TX judge defends his poster showing Obama supporters as criminals: ‘I don’t consider it racist'

[marmar]

from ThinkProgress:



Texas judge defends his racist poster showing Obama supporters as criminals: ‘I don’t consider it racist.’

Judge Tom Head is under fire for an offensive poster he put up on a public bulletin board in the Lubbock, TX county courthouse. The poster shows nine arrest photos of people wearing Obama t-shirts, accompanied by the text:

Did you ever see anyone arrested wearing a Bush T-shirt, or for you older folks, an Eisenhower?, Gerald Ford?, Ronald Reagan?, even Nixon?, or any political t-shirt? There MUST be a message here, but I can’t quite grasp it, or maybe I’m afraid to.

Above the pictures is a fake narration of a person waking up, putting on an Obama t-shirt, holding up a convenience store, buying drugs, and beating his wife. County commissioners have since removed the poster. But Head is standing by it, saying, “I don’t consider it racist. I still don’t.” The poster seems to have first popped up on an online conservative message board, posted by “tom2″ in Texas. “tom2″ said that he received the image and text from his nephew.


http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/11/lubbock-poster-obama/

[AspenRose]

1. I hope someone is keeping a running count of these things happening

It will make for an interesting book

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. Here's my list so far:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=258x5893

[TexasObserver]

2. Recommend

[Ishoutandscream2]

3. Not only incredibly racist, but look at his list of presidents

not one a democrat. Seems that he is has a republican agenda as well. Wait a minute - being a republican today is, essentially, being a racist.

[muntrv]

4. Nixon WAS a criminal, Judge Dumbfuck.

Liddy and Colson, anyone?

[Botany]

10. ATTN Judge Dumbfuck

Name the only President in history w/ an arrest record?

That would be W. DUI, theft, vandalism, and that strange year W had to report to the
Martin Luther King Youth Center in Houston, TX every day @ 8:00 AM for exactly one year ...
some might say that was a community service sentence for Cocaine.


http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_F8BKBeQdYnM/Sm97hwMurvI/AAAAAAAAJk8/MzpQGdmhCxE/s400/Tom+Head.jpg

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BTW a short google search shows that he is an asshole

[Cha]

13. Poor StruckDumb-

Fuck.

[babylonsister]

5. Jeebus. nt

[SemiCharmedQuark]

7. I don't like the idea of bringing politics into the courthouse full stop.

[ddeclue]

8. Someone has a disbarrment in their future..

:eyes:

[BlueIdaho]

Ah yes, the return of Judge Roy Butthead... lucky us. nt.

[TroubleMan]

9. I'd be hard pressed to find anybody who ever wore a Gerald Ford t-shirt .

LOL.

[Glorfindel]

15. I used to have a "Re-Elect President Ford" button

It drew a lot of frowns until people thought a minute and got the joke. That was many years ago when Georgia was the most Democratic state in the union. Before the dark days.

[democrank]

11. Ah, yes....another racist.

Some wear hoods, some wear robes.....

[Cha]

12. And, this guy is a judge? How is he going to be fair

at his trials?

[izquierdista]

17. It's Lubbock

Fair means getting done with the trial before the jury gets hungry for lunch.

[MadMaddie]

14. How does any minority get a fair trial in this judges court?

[PA Democrat]

16. And Timothy McVeigh was arrested wearing a t-shirt with Abraham Lincoln's picture on it

and a quote by Thomas Jefferson on the back. Judge Head, do you want to reconsider your remarks?

[Robb]

18. Well, McVeigh had on a Lincoln shirt

Well, kind of.

[Uzybone]

19. A judge???

How will the racism deniers defend this one.

[Karenina]

20. . .