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The "Drunken Negro Head Cookies" (AKA "Drunken Negro Face Cookies"), pictured above, are obviously offensive and racist. The proprietor of the store, feigning innocence, is said to have told a patron:
"Would you like some drunken negro heads to go with your coffee? They're in honor of our new president. He's following in the same path of Abraham Lincoln; he will get his."
Later, her friend stopped by the bakery and said Kefalinos corrected her about the name of the cookies—they're actually drunken "N-word" cookies. She says the backwards baker then repeated the dark suggestion that, like Lincoln, President Obama "will get what's coming to him." Go Secret Service, go!
No matter what you may think of the policies of the new President, what sort of message does this send to the country? Let's not forget that speaking in this manner could get you a visit from the Secret Service, but even without that, is that what conservatives want? Murder?
Let's not forget that John McCain said in his concession speech:
I urge all Americans who supported me to join me in not just congratulating him, but offering our next president our goodwill and earnest effort to find ways to come together, to find the necessary compromises, to bridge our differences and help restore our prosperity, defend our security in a dangerous world, and leave our children and grandchildren a stronger, better country than we inherited.
Do "Drunken Negro Head Cookies" signal a coming together to you?
Posted January 26th, 2009 by Michael Santo
