U.S. may embrace Obama, Aggie racism marches on, yet
November 13th, 2008 | Published in US, politics, rant | Tags: aggies, election, Obama, President, racism
This happened on the evening of Nov. 4th. After Obama was pronounced as the new president of USA, a bunch of us decided to hit a near by bar for a few drinks. When we got there, we saw a bunch of Aggies with T-shirts that said “Beat the hell outta Obama”. Before I go any further, the message on the T-shirt is not to be taken literally, or as a racist comment. It’s an old Ag tradition that started with “Beat the hell outta (University of) Texas”, and now they just change the last word to anything they want. So don’t associate this with the lynching to black men in the southern slave states.
So yeah, when I saw those T-shirts, I knew they were Aggies and they were Republicans. As Obama was giving his acceptence speech we started hearing comments that went something like this:
He made it because the pussy liberals wanted to vote for a Muslim…
Looks like gold teeth and fried chicken will now be tax exempt…
We now have an Arab for a president. Looks like the terrorists won…
And I am not making any of this up! The Aggies are notorious for their racist views, hate, and bias anyway. Patrix’s post on Egg tossing at Obama (an incident which made it to the national news) should give you an idea of how antiquated (almost pre-integration) the Aggies’ ideology is. In fact, my earlier post about Aggie racism suggests an institutional investment in fostering such an environment.
In other news: Here’s what a (University of) Texas football player Buck Brunette had to say about Obama’s election “All the hunters gather up, we have a [nigger] in the White House.” That’s what he said on his Facebook page and was promptly kicked off the team.
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