And you thought it couldn’t happen.

    The Right Wing has found a way to hate on Obama in terms of EVERYTHING!

    And the RIght Wing has convinced themselves that the first BLACK President (who has a WHITE mother) is a racist.

  • Exgoper

    Not that I think your opinion counts for a cup of warm spit, but how exactly did you arrive at this remarkable conclusion? 

  • NomoBeeHO

    0bama admits that he knows little of the incident but states that the white police officers that arrested the black man breaking into a house “acted stupidly”.

    CASE CLOSED.

    I’M satisfied that 0BAMA IS A RACIST.

    (Of course, the Misanthrope-In-Chief has MANY other flaws, but THIS one is enough for me to dispatch him to the dustbin of history)

  • Anonymous

    Every single thing Barack Hussein Obama ll does to America and us ” real ” American people is not only racially based, it is 125% reparations based.

    Anyone who states otherwise is as big a liar as Obama himself.

  • JohnSmith

    His white mother doesn’t count. He considers himself black, not biracial. Hell, his white mother didn’t even like white people.

  • JohnSmith

    These days it’s white kids who need police protection.

  • Obama – The – Destroyer

    BeeHO’s mom was too busy chasing big, black you-know-whats around to concern herself wif little “Barry”.

  • Anonymous

    On 20 Jan 2013, our new President will give the White House a thorough cleaning.

  • Yy

    Wow, too bad you’re STUPID and WRONG.

    The President said he doesn’t know ALL the facts.  And then he went to recite the information that he did have which is what most people understood about the case.

    He didn’t say the “white” police officer acted stupidly. It just so happens that the police that acted stupidly was white.

    Here is the video for you to watch again until you understand the truth.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LucTPdK8VTc

  • Yy

    “Right Wing Supporters! Keeping It Classy!”

  • Yy

    Can you give me ONE example of reparations from Obama?

  • Yy

    Aw, poor downtrodden white people who are the Majority of the country.

  • JohnSmith

    This isn’t the huffingtonpost or dailykos. That sarcastic cliche isn’t an automatic winner here; it’s called a non-sequitur.

  • Anonymous

    ?????

    Your hatred for Obama knows no bounds! You even write rubbish at the mention of his name!!

  • Anonymous

    Glenn Beck told him that Obama has a deep seated hatred for whites. Being the fox moron that Juan is, he believed Beck to be telling the absolute truth

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

    When you say his name out loud, do you say Barack Hussein Obama, or Barack HOOOOSAAAAYYYYYN Obama?

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    I’ve always loved that painting. It conveys so much with a simple design and considering its Presidential history, the West Wing is a great place for it to be displayed.

    Also, I didn’t know about Hillary’s choice for the sculpture garden. It also looks to be a great work.

  • http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

    I’ve always loved that painting. It conveys so much with a simple design and considering its Presidential history, the West Wing is a great place for it to be displayed.

    Also, I didn’t know about Hillary’s choice for the sculpture garden. It also looks to be a great work.

  • Yy

    Wait, I am confused. So I SHOULD take your “concerns” about white kids seriously?  Even though they are the majority of the country and on average have 20 times the amount of wealth as the other races in the country?

    Which means they are 20 times removed from the poorest people, 20 times safer, 20 times more more fed, etc., etc.

  • richs

    I think this painting is a wonderful addition to the White House.

  • Anonymous

    It’s a great painting, and it should serve as a sober reality how far removed from that past we have travelled.

  • JohnSmith

    Jesus, you’re effing dumb. Obviously, Obama was talking about the arresting officer. And after denying what obama said, you go on to endorse the most obvious interpretation of what he meant (the only reasonable interpretation of what he meant). To underscore your stupidity, you made your stupid point with a stupid grammatical error. Like I said, you’re a dumb-dumb! 

  • JohnSmith

    He belonged to a racist church for starters.

  • JohnSmith

    You quoting yourself here, genius?

  • JohnSmith

    You quoting yourself here, genius?

  • JohnSmith

    You should take it seriously because white kids are far more likely to be the victims of violence at the hands of blacks than blacks are at the hands of whites. But in all honesty I couldn’t care less what you think or do.

  • JohnSmith

    You can’t blame him. Many people think of rubbish when they hear mention of his name. Have you not noticed what a lousy job he’s doing?

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, because they did act stupidly. Sorry. I’m not even diving into the racial aspect of it. They went out there to investigate a possible break in. They found a barely mobile old guy trying to get into his house. It doesn’t take them calling in a detective to figure out the guy lives there. I’ll even give their story the benefit of the doubt and say the guy was acting belligerent. So what? It amazes me some of the actions cops are allowed to get away with if they feel slighted or disrespected. This is America. Why can’t this guy act like a jerk, so long as he’s not breaking the law? It amazes me the same people that falsely cry about 1st Amendment violations when it comes to TV and radio personalities having their shows canceled, and blow the trumpet of doom heralding a police state and a Nazi-like takeover of America, are the same ones willing to turn a blind eye when police (not all but the corrupt ones) trump up charges to teach someone a lesson by dragging them downtown, or shoot a defenseless and unarmed suspect. I would figure that this guy would be a hero to the right for berating government agents bothering him on his property. The only thing wrong President Obama did was in scaling back his comments to appease the race deniers in this country who want to make it so that alleging a racial motive to something is worse than an actual act of racism.

  • Hugo Daun

    Seriously dumplin, you really need to work on the funny.

    Try this: http://www.amazon.com/Humor-Home-Dummies-Malcolm-Kushner/dp/1572813822

    And don’t skip the big words…ask for help!

  • Johnjguy

    You choose any opportunity criticize President Obama regardless of the significance and the irony passes straight by you. 
    Even on a subject this important to capturing a heinous part of US history, you absolutely refuse to grow up and see the bigger issue of what this painting and those involved means.You really are still pathetically small minded Lantern of Idiocy.

  • Yukon Jack

    Methinks the white lacrosse playing kids at Duke University would take your concerns seriously. 

  • Yukon Jack

    Methinks the white lacrosse playing kids at Duke University would take your concerns seriously. 

  • Anonymous

    Reading some of the ignorant posts here by the local racists have shown we have not come that far.

  • Anonymous

    Reading some of the ignorant posts here by the local racists have shown we have not come that far.

  • Yukon Jack

    Or the Jews that got slaughtered by mobs incited by the so-called reverend Sharpton.

    Or the white guys who “raped” Tawana Whatshername, according, again, to the so-called reverend Sharpton.

  • Johnjguy

    Judging from the comments on this thread I’m really not so sure that some have travelled very far at all. 
    Still, if its their choice to stay rooted in the past with their unevolved attitudes, then it really is their loss and no one elses.

  • Anonymous

    I still think the selected ignorance on display here at times is a far cry from the istitutionalized societal divisions that once reigned in the country.  A piece of art such as this proves that most of the contemporary charges of racism trivializes the dynamic that was far, far more insidious.

  • Anonymous

    Articles like this expose the soul of the tea party: ignorant, angry, and racist.

  • Anonymous

    All the negativism is silly and tiresome!

  • Anonymous

    Why  do you want to be satisfied that the Pres. Obama is a racist?  

  • Anonymous

    Just silly, how do we know who his mother liked or didn’t like?

  • Anonymous

    The Congressional Black Caucus argues that Pres. Obama has not targeted anything specifically that would only help black people.  His policies have tried to benefit all Americans, including everyone on this thread.  You don’t have to love him, but he still wants to help you.

  • Anonymous

    The Congressional Black Caucus argues that Pres. Obama has not targeted anything specifically that would only help black people.  His policies have tried to benefit all Americans, including everyone on this thread.  You don’t have to love him, but he still wants to help you.

  • Anonymous

    Good thought!

  • Anonymous

    This was a good piece and by in large the comments were not worthy of the subject.  I have wondered for some time why Mediate attracts so many commentators that write mean spirited comments.

  • caconservative

    This is the crap this pretender worries about? Maybe Rockwell could paint a portrait of Obimbo holding a golf club at a Motown Review concert, with an unemployment office across the street with people lined up around the block…..wouldn’t that be a little more current and applicable? Or, maybe a portrait of him playing golf on the border with tens of thousands of illegal alien parasites off at a distance sneaking across the border, and Napolitano caddying for him and saying “the border is secure”….kiss kiss, suck suck…….
    I think if we put our heads together we could come up with loads of portraits a whole lot more meaningfull!! 

  • Anonymous

    Professor Gates was ALREADY in his house when police arrived….the police coaxed him outside to arrest him

  • Anonymous

    Professor Gates was ALREADY in his house when police arrived….the police coaxed him outside to arrest him

  • Anonymous

    Professor Gates was ALREADY in his house when police arrived….the police coaxed him outside to arrest him

  • Anonymous

    F……………………………………u…………………………..k…………………….u

  • Anonymous

    maybe your dumb ass needs to review the tape….not all the police at professor gates home were white..i know in your delusional fruitcake crossburning, confederate flag flying racist to the fucking core peabrain you wish Obama would have refered to the police officers as white…..it just didnt happen…..oh by the way did you know that your great great great great great great grandpappy was a freaking ape??? and the earth isnt flat like you claim??????

  • Anonymous

    maybe your dumb ass needs to review the tape….not all the police at professor gates home were white..i know in your delusional fruitcake crossburning, confederate flag flying racist to the fucking core peabrain you wish Obama would have refered to the police officers as white…..it just didnt happen…..oh by the way did you know that your great great great great great great grandpappy was a freaking ape??? and the earth isnt flat like you claim??????

  • Yy

    I wonder if the white members of that church knew that they were at a racist church.

    Obviously Father Phlager doesn’t realize it.  Poor guy, preaching at a church that hated him.

  • Anonymous

     cmom wingnut be real with it …..just call it like you call it  when youre with your rent a boy…..tonsil tickler??…….prostate probe….youre a sick SOB

  • Anonymous

    And did you know that the white officer was a teacher of racial sensitivity classes, and that the black officer said he agreed with everything his partner did in arresting Gates?

  • Anonymous

    Way to project.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek Bulk Vanderhuge

    The typical black person is scared of white people. 

  • Yy

    http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/data/table_43.html

    For some strange reason, the FBI thinks differently.

  • Yy

    So the strippers violently attacked the white guys?

    How is that?

  • Yy

    Does anyone on the Left remember George Bush doing something so innocuous and getting such VENOMOUS responses?

  • Anonymous

    Really….so I’m scared of you? For what would i need to be afraid of you for. You obviously live in lily white environs.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, but the thing is I know the other side will argue that the police said yada yada… so I don’t even bother to get caught up in the little he said/she said points of the argument. The point I was making was that even giving the police the benefit of the doubt and believing their story over the prof’s it was still stupid to arrest him. Let alone if his version of events is closer to the truth.

  • Anonymous

    That has no bearing on whether they, not just the arresting officer but all officers on the scene, acted foolishly in arresting the professor. Your comment doesn’t refute Pro’s point that President Obama didn’t say anything about a white officer, he was expressing his opinion that the officers on the scene acted stupidly in arresting Gates.

  • Anonymous

    Uh, you were the one who mentioned racial motives and “race deniers”.  Therefore a mixed-race cop team and a trained racial sensitivity officer became relevant.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLaLsNkaEq8 Unicon- 39% Hope – 53% Change

    Says the poster that has called conservative Blacks “props”.

    Keep it classy Joel.

  • Anonymous

    Shsssssss….now you know that little secret shouldn’t have been told……..so to think that whites would attend this all-black-racist church….please dont educate them on that anymore!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Arthur-Clark/100000610136790 Arthur Clark

    your just a lost soul full of hate and malice

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    That could be because Obama is himself rubbish. You know, just another word for trash.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    He’s turning the country into rubbish, that’s for sure.

  • Anonymous

    MartiniShark, ProObama mentioned the racial makeup of the cops to bolster his argument against NomoBeeHo, whose assertion was that President Obama is a racist because he said the white officers acted stupidly. His point was that the prez’s comments were made based off of the belief that the arrest was foolish and not the racial composition of the parties involved. Your response to him did nothing to refute that point.   
    Yes I did mention race deniers earlier. To say that because of something I said it becomes relevant for you to bring up in response to a post by ProObama is false. It’s irrelevant if not used in the proper context. For the record here is what was said: “The only thing wrong President Obama did was in scaling back his comments to appease the race deniers in this country who want to make it so that alleging a racial motive to something is worse than an actual act of racism.” I stand behind what I said. That statement has no bearing on my opinion of whether or not the police had racial motives for making the arrest. That statement is a reflection of the way that I view some peoples reaction to the events that day. To me there are many people in this country who react with more anger to anything that can be perceived as suggesting a racial motive than they would to an actual act of racism. That’s a comment on society at large, not the arresting officers that day.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Or maybe he’s just like me and is sick and tired of hearing and seeing this bullshit almost non-stop on a daily basis. “Oh Barak is black ain’t that cool and if you disagree with him on anything you’re a RAAAAA-CIST”. You know what? Fine, have it your way, I’m a racist. I’m also a voter. Now what?

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Oh so in other words, what you are saying is, the church couldn’t have been racist because it had white members, right? Therefore, those white members, by extension, couldn’t have been racist against themselves? An interesting little theory you got there. I’ll remember that the next time I hear liberal pieces of treasonous crap like you claim that Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas are Uncle Toms, self-hating blacks and race traitors, as I’m sure you would agree that the same principle would have to apply by definition.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Yeah, he acted stupidly. Oh wait, we were talking about the policemen, my bad.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    It wouldn’t matter if he was racist. If someone offered incontrovertible proof he was racist, you liberal fags would just say it must have come from his mother’s side of the family.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Uh, yeah, you forgot the part about a neighbor calling the police and reporting him breaking into the house.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    And what exactly gave him the right to make that declaration? He wasn’t there. How the hell would he have know what happened? That’s exactly what we’ve been saying for years. Obama is an arrogant narcissistic son-of-a-bitch with a god complex, and if he can’t get his way through support he’ll arbitrarily do it on his own by fiat, by executive order, or regulatory rules. This little episode we’ve been discussing was just a small preview of what he would be like, a perfect example of his dictatorial mindset and tendency. Obama is a perfect illustration of the dangers of big government. And make no mistake about it my friend, one way or another we are going to bring it down. And we will do it without firing one shot.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Speaking for myself I generally say it “Motherfucking Leftist Prick”.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    So because white people are the majority, that makes it cool for little black hoodlums to gang up on and beat up little white kids? People like you, that think like that, should honestly just be rounded up and shot down like mad dogs, to be blunt. The minute you get to the point you can’t respect the rights of children to not have to be harassed or bullied, then you’ve lost any right to any kind of human consideration.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Hopefully he or she won’t stop there, but will also give a thorough cleaning of the Justice and State Departments, and eliminate five or six Cabinet agencies all together.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Uh, because so many of us hate leftists every bit as much as we know leftists hate us, perhaps?

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Rockwell is long dead and gone, unfortunately, but maybe he could have painted a portrait of Obama standing regally in the middle of a throng of admiring mainstream journalists, all gushing and bowing with obvious adoration, and Chris Matthews shown with an erection and a cum stain at his crotch.

  • http://thepagantemple.blogspot.com/ ThePaganTemple

    Remember it? I used to dread watching the news. The man couldn’t say two words without being slammed, belittled, and was the focus of outright hatred from the left, and this was before the Iraq War was ever heard tell of. Now the Left wants to whine when their fucking piece of shit idol Obama is criticized? The hell with them, they’d better get fucking used to it.

  • Anonymous

    No hate here! Feel the Love!

  • Anonymous

    I will keep Obama because:

    - A nearly 55% increase in the market and my 401K since this administration came into office
    - Nearly 88% of troops returned home from Iraq
    - Osama Bin Laden – Dead
    - Ghadaffi – Overthrown
    - Whitey Bulger caught (that is number one and number two on the FBI lists)
    - Employment – Stable (look at international figures with this GLOBAL recession, and you will see that is actually a positive
    - Ridiculous UNCONSTITUTIONAL policies like DADT ended
    - Science used as the basis for medical research, and not Bronze Age Scripture
    - Arrests, apprehensions, and deportations signifcantly UP on the border, although the OPINION misers at Fox would have you think differently, but when one reveiws HARD DATA, the results are easily apparent
    - An American auto industry SAVED from GOP wishes to ship ALL our manufactoring overseas

    So you Fox News fans can continue to base your evaluations on opinion, rumor, and innuendo, think I will stick with the hard facts.

  • Anonymous

    Pagan take a breath and chill. He was asked his opinion and he gave it. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it dictatorial. It’s not like he said, “I think the police acted stupidly. Now I am ordering you to drop all charges and release him!” Not that other presidents haven’t pretty much done that by using pardons at the end of their term. It seems to me you should be more upset that the president, no matter who it may be, has the ability to do that at all, than this president simply giving his opinion on a matter he was asked about. This is why it’s so hard to take President Obama haters seriously. You take the man’s opinion that some people acted foolishly and spin that into a, frothing at the mouth, doom and gloom prophecy.
    BTW to answer your first question, The First Amendment gave him that right. I would figure someone so worked up about impending dictatorship and big government would be the last person to question how someone has the right to free speech.

  • Anonymous

    You don’t make the pegan’s of the world proud!

  • Anonymous

    Sorry hit the wrong button!

  • Anonymous

    What does that say about you that you want to round people up and shoot them down like mad dogs for expressing an opinion? Who would do this rounding up by the way? The “big government” you despise so much? At least the big government dictatorship you rail about isn’t hunting people down and shooting them like dogs for having an opinion.

  • Anonymous

    Lousy job my ass.  He’s doing about as good job as the motherfckers that have been there within the past 25 years.  At least those son’s of bitches didn’t have to deal with an openly hostile opposition party on a daily basis, rat bastards that they are

  • Anonymous

    So, an intellectually challenged, New England wanna be cowboy, who 1) got us into two badly planned wars, that costs billions upon billions of dollars 2) turned a surplus into a trillion plus deficit, 3) grossly expanded government &  4) made Amerika the laughing stock of the world, didn’t?

  • Anonymous

    How about redneck hillbilly?

  • Anonymous

    Disagree with the dude, that’s your fucking right.  But when you bring his ethnicity and that of his wife into it, then its fcking racist.  I mean he’s doing a better job than that stupid motherfcker Bush.

  • Anonymous

    What about Rev. Wright’s church is racist that say a Rod Parsley or a John Hagee isn’t?  I mean when you look at what Rev. Wright talked about, did it or did it not happen?  He’s just preaching to his choir, like a lot of the white southern preachers did during 60′s, who used to bible to justify Jim Crow, slavery, and against interracial marriage, just to name a few

  • Anonymous

    This is response to Pagan Temple:  Speaking as someone who of partial “Black” ancestry, we fucking hate their guts because they spend their time on the national stage trying to curry the favor of you people.  They bump their gums with their individual stories about what they’ve overcome and you people think tha we all grew up that way.  They monkey shine for you, by talking about what’s wrong with the “Black” community, never, ever rendering a suggestion on how to make things better.  If “Blacks” were still slaves, bitches like Uncle Clarence, the Cream of Wheat man, Angela McGowan, Allen West et al. would be the slaves that would tell the master what the rest of us were planning so that they might be able to get a little bit of meat on their fat back or a slightly better pair of shoes. Quislings all of them

  • Anonymous

    As a former cop, police do act stupidly.  I mean if you go over print media on a daily basis, you will find examples.  Tasing a 75 year old lady, taking pictures with hookers, with a back drop of booze (L.A MTA cops in the late 90′s) raiding the wrong house, over pursuing on chases that causes the person that they’re chasing to take unnessecary risks, stealing evidence, writing false reports, and the list goes on and on.  Personally, I think 44 commented on that because he and the dude who got arrested are good friends.  I wouldn’t say that he’s no more racist than Warren G. Harding, that rat bastard gave that racist move “Birth Of A Nation” a glowing review, stating that the movie was true in all of its aspects.

  • Anonymous

    As a former cop, police do act stupidly.  I mean if you go over print media on a daily basis, you will find examples.  Tasing a 75 year old lady, taking pictures with hookers, with a back drop of booze (L.A MTA cops in the late 90′s) raiding the wrong house, over pursuing on chases that causes the person that they’re chasing to take unnessecary risks, stealing evidence, writing false reports, and the list goes on and on.  Personally, I think 44 commented on that because he and the dude who got arrested are good friends.  I wouldn’t say that he’s no more racist than Warren G. Harding, that rat bastard gave that racist move “Birth Of A Nation” a glowing review, stating that the movie was true in all of its aspects.

  • Anonymous

    Which is funny in itself that dude doesn’t know who the hell he lives next to.

  • Anonymous

    You’re a dumb ass.  When has he ever mentioned reparations?  Hell, most “Black” politicians don’t even bring that up anymore.  That is a idea that’s on the fringe of our community. Okay, smart motherfucker, post your evidence or shut the fuck up and let the rational people discuss the current events

  • Anonymous

    That’s cool. Usually, when I refered to Bush, it was that “Stupid ass right wing, King Midas in reverse, son of a bitch”

  • Anonymous

    Oh, so it was cool when “Black” kids needed from you people (I mean that how you’re taking it)?

  • Anonymous

    Picture me rubbing my thumb and index finger together.  That sound you hear it the worlds smallest fucking violin.  If I had a quarter, I’d give it to you so that you could call someone who gives a goddamn

  • Anonymous

    Little “Black” hoodlums my ass.  You people give it as good as you get it.  Its just that when you do it, it doesn’t get any air time because those types of stories aren’t sexy.  That rat bastard, down in Texas, who shot that “Black” code enforcer got littl play time, and back in the day, when a mob of you Harvey Milktoast motherfuckers beat up those “Black” teenagers when they were crossing through Crown Heights, got minimal air time to.  Looking at the rest of your rant, its pur hypocritical bullshit

  • Anonymous

    I personally hope that its Perry.  So when he continues the work that Bush started, that being fucking up Amerika, I’ll be laughing my ass off watching you bitches line up for your minimum wage job

  • caconservative

    Don’t you mean, DESERVING, of noxious responses?

  • BLUEBUNNY

    “The minute you get to the point you can’t respect the rights of children
    to not have to be harassed or bullied, then you’ve lost any right to
    any kind of human consideration.”                                                                                                                                                                                                             WHAT DO YOU SAY ABOUT “GAY” CHILDREN BEING DRIVEN TO SUICIDE FROM BULLIES!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TNIIHAE5G3O5HMBOZFAZZWK3YY aa

    Why Obama Can’t Lead:

    For 22 years he attended the church services led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright. 
    African-Americans who attended his and other black liberation theology
    church services in Chicago are taught that their options are limited by
    the “other,” and this other is white society.

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/why_obama_cant_lead.html

  • Anonymous

    Interesting…’liberal pieces of treasonous crap like you claim that Herman Cain and Clarence Thomas are Uncle Toms, self-hating blacks and race traitors’…cant speak for any other party, but ummm, ‘They are not Traitors, nor Uncle-Toms’ in my book…tho’ I do believe that they are the true definition of ‘hypocracy’ like most! Now, next time, please try not to force your ass-umption of what I think, on me…im not as fundamentally tied in as you!

  • ProfessorO

    I was wishing there could be another painting in the White House next to the Rockwell. It would be a picture of my Down’s Syndrome nephew being beat up by a group of Black youths. The family was one of the last white families left in the neighborhood. Happened about the same time as the incident in the painting. Never reported anywhere. The police told the family to just move out of the neighborhood…..

  • http://twitter.com/grimcity Neal Boyd

     Edgy!!!1!1!!

  • Yy

    Hey, I feel sorry for your pain.

    But do you think whites have ever done anything to blacks?

  • Anonymous

    Obama lives on Racism.  Before he came on the scene, I don’t remember the last time there was a problem with Race, only from the welfare bums and those who live off Racism, like J. Jackson and A. Sharpton, kept it alive.  But Obama wants Racism intensified, he thrives off of it.  The Half Honkey, All Jackass Son of a Whore is the biggest Racist around.  I pray the burns in Hell!

  • Anonymous

    …at least on the surface.

  • Anonymous

    You’re right, it is a fringe concern, but people like the guy you responded to can’t admit that- it would mess up the narrative.

  • RBWinnie

    His speech is a bunch of bull.  He’s avoiding the race question.  He is only interested in campaigning.  Leave it to Obnama to put the racists picture up in the Whitehouse which has nothing to do with the history of the country.   How about all the other races what have taken their place and worked their way and not made an issue of it.  Obama was not even raised in this country and knows nothing of it’s history.   Put the picture where it belongs.

  • Anonymous

    My God only in this Tea Party era could a President be questioned for hanging a Norman Rockwell picture. The picture is iconic and has special meaning to those of us who lived through that era. Little girls in pig tails being guarded by Federal agents simply to go to school. Not too long after that was painted four little girls were slaughtered by a terrorist bomb in a church basement. To forget these things is to forget our history.

  • Anonymous

    If you’re a racist you are being eaten from the inside, you will never know peace, too bad.

  • http://smallthoughtsfromasmallmind.wordpress.com/ Small Thoughts

    The choice of that picture shows Obama is very racially aware. People who are racially aware are racists to a certain degree. They may not be KKK or NAACP members, but they might be on their way.

  • http://spacegod.tumblr.com/ spacegod

    Amazing, heartbreaking painting.

    Idiotic brain-dead comments.
    You rightwing idiots are the problem we all live with.

  • Nafisa

    how do you mean his white mother doesn’t count?
    a woman who CARRIED him 9 months AND RAISED HIS BLACK ASS FOR 21 YEARS can never be put aside heck everything he is comes FROM HER AND HER FAMILY!!!! and for the record he grew up in white neighborhoods and not in a black one hos mother wasn’t dissowned or something. LIVE WITH IT!!!

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