Posted on 08/11/2009 7:06:45 PM PDT by pissant
STEVENSVILLE - Parading with Bitterroot Valley Republican groups in her Hummer, Cathy Kulonis said she was exercising her First Amendment rights Saturday when she hoisted a sign reading “No Mo Bro” during Creamery Picnic festivities here.
In response to angry requests to remove the sign, and contentions that it carried unsavory racial overtones regarding President Barack Obama, Kulonis held her ground, referring to those who complained as “red-faced maniacs” and “liberal extremists.”
When the parade committee chairman requested that she remove her sign, she once again stood fast and refused to put it away. “I was just smiling and greeting everybody, when all of a sudden on my left I heard those people screaming, ‘You're a racist, take your sign down,' and I thought, ‘I'm not a racist,' ” Kulonis said.
“Then a man came up and he said he was with the parade. I told him only two people fussed. ... I didn't even know who he was, he didn't identify himself. ... I let him know that I know my constitutional rights.”
Kulonis, who moved to Montana from California, a state she called “the land of fruits and nuts,” said any racial interpretation of “No Mo Bro” was off base.
“Bro” referred to “brother” in the Christian sense, as in a fellow member of the church, Kulonis said, and was not a reference to “brother,” as in slang for a black man.
Saying the phrase was simply “Okie talk” for “we've had enough,” Kulonis called the attack on her free speech a typical tactic of liberals.
“This issue is not about racism,” Kulonis wrote in an e-mail to the Ravalli Republic. “It is not even about me. It is about control. A useless effort by the left to silence me.”
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I like the sign at a Tea Party: “Don’t tax me, bro!”
She’s an idiot.
I think I like “No Mo Bro” even better. LOL
I don’t know why liberal white people think there should be a different language for whether you are black or white. The black people sure don’t pull any punches!! Doesn’t she ever listen to rap....
No. She’s funny and driving the liberal race-card wielding pansy ass commies into fits.
HeHeHe!I just love it.
That's sexist bro.
No Mo Bro PING
I’m about as sexist as they come, so thank ya.
Some of the broads here might take offense.
We mustn’t say anything that might be construed by the left as racist. With Bush it was ok. But with Obama it’s not./s
What is the difference between “No Mo Bro” and “You gotta have some skin in the game”? We’re all cool now!
Should have had an equal opportunity sign for Meeeeechelle...”No Mo Ho”...but that would be of really poor taste :)
Its racist.
But why would it be wrong to say "bro," as in black slang, which was certainly OK for Flip Wilson to say?
And, if I'm not very much mistaken, it's legal even for white people to use the same slang when referring to people who are not "of color."
Perhaps I should get a legal opinion.
Perhaps people's priorities are completely unreal.
Nah. It’s ebonics.
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