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Obama dismisses claims of racial slur on ‘slippers’ - Not stereotyping, White House says
Washington Times ^ | 9/30/11 | Dave Boyer

Posted on 09/30/2011 6:53:09 PM PDT by Libloather

Obama dismisses claims of racial slur on ‘slippers’
Not stereotyping, White House says
By Dave Boyer
The Washington Times
Thursday, September 29, 2011

Facing an uproar from President Obama’s most loyal base of supporters, the White House on Thursday rejected claims that Mr. Obama stereotyped blacks when he told them to “take off your bedroom slippers” and work for his re-election.

“I have heard him make similar comments to all sorts of different groups,” said presidential press secretary Jay Carney, who fielded nearly a dozen questions from the White House press corps about Mr. Obama’s comments and his relationship with black supporters. “He’s certainly used vivid language, similarly vivid language, before a variety of audiences.”

But a search of Mr. Obama’s speeches dating back to mid-May shows that he has used the quip about bedroom slippers only one other time — on Sept. 14 at North Carolina State University, while promoting his jobs bill. About 8 percent of students at N.C. State are black.

The president stirred up the issue when he urged the predominantly black audience at the annual Congressional Black Caucus Foundation awards dinner in Washington on Saturday to stop criticizing him and get to work on his re-election.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: racial; slippers; stereotyping; whitehouse
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Not stereotyping

What if Bush had said that in front of the Congressional Black Caucasians?

1 posted on 09/30/2011 6:53:12 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather
Congressional Black Caucasians?

Either that is a slip, or it was intentional. In either case, it is hilarious.

2 posted on 09/30/2011 7:01:02 PM PDT by newheart (When does policy become treason?)
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To: Libloather

I wasn’t aware slippers had anything to do with racial slurs.

Every day I find I’m much more ignorant than I ever thought I was.


3 posted on 09/30/2011 7:01:19 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Technological progress cannot be legislated.)
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To: Libloather
The liberals only look at skin color and no further. If they looked further than skin color they would see that Obama is not of the same culture of a typical black American.

In fact, Obama’s own ancestors owned some of the ancestors of those typical black Americans because they were slave owners.

I disagree with Rush Limbaugh. Rush said that Obama talks “honky” when he's talking to white Americans.

The truth is, that is Obama’s true dialect. He is NOT of the black American culture that speaks black American dialect. Obama is (if he really was born here) the descendant of a very recent immigrant.

Obama speaks black American only when he's talking to black Americans. That's where he's fake.

Bottom line, Obama was indeed stereotyping a group of people - a group he's never been a part of, grew up or lived in.

4 posted on 09/30/2011 7:01:33 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Libloather
If any Republican speaking in front of a predominantly black group of people challenged the audience to "take off their bedroom slippers", his political career would instantly be over.

The insinuation that most black people are unemployed, on welfare, and thus lounge around their houses in bedroom slippers all day is about as racist as it gets. At least that's what we would all be told if a Republican ever uttered those words.

5 posted on 09/30/2011 7:02:05 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Palin/Cain 2012 - NO MORE RINOs)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Clearly you’ve never been to Selma before like Obama had.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdYByptC8mY


6 posted on 09/30/2011 7:02:59 PM PDT by posterchild (I'm old enough to remember when journalist bothered to look things up on wikipedia.)
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To: Libloather
What if Bush had said this to a group of white NASCAR fans? Nothing would have happened.

Same if Palin had said it to a large group of women gardeners. Nothing would have been made of the comment.

Thin-skinned is getting old..

7 posted on 09/30/2011 7:03:02 PM PDT by GOPJ (Muslims will want to go to the moon when the Jews setup Israel there. - Dennis Miller)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

When I heard that line, I was immediately reminded of Aretha Franklin, in her role in the movie..”The Blues Brothers”. She wore scuffs, a type of bedroom slipper, in her luncheonette. In the movie it was cute...but to an audience of black professionals, students and workers, it was demeaning. My jaw dropped when I heard it.


8 posted on 09/30/2011 7:06:02 PM PDT by SueRae (I can see November 2012 from my HOUSE!!!!!!!!)
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To: tsowellfan
In fact, Obama’s own ancestors owned sold some of the ancestors of those typical black Americans because they were slave ownerstraders.

Fixed it fer ya.

9 posted on 09/30/2011 7:07:30 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear (No More RINOs!!!)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I’m with you....I think I’d half to bend over backwards twice over to think this was racist. Obama stinks (uh oh, racist??), but this is just silly.


10 posted on 09/30/2011 7:12:57 PM PDT by JoeDetweiler
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To: Libloather
Now wait a minute. If I have bedroom slippers, I could be a racist? Or, is it if I don't have bedroom slippers that I am a racist? Or, if I refer to bedroom slippers, but don't have any? Or, if I have some, but are afraid to say so publically? It's terribly confusing.
11 posted on 09/30/2011 7:13:19 PM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: Libloather

Who Is This Guy?
Barack Obama is definitely not who you think he is, whatever that is. Despite his “poor-boy” myth, Obama is:

• a privileged African-American, educated at the finest schools, who has not shared the black American experience
• by birth, blood and training, a Muslim, who later became a member of a Marxist, Black-African church
• a socialist whose politics are rooted in Marx and whose tactics were conceived by the communist, Alinsky
• a master at shaping his own mythology
• completely unqualified to be Commander in Chief
• and, he is not now, nor ever has been, a “natural born citizen”

http://theobamafile.com/BarackObama.htm

Best Obama site on the net.
All the sordid facts.


12 posted on 09/30/2011 7:15:34 PM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: patriot08

Herman Cain has more blackness in his pinky finger than Obama has in his whole useless body.


13 posted on 09/30/2011 7:23:00 PM PDT by Palladin (Fast and Furious = Obama's Waterloo.)
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To: Libloather
But a search of Mr. Obama’s speeches dating back to mid-May shows that he has used the quip about bedroom slippers only one other time — on Sept. 14 at North Carolina State University, while promoting his jobs bill.

Knowing how Obama operates, look for him to slip quips about bedroom slippers into his next 20 public appearances. "See, I always talk about bedroom slippers. What's all this fuss about, anyway?"

That's pretty much how he handled the furor over bowing to the Saudi king - after that, you saw him bow to everyone from emperors to shoeshine guys. "See, I always bow to everyone. What's all this fuss about, anyway?"

14 posted on 09/30/2011 7:24:15 PM PDT by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Libloather

I love it when the Carney Barker steps into the fray. He can twist anything from being merely stupid to laughably ignorant. The Carney Barker hits me the same way Bagdad Bob did.


15 posted on 09/30/2011 7:25:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (There's a pill for just about everything ... except stupid!)
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To: Libloather

16 posted on 09/30/2011 7:28:08 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici ("Si, se gimme!")
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To: Libloather

What do the slippers have to say about all of this? Are the slippers on peoples feet because they don’t have work?


17 posted on 09/30/2011 7:28:48 PM PDT by big bad easter bunny (Cain 2012)
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To: Grizzled Bear
Actually, I also heard about the slave trading. I wonder if that was from his dad's side or on his mom's. You are correct about the trading of slaves in his family.

However...

THE maternal ancestors of Barack Obama once owned slaves, genealogists have revealed.

According to the genealogists, George Washington Overall, Obama’s great-great-great-great grandfather, owned two slaves, a 15-year-old girl and 25-year-old man, who were listed in the 1850 Kentucky census. Another maternal ancestor owned two older slaves.

As you also stated they traded slaves, I have read that also. Perhaps also on his mom's side or perhaps on his father's side.

18 posted on 09/30/2011 7:31:35 PM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Apparently, anything can be a racial slur. If you don’t know why it’s a slur - then you must be a racist. I guess.

Personally, I don’t make the connection. I guess I’m a racist, too.


19 posted on 09/30/2011 7:33:16 PM PDT by Sapper26 (Political Refugee From the Obamanation)
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To: tsowellfan

We’ve all been slaves at some point in our ancestral past.


20 posted on 09/30/2011 7:34:14 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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