Comments on: I Ain’t In So Cal No More

By: Brad Metzger

Brad Metzger — Sat, 17 May 2008 21:29:47 +0000

“Clearly it’s okay for most people to say George W Bush looks like a Monkey. So it also should be okay to say that Obama looks like a monkey, right? Wait, you think it’s racist? Oh, shucks!

I don’t understand people. Get over your “that’s racist” junk already. Political correctness is a load of bunk, and everyone knows that.”

qft, holmes. qft.

By: Nicholas

Nicholas — Fri, 16 May 2008 06:17:25 +0000

Clearly it’s okay for most people to say George W Bush looks like a Monkey. So it also should be okay to say that Obama looks like a monkey, right? Wait, you think it’s racist? Oh, shucks!

I don’t understand people. Get over your “that’s racist” junk already. Political correctness is a load of bunk, and everyone knows that.

By: sharon

sharon — Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:36 +0000

Dear Joanna – I think everyone is upset because the t-shirt man is comparing BO to a monkey being as he is 1/2 black and they might find it hard to believe that the t-shirt man or someone who may chuckle at that t-shirt can only be full of racist hate. haven’t you ever watched cable TV before – you know it’s all about racism & $$$.

Isn’t it obvious that one is a racist when one can’t possibly understand why a 47yr one term Senator would be qualified to be the Prez of the USA. I mean other than he’s very sexy, gives a good speech and says he’s going to CHANGE things. I can understand why his wife MO has never but one time been happy in this damn country – can’t YOU. It’s more about the $$ for the t-shirt man than anything else and so are the other vile “funny” things that we are teaching our children when we speak evil of the current admin -REGARDLESS of our political views.

By: Joanna Kurtz

Joanna Kurtz — Thu, 15 May 2008 20:28:51 +0000

I don’t get it. Even after reading the comments I still don’t get the racist thing…is it because the monkey is brown? What’s wrong with monkeys? This makes no sense to me.

By: Chris Green

Chris Green — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:41:05 +0000

I love how JUST ONE redneck, chester-molester-looking, hillbilly, moonshine-drankin, good ol’ boy keeps the “south is racist” stereotype going.

He’s received lots of press, too. What a complete tard.

By: Crystal Renaud

Crystal Renaud — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:40:08 +0000

nuh-uh.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 15 May 2008 16:06:08 +0000

I am white. It is ridiculous to say that white people suffer from racism in the same way black people have and, maybe not as much, but still do. I know we have come a long way, but come on. No comparison. I don’t like anyone being mean to anyone. These are ways we can identfy with the sufferings of Christ. We must forgive evil, because they know not what they do. Lord help us.

By: Bigtoeballew

Bigtoeballew — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:56:00 +0000

There’s a simple answer to the question of why he’s still selling the shirts. Money! It’s simply business to him, yet we are arguing ethics. We are placing ethics over profit. He is putting profit over ethics. You can’t force a moral standard on someone. However you can affect their reason for selling the shirt Profit! Andy’s right, going somewhere else!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:36:09 +0000

Yeah the owner of the bar claims he didnt mean it that way but have you ever driven past his bar and read the stuff he puts on the sign? If you have, the shirt should not come as a surprise.

And it’s not just a Southern thing. I could show you intolerant idiots like this in LA, Boston, and the rest of the country.

Carlos, and everyone else in the area, drive past the guy’s restaurant and go to the fine places around the square in Marietta. MacCrackens is a great Irish bar with a great beer selection served by heavily tattooed staff.Or take the family to Winan’s for coffee or tea and some homemade chocolates. Or dine at the pizza place or Shillings or any of the other great restaurants.

By: natalie

natalie — Thu, 15 May 2008 15:32:47 +0000

Let’s say for argument sake that the bar owner didn’t understand the message he was portraying when he created the t-shirts (I think he did, but let’s just say…) Once he learned of its offensive nature, he (if he was a good and decent person), should have immediately felt a gut retching guilt that made him destroy every one of the t-shirts he made, make a public apology, track down all of the t-shirts he did sell, make major amends somehow in his community towards minorities in general. You know one day…the minorities are no longer going to be the minorities…