Sheridan parade driver defends 'Lying African' Obama golf cart

[left-of-center2012]

Source: indystar.com

An entry in Sheridan's (Indiana) Independence Day Parade included what many are calling a racist depiction of President Obama in a toilet and the words "Lying African."

"The parade, it's for kids. This is Independence Day," said Darryl Brownie, 31. "It was just wrong."
Brownie was at the parade with his wife and four children, ages 2 through 9, when he saw the golf cart and started taking photos. He posted the pictures on Facebook because he wanted to let the public know "how disrespectful it was."

The golf cart displayed signs for presidential candidate Donald Trump on the roof. The driver wore an orange prison suit and a blond wig.
Don Christy, 73, Sheridan, told IndyStar that he drove the golf cart in the parade. He said he didn't fill out an entry form. He said he lined up with other floats at the high school parking lot and was waved along when the parade started.

"I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican," Christy said. "I'm a patriot."

Christy said he is tired of political correctness and was just trying to be funny. The display was not intended to be racist, he said. Christy agreed that others have a right to be offended, just as he has the right to express his views.

"I apologize to anyone I offended, which would be a total liberal. I have my right to say things," Christy said. "Isn't that what the Fourth of July's about? Freedom."

Sheridan Police Chief Robert Shock said Tuesday morning that he had not yet heard any complaints about the golf cart.



Read more: http://www.indystar.com/story/news/local/hamilton-county/2016/07/05/sheridan-parade-float-depicts-obama-toilet/86698760/

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I have cousins in Indiana. They keep trying to 'friend' me on Facebook, but I decline.

[yardwork]

1. It's shocking that nobody in charge stopped this.

If somebody had tried to participate in the parade dressed as a Muslim or a Satanist, for instance, would they have been stopped?

[pandr32]

2. This is disgraceful

Hard to believe there were no people confronting this obscenity at the parade and refusing to let it continue along. It would have felt impossible for me not to.

[Lance Bass esquire]

3. I would have lost it if I brought my kids there.

Not a violent man but it would have come to blows.
Just pure racism on public display.

And they have a hissey fit if LGBT have a parade.

Fools

[narnian60]

28. +1000

[progree]

4. I've heard it said that Indiana is the upraised middle finger of the South

[PatSeg]

5. Absolutely disgusting

[William Seger]

6. Yeah, "just trying to be funny"

... by pretending to be a racist, not intending to be a racist. Fuckwit.

[maxsolomon]

7. "I'm not a Democrat. I'm not a Republican," Christy said. "I'm a patriot."

Uh-huh.

My sister lives in SE IN. It is pure Trump country - many people live there without ever seeing anyone but other conservative white people. They literally know not what they do.

[William Seger]

8. Well of course they support Trump

The top sign should say "Vote for the lying white conservative bigot."

[maxsolomon]

9. Except conservative white bigots

don't think they are bigots. They live a cloistered existence.

[William Seger]

11. I think they know that they are...

... exactly what the term "bigot" means, but to them, white conservative bigots are just "Patriots." (I came from a very racist and bigoted part of the country and still have relatives there, myself.)

[maxsolomon]

13. tomayto/tomahto.

I'm just saying that, in a lot of ways, they're naïve. They're more convinced that librul city slickers are bigoted against their "real" American values.

Last time I was there (May) their main value seems to be mowing acres and acres of grass. That's all I saw anyone doing.

[olddad56]

26. what does the word patriot mean in this day and age?

does it mean a person supports the illegal invasion of the middle east by the Bush crime family, does it mean that as a nation, we are so ignorant that we will believe and support anything that we see on Faux news and donate billions to elect wealthy crooks to lie to us and rule our lives while they steal our money and make more and more of the world uninhabitable? All the while pretending we are free and the good guys in the world.

[MohRokTah]

10. He's a racist piece of shit.

Pretty damned obvious there.

[Ilsa]

12. I guess we need to bring water-based paints to parades.

This float deserved a dousing for rudeness. Or just run up behind it and paint the sign, remove the effigy.

[Ilsa]

14. I'm sick of this excuse about hating political correctness

to justify being a hateful, bigotted citizen.

[Laser102]

20. So am I. If you are a racist, you have no right to impose your bigotry on any one. Shame on him.

[Person 2713]

23. OH yes did you notice how that works?

[left-of-center2012]

15. And the Chief of Police said ...

"Hey ~ no one complained."

[sinkingfeeling]

16. It's Indiana. Drove through in June and refused to spend the night

night there. Drove Englewood, Ohio and until midnight for motel room (Ohio's not that much better any more.)

[left-of-center2012]

17. I've got relatives in oHIo too

Right wingers, sad to say.

[seabeckind]

18. Far fringe of a donut county around Indianapolis

White flight took off in the decades after the civil rights movement. Did I mention busing?

Marion Cty (center) -- The racial makeup was 62.7% white, 26.7% black or African American

North: Hamilton Cty (where this town is) -- The racial makeup was 88.5% white, 3.5% black or African American
East: Hancock County -- racial makeup was 95.2% white, 2.1% black or African American
Southeast: Shelby County -- racial makeup was 95.4% white, 1.0% black or African American
South: Johnson County -- racial makeup was 93.9% white, 1.1% black or African American
Southwest: Morgan County -- racial makeup was 97.7% white, 0.3% black or African American
West: Hendricks County -- racial makeup 90.1% white, 4.9% black or African American
Northwest: Boone County -- racial makeup 95.3% white, 0.9% black or African American

Sunset counties are the donut. If you're black, be gone by sunset. And the farther you get on the donut the whiter it gets.

Sheridan isn't the exception. It's the rule.

Obama carried Indiana in 2008 on the strength of the minorities in the urban areas coupled with the collegiate educational areas and the white working class who were hurt by the outsourcing and loss of industry.

He lost Indiana in 2012 because the latter two groups felt abandoned.

There's a lesson here. If the democrats want to regain Indiana, read 2008. If they want to keep it, read 2012.

[Delphinus]

19. Great reminder.

Thank you for this.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

21. ‘I have my right to say things’: Parade driver defends depiction of Obama as ‘lying African’

‘I have my right to say things’: Parade driver defends depiction of Obama as ‘lying African’

By Lindsey Bever July 5 at 4:24 PM
@lindseybever

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."

[muntrv]

27. Yeah Don! And we have a right to say you're full of shit!

[jpak]

22. Trump = racist = GOP

spread the word

yup

[Jeb Bartlet]

24. He's old

he'll be dead soon and no one will care or remember that he even existed.

[mainer]

25. It's the lack of condemnation by Indy officials that's most disgusting

by your silence, you speak volumes. You are, by your lack of reaction, racists.