Unless you thought, "with out-of-left-field accusations and unfortunate racial coding that should be really, really embarrassing for whoever was involved." Because if you thought that, you are very correct. The article itself — which was culled from a larger account of the President's birthday celebration on Politico — is pretty much a quick rundown of the schedule, menu, and guest list of the early evening celebration for Obama's fiftieth birthday. Naturally, such an event calls for this:
Ha. Haha! Hahahaha... Heh. Whew. Oh boy. First of all, I know you're wondering what made this a "hip-hop BBQ." Was it because Jay-Z performed? No! Was it because any other hip-hop artists performed? Also no! Was it because there were quite a few black people in attendance and Fox News knows that saying "hip-hop" anything inflames their audience? Well, yes, it was probably that one. But the site would probably claim it's because the DJ on hand played a mix of "Motown, hip hop, and ’70s and ’80s R&B." So it was about as hip-hop as my middle-school friend David Cohen's bar mitzvah.
(For the record, Stevie Wonder, Ledisi, and Herbie Hancock performed. And Obama even invited some white people, like Tom Hanks and Rep. Nancy Pelosi!)
And while it truly pains me to even have to address this: this BBQ probably did not, uh, "create jobs." (Though maybe it did! A big menu generally calls for a decent amount of cater waiters.) Because it's a birthday party and not, um... a government program or a piece of legislation or anything that has to do with economic recovery and ow, my brain is bleeding. This BBQ also did not cure cancer. So you heard it hear first, everyone: Obama doesn't care if you die from cancer.
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Wow, Fox really is racist.
Wow, Obama is really racist. Why no white performers?
He invited Tom Hanks and Nancy Pelosi? Some of his best friends are white!
Please don't rub it in that Tom Hanks is white. Some of us keep trying to forget that.
That's a very racist statement, anon. Please be more considerate in the future.
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"This BBQ also did not cure cancer. So you heard it hear first, everyone: Obama doesn't care if you die from cancer."
^perfect sarcasm
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The Fox article is stupid, but there's nothing racist about it.
yeah, it was, for reasons already explained.
No, it's not. Sorry. The racism is the President's for not having a representative group of Asian and Caucasian performers. He is a racist, pure and simple.
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In other news: Speaker Boehner's morning shit fails to fix immigration.
FOX is racist. We already knew that.
Okay, what's next?
Next: The White House claims that our credit being down-rated is a racist act.
Next: I'll try as hard as I can to make false equivalencies.
But first you need to stop using big words you don't understand!
But first I must realize that it's really just me who doesn't understand big words.
Add lame retorts to the list that already has not understanding big words.
lul
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A black man having black performers at his birthday party, it was a preference not a statement.
Exactly.
So if a white politican prefers to have white entertainers, that's cool? I don't think so.
Um.
I really don`t see the issue, isn`t it most likely they asked Barry who he wanted, he thought hmm i like these guys, they booked those guys and that was that. I guess being British (half black) I don't understand fully the way every small detail gets picked over in regards to race in America. I don`t see any reason why a white politician who was raised listening to a certain type of music and having those entertainers regardless of race performing is anyones business but their own really. Like most debates in life I feel like i shouldn`t have gotten involved, nothing is ever simply Black or White.
So he just prefers the company of African Americans?
As an african american, possibly yeah.
It's much easier to unedrtsand when you put it that way!
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