Blogger Tara Servatius lost her job at the John Locke Foundation for this photoshopped image of Barack Obama intended to satirize his opposition to a North Carolina gay marriage ban.
Uncertain how Obama hopes to fit into outfits like this after eating a bucket of fried chicken.
Her explanation:
“I was searching for a picture of the president in drag to illustrate his southern political strategy of courting young voters, 70 percent of whom support gay marriage.”
It’s unclear whether her point is that gays or young people or both like to dress like Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
“It was one of the first photos to come up on Google Images. Regrettably, I didn’t think about the racial implications of the picture when I posted it. I simply don’t think in those terms. Unfortunately some people do.
To me, fried chicken is simply a southern cuisine.”
If Ms. Servatius cracked open a book once in a while, the history of racially charged images in this country wouldn’t be such a shock to her. She might also spare us the insult of applying the phrase “Southern strategy,” which Republicans used to woo racist Southerners from the Democratic party in the late 1960s, to a black president opposing discriminatory legislation.
Asserting a Pollyannaish world view is precious and all but it might result in the sort of cluelessness that ends up with someone working at the John Locke Foundation in the first place.
Also, KFC is theoretically Southern but practically speaking not cuisine.
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Blogger Tara Servatius lost her job at the John Locke Foundation for this photoshopped image of Barack Obama intended to satirize his opposition to a North Carolina gay marriage ban.
Uncertain how Obama hopes to fit into outfits like this after eating a bucket of fried chicken.
Her explanation:
“I was searching for a picture of the president in drag to illustrate his southern political strategy of courting young voters, 70 percent of whom support gay marriage.”
It’s unclear whether her point is that gays or young people or both like to dress like Dr. Frank-N-Furter.
“It was one of the first photos to come up on Google Images. Regrettably, I didn’t think about the racial implications of the picture when I posted it. I simply don’t think in those terms. Unfortunately some people do.
To me, fried chicken is simply a southern cuisine.”
If Ms. Servatius cracked open a book once in a while, the history of racially charged images in this country wouldn’t be such a shock to her. She might also spare us the insult of applying the phrase “Southern strategy,” which Republicans used to woo racist Southerners from the Democratic party in the late 1960s, to a black president opposing discriminatory legislation.
Asserting a Pollyannaish world view is precious and all but it might result in the sort of cluelessness that ends up with someone working at the John Locke Foundation in the first place.
Also, KFC is theoretically Southern but practically speaking not cuisine.
Posted by Stephen Robinson on March 22, 2012 in Political Theatre, Social Commentary
Tags: Barack Obama, John Locke Foundation, Tara Servatius