You can see it here
http://www.amazon.com/Obama-Bottle-Opener/dp/B00T6NVORK
Someone gave it to me as a gift. It wasn’t intended as a racist symbol, the person who gave it to me is a big Obama supporter. I just wonder if it would be appropriate for, say, a group of coworkers or other mixed group.
Racist? Not to me. But its not my type of thing either. The same basic premise with George W wouldn’t appeal to me either.
It certainly gives off a minstrelsy vibe.
Obamist.
Not racist. Poor taste, yes, but not racist.
Obama supporter here.
No.
No. Just dumb. And they haven’t singled out Obama for cartoonization, by the way. You can get the Clinton version too.
I don’t think it’s racist, but I’m sure there’s more than a few people out there who would take offense. And it is tacky as hell.
I’m not sure if you are talking about Prez # 1 or Prez #43, but I’m not sure it matters. Like monstro, it gave me a bit of a minstrelsy vibe, but I know the person who gave it to me did not mean anything by it. They went on a trip to DC and they know I brew my own beer and primarily drink bottled beer, either mine, someone else’s, or
I think it is a somewhat iconic caricature, but the vibe it gives me suggests that I only use it when the one who gave it to me is over and after a few uses, tell him that I am saving it for a collectable. Who knows, history may view it differently than we do now.
Tacky, borderline offensive, yes. Racist, no.
Racist? No. Appropriate for coworkers, a mixed group etc? No.
Tacky, not racist, IMHO.
The racist would be the person who considers it racist.
Reminds me of an episode of King of Queens when Doug and Carrie had given these Jazz figurines to the black couple they were friends with and the wife in the couple complained they were racist and the husband says “they’re not racist… they’re just awful”.
No, the racist would be the one who uses it as an opportunity to be racist, as some undoubtedly will.
Me, I’m outraged that the Role Model-in-Chief is enabling the consumption of demon alcohol. If we needed any more proof that he’s the worst president in 13.7 billion years, this is it.
I think the reason it gives some a minstrely vibe is that minstrel shows, blackface, and the like are based off cartoonish exaggerations of black features. Any hyper-stylized cartoon caricature of someone with black features is probably going to at least superficially have some similarities.
Exactly - they are both caricatures, but it’s at least possible for them to be unrelated in intent.
Tacky as hell. Not sure why it would be considered racist, unless the mere caricature of black person is now taboo.
How do you know it is a caricature of Obama? Is the skin color a clue? That’s what color the man’s skin is, right? So how do you make a caricature of someone, it it doesn’t look like him?
Do you think that there have ever been caricatures of a white president before, which are made (including skin color) to look recognizably like the president?
There are Tv shows with live black actors in the cast. Are they racist? There re cartoons with caricaturized black characters in them. Are they racist? How do you know that some of the cartoon characters are black? Does the skin color give it away? Is that racist?
