Racist POS newspaper column in US: UPDATE, offensive post removed. Update #2, new racist cartoon!

UPDATE (1/28/08): Seems the post has been removed as of today -
thanks to Chet Scoville for pointing that out. Yesterday when I wrote
this it was still up. Glad to know that someone at the Independent has
a brain. I sincerely hope that whoever approved that column for
publication got their ass handed to them.

Update #2 (1/28/08): H/t to Gigi in the comments to this loverly racist cartoon. I wonder if Oprah would be amused to be caricaturized as saying "Lord have mercy....Oprah no dummy! Besides, that Obama really makes my va-jay-jay all tingly!"

Wow. Just wow. This is a quick post, but I'd like to draw your attention to this piece of shit column in a newspaper from the Hamptons, The Independent. I want people all the way up here in Canada to see what kind of cutesy racism is acceptable in the US these days. Witness "Why I Should Be Our Next President", by Yo Mama Bin Barack.

Military background: I was the first black troop leader of the Boy Scouts Troop 43 in my home state of Illinois. Well, that's not quite true, because they didn't let black kids in the Boy Scouts, so I lied and said I was Hawaiian, which I kind of am, sort of. You see, part of my strategy of becoming our first black president is to deny I am black unless I am campaigning in Harlem. The truth is, I don't know many black people, but my advisors have drafted a strategy to reel in the black vote:

1) Call everyone "Brother." Blacks, I am told, do this, even if their real brothers are mostly in jail.

2) Talk Jive. Brothers want to hear jive. During my speech I told the crowd "We be, you know, sick of whitey supressin' and congestin' so, you know, we won't denigrate or sophisticate but emulate and populate, you know, the system is, like, broken, y'all!"

I have no idea what that means. The black folk loved it, though, so they all vowed to vote for me. The New York Times covered it, but they are so afraid of saying something racist they twisted my words around and reported:

"Yesterday in Harlem YoMama articulated his vision of a new America, an America with less congestion, a country free of drug use, a world without segregation or racism where citizens emulate the lives of great Americans like YoMama, John F. Kennedy and Doctor Martin Luther King."

So you see, there is my strategy. I get the black vote, I get the white vote, and then I go after the female vote by attacking that bitch Hillary for being the Nasty Witch from Hell.

Nice little bit of sexism in there too, yanno Hillary Clinton is a bitch. Not only a bitch, but the Nasty Witch from Hell. Oh yeah, Yo Mama's wife is named AliBama, and his daughter is Bama Slamma. Real cute, you fucking assholes. I wonder how the Southhampton H & R Block feels about their ad being next to this racist, regressive bunch of bullshit?

Interestingly enough, when you click on the "Low Tidings" link (that is what the...um..'humour' column is called), there is an apology:

Our Low Tidings "humor" column that appeared in last week's issue of The Independent that was supposed to satirically address the increasing hostility between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was ill conceived and offensive. The Independent, a multicultural employer with a 13-year history of diversity, apologizes for this lapse of judgment. The column has been removed from our website and a complete apology will be printed in next week's issue.

(I'm not really clear, but could it be that there was another column just as offensive if not more? They said it was removed from the website, but there it is.)

Just because you want to exercise your right to say whatever offensive things you can spew, you are certainly not entitled to make money doing it. Just ask Rachel Marsden (w00t!!!) I think I'll be penning a letter to the editor this afternoon, letting them know that word of their bigoted jackass 'humour' column has reached literally across the continent.