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Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor

 

If You Don't Think This Is Racist, I Would Honestly Love To Hear What You WOULD Consider Racist.

Reached by telephone and asked if she thought the email was appropriate, Davenport said, “Oh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people—mostly people I didn’t think would be upset by it.”

  1. tafadhali said: Uggggggh. Also, every time something happens in Orange County, I am like, “I bet I went to school with your *kids*, ugh, ugh, ugh,” and I am once again glad I moved to the East Coast in middle school.
  2. davidquigg reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
    ======================= Yes, American history makes an image depicting Obama as the ape child of ape parents...
  3. lostinhistory said: But she has friends who are black, so that makes it okay! Bitch, please.
  4. austentranslation reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
    last half hour ranting to my roommate about this. HOW do these people exist??? HOW do people think
  5. peachtreekeen reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
    black.” - Strom Thurmond
  6. yeahiwasintheshit reblogged this from zainyk
  7. sprink-smidge reblogged this from lazybookreviews
  8. roman-numerals said: I’m SO tired of the “I can say this because I have friends who are part of the particular demographic I am about to make fun of” policy. Shut the fuck up, being associated with the butt of your unfunny joke doesn’t immunize you from being an asshole.
  9. luigimonstre reblogged this from zainyk
  10. thusspakekate reblogged this from bitchslap-barbie and added:
    SoCal republicans are the worst. When I was living out there there was a similar scandal, one of the Inland Empire...
  11. labroselove reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
    This is such a ridiculous blow up of something harmless. The person...sent it out...
  12. alexandrahamilton said: Holy shit.
  13. bitchslap-barbie reblogged this from bookling-stormborn and added:
    Hooooooly CRAP. If that’s not racist, then I don’t know what is. …Wow. Why am I not surprised that she trotted out “But...
  14. zainyk reblogged this from librariansoul and added:
    Nope, nothing racist here move along, he has many black friends, all of whom thought this was very funny no doubt.
  15. baileyeverywhere said: I have friends who are black I have friends who are black I have friends who are black Well *I* have friends who are walking stereotypes and somehow blissfully unaware of that, so
  16. librariansoul reblogged this from lazybookreviews
  17. bookling-stormborn reblogged this from lazybookreviews and added:
    she knew before she...it says plenty. She knew it was offensive.
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