This is the headline one of the local papers here in New York, the WestView News, ran.
Now they claimed that this headline and the article that goes with it was actually written in support of the president, mocking the blatant racists who oppose the president simply because he is black. But to me that doesn’t matter. There are just certain things that should not be said and this is one of them.
What ever happened to common decency?
The singer uploaded a snapshot of 13-year-old Rocco Ritchie boxing on Friday night, with the offensive epithet used in a hashtag accompanying the photo.
“I am sorry if I offended anyone with my use of the ‘n-word’,” she said in a statement issued on Saturday.
“It was not meant as a racial slur. I am not a racist. There’s no way to defend the use of the word.”
Madonna’s comment was swiftly deleted from her Instagram account after some of her 1.1 million followers berated her for using the hashtag “#disnigga”
She later re-posted the same photo on Instagram, with a defiant (and largely unprintable) new caption that began: “Ok, let me start this again.”
On Saturday afternoon however, Madonna deleted the post entirely, and instead released a statement through her publicist, saying “forgive me”.
“It was all about intention,” she continued. “It was used as a term of endearment toward my son who is white.
“I appreciate that it’s a provocative word and I apologize if it gave people the wrong impression.”
Besides Rocco, Madonna has three other children, including Lourdes, David and Mercy. Her two youngest were both adopted from the African nation of Malawi.
The star came under fire earlier this month for posting a separate picture of Rocco on New Year’s Eve, in which he and his friends posed with bottles of alcohol.
Madonna responded: “No one was drinking, we were just having fun!
“Calm down and get a sense of humour! Don’t start the year off with judgement!”
We are a civilized society. wink wink.
Marsters, a retired Massachusetts police officer…posted a photo of Obama along with a link to a story about a Republican push to impeach the president at 8:17 p.m. Friday, writing “Shoot the Nigger” above it, according to the newspaper.
Marsters told the [Portland] Press Herald that after his Facebook post was flagged to local law enforcement by other residents, he was visited by both the Secret Service and the CIA. He said he told the Secret Service agents who questioned him that he didn’t intend to threaten the president.
Marsters told the Press Herald in a telephone interview that his post was taken out of context.
“I think it’s a lot of hogwash,” he said. “I did not threaten the president. … I might have used the wrong words. … I didn’t say I was going to do it.”
“What I really meant to say is, ‘When are we going to get rid of this (expletive),’” Marsters added. “I should have said, ‘I hope the bastard dies.’”
As if to personify the panic brought on by President Obama‘s demographically overwhelming reelection victory, a California woman named Denise Helms took to Facebook Tuesday night to commiserate with fellow embittered white people, posting “Another 4 years of this nigger. Maybe he will get assassinated this term.”
She was subsequently fired from her job at Cold Stone Creamery, but insisted to a local news crew that, although “the assassination part is kind of harsh,” she’s not a racist. Asked “But you equate the President with the n-word?” Helms replied, “Sure.”
Helms told Fox 40, outside her soon-to-be former place of employment, that “the assassination part is kind of harsh … and I’m not saying I would go do that by any means, but if it were to happen, I don’t think I would care one bit.”
She also claimed that she wasn’t a racist, and that she has friends of “many different nationalities.”
h/t Mediaite
