Tennessee Republican Terri Lynn Weaver has SOMEHOW gotten into controversy by posting a photo of herself with her fat pastor dressed as a blackface Aunt Jemima, which you can see at left. What you can’t see at left is the comment Weaver wrote on this photo: “Aunt Jemima, you is so sweet.” WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT? Surely this nice white lady just meant that she loves that particular pancake-dust brand and would like it to be her friend on Facebook! And doesn’t everyone have a pastor who dresses up as offensive caricatures of minorities? That’s, like, the most important part of the Bible. Jesus was always wearing hilarious costumes like this. And in response to the furor over this offensive stereotype, the woman is now defending herself in the most stereotypical way possible.
Yes, that’s right: “I’m the least racist of anyone. Some of my greatest friends are black.” Problem solved.
Look, it’s the famous Basil Marceaux news team!
Yes, stand strong, white lady! There was probably no other costume for her pastor to wear, anyway.
Someday you can tell your grandchildren about Terri Lynn Weaver when 50,000 similar things are still happening in the South. [WSMV via Wonkette operative "Christy F."]
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Video linky no workie, even on the original site. Xtine must've sued for it already, out of habit.
Looks like the Pastor has eaten a few Aunt Jemima pancakes herself.
Pancakes? Looks like he fuckin' ate Aunt Jemima! Nom nom nom…
Now I am not Christian, from Tennessee or a Republican but I do think that the White Christian Bible recommends dressing up in a racist manner before preaching about how the Bible allowed slavery.
"I am not Christian, from Tennessee or a Republican." If I accomplish nothing else in life, on the day I die I will have that mantra to take with me, and comfort me, before I go to stand before Zeus and answer for my crimes.
Now I am not Christian, from Tennessee or a Republican
Then you must know too much about what's actually in the Bible to be just willy nilly making comments about it like some educated, intellectual, elitist smarty-pants, gosh darn it!
It would have been sufficient to just say you aren't from Tennessee. The rest is redundant.
It's Tennessee, so unlike New Yorkers her constituents might see this as a positive.
Cue Brietbarters, "HA see U lieberals think eveything is racist; this just a good bit off fun."
“I’m the least racist of anyone. Some of my greatest friends are black.”
What she really said was:
“I’m the least racist of anyone. Some of my greatest friends are wearing blackface.”
Sarah is not a racist, she's married to a [Yup'ik Eskimo] native and they live through discrimination every day in Alaska, she's going to work on that. And she's not anti-gay, one of her roommates from one of her six colleges was a lesbian and Sarah didn't criticize her 'choice.'
Sarah and Terri, we're good. After all, you are harmless, non-polarizing white ladies. It's all cleared up.
The tea party triumphed. It is OK to be openly racist again.
As a matter of fact, this will probably be the least offensive thing you see between now and 2012.
"You know how many black guys I've gone down on? LOTS." … is what she wanted to say.
And if it's twue, it's twue, one of them must have speared her brain.
Leave Howard Ford out of this.
It is only racist if I say it is, damnit. I have lots of teh black and teh gay and teh hispanic and teh muzzzlun friends. They love it when I make fun of them and use racial slurs. Get over it n*****. Talk about uppity. Next thing you know, they'll want to run for preznit.
I don't have a problem with that, as long as they don't put their feet on the desk.
Now that the new Speaker of the House of Representatives is a nice shade of orange, blackface is acceptable again in the mid-south.
So IS Boehner high yellow, like Warren G. Harding?
I'd like to know what Kanye West thinks about this
George Bush on Today said Kanye's comments was the worst moment of his presidency. Yep, worst than Katrina itself, 9/11, or anything else.
Said he didn't appreciate because it was as if Kanye was calling him a racist and he is most assuredly not racist and wants everyone to have an opportunity to succeed.
It's just he didn't want the oppressive hand of government helping them succeed in escaping rising flood waters, I guess. Because then they would expect the government to help every time New Orleans gets flooded when instead those shiftless old blacks need to drag their oxygen tanks out to the canals and throw sandbags in any breaches themselves.
Plus, his buddy Brownie had been fired from his horse-judging job; what was he supposed to do, not hire him?
"Yo Terry, I'm really happy for you, and I'ma let you finish, but Robert Downey Jr. in Tropic Thunder did one of the best blackfaces of all time!"
SECEDE YOU MOTHEWRFUCKERFS@!!!!!!! /fuck.
Or just let the Blue States secede. It's not like we need the Red States for anything.
Frankly, I don't see the harm in some good ol' fashion Tennessee racism.
She's not a racist. Just ask her best friend Uncle Ben.
Or Uncle Tom…
She's Spider-Man's Aunt May?
Oh — that reminds me of what was missing from Arielle's last post — strange fruit.
In his defense, that's a really easy costume if you can't think of a good one. Especially for a fat guy who likes fake-maple corn syrup on his pancakes.
Especially for a fat racist guy who likes fake-maple corn syrup on his pancakes and wishes he was a large black woman cause he seems to always have a hankering for large black co /fixed
I sure hope someone pointed out to him that the rest of us are unfairly forced to subsidize his corn syrup addiction and future diabetes.
A pastor dressing up in blackface caricature? Good heavens! Why, the next thing you know we'll find out the Pope dressed up like a Nazi.
Aunt Jemima is a fraud. Real syrup comes from Vermont. And there are no blacks in VT.
For reasons even I don't understand, I need to be clear on this. Is the pastor a man or a woman? Is the person not only in blackface, but also cross-dressing?
According to the video link it's a man.
Thanks, I didn't watch the video — too depressing. Why don't we just make Skoal Rebel the king of Tennessee and get it over with?
HA! Tennessee would never allow a woman pastor. But they aren't sexist, some of their best moms are women.
But that guy who dressed as a Nazi lost his race, amirite?
Yes, his Aryan race.
Yes, this guy isn't really in blackface. He is simply an historical reenactor. Though in truth I have no interest in seeing his recruitment video.
Ohio is lousy with small-n nazis! Especially around Cincinnati.
Speaking of Cincy, I got to lay eyes on the Terminator Touchdown Jesus when I was driving down there from Dayton last month! Win!
I'm sure the "independents" (retards) are kicking themselves right now….or eating playdoh
Play Doh is an elitist brand. They're probably just eating boogers.
I saw some eating white paste, although they didn't have access to any Playdoh which is probably why, and it tastes good.
Library paste is a gateway food and leads inexorably to the eating of lead-based paint chips.
Hey, another day that ends in 'y' & another racist Republican. If she thinks she's the 'least racist' person she knows, I'd hate to see who she thinks is the most racist.
The only mystery is why these people are so stupid to post it on their FB accounts where anyone can see it.
Let me take a wild guess. Al Sharpton.
The pastor is a dude, right? So it's all innocent fun. Nobody is calling him a sexist, are they? And what's more, he was dressed as a black female member of a pentecostal church, rather than Southern Baptist. That was the real joke. You see, Baptists don't really love pentecostals. It's funny!
This is exactly the same humorless, PC attitude I ran into this Halloween when I dressed in scrubs and an eyepatch, carrying a bloody coathanger, and wearing a nametag "Dr. Tiller." IT'S A JOKE, PEOPLE! Lighten up!
Oh wait, was that racist!?
Which brings to mind that old chestnut: Why don't southern baptists fuck standing up? Because people might think they are dancing. Badabing!
Or the other one: What's the difference between Methodists and Baptists? Methodists wave to each other in the liquor store.
Or, from that there fishing movie, "A Methodist is a Baptist who can read."
Bwahaha! I never heard that one.
Why should you always take two Baptists fishing with you? If you only take one, he'll drink all your beer.
Check out the awesome unofficial website for the county where she lives. It's Snopetastic!
http://smithcounty.com/
Fuck me sideways.
A p for your bio.
Sweet. I never have to worry about an overwhelming desire to move to Smith County, Tennessee.
I, personally, would like to apologize on behalf of Smith County, Tennessee, and for all fundie Christians, everywhere, who think like that. My Lord, my strength: ign'ance like that makes Baby Jesus drink himself to sleep at night.
Did you notice the sidebar that linked to "games to help pass the time"? Because idle hands are the devil's handiwork, no doubt. No because there's not one DAMN THING to do in Smith County.
He should have dressed up as a pig-in-a-blanket (pork sausage rolled up in a pancake).
He does. Every night at bed time.
We're all good. Used the great apology line time tested by sleazeballs everywhere: "I'm sorry if I offended anyone"
stupid bitch
That, and the Facebook Defense. I'll have to try that sometime — "But officer, it was on my facebook, so there!"
Needs moar ghost of Nat Turner cutting that fat racist fuck's head off.
Damn…I was so hoping there would be comments on that story with tons of goobers trying to claim that we are the bad people for thinking that there is anything wrong with someone dressing in blackface…ugh…so disappointing…
Give it time … they're probably still busy making another commando raid onto the librul sites and pasting the same stupid crap about 1000 times.
It's like the Goonies; if they find the treasure ("destroy the liberals"), they will prevent the destruction of their homes ("country").
This must be a new Noth America-wide costume trend.
The worst part? The local newspaper took a poll and apparently the readers are torn ~ 50/50 about whether the stunt counts as "racist" or "humourous".
Anyway, the moral of the story is moving to Canada will not get you farther away from racist douchebags, in case you were thinking about it.
They didn't have an option for "humorously racist"? Not that that would have been my choice.
I've seen Ghostwatchers, so I know: There's an orb in that photo! How haunting.
Seriously, people, lighten up. It's not like the KKK ever killed anyo,… Uh, I mean a little rope around a man's neck never did anyone any har… Oh for fuck's sake, really, Canada? Really? 1st prize?
Since they are mocking the U.S., I'd just chock it up to "political statement" aboot how Canada is not the U.S., thank you, even though it is, and they all know it.
She wasn't screaming "Ni99er!" or trying to kill anybody with brown skin, y'all. So how could she be racist? "It's all in good fun." Y'all just don't know how to have fun, Tennessee style.
I do so know how to have fun, Tennessee style. Bend over & squeal like a pig.
Oh, please. Didn't he get the memo yesterday? Orange is the new black and you don't have to limit it to your face either.
"Jemima, you is mah woman now!"
A foolish young man
From a middle class fam'ly
Started singin' the blues
'Cause he thought it was manly
Now he talks like the Kingfish
("Saffiiiee!")
From Amos 'n Andy
("Holy mack'l dere . . . Holy mack'l dere!")
He tells you that chitlins . . .
(Chitlins!)
Well, they taste just like candy
He thinks that he's got
De whole thang down
From the Nivea Lotion
To de Royal Crown
My pastor dresses up as Minnie Pearl and I think he looks just sweet.
"Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic — you don't mind going through a little bush to get there!"
- Miss Minnie Pearl
So what does he wear on Halloween?
i have ancestors buried in tennessee but probably not deep enough. i do not think they are spinning in their graves over the lingering racism so many in their state still seem eager to volunteer for.
as for me, i know not what course others may take, but i left tennessee before i was born. fuck all, it was before i was even conceived i got the hell out.
"I was born in Alabama but I had only lived there a month before I had done everything that there is to do. Even as an infant I was bored and crawled to the state line." — Paula Poundstone
Once you go flapjack, you never go back.
Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver is facing criticism after posting a picture on the Internet that some are calling racially offensive.
Some call it racially offensive. Others say it's an interesting debate and both sides make good points. I mean, after all we've done for those people, where's the harm in bringing back some old stereotypes? Are we supposed to pretend forever that we've become sensitive to our nation's long history of race-based injustice?
Gah, I hate everyone. I'd like to volunteer for that mission to Mars that involves never coming back to Earth.
OK, I am probably over-tired but for some insane reason this made me weep like a baby, not the epic tsunmai-wave losses of last night, but this stupid, stupid person who has not a lick of sense in her brain and cannot comprehend that this is racist…yes this made me cry.
Man up, Lizzie!
Its time to start telling people that I'm Canadian when I travel overseas again.
Well, you're living in that strange place called 'murica, so it's either laugh, cry, or shoot an office full of co-workers. Those are your choices.
What if I work from home?
What you are "over-tired" of is some more of the same bullshit that makes so many wheels spin in this flawed, flawed nation of ours. This shit is so deeply ingrained, I guarangoddamntee you that when these poor nincompoops issue these apologies and claim that some of their "greatest friends" are black that it is as true as it can be- for them. I had so many friends in high school that used to say-and I'm dead serious here- that I was the only black person that they would ever consent to speak to, and openly used the "magic word" around me all of the time. I was different, you see. If you want to know how someone really feels about any minority, let one of their kids bring a member of said minority home and present them as a significant other. The truth will out, trust. In other words, darling Lizzie, hook up an IV, fill that bitch with your drink of choice, and do the best that you can.
You're not like other blacks, are you?
Haha, no! I am not nearly as cool. And my hair won't stay in dreadlocks, no matter how hard I try :(
Don't say you're not cool! You hang out at Wonkette–and Wonkette is the very apotheosis of cool!
Sorry to hear that Lizzie. Unfortunately, this is our history and, probably, our future (at least until we boomers die out).
Mr. Booth, I wish I agreed with your hopeful outlook. I'm a few steps farther out in the hinterland than Smith County, but I can tell you with confidence that there is a whole generation — or more accurately, a succession of younger generations — ready to replenish the ranks of the other side of the culture war. Skoal Rebel has a surprisingly large ilk.
Are you trying to make me cry, too?
Someday soon, I hope, you'll nip over for a spot of tea and a good chin wag at the old house deep in the Kentish countryside. We'll look out through the French doors in the parlour at the bunnies gamboling on the lawn and this will all seem like a bad, bad dream.
These two years have been a torrent of
thinly disguisedundisguised racism. I can only give you a thumbs up and toast you with my favorite bourbon. Have hope, soldier on!I'm coming to a lot of this a little late today, but I think basically share your POV. In any case, my own POV is "Oh, fuck. I'm 63. Haven't we gotten beyond this? Even a little?"
The only positive thought I can advance is that, while my kids can certainly be assholes (hey, they learned it from me), they couldn't do this shit. And I mean "couldn't". They're not completely "color-blind" (who is?), but they can recognize a pointless insult when they see it.
Still, fuck it.
Wonkette, I know it's news, and I know it's relevant, but please stop reposting stories about my beloved volunteer state and its volunteer racism. We are not all classless bigoted fucksticks — despite the overwhelming evidence (photos, videos, forwarded emails) to prove it.
"What? Shits and giggles, guys! Just shits and giggles!" is what he said, but in its original German it came across as: "I'm just a raging, flatulent asshole with some seriously fucked world views because of the Joos." Bad PA system? Probably not.
Watched the video. Delicious irony in the story being delivered by a black anchorman as he deadpans "…under fire for posting a picture on the Internet that SOME call racially offensive." And a black reporter too. Win!
I love the Senate lady's epic hat… she and the other guy they interviewed must be the only 2 Democrats left in all of Tennessee now.
So, it's been about 147 years since the Battle of Gettysburg. Maybe by 2157 all of the fucking racist DNA out there will have drained from our national gene pool, or am I overly optimistic?
By 2157 they'll probably be re-enacting the Battle of I-70 which took place in 2033. But just because they ride around in replica antique scooters doesn't mean they're racists.
That's my Senator, Thelma Harper! She is famous for her hats. I love her so.
You're overly optimistic! It's nurture, not nature.
What a coincidence, some of my greatest friends are dumb fucks from Tennessee.
That is SO SWEET! Bless her heart.
Give the pastor a break, everyone. He wasn't dressed as Aunt Jemima. This was his heartfelt Halloween tribute to trail breaking actress Hattie McDaniel.
Jemima done had breast reduction surgery. Guess they threw it in half-price with the lobotomy.
If his focus was even the least bit correct, he would have gone ahead and gotten a fupa reduction and a penile enlargement.
"Some of my greatest friends are black." Nope. No waffling, at least.
Well, ah give up. I thought you danged librulz wanted diversity?
Why is Wonkette getting sooo up in arms about just a little black face when they conveniently ignore Obama's BLATANT ANTI-WHITE RACISM when he said Republicans had to ride in the back, of which he meant ride in the back of the bus like The Blacks(tm) or else be beaten by his New Black Panther police officers like my granddaddy did proudly to put food on the table?
Is that a crossdressing man? Jeebus didn't like crossdressers! (But Aqua Buddha does….)
great, ANOTHER potential gop presidential hopeful enters the national spotlight.
Watch for her kids on Dancing with the Stars.
what a stirring rendition of "mammy" they will deliver.
Yes, but I'm guessing by next cycle you will have to be both in blackface AND in an SS uniform to be a viable candidate.
Sorry, but "some of my best friends are black" won't cut it this time. She needs to give Al Sharpton a live blowjob on Fox to prove she's not racist.
No surpises here.
Is that Pugsly Limbaugh in the Jemima outfit? Oh no, the tits are too small.
You're being obtuse, Wonkette. He's obviously come as Jeremiah Wright.
It's okay, because she didn't know that blackface was offensive. Srsly.
http://www.wsmv.com/politics/25625991/detail.html
Right, because he was dressed up "as syrup". Why don't these people just admit it was wrong??? I guess because in somewhere like Tennessee, people buy this racist BS.
Syrup? Then he seriously fucked up his Mrs. Butterworth's costume.
…she then added, " I was just excited because it's been a coon's age since I saw anyone in blackface."
Watch the video for the perfect rendition of the "I is so dum" defense.
There WILL BE a quiz tomorrow.
Where's that gang of n****rs when you need them?
I remember.
God I'm OLD!!!
Shit, my father dressed up as Aunt Jemima for Halloween once back in the 70s. If I ever want to be President la Volpe, I have one of two options:
1) Burn the pictures
2) Become a Republican
Either way, problem solved.
I see she's one of those military-fetishizer types. We're not fit to tie her combat boots, or she's not fit to tie their combat boots, or something like that.
O HAI, she has a guestbook!
Aw, but the website states: "We are currently implementing new protocols to combat spam and other unauthorized postings." Which I assume means they figured out how to delete the hundreds of comments that Wonkette readers have already hit them with. This is actually shows a high degree of tech savvy for a Republican.
Gah. keeps saying invalid data. I'll assume just blocks all messages including the phrase "fuck you and your fat friend there, the one in the blackface" and call it a night.
Once you go Jemima you never go back.
I remember. I am old too. The Flip Wilson Show and all the other variety shows were on the teevee and I would watch. I also remember "Geraldine" on Hollywood Squares — not the Whoopie Goldberg version, but the one with Paul Lynde.
If you are ever in the Boston area you must let me know so I can buy you a coffee or something much stronger and we can share kid stories and pictures. You are my hero after having the patience to school that fuckwad.
I love Boston. Used to live there. Would love to have some coffee and/or cocktail. If you are ever in the San Francisco area let me know.
At first I thought he was threatening me with his ghilly suit, but I think that guy wanted to make me his girlfriend. /shiver
Too bad I am not into the "paranoid sasquatch" type.
For what it's worth, ghillie suits can be put to PEACEFUL purposes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJKythlXAIY
Reason #8357 why I hate white people.
Meg? Is that you?
Terri Lynn doesn't want to have anything to do, with anything black, for at least a week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C45g3YP7JOk&fe…
Someone needs to take this woman down to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, methinks.
Whoah, racist republicans. Who would have thought of that?
Ted Danson has really let himself go.
That's a great Halloween costume!!
And that's all it is!
Gawd, it's Halloween!
It's not unusual here to see people in blackface on Halloween. Hahaz! Blackface! Million unthinking laughz! My question, has anyone ever seen any Af-Am folks wear whiteface on Hallows? I've never seen this myself and I sorta doubt it is as common as the whitez with blackface.
And by "friends", she means her nanny and maid.
Tennessee really elected a bunch of winners this time around. This lady's a brand new state legislator-elect. And yes, she does have a funny name. http://www.sheilabutt.com/books.htm My faves are "Seth and Sara Ask: Does God Love Michael's Two Daddies?" and "Everyday Princess: Daughter of the King," which exhorts teenage girls to date within their own race because it's more "helpful" and "beneficial." You just can't make this shit up.
Well, we're making her the butt of jokes.
Google her. See the sad smile, those eyes. She's been beaten.
And not in the good way.
I am sure Republicans will blast Democrat for bringing up the race card on this subject
How dare Democrats bring up the race here!
I'm not racist, I LIKE pancakes!
Do not, I repeat, do not travel to The Netherlands around the Christmas holiday if you do not like blackface.
(Although those Dutch girls are cute in their blackface and "joker" outfits, actually. I'd hit it.)
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