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Related: About this forumLet's play "Find The Black Person!"
Paul Ryan took a big old 'honking' (Yes, that was bitter and pointed intended to mimic as well as mock the clueless racism of this gathering) a selfie with Young Republicans!!!!
A picture IS worth a thousand words!!!!
liberal N proud
(60,945 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,425 posts)Of real Americans.
Croney
(4,923 posts)But maybe she's a cardboard cutout.
The Polack MSgt
(13,425 posts)With diversity when Paul Ryan is the darkest face in the room
treestar
(82,383 posts)L
Doodley
(10,382 posts)Some polls find zero black support for GOP voting intentions, and this photo does paint a thousand words. You know, if there was a single black person there, he or she would be positioned right at the front.
k8conant
(3,034 posts)She's halfway back on the right.
Doodley
(10,382 posts)The racial diversity is much better than I thought!
MADem
(135,425 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)Those people are probably doing a dirtier job than he ever did (and I've heard he's a wingnut, so he'd be a fine one to interview those folks).
I have got to believe that family gatherings, reunions, holidays, etc. have got to be awkward for those quislings!
There IS a black person in this picture--I'll give you a hint--she is way to the back and to the right.
brer cat
(26,275 posts)third row from the back just left of Ryan's head. Just part of the face visible.
MADem
(135,425 posts)I'm getting a south Asian vibe from that player!
brer cat
(26,275 posts)The only thing for sure is that it is a sea of white faces, the perfect image of republicanism.
MrScorpio
(73,712 posts)MrScorpio
(73,712 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)They're both in the back of the room--one slightly to the left - looks like a guy, but I am not positive, and a woman on the right side of the room in the back. I think the guy is south Asian (but I could be wrong) and the woman is of African heritage.
The bottom line, though, is that is some blinding whiteness up in there. That is just too white a crew IMO.
lib87
(535 posts)Cocaine use, prostitutes, hypocrisy, infidelity...continued bad haircuts.
MADem
(135,425 posts)Stepford wives....
MADem
(135,425 posts)Look what some GENIUS did on TWITTER....LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://twitter.com/Africanfighter/status/754913860658696192
betsuni
(27,256 posts)I thought I was losing my mind.
MADem
(135,425 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)about four people in ... behind the guy in the gray suit ... though photoshop might be an issue here.
treestar
(82,383 posts)when confronted with that photo of overwhelmingly white people, have the need to closely look to attempt to find someone who is not white.
Like that undermines that point.
betsuni
(27,256 posts)and bickering over skin tones.
MADem
(135,425 posts)What it does, really, is ILLUSTRATE the point!
Reminds me of Tee Rump... who rambled along at one of his speeches saying something like "The BLACKS" (said with that emphasis) "just LOVE me--I mean, they LOVE ME!! See, I got my African American" (what a choice of words and the SINGULAR, too) "right HEEE-ah!!"
I think the pic of all the interns with Ryan's face, though, was a stroke of pure genius. An effort well worth it!!
Warpy
(113,130 posts)That party has so few POC that it's outdone "Where's Waldo?" in a random gathering.
The only thing worse would be if Ryan had insisted on seating both of them in the front row as tokens.