Posted on 05/21/2015 12:48:21 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
When President Obama sent his inaugural Twitter post from the Oval Office on Monday, the White House heralded the event with fanfare, posting a photograph of him perched on his desk tapping out his message on an iPhone.
But it took only a few minutes for Mr. Obama’s account to attract racist, hate-filled posts and replies. Posts addressed him with racial slurs, called him a monkey, and one had an image of the president’s neck in a noose.
The posts reflected the racial hostility toward the nation’s first black president that has long been expressed in stark terms on the Internet, where conspiracy theories thrive and prejudices find ready outlets. But the racist tweets are different because now that Mr. Obama has his own Twitter account, the slurs are addressed directly to him, for all to see.
One person posted a doctored image of Mr. Obama’s iconic campaign poster, instead showing the president with his head in a noose, his eyes closed and his neck appearing broken as if he had been lynched. Instead of the word “HOPE’’ in capital letters as it appeared on the campaign poster, the doctored image had the words “ROPE.”
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Obama has earned a lot of negative posts.
Obama joins Twitter. Racism quickly follows.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3291411/posts
“But it took only a few minutes for Mr. Obama’s account to attract racist, hate-filled posts and replies. Posts addressed him with racial slurs, called him a monkey, and one had an image of the president’s neck in a noose.”
I think with GWB that was called “free speech.”
I did not tweet Obama. Wouldn’t waste my time.
It would not surprise me one iota to learn that some of those posters are shills.
Why is there so much hatred aimed toward our president? All he’s trying to do is fundamentally destroy, er, TRANSFORM, the once great United States of A. ie, make a communist sh*thole out of it.
How many of the tweets are from leftists.
“See? See? Already the wascist teabaggers are attacking the Pwezident’s twitter account!”
So predictable, the parodies write themselves.
“I think with GWB that was called “free speech.”
Not to mention “artistic” and “hilarious” with all the effigies being burned and nooses.
The ONE thing that gets me mad about FR is I am always a day late and a dollar short when I get a good idea to post something :)
some FReeper always beats me to it!!
they DESTROYED Bush and called him horrible things during his presidency.
It would be in keeping with the Saul Alinsky way.
I’m dubious that real racist know when Obama is going to open up a twitter account and sit around waiting to write something racist on it. Sounds fishy to me.
And I know 100% for certain, that if I had known, and instantly sent a message about him being a racist, America hating, Muslim Brotherhood supporting, communist, the media would have said that was racist.
People had pictures of George W Bush as an ape and that was A OK..when a shoe was thrown at Bush the left laughed their a@@es off, but Obama, we have to kiss his fanny
#BlackLivesMatter @plannedparenthood @barackobama
Or perhaps they were simply meant to convey that after Dem operatives planted the posts to whip up some outrage against those hateful clingers to guns and Bibles.
The first tweets to show up "within minutes" just happened to be racist and hateful? Right. Like all the supposed haters were already following a non-existent Twitter account.
[ People had pictures of George W Bush as an ape and that was A OK..when a shoe was thrown at Bush the left laughed their a@@es off, but Obama, we have to kiss his fanny ]
According to leftists we all evolved from apes, except for Obama, he descended from Karl Marx’s Worker’s paradise full formed....
>>It would not surprise me one iota to learn that some of those posters are shills.<<
OFA “Organizing for Action” has already been running a fake Obama twitter account for years. This is Obama’s primary propaganda machine.
All of his supporters and friends on that account are OFA fictitious shills, I think that’s already been exposed. OFA is the same outfit that floods the net with paid OFA trolls and automated netbots that spam any story that is not complimentary of the One.
I assume this is the same thing.
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