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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVendor Sells 'Official Runnin' N****r Target' At South Dakota Gun Show
A vendor at a gun show this weekend in Sioux Falls, S.D. was spotted selling shooting targets with a cartoonish depiction of a black man and bearing the words "Official Runnin' N****r Target," television station KSFY reported on Sunday.
While a crew from KSFY was reporting on the "Collector's Classic Gun Show," one of the station's photographers noticed the targets showing the cartoonish silhouette. The KSFY photographer confronted the unidentified vendor who was selling the targets for 10 cents each and who was unfazed by the photographer's questions.
"Why are those on there?" KSFY's photographer asked.
"Why aren't they?" the vendor said. "They're just targets."
"Aren't they offensive in nature?" the photographer asked.
"To who? Are you a negro?" the vendor said. "You know there's some black people and then there's some negroes."
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KamaAina
(78,249 posts)samsingh
(17,598 posts)lack of gun laws and police brutality are used to harass the black population.
fu Clarence.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Just sayin...
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)The racists get dumber even as their opinions get more widespread. Make no mistake, this is only an inch away from the racist trash and race-baiters who inhabit - ahem - every corner of the Internet.
Adrahil
(13,340 posts)I bet that kind of bullshit is STILL how the racists manage to tell themselves that they're OK.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)and anyone who bought one.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)I'm sure attitudes like yours have helped to bring about a string of gun control successes you'll be filling us in on Real Soon Now...
(I'll bet you didn't even notice that the management kicked that racist asshole out of the show...)
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Got any more stereotypes to trot out for us? Some more 'gun owner porn', perhaps?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)To save your time:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dualism
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)a lot of gunners like that stuff.
NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)Your comments to me have always been snarky and somewhat hostile. Is it just that you don't like me, or do you just kind of have some aggression that you need to get out?
Anyway, have a nice evening. I'm going to meditate for a while and get mentally prepared for Justified.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)Actually that's probably a true statement, there are many people in South Asia and the Pacific who have extremely dark skin yet aren't Negroid.
But that isn't what this asshole meant, otherwise he would not have titled his creation the Runnin' N****r Target.
I've heard the same bullshit for years from some of the dumbasses in my family, "there's black people and then there's n****rs". But when I ask them to name someone they would consider a "black person" they are oddly unable to name one person.
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)Don't buy those cheap knock-offs. You'll only regret it.
Comrade Grumpy
(13,184 posts)There is a lot of racism in the state, mostly directed at Indians. (I've heard them charmingly referred to as "prairie n******s".)
There are hardly any black people in the state. My high school of 900 students had one.
Fortunately for the local rednecks, there have been new arrivals for them to hate on: First, Mexicans, and now, Hmong.
Sadly, racism there seems to be positively correlated with being poor and working class white.
daredtowork
(3,732 posts)Response to DonViejo (Original post)
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arcane1
(38,613 posts)cali
(114,904 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)justalovebug
(41 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Wish this guy could be investigated. Weird, it was only coming out west that I learned it was as racist as we were always taught the South was.
We were taught about the murder of laborers from China, what being Shanghai'd meant. too. And how Spanish land grants were nullified and citizens of Japanese ancestry in internment camps were robbed of their land. Not even to mention the indian wars and the environmental disasters caused by greed and arrogance.
But the rest, I had to get here to learn the history, that of an ugly string of depredations on POC. One would have hoped that South Dakota had learned better. Oh, well, probably GOP, too.