# Put the white back in the White House **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 13, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587 "2012-10-13T02:23:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/1 "2012-10-13T02:23:22Z")
I’m pitting the asshole in the picture at the top of this link. He’s wearing a Romney/Ryan t-shirt that says “Put the white back in the White House”. > **["Put the White back in the White House"](https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/10/12/1143940/--Put-the-White-back-in-the-White-House)** > > LANCASTER, OH - OCTOBER 12: A supporter of Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Republican vice presidential candidate U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) waits for a ... I’m certain it’s not an official t-shirt, and I _hope_ that they didn’t allow him into the rally. ---
**Author:** ![burningchr0me](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecc23a/32.png) [@burningchr0me](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burningchr0me)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/2 "2012-10-13T02:42:54Z")
Wonder if it could be a plant? There were anti-Sarah Palin shirts that said the same thing: [http://www.zazzle.com/antipalin/gifts?cg=196681417743621968](http://www.zazzle.com/antipalin/gifts?cg=196681417743621968) ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/3 "2012-10-13T03:25:52Z")
> [@burningchr0me](#): > > Wonder if it could be a plant? No, then the shirt would have said “put the green back in the green room!” and the wearer would have been trying to crash the backstage waiting area. No, wait, I think that might be frogs. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/4 "2012-10-13T04:26:43Z")
> [@burningchr0me](#): > > Wonder if it could be a plant? There were anti-Sarah Palin shirts that said the same thing: > [http://www.zazzle.com/antipalin/gifts?cg=196681417743621968](http://www.zazzle.com/antipalin/gifts?cg=196681417743621968) That seems like a stretch. I can’t imagine anyone who doesn’t believe what that shirt says wanting to be seen in such a shirt and if they did, to what end? We all know that there are white racists in this country, and we all know that they’re not going to vote for Obama. We don’t need to see such a t-shirt to realize that. And those anti-Palin shirts were very different. The didn’t depict it as the sentiment of the wearer. They depicted it as being said by Palin. ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/5 "2012-10-13T05:10:35Z")
What else would you expect from followers of a candidate like Mitt Romney who intentionally stokes the racist fires with ads that not only lie about the black president’s policy on Welfare waivers, but gins up racist hatred and resentment using an ad that tells white people (by _only_ depicting white people as the “workers”) that the black president wants to hand out checks to lazy people (read, other black people). [Racist Yard Display Of An Empty Chair, Noose, Watermelons and ‘Go Back To Kenya’ Sign](http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/10/09/racist-yard-display/). This won’t be the last racist filth we see this election, short as the remaining time may be. ---
**Author:** ![Nazarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nazarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nazarene)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/6 "2012-10-13T05:15:47Z")
[Check out this hilarious joke being passed around on Twitter](http://despicabletweets.tumblr.com/post/33284591614/oh-so-i-guess-its-the-white-house-for-a) I like how so many of them say, “not to be racist, but…” like that somehow stops it from being racist. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/7 "2012-10-13T08:11:01Z")
Anything that starts out with “Not to be racist, but” or “I’m not a racist, but” is invariably followed by a racist statement. The “but” negates the “I’m not a racist”. ---
**Author:** ![camille](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@camille](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/camille)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/8 "2012-10-13T08:47:28Z")
Randy Newman has a song out spoofing this mindset: [“I’m Dreaming (of a White President)”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvLeQbwuKys) ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/9 "2012-10-13T12:30:36Z")
Not to be racist but we really need to put some white back into and onto the White House. Have you seen the condition of the paint on that thing lately? I heard some of Hugo Chavez’s landscaping crew put in a bid on the job. ---
**Author:** ![RUserious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@RUserious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RUserious)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/10 "2012-10-13T12:59:41Z")
Get it together people…this is not a R/R T-shirt… This is some bonehead applying a sticker to his own T-shirt…and it’s a sleeveless T-shirt (just what R & R would have ordered right?:smack:) This is complete delusional nonsense. This is one clown and he DOES NOT represent the tides of Romney/Ryan supporters…Grow up already! ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/11 "2012-10-13T14:25:20Z")
Who, in this thread, has suggested that this was an official Romney/Ryan T-shirt? Nobody. Got a real hair trigger on that temper, buddy. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/12 "2012-10-13T14:41:18Z")
Yeah. It’s just one individual person. It’s not like there are [lots](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N6nwNjjHLSM/UHb2ZfwqPcI/AAAAAAAAcIM/M57vSXpGzM0/s1600/tumblr_mbl66clQ261reec5so2_500.png) of people repeating this out there. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/13 "2012-10-13T15:09:40Z")
That all offends, angers, and saddens me, all at once. I don’t quite know how to handle that level of racism and deliberate ignorance. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/14 "2012-10-13T15:19:35Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#): > > Who, in this thread, has suggested that this was an official Romney/Ryan T-shirt? Nobody. Got a real hair trigger on that temper, buddy. Second line of the OP. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/15 "2012-10-13T15:24:42Z")
> [@RUserious](#): > > Get it together people..this is not a R/R T-shirt… This is some bonehead applying a sticker to his own T-shirt…and it’s a sleeveless T-shirt (just what R & R would have ordered right?:smack:) This is complete delusional nonsense. This is one clown and he DOES NOT represent the tides of Romney/Ryan supporters..Grow up already! I don’t think it is a sleeveless T-shirt. Other people are just blocking the view of his arms. (I, on the other hand, believe in the right to bare arms. Hardy-har-har.) ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/16 "2012-10-13T15:25:04Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > Second line of the OP. Try again. From the OP: > [@davidm](#): > > **I’m certain it’s not an official t-shirt** , and I _hope_ that they didn’t allow him into the rally. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/17 "2012-10-13T15:31:22Z")
> [@Enginerd](#): > > Try again. From the OP: Oops you’re right. Of course it’s bad to vote for or against someone just because of their skin color. Continue with your RO. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/18 "2012-10-13T15:33:35Z")
> [@RUserious](#): > > Get it together people..this is not a R/R T-shirt… This is some bonehead applying a sticker to his own T-shirt…and it’s a sleeveless T-shirt (just what R & R would have ordered right?:smack:) This is complete delusional nonsense. This is one clown and he DOES NOT represent the tides of Romney/Ryan supporters..Grow up already! You must have replied to the wrong thread. My OP in _this_ thread said quite clearly “I’m certain it’s not an official t-shirt”. Did you see that? Funny how two new people seem to have signed up just to reply to this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/19 "2012-10-13T15:35:03Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > You must have replied to the wrong thread. My OP in _this_ thread said quite clearly “I’m certain it’s not an official t-shirt”. Did you see that? > > Funny how two new people seem to have signed up just to reply to this thread. I did not! ---
**Author:** ![Nazarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@Nazarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nazarene)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2012, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587/20 "2012-10-13T15:37:59Z")
I don’t think that was the OP’s complaint. I got the impression he was disturbed by the casual indifference of the rest of the crowd to the shirt than to the shirt itself. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/put-the-white-back-in-the-white-house/637587.md?page=2)