{"id":2458,"date":"2012-10-03T07:47:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2012-10-03T07:47:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T07:47:24","slug":"dont-poke-fun-at-a-black-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=2458","title":{"rendered":"Don’t poke fun at a black man!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Pot Smokers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Credit R. Wallace \u201cWally\u201d Hudson, chairman of the Mecklenburg County (Va.) Republican Committee, with demonstrating how new social media platforms can broadcast ancient hates.<\/p>\n

The Post reported this week<\/a>\u00a0that the county GOP\u2019s Facebook page had displayed for months photos portraying President Obama as a witch doctor, a caveman and a drug dealer.<\/p>\n

Virginia\u2019s Republican Party chairman,\u00a0Pat Mullins<\/a>, ordered the offensive photos be taken down. But Hudson, who acknowledged posting most of the images, stood his ground, saying he didn\u2019t see what all the fuss was about. \u201cWe know our regular readers, who are good conservatives,\u201d he told The Post on Tuesday. \u201cThey\u2019re gonna get a kick out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sadly, the Mecklenburg GOP\u2019s disgusting images\u2014which have since been removed<\/a>\u2014are not an isolated case of ugliness.<\/p>\n

Baylor University assistant professor\u00a0Mia Moody<\/a>\u00a0did a\u00a0study of social media stereotyping<\/a>\u00a0of Barack and Michelle Obama; her findings appeared in the journal New Media & Culture<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Moody researched hundreds of Facebook groups and pages. She found numerous examples of the president and the first lady being targeted with racist and sexist rhetoric that, not surprisingly, also indirectly spread hatred toward women and blacks.<\/p>\n

Moody found that some Facebook pages build on ideas that black people are different from members of the dominant group. Several photos showing Michelle Obama dancing drew comments about her \u201calways jigging.\u201d<\/p>\n

One group called \u201cObama Sucks\u201d primarily served as an outlet to post fake photos of the president. One picture featured him wearing a bandanna and gold teeth. The caption: \u201cOBAMA Going For The African American Vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Moody found that many Facebook hate pages also focused on cultural narratives. Some photos depict Obama or his family as animals, particularly apes. One picture showed male and female apes holding an infant ape with Obama\u2019s face superimposed on it.<\/p>\n

Tasteless. Disrespectful. – Colbert King, Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Credit R. Wallace \u201cWally\u201d Hudson, chairman of the Mecklenburg County (Va.) Republican Committee, with demonstrating how new social media platforms can broadcast ancient hates. The Post reported this week\u00a0that the county GOP\u2019s Facebook page had displayed for months photos portraying President Obama as a witch doctor, a caveman and a drug dealer. Virginia\u2019s Republican Party … Continue reading “Don’t poke fun at a black man!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1556,250,90,12,65,157,745],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-american-politics","tag-black","tag-obama","tag-presidential-election","tag-race","tag-racism","tag-usa"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/obama-bush-clinton-marijuana-smokers.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2465,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}