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Imagine this: The daughter of an actual American slave lives to see the day when blacks cannot only vote, but can run for — and win! — the presidency. Well, it is a true story. Amanda Jones, who is 109 years old and was born in the 1800s to a father born as a slave, proudly voted for Barack Obama and mailed in her ballot. That seems to say something positive about the direction of history and progress of civilization, etc., right? NO U R WRONG BARAK NOBAMA IS RACIST.
First, read this nice story. Then, try to figure out the pinheads who offer the following comments about this nice story of a woman who always voted even though she had to pay “poll taxes” and suffer other indignities just for being black and wanting to vote — indignities that persisted in her Central Texas town until 1966:
- And we care cause?
- Thanks for pointing out that in the second paragraph that she’s African American. We would never have guessed that based on the title of the article entitled “Daughter of Slave Votes for Obama.”
- Good for her living to be 109 but honestly I dont understand why this is news. Let Willard Scott announce her on the Todays Show and be done.
- This is a nice story and reads like an Obama-Biden press release.
- This is why the A.A.S., [Austin American Statesman] and every other print media, is losing subscribers.
- bingo james… this isn’t news! news would be someone voting for obama - who actually knows what he’s done or even what he believes(whether I agree or not). i hate that people vote for him only because…well, everyone knows why.people should pass a competency test to vote! if it’s enough to get people lighter sentences, then they should be competent enough to vote. pass the test, then you can punch your vote. REMEMBER…”CHANGE” ISN’T ALWAYS GOOD
- Please let’s talk about the present! None of us alive today is responsible for slavery so quit blaming and punishing us! And you are not entitled a damn thing just because you have ancestors that were slaves! Also it is so equal today that the scale is now leaning the other way, and has been for some time.When foreigners can come to this country, buy convenience stores and make millions, we all can do the same thing. So if you are without, it is your own fault and no one elses. And spreading the wealth is not the American way. It is the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness!Americans, no matter the color, have so much to lose if Obama becomes President. Too bad some parents didn’t teach their children that no one owes them a living!
- So? Why is this news?
- Son of poor white family votes for McCain and feels good about it.We are not ready for Socialism! This is America!!!!!!!!The blame game will never solve the problem.
- Well bless her heart. I glad she is voting as she is exercising her inalienable right to vote for the dunder-head of her choice.Most likely the last time any of us will be.
- Do they bother to point out how she’s voting based on color?
- Do you ever hear the media printing a story about how happy a black person is because some African tribe sold their ancestor instead of killing them because that’s what happened back then.
- After reading the story about Mrs. Jones I come away thinking that the only reason she is voting Obama is that he is black. Nowhere does she say why other than he is black, why she would vote for such an inexperienced man. She does not talk to the issues. Yet if I said I was voting for someone because he/she was white the headlines would read very differently. I would be a bigot. Talk about double standards.
Daughter of slave votes for Obama [Austin American Statesman]
gurukalehuru: This is one reason I trust Barry– I think he likes being all perfect and shit (in part) because it pisses these kinds of racist white people off.
[i]We just ask that you keep things civil. Leave out the personal attacks. Do not use profanity, ethnic or racial slurs, or take shots at anyone’s sexual orientation or religion.[/i]
Guess no Wonkette commenters would be welcome on their site. We can’t seem to comment without doing at least 3 or 4 of their no-nos.
You missed this comment:
“Barack Obama has, on multiple occasions, stated his intention to form a NATIONAL POLICE CORPS that is: “JUST AS POWERFUL: JUST AS STRONG: JUST AS WELL FUNDED AS THE UNITED STATES MILITARY.” A stealth way for a demagogue to bypass our Posse Comitatus laws. How long before uniformed Obama recruits knock on your door, and haul you off to a re-education camp?”
Yes, Austin, you wait. On January 21, there will be a knock on the door . . . Though I don’t know about the re-education part. Don’t you have to be educated in the first place for that to happen?
pockets: Oooooh nasty!! Why couldn’t he be the one who did that? I’m mentally retarded??
Or you’re just close-minded?
It’s a possiblilty, a suggestion, an opinion.
Why is it totally impossible? I take it your among the group who are 100% convinced Dr Goron is dead?
You’d be surprised what tools can save a life.
Anyone want to bet that not a single one of those cracknuts is black?
Wait — Texas allows black people to vote? Let’s not tell the crackers.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: And “People Born in the 19th Century” was originally a key pro-McCain demographic as well. His base is deserting him!
facehead: Because we live in the warm, nurturing cocoon of Wonkette that fills us with effusive, eternal love.
I’m not going to comment on this because we’re going to find out in a couple hours that was probably on Wonkette not so long ago and we all thought we were being snarky
If I could sleep until Tuesday night, I would. I have no idea how I’m going to handle another 2 “news cycles” of this shit.
Hey, Wonkette: yer clocks are one hour ahead!
I am McLovin’ that last guy who castigates the woman for “not speaking to the issues.” She’s 109, she’s the daughter of slaves, she got her ass busted for continuing to exercise her right to vote in Texas for decades, and she lived to cast a ballot for a black man for president. Those are the only issues that matter here, motherfucker. And “if I said I was voting for someone because he/she was white the headlines would read very differently.” WHAT headline? “Mouthbreather Behaves As Expected?” Shut the fuck up!
I know we’re supposed to read red-state wingnut comments for teh lulz but for whatever reason I can’t find anything snark-worthy here. It’s too damn depressing. Mostly because I’m afraid WALNUTS! will easily be slipping in this sort of rhetoric by the end of tommorow. Please just let this thing end already.
I’m surprised that Texas lets 109-year black women vote.
No, really, I am. Aren’t those stupid laws requiring drivers licenses and birth certificates designed entirely to keep people like her from getting a ballot? Somebody in the Right Wing Conspiracy slipped up if she’s voting!
Right, and those holocaust survivors in Florida who ended up voting for Buchannan should just quit their bitching too.
Seriously, I want to bludgeon each and every one of those commenters with a ‘ni66er beating stick’ for 300 years to see how they like it.
Mara47: This lady doesn’t want to lynch. She just wants to vote.
I’ve often wondered if Mexico would be willing to buy Texas back for, I don’t know, say $700B? The state isn’t worth it, but it does have oil, and I’d be willing to throw in some extras, like Elizabeth Hasselbeck, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh . . . . I just think we should try to open up a dialogue.
IF SHE LOVES BLACK PEOPLE SO MUCH SHE SHOULD GO BACK TO AFRICA!!!!!!!
Oops, wrong comments section. I was tryin’ to blend into the crowd.
Of course, at this point, competency/literacy tests would lead to Democratic landslides every two years as the backwoods morans who write this shit become massively disenfrancised.
Shoes on the other foot now, in’nt it?
The Peruvian Shaman will get gett all those wingnuts while they sleep. The howling ghosts of my ancestors will haunt their nightmares…. sorry getting carried away here…. need more scotch.
This whole story is just meant to divert media attention from the real story: Flavor Flav is only voting for Obama because he’s black (”he” being Flavor Flav, not Obama).
Monkey: Yeah, thanks for whining about that. Now we know why time travel’s illegal — it screws up the comments.
facehead: Cause we’re not assholes.
And they say that we’re out of touch? Jeebus! This is her moment. A moment she has waited a hate-filled century to see.
Not all change is good, but to completely resist change or adaptation may have dire consequences. Progress is made by keeping what works best for a society, and improving or disposing that which doesn’t suit our collective welfare.
They’re all highly pissed because all of the dams and levees they built to prevent change are simultaneously failing. No more 1980s gas prices, alternative energy sources that are here to stay, Christian values being publicly questioned, and, what seems like the last straw, a black man with a foreign name is one tiny step from occupying the White House. Their whole world is crumbling apart. The loudest Repubtard at work wants to move to a place where they shoot those with socialist thoughts. The look on his face when he realized that Merika is the only country that promotes self over society…priceless.
SkimLatteModerate: THOSE COMMENTS ARE FAKE BECUZ THEIR NOT IN ALL cApS!11!!
It’s stories like this that are one of the reasons why I have and will vote for Obama and gave him some money. I guess this makes me racist.
pockets: And the fifth most educated. Surrounded by ignorant bitters, Drunk on lone Star and listening to Spoon.
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/Departments/elearning/Default.aspx?article=educatedcities
Ha! Now I’ve finally won my bet with Abe Lincoln.
LauraJune: Clearly by “sleep” you mean “drink heavily”? I swear if I have to listen to much more of this shit, I’m moving straight to injectibles.
My grandfather’s mother was a slave.
Obama’s not really black enough to get my vote, or he wouldn’t be if McCain and Palin weren’t the two whitest people in America.
Nice job, Wonkette, you just screwed up the entire direction of time and now the future is in the past and people are replying to things that haven’t been said yet and so forth. Freakish.
*b*i*t*t*e*r*
Don’t worry about Amanda Jones. Michelle Malkin has the GPS plotted and she’s on her way to the home of “Amanda Jones,” who is really a 22-year-old Obamabot from San Francisco.
people should pass a competency test to vote! if it’s enough to get people lighter sentences, then they should be competent enough to vote. pass the test, then you can punch your vote.
If only we could just go back to that Golden Age of poll taxes and literacy tests! And with a Grandfather Clause just for this nice lady too…
Names and addresses. We need names and addresses. And itineraries. And when it gets dark enough to lynch white people in their towns. Just kidding.
Pretty obvious Mrs Jones is a 109 year old racist and it’s taken more than a century for her true feelings to be outted.
About time you posted, you lazy shits. It’s freaking one in the afternoon. I saw y’all on 18th street last night with your big slice and Miller Lite, but c’mon, get the hell out of bed!
I especially like the one that thinks we should all take tests to see if we should be able to vote. Perhaps we should also consider whether or not our grandfathers were able to vote.
REMEMBER…”CHANGE” ISN’T ALWAYS GOOD
You know, change like the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Bad Idea Then. Bad Idea Now.
I’m shocked that McCain’s little sister would vote for “that one”.
They are going to be SO unhappy when he is elected. Then they are going to be double plus unhappy when he actually does a good job.
WonderWomyn: exactly. i feel bad that white people assume they should feel bad when we talk about slavery. i don’t want them to feel bad.
Living to 109 is pretty good revenge.
Neon Trotsky: I wonder if any of those dumb crackers know how many of them couldn’t pass such a test. Sarahcuda couldn’t pass one either. BITTERS!
And we care cause?
The comment that goes off about slave reparations is just precious. I guess if every black person voting were some sort of tacit accusation, I’d be off my rocker too.
The article is totally unfair. It is not mentioned once that she is a Muslim, or that she bombed the Pentagon, or listen to Jazz, or is a Communist or anything. The paper wants us to believe that a normal, real American actually voted for Obama.
“real american” (c) & tm Sarah Palin, 2012.
Someone should tell her about the water fountains and seat the bus thingy.
Neilist: Did you write all of those comments in Austin? Maybe not because there was nothing about guns in them.
“I glad she is voting as she is exercising her inalienable right to vote for the dunder-head of her choice.Most likely the last time any of us will be.”
Yes, as soon as Hopey is sworn in as president he will declare himself dictator for life.
I love it when just talking about slavery is misread as “blaming” white people living today for slavery– I think that when people get upset about that it betrays deep guilt– and hidden doubts over their true feelings.
Mara47: Don’t even “kid” about that white people joking about black people doing this has gotten lots of black folks killed in the past…
And remember, Austin is the most liberal town in Texas.
InKnockYouUs: As opposed to the way that our current demagogue has circumvented Posse Comitatus?
Hagar7: We would have to sweeten that offer for them to agree to take all of those foul beings off of our hands. They’d have to let us keep Texas Bulldogette too.
It sounds like true conservatives agree McCain is not our man, but do we just lay down our spears and let the DEM’s rule over us. I can’t stand the RINO, but I can not abide by Bilary or Obamanation. We let the liberal press tell us what candidate to pick, we did not do our homework, we let the RNC decide. So we get what we vote for. It seems like it was only 1976 when Reagan was a little known Gov of CA, and 4 years later the revolution began.
It will be that way again. I am looking towards 2012, and I pary to God America is still standing in 4 years.
Huckabee is not the answer either, he is a spineless, little man.
Ugh! Olberman is such a sanctimonious dork! I can’t watch NBC football anymore because that pinhead gets on, and his pseudo-authoritative voice just makes me want to scream. There is nothing like Keith billowing in his best Walter Cronkite tones saying the dumbest stuff.
It was pretty apparent the girl was lying with the “B” carved backwards in her cheek, as if carved while looking in a mirror. I was so hoping that she wasn’t as stupid as I thought she might be…but I was right. I wasn’t wishing her story was true necessarily, just that she wasn’t lying…you know what I mean?
Now we’re going to have to listen to libbies bring up this twerp (the exception) whenever false liberal race baiting is performed (the rule), and conservatives will have to tap around it to get their point across.
Thanks for nothing, dumb@$$.
A lot of the commenters are probably not in Texas. It’s on the WWW after all. (And there are lots of loving Texans as well as hateful ones.)
Watch this video from the Maverick family — a long line of Texas progressives:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRImWNXzSHk
TRUECRISTIAN:
Are you lost? You may want to take in your surroundings.
Hey TRUECHRISTIAN (all uppercase, nice touch!) aren’t you supposed to be in church today? Testifying about how you are risking your immortal soul infiltrating a cyber-haven of socialist abortionists…
Servo: Sounds like he needs to take a Valium.
Apu is a millionaire? Then why does he have so many kids?
TRUECRISTIAN: Let me get this right? You’re spearchuckers?
TRUECRISTIAN: and conservatives will have to tap around it to get their point across.
Don’t worry about that, TC — it’ll be so long before so-called conservatives have a voice in our national dialogue again that ol’ Ashley Todd will be long forgotten. But you may as well use your forty years in the desert to burn two lessons into your skull: cutting taxes does not equal fiscal responsibility, and a posture of strength does not equal gratuitous invasions.
Oh, and we’ll be willing to forgive a lot if you can scrounge up that ten trillion dollars you spent on who-the-fuck-knows-what.
the invisible woman: Not me.
Anyway, I’m not into racism. Or even misogyny.
With me, it’s straight misanthropy.
(As if there was any racial basis for stupidity. It’s so clearly species-wide that any racial variation, if it existed, would be de minimis.)
The ability to comment on newspaper Web sites does nothing but enable every damn pinhead in the universe to show their asses with their brainless, heartless and soulless comments. If any editors are reading this, consider either moderating comments or disabling them.
This is absolutely wrong. The Bible says that we are saved by grace not by works “For by grace you have been saved through faith…not as a result of works, that no one should boast,” (Eph. 2:8-9, NASB); not by anything we do “For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the Law,” (Rom. 3:28, NASB). Because if there was anything that we could do to merit the forgiveness of our sins, then Jesus died needlessly “nevertheless knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the Law but through faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the Law; since by the works of the Law shall no flesh be justified…I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly,
Doesn’t this 109 year old commie know that Obama has been bombing ‘Merkins since Nam? She was 60 when he was doing it! And don’t tell me he wasn’t, or I’ll yell things in ALL CAPS! ALL CAPS DAMN YOU!
TRUECRISTIAN: And trolling forums and spreading falsehoods accomplishes this in what way exactly?
The comments sections are low-hanging fruit - the juiciest, sweetest fruit of all.
TRUECRISTIAN: so i guess that means as a true christian you DON’T need to do good works?
AWESOME.
i will continue my self centered hedonistic ways while waiting for Grace.
TRUECRISTIAN: I’m with you about Olberman… you’re crazy wrong about everything else though.
facehead: He’s got his diamond, ruby, and sapphire encrusted “Vote or Die” grills all polished for the occasion.
TRUECRISTIAN: If Jesus was alive today and doing the works that the more devout (read: crazy) of my religion like yourself usually praise, you’d be bitching about him on a blog somewhere.
TRUECRISTIAN: People still believe that crap?
Poll-taxes being illegitimate, I can understand. Doubly so, “literacy” tests. & most, inanities such as “provide the number of bubbles one would make from a bar of soap”. But what’s so wrong with the “Grandfather Clause”?
TRUECRISTIAN: You may want to read the Epistles of John: “Faith without works is dead.” This is what I despise about Protestantism. I uses the deeply serious theological idea of grace (agape: unconditional love) and twisted into an excuse for blatant narcissism. Why should I care for my fellow man when I’m saved, a part of the elect? You are not a ‘Christian,’ you are the shadow of Lucifer.
pockets: These comments are most likely from the lovely backwards, jeebus-loving, donkey-fucking wingnuts north of Austin in Williamson County. Technically they do not even live in Austin, they just read the online paper (which is the worst local paper in the history of local papers.)
Those living in Austin proper are pretty damn liberal. Obama will win Travis County (Austin) while these commenters from Williamson County and their brothers/sisters who are also their parents will vote for Walnuts!
Maybe this will help move the undecideds among the former slave vote.
TRUECRISTIAN:
Oh, you people and your speak-in-circles Bible Babble. You get so wrapped up in the string theory of the Bible that you fail to see the obvious points, particularly Christ’s teachings of compassion and tolerance. I’m sure Holy Roman Church, Inc. had some of their own inputs written into that book, too. You know, for business expansion.
Most people will follow the Golden Rule. That’s the principle of socialism. We just don’t care to be led by a clown in a blue polyester suit that says we must fund his mansions and private jets to ensure a place in heaven when we starve or freeze to death.
WonderWomyn: Now why would you say that? Are whites more threatening than blacks? C’mon……
Didn’t these assholes see the part where she’s been voting for Democrats since FDR? She’s not just voting for Obama because he’s black. (Hope she lives to see the inauguration.)
Austin is certainly liberal by Texas standards but is still pretty segregated for most black residents. East of I35 is where you find the remaining dirt roads, boarded-up houses, and scenes that recall the south’s past. My relatives in the panhandle of Texas are more terrified of the ‘tsunami of Hispanic immigrants’ than any thoughts of Muslim socialists. But they figure since I live in Austin I’m one of the pinkos as well. Guilty as charged.
I feel so blamed and punished after reading that article that I’ll have to vote for Obama a few more times just to assuage my guilt. Have all the Jimmy Johns names been used up yet? Are we on to Dave Thomas yet?
TRUECRISTIAN: Go blow Jean Calvin’s corpse, shit for brains.
Marco7: Ahh, friend…Since my retreat to the fake Virginia, there is nothing I have missed more than stumbling in to a fluorescent lit establishment in the wee hours and purchasing a slice of pizza big enough to use as a hobo bedroll.
I know what I’m doing after the Vampire Weekend show at 9:30 in December….
Good times, good times……
Hey, guys…TRUECHRISTIAN is back!
TC, hope you’re well. That’s a whole lot of circular reasoning you’re doing there. And for an audience you have to know is not sympathetic to your view.
Should we be worried about your state of mind? Let us know if we can help in any way.
Yours not in Christ,
Godless Heathen
TRUECRISTIAN: I don’t know what all that bible quotin’ is about but I assume that when you open with “This is absolutely wrong” your referring to the way you type with one hand while the other is wrapped around your johnson.
It would be interesting to know if she ever met Mandingo personally.
TRUECRISTIAN: as the bible says, faith alone is not enough. james 2:20 says “But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?” holier than thou, motherfucker?
Harvey Birdman: Speaking of which…
http://www.city-data.com/top18.html
Most of these are places I’ve never heard about, presumably small towns. But Houston made the shit list!
InKnockYouUs: Texas has Posse Comitatus laws??? I thought that was just for right-wing gun-lovin’ states-rights crackers?
TRUECRISTIAN: He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah. Deuteronomy 23:1
Must make your life hard…, well, figuratively speaking.
I’m so mortified to be white, I’m going to spend all of Tuesday in a tanning booth.