Texas must be trying to reclaim its title as “Crazy Capitol Of The United States.” In an effort to up their lunatic quotient, Bud Johnson of Austin hung an empty chair from a tree in his front yard:
Very classy.
Mr. Johnson is clearly using the imagery from Clint Eastwood’s now infamous “empty chair” speech in which he lambasted an imaginary President Obama. It was a rambling semi-incoherent tirade but conservatives pretended to eat it up (in private, they were embarrassed) and now Johnson is using it to symbolically lynch the country’s first black president.
And, yes, Obama’s race is a factor, contrary to what conservatives will (and always) say. Lynching a black man–even symbolically– in the South is a deliberate statement. It’s meant to invoke the “good ol’ days” when white southerners could terrorize the African American community with impunity. When contacted about this by Burnt Orange Report, Johnson responded, “I don’t really give a damn whether it disturbs you or not. You can take [your concerns] and go straight to hell and take Obama with you. I don’t give a shit. If you don’t like it, don’t come down my street.”
A true patriot. I wonder what his reaction would be if a black neighbor had hung an effigy of Bush in his front yard in 2004? I can only imagine his outrage at such an unamerican display during a time of war.
Just to clarify that this is not a piece of bizarre abstract act, Johnson later hung a flag on the chair:
Because nothing says “patriotism” to a redneck conservative than a naked display of racism and violence.
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Deone Yurchenko, I thought the misinformed were calling him a socialist? Because communism and socialism are actually polar opposites in their motives, aka he can’t be Hitler and Stalin at the same time, regardless of the common grounds of fascism. And racism is actually a legitimate accusation in this situation, because not only is the act of lynching closely related to anti-black racism, but the chair is a direct reference to Clint Eastwood’s speech where he interrogated a chair in place of our current president. In fact, I thought even the implication of the desire to kill the President of the United States was actually a federal crime, punishable by prison time and being put on a watch-list as a potential threat. And it might as well be illegal to be in the KKK now, because the advocation of violence against a group based on race is illegal, as well as refusing service in a business to a person based on race, as well as segregation and pretty much everything else the KKK supports, plus the rest of any community will completely shun you if you decide to make your racism known. You must lose a lot of arguments, because do communists really want to do that? China is actually exploiting flaws in the capitalist system to benefit, as well as Russia clearly isn’t on the war path anymore. Japan has subsided to just trying to benefit the whole of their countrymen instead of conquering the world. Do you live in the 1960s or something? The Red Scare is over, it ended even before the Berlin wall fell even. Nobody won the Cold War, everyone just realized that living in fear of each other constantly on the brink of world destruction was probably not the game to play. Basically, limiting anyone else’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness whether that be by racism, anti-semitism, or any kind of prejudice is anti-american, so I will admit this man can express anything he wants, he might just want to think about picking a better person to express against because I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Secret Service decided to knock on his door at some point. By the way, I have a ton of friends who are muslims who love it here in America, and honestly a lot of them are a million times more tolerable than most hardcore christians I’ve met. In closing, your ignorance is astounding, no wonder you have replied to almost every post that deems this man a racist, everyone must tune you out otherwise. One last question though, are you sir, actually stupid?