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October 25, 2006
your racist republican party
Okay, so Election Central has just obtained a radio ad which you've got to hear: It actually has what sounds like tom-tom drums playing in the background every time the ad talks about Dem Harold Ford, Jr. The ad -- which says it was paid for by the campaign of GOP Senate candidate Bob Corker -- can be heard right here. When the ad mentions Corker, the music soars and no tom-toms are audible. Throughout the entire minute-long ad, you hear the rumble of tom-toms every time Ford is mentioned. This ad, keep in mind, quotes Bob Corker himself as having "approved" the message -- meaning it wasn't the work of the Republican National Committee, as in the case of the recent "bimbo" TV ad which drew charges of racism.
The funny thing about this is story is that Harold Ford is a Democratic talking android. Who plays drums for a talking android? I guess this makes sense when you figure that one of the uses of racism is the elimination of meaningful difference between black folks, the flattening of texture, but anyone actually paying attention would see that the ad described below is a kind of faulty absurdity. I mean, if you're going to play some drums for a black candidate, that dude at least better have a mad, militant Afro and a fist pendant around his neck, or maybe some straight up nyabinghi dreds and a deep name that when re-translated into English means "bloody spear of the people." If you played some drums for Al Sharpton, you'd be a racist, but at least you would have identified something true about him, which is basically that if you're a certain kind of white person you should back the fuck up out his way when you see him coming. But Harold Ford? That dude couldn't Mau Mau a Congress of Muppets, let alone a room full of white racists. It's silly, really.
Posted by ebogjonson in politricknal sciences, on October 25, 2006 6:03 PM
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