I had a three-week vacation all lined up in Pemberton Township, but you can FORGET THAT SHIT NOW! I’m going to Jamaica or Io instead.

And the evidence is still on the web, even without screenshots. Blue Jersey provided this link to google cache, and when you scroll down to the last image, right-click and choose “Properties,” it says the filename of the delete image: “Obama_OJ.jpg”

Sick fucks.

You’re so right.
As a born-and-raised Southerner currently living in the North, I often find myself correcting misapprehensions about the racist South.  Or rather, editing them:  there is most decidedly racism endemic to Southern institutions and there are populations of Southern racists, but not necessarily more or worse than in the North.  I worry that the much-beloved stereotype of the racist redneck becomes a way (a) to dismiss the vote of people from that region, as was the case when Sen. Clinton was winning over Southern states, and (b) to project America’s uglier qualities onto this regional Other, so it’s like Them There are the backwards ones and Us Here are rightminded ones.
That’s just too simple, and not critical enough about the way racism works all over the country.

So…America is a white woman and Obama thinks we aer cheating on him? And Obama is a movie star with an expensive house and a temper problem? What?

Seriously, this makes no sense except as a desperate way to link OJ and Obama. Can someone call in the Analogy Police?

Or rather, editing them:  there is most decidedly racism endemic to Southern institutions and there are populations of Southern racists, but not necessarily more or worse than in the North.

My suspicion is that in the South you’re more likely to have open racists in positions of power in the local community.  We have plenty of racist politicians here in California on both the local and the state level, but they have to carefully code what they say to slip it past people.  They can’t just announce to a gym full of kids, “See this pen in my hand?  I can end your lives with the stroke of a pen.”

The problem in the South is that there are more openly racist power structures still in place, not that there are more racists numerically.

This was an improvement over their original slogan “Obama wants to know where all the white women at.”

So really, we should be applauding them for their restraint.

“there is most decidedly racism endemic to Southern institutions and there are populations of Southern racists,”

In all honesty I have never met someone who is black or brown or what have you that was afraid of staying in small towns in the North while in the South it is a common sentiment that a non white would likely be lynched. This was from Southern blacks btw. There are lots of small towns in the South that even a white person from a city would avoid because a lot of the sterotype about racist Southerners has a factual grounding.

Also talking to many foreign travelers who have visited American South the typical comment that while people were friendly in voice they were still looking like they were offended or disgusted at the traveler for having a non white skin tone. 

Obama is certaintly giving the closet racists and open racists a huge stiffy. Lets hope the Secret Service hasn’t been infiltrated otherwise if Obama does get elected he won’t last the year.

Incertus beat me to it, but ditto on the Sundown Towns book. Only my copy is by James Loewen, but same concept. And, yeah, they are all over the country, with a lot lot LOT in the North.

“Does this mean that Air Force One is going to be turned into a white Ford Bronco?”

Or maybe a big-ass Lexus with some sweet rims and massive sound!

There’s plenty of racism in the North…it’s just not as blatant.  I lived in the Ypsilanti/Ann Arbor area (just about as blue/liberal a place as you can get - at least on the A-squared side) while I went to college and for a few years after. That was where I learned about being pulled over due to “driving while black” when I was in a car with a friend of mine from school.  I’m still not sure how I managed to avoid coming face-to-face with much racism prior to this, having grown up in Pontiac - maybe because it was a much more urban, city situation? I had friends of all backgrounds growing up, so there was plenty of opportunity for me to see it happening, but it just didn’t seem to be a common occurrence (barring one or two fights at the high school between admitted “rednecks” and people of color).

When I moved to FL, it was a serious culture shock to me…I was never naive enough to think that racism didn’t exist (I saw plenty of subtle racism after that first “DWB” incident), but I was not prepared for seeing people be so outwardly racist (and apparently proud of it).  I literally have had to tell people I WORK WITH that I am offended by their comments…one co-worker used to “hang out” with our group of girls after work sometimes, and I finally had to tell everyone else that I could no longer be a part of the group due to her (she was blatantly racist against pretty much anyone of color).

Yeah, I dunno how you managed to miss racism in Pontiac either - but it might be because so many of the racists fled town when school busing started. They moved to Waterford/White Lake, where I grew up.

Remember: Southern MI, and Detroit/Flint/Pontiac in particular, had a pretty big population of first and second-generation immigrants from the South. True of my family on both sides, though we were from the other side of the state originally.