Gothamist: Racist Anti-Obama Slogan Appears on $5 Bill

bowelmovment_man

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:06:55 -0500

Yeah, well TSOL, lot's of shit changes in 145 years.

TSOL

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:04:20 -0500

Unfortunately for the Lincoln theorists, he was a Republican. Obama is a Democrat, the party that wanted to call a truce during the Civil War and allow the South to seceded and become a sovereign confederation of slaveholding states.

sonyactivision

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:04:51 -0500

I'm stamping hundreds of $1 bills with "500 Euros" so I can get me a Tribeca loft.

Karen

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:24:32 -0500

I have a Where's George stamp. Just yesterday,I got notified that one of my ones was found in Glendale, Arizona, another in Mackinac, Michigan. Both started out in Ft Wayne.

nik13

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:39:56 -0500

Anna- another weird similarity. Compare Lincoln's & Obama's ears. It cannot be a mere coincidence.

Anna_Merkin

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:40:40 -0500

Well, there is a bit of hipster-ish irony in the facts that Lincoln's on the five dollar bill, Obama represents Illinois, Lincoln is credited with freeing the slaves, Lincoln was caricatured as a black person, Obama cites Lincoln as an inspiration for his historic run, Lincoln too had very little experience, Lincoln sought to keep the Union from fracturing into all sorts of splinter groups (pardon the mixed metaphor), and well...there's the threat part. Hipsters who read the conservative rag, Vice are clearly behind this.

sonyactivision

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:10:20 -0500

The White House is on the back of twenty dollar bills. All this schlub could manage was a five. That's so ghetto.

kane

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:08:18 -0500

Just to clarify, I'm not calling [9] a racist, I am merely pointing out that he/she does not believe that an American from the northeast could be behind this. Proofreading does wonders...

kane

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:07:26 -0500

I gotta say, John's opening lines lately have been dyn-o-mite. That being said, I know that some people find it hard to believe, but racists do still exist (see [9]). Additionally, New York is hardly a swing state...

JacqueMehoff

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:04:53 -0500

yes, of course, Staten Island is a hotbed of Obama supporters and members of the democratic party.

gregorsamsa77

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:50:22 -0500

of course this came directly from the obama camp. and you all fell for it. keep your eyes peeled for blatant and anonymous displays of racism during this campaign, but not in the deep deep south, but rather where the swing voters are.

Jen S

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:18:44 -0500

7 - you must be either a bank teller or a counterfeiter!

Gotham City Insider Wuz Here

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:52:53 -0500

Mutilating or otherwise vandalizing U.S. currency is a federal offense that can be punishable by up to six months in prison, Don't worry about why I'm an expert on this topic but in reality the law defines 'illegal' defacement as defacement that renders bills unfit to be re-issued. The U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing says this about Defacement of Currency: ...currency defacement is generally defined as follows: Whoever mutilates, cuts, disfigures, perforates, unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, Federal Reserve Bank, or Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such item(s) unfit to be reissued, shall be fined not more than $100 or imprisoned not more than six months, or both. Defacement of currency in such a way that it is made unfit for circulation comes under the jurisdiction of the United States Secret Service.

Tim N.

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:51:27 -0500

Sadly, we should get used to seeing this sort of thing. Fox News was called on three racist jabs this week.

meL

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:50:01 -0500

Speaking of stamps on bills, has anyone seen the "Where's George"s ones?

CR

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:46:38 -0500

$5 says a Gothamist commentator is behind this.

Kojak

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:40:27 -0500

Hold on, but didn't black slaves build the White House???

dr zippy

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:37:34 -0500

Did the stamper not know the difference between the White House and Lincoln Memorial?

Jen S

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 15:23:05 -0500

Image of blood-spewing pyramid eye, please?