Racism is alive and out front in America….
Republican Karin Housley, a state senator running to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate, compared then-first lady Michelle Obama to a “chimp” in 2009.
In an April 2009 Facebook post, Housley criticized the first lady’s posture when she met Queen Elizabeth II.
“Michelle is soooo far from cool. Don’t we expect our First Ladies to at least stand up straight? (And my dear sister, know the proper etiquette and DO NOT TOUCH THE QUEEN!),” Housley wrote on her Facebook wall.
In the comment thread on her post, Housley said the chimpanzee in the 1951 film “Bedtime for Bonzo,” starring then-actor Ronald Reagan, likely had better posture than Mrs. Obama.
“I do miss Nancy Reagan. Ronald even more. Speaking of Bedtime for Bonzo, I think even that chimp stood up straighter than Michelle,” Housley wrote. “Uh-oh, someone is going to make a comment.”
Comparing African-Americans to apes, even obliquely, as Housley did, has been a longstanding feature of racist American innuendo. ABC canceled “Roseanne” at the end of May after star Roseanne Barr tweeted that Valerie Jarrett, an African-American who advised former President Barack Obama, looked like the child of “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes.”…
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The above comment’s were done on Facebook back in 2009….
Hillary Clinton was also in for some knocks in her appearance also…
image…kstp.com
What’s the word I’m looking for?? Oh yes, horrific, this privileged white Republican woman thinks it’s fine to infer a woman of color is a Chimp.
But that’s the way these Republicans roll when they had that “black boy” to beat up on.
Last I saw Housley was trailing by 16 points. Hopefully now she’ll lose by 25+ and take a couple of Republican house seats down with her.
Payback for a garbage mouth, eh?