Sigmund Freud
I guess Dean Grose, the mayor of Los Alamitos, California felt the same way when he sent an email about a watermelon patch at the White House. He must have not known that elected officials aren't supposed to do that.
How many thousands of these jokes going around these days in text messages and emails? There were just as many when Bush was president, but these were because of his incompetence. Seems like a big difference this time. These jokes are not about incompetence, they refer to a brutal history and ideology that apparently many people still believe in. What a shame.
Just in case you hadn't heard about Freud's theory about jokes. He thought that people often used jokes to say what they were really thinking - a nice way to conceal an insult.
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See dreamacttexas post: Race and the U.S.: New Attorney General Tells It Like It Is, February 26, 2009
Top Officials Expand The Dialogue on Race
Month's Celebrations Evoke a Mix of Views
By Krissah Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 28, 2009; Page A01
When the country's racial chasms seemed to threaten President Obama's election, his team had to tread carefully. A month into his administration, the tone has changed. Top officials are engaging the subject of race more freely, with a boldness and confidence they once shunned.
With the federal government's annual African American History Month celebrations as a backdrop, the attorney general, the first lady and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency spoke more frankly about race recently than any of Obama's surrogates did during the hard-fought campaign. more
By BRENT STAPLES
Published: February 27, 2009
Hitler found quite a bit to admire about this country during its apartheid period. Writing in the early 1930s, he attributed white domination of North America to the fact that the “Germanic” peoples here had resisted intermarriage with — and held themselves apart from — “inferior” peoples, including the Negroes, whom he described as “half-apes.”
He was not alone in these sentiments. The effort to dehumanize black people by characterizing them as apes is central to our national history. Thomas Jefferson made the connection in his notorious book “Notes on the State of Virginia,” in which he asserted fantastically that male orangutans were sexually drawn to Negro women. more
Published: February 27, 2009
Hitler found quite a bit to admire about this country during its apartheid period. Writing in the early 1930s, he attributed white domination of North America to the fact that the “Germanic” peoples here had resisted intermarriage with — and held themselves apart from — “inferior” peoples, including the Negroes, whom he described as “half-apes.”
He was not alone in these sentiments. The effort to dehumanize black people by characterizing them as apes is central to our national history. Thomas Jefferson made the connection in his notorious book “Notes on the State of Virginia,” in which he asserted fantastically that male orangutans were sexually drawn to Negro women. more
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Month's Celebrations Evoke a Mix of Views
By Krissah Thompson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, February 28, 2009; Page A01
When the country's racial chasms seemed to threaten President Obama's election, his team had to tread carefully. A month into his administration, the tone has changed. Top officials are engaging the subject of race more freely, with a boldness and confidence they once shunned.
With the federal government's annual African American History Month celebrations as a backdrop, the attorney general, the first lady and the head of the Environmental Protection Agency spoke more frankly about race recently than any of Obama's surrogates did during the hard-fought campaign. more
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