Gothamist: Black McCain Supporter Found Living in NYC!

Hawkman

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:18:12 -0500

Amazing. That so much intellectual brainwaves can be so completely misused as in this forum. Amazing. If you don't like the present government, go out and vote and change it. If you feel strongly about your presedential selection, vote for him.' But please, please, do not whine and moan and cry about how so bad one party or the other may be. If anyone here (and I believe there are some) really wanted to really admit it, both parties have over the course of this countries existance, made serious mistakes, blunders, and errors in judgement. Afterall, the ones actually running the country are POLITICIANS. They will say or do anything to get elected. It is the lot of the people to figure out which ones will cause us the least harm in the long term, get rid of the ones that do not respect our wishes (that's gonna be a hard one) and elect new people who may just get the idea that they don't own the country, WE do.

mdowning

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:08:57 -0500

John Del Signore, I totally agree with that scare. I'm finding it better than the alternative lately... piknyc, spot on.

piknyc

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:04:16 -0500

I am dumbfounded that Republics still have a reputation for being fiscally responsible.

John Del Signore

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 23:42:16 -0500

I totally agree with The Klaus. What really scares me is that lately I've been feeling Baby Hitler.

glob

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:01:48 -0500

Get it? He's black.

berniegoetz

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:48:37 -0500

"Why do you keep posting photos that don't relate to the post?" Because Gothamist is run by corporate hipsters.

Bottomless Chips

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:30:20 -0500

"tax-and-spend Democrat" LMFAO!!!! Reagan, both Bushes spent us into enormous deficits, while Clinton left us with a budget surplus. A budget surplus is NOT savings.

Reflect

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:26:04 -0500

How do you play a white man? Act entitled while overlooking the obvious opportunities you have had to live in beverly hills. Identify with terms like joe six pack, tommy methlab, or swipe your forehead in disbelif as the dow drops and you realize that the trips to gallergers2000 will have to come to a close end.

smitty

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:19:57 -0500

I think it's really funny that people don't get the use of the photo for the article and think that Alfonso Ribeiro is Richard Ivory.

Sommelier

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:32:16 -0500

"tax-and-spend Democrat" LMFAO!!!! Reagan, both Bushes spent us into enormous deficits, while Clinton left us with a budget surplus. This is a goof, right? That's a photo of the actor who played Will Smith's cousin in "Fresh Prince".

chuzzlewit

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:26:22 -0500

everybody pipe down with the bullshit - don't make me call Dolemite...

jink

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:30:25 -0500

thanks 23, 25.

ides_of_march

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:06:53 -0500

If whites can belong to either party, be liberal or conservative and nobody blinks an eye, why can't black people? Why are mostly white liberals deciding what's an appropriate political position for people of color? I thought black people were as free to choose these things for themselves. Unfortunately too many out there refuse to see blacks as individuals who can think for themselves, they prefer to keep them as a monolithic voting block and on the democrat party plantation.

Pull My Finger

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:01:13 -0500

Well said #23!

Bottomless Chips

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:55:22 -0500

Zodak: Democrats don't spend excessively at the hand of the taxpayer? While both do in 2008, in theory Republicans seek to save everyone money through the free market and thus lower taxes and tariffs. Please don't lump us all as selfish and stupid. I find social programs, the federal income tax, and Congress deciding things not authorized in the Constitution to be quite selfish and stupid.

zodak

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:31:12 -0500

a typical republican: selfish & stupid. he is so selfish that he supports a party that allows him to profit by ruining the economy & his fellow citizens. if he were smart he would have realized how racist most of them are & he wouldn't try to hang out with republicans at their convention. he's also "a staunch supporter of the Iraq war" in other words he's a chicken hawk.

just_saying

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:15:24 -0500

This is a joke, right?

jibbly

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:10:59 -0500

Tax and spend Democrats? Hmmmmm, guess he doesn't realize the enormous amount of spending W and Republicans have authorized in the last 8 years. Sadly all that spending pretty much amounted to bombing the shit out of a sovereign nation that had nothing to do with 9/11/01, Al Qaeda, or WMDs. It makes baby jesus horses cry.

Shinobi Shaw

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:09:05 -0500

With Carlton it was not because he was "whitest black guy ever!." It was due to the fact that his family was well to do and he comes from an upper class background. It's a Class thing, not Race.

Gothamist_Cynic

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:59:30 -0500

Richard Ivory isn't very bright.

driftwood

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:48:14 -0500

A black man voting for Republicans? Yeah that happens. Someone in NYC voting for McCain? Hm...less likely but yeah some will. But someone in both categories? Stop making stuff up!

soopaman

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:45:00 -0500

only difference between ObAMA and OsAMA is a little bs

Not James Frey

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:43:35 -0500

John: There is a photo of him on his website. Why not just use that photo to illustrate your story? Using Alfonso Ribeiro's photo is asinine and, more to the point, unnecessary.

Dirk

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:41:15 -0500

Why do you keep posting photos that don't relate to the post?

everyAframe

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:36:56 -0500

I have to agree with #5.

Pull My Finger

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:31:46 -0500

Did anyone tell him that he is black and he must vote for the black guy? How dare he think for himself. What the hell is wrong with him?

femiredwood

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:06:52 -0500

There is so much wrong with this article and comments. Way too much for me to even begin. I will say this: Hey, Reflect (Poster #4). You wrote: He played one of the whitest black men on tv how ironic. How exactly do you play a white man? How do you play white? Carlton Banks played a person from Beverly Hills. I suppose I am playing white because I use correct English or because I watch 90210 or because I like Hollister. Is that what you are saying. It sounds like you are and you my dear are a jackass. The color you are born has no influence on social trademarks like diction, way of dress, musical tastes, etc. etc. Dumbass.

babyhitler

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 13:00:45 -0500

The reason why the republicans had all the power in the last decade is cause their constituents believe that a white zombie from the middle east could walk on water. Almost all of the republican leadership are also closet gay masochists. You follow that evolutionary social insanity's trajectory and this happens.

Dude69

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:58:39 -0500

Some of the stupid comments here such as #8's show that liberals are just as ignorant and intolerant as Palin supporting religious "rednecks."

Reflect

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:52:19 -0500

this guy is a washed up has been in the article he said hes 80 percent decided for mc same. Obviously he has no other way to garner his 80's sucess. He looks like an elf now. They should have used the times photo too.

supernova

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:46:51 -0500

If I'm not mistaken Carlton was republican in the Fresh Prince. So, the sitcom idea might not be that "fresh". Anyways, if I were to a party convention and be told to leave because of my skin color/race or any other discriminatory aspect of myself, I'd certainly wouldn't be A REGISTERED MEMBERED OF SAID PARTY. These are people that supposedly think alike. Why would I wanna be part of such a racist group? That's the reason that man needs to be checked by a psychologist.

riotturtle

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:45:41 -0500

one might think putting Carlton's picture on this article would be an obvious joke but apparently some people don't get it. Alfonso Ribeiro, who played Carlton Banks on the Fresh Prince of Bel Air, is not actually the McCain supporter this article is about.

Papercutninja

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:37:47 -0500

He should support Obama simply because he's black? That's just ignorant. He's entitled to his own opinions.

Reflect

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:37:31 -0500

classic case of the intellectual black man thats jealos of another black man rising above him. He played one of the whitest black men on tv how ironic.

TheKlaus

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:34:14 -0500

The choice of image is sheer genius

citizenerased

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:28:23 -0500

Hi we need a picture of a black man quick!!! Erm.......Carlton from Fresh Prince was black, check google images. Ah, nice thanks

fakenewyorker

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:28:17 -0500

somebody check that man's brain. he's ebony AND ivory, somebody call the wb, we have a new sitcom.