User-Submitted Racist Photos Posted On Official GOP Facebook

by Joe Coscarelli | 5:18 pm, October 26th, 2009

The new concerted effort by the Republican party to move online and skew younger keeps backfiring. First, the launch of GOP.com was met with intense mockery and meme-making, then the Republican National Committee’s Facebook page left racist and hateful images — including photos of President Obama eating fried chicken along with a bigoted caption and others mocking John Kerry and Mother Theresa – in the fan photos section for nearly a week without moderation.

The interactive part of the page, removed as of 1:40pmET on Monday, was meant for user-submitted visual content, but as anyone versed in the internet knows, without a careful supervision the trolls come out quickly. Now, the GOP is learning the hard way just how careful of an eye is necessary after multiple offensive images sat untouched since October 20th. Raw Story is reporting:

Among them was a picture of President Barack Obama eating fried chicken, subtitled with a call to

prohibit interracial marriage. The photo’s caption read: “Miscegenation is a CRIME against American Values. Repeal Loving v. Virginia.”

Miscegenation refers to the “marriage or cohabitation between a man and woman of different races.”

Loving v. Virginia was a landmark Supreme Court case that, in 1967, struck down all of the US’s laws against interracial marriage.

A comment under one photo read: “Racism is necessary in our capitalistic system. To subject ourselves to the the socialist ideal of equality will surelydestroy the American way of life. As a black man, racism has served as a great inspiration for me to work harder. God bless the Republican Party and God bless America.”

A first round of removals this morning took down most of the inappropriate photos and offensive comments, but left up a few crude Photoshopped images including one text graphic that read “OMG, Just Shut Up Obama.” Now, the entire fan photos section has been deleted, but there’s another lesson in this for the GOP: online, nothing disappears. Both Animal New York and Raw Story snagged a few of the more line-crossing images, which can be seen below.

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6 comments

TfT says:

October 26, 2009 at 5:50 pm

Ah yes, those trolls post away like gangbusters. I mean it’s not like Olbermann yelling into the TV Screen:

SHUT THE HELL UP MR. PRESIDENT.

Really now.

I recall when HuffPo posted a picture of Joe Lieberman in black face.

Did you get a screen grab of that too?

CaptainAmerica says:

October 26, 2009 at 11:04 pm

What do you want to bet it was DAILY KO’s people doing that.

m says:

October 27, 2009 at 7:12 am

>What do you want to bet it was DAILY KO’s people doing that.

Ahh yes…everything is a liberal conspiracy and keep denying that your side has a ton of racist rednecks.

Ben Linus says:

October 27, 2009 at 2:09 pm

@m
Actually, your side has plenty of racists too. I live in an area full of Democrats, and most of them had no intention of voting for a black man. Do you remember during the election when the MSM finally admitted that there are racists on both sides? I remember Chris Matthews sounding pretty worried about it.

If you were an honest person, m, you would admit that your side has plenty of racists, too.
Instead you decide to live in a dream world, where you think the left is a bastion of tolerance, acceptance, and civility. Unrealistic.
Pathetic.

dmbream says:

October 29, 2009 at 5:00 pm

Google Robert Byrd KKK.

krow10 says:

November 20, 2009 at 8:07 pm

Exactly, Ben. Just as there are gay Democrats and gay Republicans. And pro-choice Democrats and pro-choice Republicans. Heck, the two parties are identical.

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