I think you’re being suspected of using racist terminology.
He also claimed that, as titular head, he could have forced Powell out of the Republican party if he so wanted.
Which made me think that Limbaugh just doesn’t know what the word “titular” means.
Is there a way to call the guy a house servant without using racist terminology? 
But yes. At the risk of dragging the thread off-topic, this “let’s mock the GOP by tossing racist terms at Michael Steele” is unfunny, and rather than highlighting racism in the GOP it makes the posters look racist. I don’t think they actually are, but it’s dumb.
My point was that the GOP put Steele in that role to show the country a black face in the party hierarchy, and is now going about emasculating him. And they will either do that, or oust him altogether.
I think the choices are akin to whipping him into a more servile attitude, or hanging him, given how race is integral to the whole dynamic betrween him and the party.
By ‘cool’ I presume you’re asking why it should be considered acceptable. I guess I did straddle the fence of propriety a bit with my ‘massah’ statement, and not to excuse it, but as an African American I am absolutely disgusted by people like Michael Steele who seemingly go out of their way to not only justify, but promulgate the bigoted and racist acts and agenda of the GOP platform.
Every time Steele opens his mouth it becomes increasingly evident that he’s either a self-hating black man or, to be charitable, too stupid to realize he’s suffering from Stockholm syndrome. Either way the man’s sick and needs to be shocked back into reality. So yeah, I want Michael Steele to lose his chairmanship and any other benefits currently accruing to him as a direct result of his abberative existance in the party of hate, and to, I’m hopeful, one day understand that in 2009 it’s unacceptable, not to mention ultimately self distructive, to be anyone’s house nigger.
A whiny-ass titular baby.
And this is why I call him Poochie. It fits and is completely not racist.
He’s in a No Win situation. Hist best option would be to simply walk out.
Seeya, wouldn’t wanna be ya.
He was crazy to take that job, to begin with.
I don’t follow everything Steele says or does (I only hear about it when he embarrasses himself, although that’s happening a lot), but I don’t see any evidence he’s accepted racism or promoting it. There was a lot of race baiting in the last election, it’s true. And I know what the history is. I don’t think you can conclude from that that he is justifying or promoting bigotry.
Same here.
If the GOP wasn’t trying to put on a more accepting face for minorities I think Steele would probably be gone already. He does not have much support from the people working under him, either personally or in terms of his plans for the party. So he’s inviting moderates to come in but promising they’ll be ignored, or inviting the party to look forward to Ronald Reagan.
I like this, but I feel they should Rastafy him by, oh, ten percent.
Maybe he just thinks that technically Palin’s the titular head of the Republican Party, since hers are nicer than his, though his are slightly larger.
Michael Steele is that one black guy on the university recruitment brochure that was photoshopped in to represent diversity.
Hehe. That was famously (or infamously) done by my alma mater, UW Madison, several years ago.
I agree. Saying Steele is incompetent is legitimate political discourse. Disagreeing with his views is the same. Even saying that he was placed in his position because of his race is a valid topic open to debate. But making racist attacks against Steele is still making racist attacks and is as wrong as it would be anywhere else.
Correct, Little Nemo. I have no problem calling Steele as I see him: a man chosen more for the demographic appeal of his skin color than for his competence or ideological purity. Racist terms like “house servant” are not necessary to convey this impression, and are probably inaccurate anyway; Steele doesn’t seem subservient to the interests of his party puppeteers. That, indeed, is the problem.
The funny part, to me, is that he’s determined to present the face of the Republican Party as cool, as hip, as happening, as loose (in a very stiff sorta white-guy’s impression of what cool-hip-happening-loose might be) and they’re all looking at his lame attempts to act all fly, like “WHAHH?” Especially funny when he tries to engage Obama (whose public attitude towards Steele is best expressed by his brushing-a-fly-off-his-shirt gesture) in a lame hip-hop routine between two bruthas.
He’s whiter than Greg Proops.
The mental imagery inspired by these two lines makes me queasy.
As I said, Poochie.