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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'I have my right to say things’: Parade driver defends depiction of Obama as 'lying African'
The man behind a Fourth of July parade entry that depicted President Obama as a "Lying African" in one of the last major parades during his presidency has defended the controversial float, saying it was meant to be taken in jest.
Seventy-three-year-old Don Christy wore an orange prison jumpsuit and a shaggy blond wig as he drove a golf cart displaying a campaign poster for presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on Monday in the Independence Day parade in Sheridan, near Indianapolis.
The parade entry seemed to show an Obama effigy sitting on a toilet that read "Royal Flush."
"I apologize to anyone I offended, which would be a total liberal," Christy told the Indianapolis Star amid community outcry. "I have my right to say things. Isn't that what the Fourth of July's about? Freedom."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/05/i-have-my-right-to-say-things-parade-driver-defends-depiction-of-obama-as-lying-african/?postshare=9741467767252808&tid=ss_tw
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'I have my right to say things’: Parade driver defends depiction of Obama as 'lying African' (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2016
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Odin2005
(53,521 posts)1. If your only argument is "it's technically not illegal" it is probably a shitty argument.
roamer65
(36,748 posts)2. ...and we have the right to call you a racist asshole, Donny. N/t
Donnie needs to control his supporters.
Orrex
(63,291 posts)4. Unsurprising attitude from Trump's Chumps.
spanone
(135,950 posts)5. "I apologize to anyone I offended, which would be a total liberal." FUCK YOU, DON.
shove your non-apology up your bigoted racist ass