Racist? Kentucky Man Under Fire For Effigy Of Obama Eating Watermelon

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A Kentucky man has sparked a public outcry after he put up a statue of President Barack Obama eating watermelon. His critics say the display is blatantly racist.

When asked why he chose to depict Obama, the nation’s first black president, eating watermelon, Danny Hafley said he “might get hungry standing out here.”

Hafley told LEX18 in Lexington said he is merely exercising his right to free speech and the statue is protected under the First Amendment.

“The way I look at it, it’s freedom of speech,” he said. “I don’t know how other people will take it.”

Read more at The Blaze. By Jason Howerton.

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  1. Good for that guy! I just wonder if Obama even likes watermelon? I wonder if he likes fried chicken too? I know one thing thing, I bet Obama won’t eat? PIGGLY WIGGLY! I bet Obama is “afeared” of porkers!

    Michael– Deo Vindicabamur

  2. The Liberal Evil crazy perverts have some Weird Art stuff, Depicting Jesus or they can make fun of Christians and say it is Art or Free Speech also. So if it is good enough for those Hypocritical “Holier than Thou” bunch then the statue of Oblammer in Chief is OK. Even I like watermelon But…….

  3. First of all, is being a racist against whites, since Obama is over 50% white? Arab and a little black blood and that does not make you a racist. It is his right and we support his right to say it in his fashion. Liberals again just don’t get it and still think PC, which we know is passe due to its stupidity and ignorance. If this man is a racist, then I guess I don’t like whites! Just the color of the skin does not make him a black, but basically an Arab and not a very good looking one either. Shut up, liberals and stop nattering about every little thing. You don’t like it, fine, just shut up because the rest of us do!

    • 50%white, 43.75%arab, 6.25%black (from a great-grandparent that ended up among the obama ancestral slave traders)……besides bama has stated loud & clear that he hates his white blood so that makes him a racist………..what’s good for the gander is good for the gander (pun intended)

      • Spot – on Carol! You nailed it to a tee! Now if we could only prove he’s a Muslim to the masses out there as he himself states in his writings, Americans would at least have an inkling as to how this guy thinks and why he does the un-american, non-christian, things he does trying to drag this country down.

        • @Sumerian
          You make a good point about convincing people, BUT I’m afraid there is nothing that will work. Understand that people have become so dumbed down, so ignorant and brainwashed, they don’t what freedom really, what the US Constitution really means, what is fair or unfair or anything else. All they know today is, they want whatever and whoever can promise them the most. Promise them an ObamaPhone and they’ll agree to let the government tap their phones. Give them free health care and they will agree to vote for those who promise them that free health care, plus they will allow any other inconveniences and government intrusions into all our lives just so they can get something for free. EVEN if you have to pay more for it! Understand the reason this is happening. It is because morals have been thrown out the window and replaced by the materialism of man. We may be ready to go off the fiscal cliff concerning money, but as a nation you went of the moral cliff years ago! A nation with no morals is a hollow nation, a nation without direction or fortitude; No dignity and no virtues. I know of only one remedy for this since no one wants to allow the states to secede, and that remedy is NOT pretty, not at all!

          Michael– Deo Vindicabamur

    • He is bi-racial. His mother was white and his father was black.

  4. The whitehouse boon has to prove he’s legally a natural born American citizen, the bogus documents so far are NOT proof

  5. I would NEVER waste a good watermelon on a despicable communist pig like obummer!!! I don’t care if he is purple,I still detest everything he stands for! He is a sick,and pitiful excuse for a human being!!! The color of his tiny,tiny,tiny heart is the thing that I detest…that color is the blackest of blacks!!! .
    May God really,really DAMN him and his slithering,blithering idiots before they destroy our country !!!

    Call me whatever you like, I DO NOT CARE!!!!

    • JoAnn – I sure don’t have to read between the lines and I totally and wholley agree with you – couldn’t have said it better.

    • Could you be a bit more definitive?
      Are you saying you did not vote for Hussein??

    • I would call you a patriotic American that has the decency to say it like it is. Unfortunately, America has less and less decency among our citizens. Gays, blacks on welfare, wetbacks coddled by the libs, sluts murdering babies, musslums being anti America ,leaves decent, hard working Americans just a small portion of what we once were.

      • You may not want to hear this and may be surprised by it, but there are more whites on welfare than there are blacks.

        • Whites are a Minority or it seems that way, the economy has placed a lot of people into Poverty with no fault of their own making but The Big, Bad, Behemoth, Bloated, Bankrupt Gimme-mint has hurt “We the People” more than any other variable.

        • @ Betta – You may not want to hear this and may be surprised by it. – Nice try Betta – I’m not sure what your motive is for your disinformation, whether it be you are apart of the liberal groupies or is it just disinformation or attempts to distort and distract the facts because the sources by which you have gotten your information are published by liberals. Either way, lets look at the numbers. With a quick search of the statistics, (by which every site seems to have varying numbers, but we can get a ball park estimate to make my point).

          US Estimated population 311 million people:
          Approx. 62% – 68% White population = 193 million – 212 million
          Approx. 13% – 17% Black population = 40 million – 53 million

          What is the race percentage for welfare recipients?
          Answer:
          The percentages those on welfare assistance by race as of 2011 are listed below in descending order by percentage.
          Black-39.8%
          White-38.8%
          Hispanic-15.7%
          Other-3.3%
          Asian-2.4%
          Equals = 100% of welfare recips
          http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_race_percentage_for_welfare_recipients

          We know that in 2008 when Obama took office welfare was @ approx. 29 million participants as of 2011 it rose to Approx. 47 million. Now according to these above percentages, Take 39.8% of the black welfare participants by the total number of black population and like wise 38.8% of white welfare participants by total number of white population
          (because the figures above range + or Minus – 6 – 8 million for ball park figures of this example we will use average figures)
          39.8% x 47 million total black welfare participants = 18,706,000 black welfare participants
          black population (est) 46 million less the 18.7 million welfare participants= 27, 294,000 working or NOT on welfare.
          Approx. 40.7% of total black population in US are on Welfare.
          38.8% x 47 million total white welfare participants = 18,236,000 white welfare participants
          White population (est) 202 million less the 18.2 million welfare participants = 183,764,000 working of NOT on welfare.
          Approx. 9% of total white population in the US are on Welfare.

          Conclusion –
          40.7% black total population of 46 million is on welfare –
          versus
          9% of white total population of 202 million is on welfare.

          Take away “affirmative action” and the laws mandating that companies over 50 employees must employ a certain number black employee’s and those numbers would rise dramatically.

          I’ve had alot of contract jobs in many large companies by which in order to remain within compliance of mandated laws, they employ blacks by which take advantage of these laws because they know they will not be fired because their dead weight is needed to be on the payroll in order for the company to stay in compliance. I see these black employees take 3 hr breaks and sleep in their cars on the clock, or they spend 10 – 15 minutes of just about every hour in the break room kicked back either watching a tv or on the company internet taking advantage of the companies kindness to offer internet to employees to utilize during their scheduled breaks. Managers and Supervisors constantly have to go get these people out of the break rooms and back to their job posts with no reprimands. Many Companies usually have to just absorb those payrolls and hire a counterpart to pick up on the lacking productiveness. The supervisor told me rather than fire them for stealing, taking extended breaks and sleeping on the job while on the clock, it would be pointless because then the company will have to spend resources to find, interview and train new black employees because only black employees would be accepted because of the laws, so their hands are tied and after doing all the interviewing and training, there is no guarantee that the new black employees would not take on the attitude that they too can abuse the laws and policies.

          One company I worked in not so long ago offered free coffee to their employees in the break room. At the end or toward the end of the shifts, I would watch the same 3 black people almost on a daily basis raid the coffee and tea draw and grab packets of coffee and flavored teas and fill their pockets to take home with them. The Company was spending over $4000.00 on coffee and tea alone to supply the employees. There was just 112 employees in this branch of the Company facilities and many didn’t drink coffee. So to trim their expenses, they quit offering free coffee and tea and brought a coffee vending machine in. The ones that complained the most about having to pay .50 cents for a cup of coffee was the 3 dudes that had been stealing the free coffee from the Company for months and by which forced the company to abandon their free coffee program.

          Now not all black employees are like that and are equally productive as any white co worker at many of the Companies I contract through. I have worked at Companies where some white people steal and sleep on the job, but they are either fired on the spot. But the abuse of privileges and taking advantage of policies and laws such as “Affirmative action” and laws that require companies with certain amounts of employees mandating that they must employee a certain number of a race of people regardless to whether that person is productive or not is ridiculous and causes companies to have to offer lower wages because they will basically have to employee several more additional employees to keep up with their productivity demands and pick up the slack from the slackers. Rather than fire the slackers and finding people who actually want to work and more importantly are actually qualified to perform the duty.

          Even our Congress is filled with dead weight and slackers, thieves, liars and just blatantly incompetent persons unqualified to hold their position. Take Eric Holder for example – Useless and bold face liar, criminal and corrupt. Then you got Maxine Waters – Mrs. Socialists – who claimed on video that she wants the government to take control of companies and socialize them. Then you got Hank Johnson – Mr. Guam will capsize – when he expressed his concern on video that if guam becomes over populated on one side of the island, he fears the island might capsize and tip over. Nancy Pelosi – Mrs. you’ll have to sign it or pass it before you can read it. Just to name a few examples though there are many more.

          • In Saipan is the same similar situation, except it is not based on the race. It is based on foreign and domestic workers. Saipan has a law that mandates that business must hire a certain number of locals and cannot hire a workforce of all foreign workers. The result is many of the domestic workers don’t do their job and just collect a paycheck because they know they will not be fired by the company because they are needed not for productivity but for law mandates.

          • Are you naturally rude and nasty or do you have to work at it? Wasn’t going after me enough for you or do you have to get your daily dose of hatefulness? Or are you a woman hater?

          • @NOBAMA2012
            Interesting stats if the US Government can be believed.
            I would have thought the total numbers would have placed more whites on welfare and the % would have shown more blacks.

            But the above is only the results of a far deeper problem concerning everyone. Welfare and government aid ONLY increases dependence. It does not promote self reliance and independence. Oh maybe if someone is out of work due to some problem some extremely limited help could be had but only for a short while, say 3 months max. It is NOT the government’s place to feed, house and pay other’s expenses. It ONLY breeds dependence!

            As I mentioned to Betta last night about my close friend Frank. He told and taught me many things, a lot in story form. However Frank had some Maxims that showed him to be a very philosophical man.

            Mr Frank told me a story once that his mother had told him about how the slaves worked on the plantation. Normally the owner would work the slaves 3 days a week. Seems odd how this is not the way people are taught to believe today, but it is what I was told, handed down through the generations. The slaves would work 3 days a week except during harvest season when all workers had to concentrate on getting in the crops, for bad weather could destroy a year’s work. Days then devoted to crop harvest could be 6 days a week unless something out of the ordinary happened. Crop gathering normally would be about 1 month although longer depending on circumstances. One day week, Sunday was given to the slaves in order they have a day of rest and worship. If they wanted a building for service it was provided and if they didn’t have a preacher among them, the overseer or owner would make sure they had one.

            This left 3 days not accounted for. Those 3 days were for the slaves to manage their own affairs, working in their own crops, livestock or in some instances hiring our to other farmers for pay. It was their choice what they done with those 3 days.

            However a problem arose. Seems some slaves never wanted to do anything. I was told if this was a majority or not, but that it was so bad at times, the slaves wouldn’t wash their clothes or work their crops(gardens) and livestock. It fell upon the overseer to actually have to force these people to work for their own food and to clean their own places of living.

            Franks says nothing has changed in his lifetime as many black people still carry this attitude. But he said in fairness that other people do too. It was just more prevalent among blacks.

            This not something money or education or anything else can fix. It is just a trait among people, more so in some than others. The only way to counter this is by NOT encouraging sloth and laziness in general. So giving people money, anybody, is encouraging those people to be self-sufficient and independent, but rather dependent.

            Michael– Deo Vindicabamur

          • Thank You for your careful Analysis & correct Information.

  6. Why do people call Obama President ?

  7. If we are constantly being called racist for everything, we might as well act like it. I thought it was pretty cute myself.

  8. He could have shown him eating a dog…

  9. It was ok for Christ te be depicted on the cross coverd in ants, then this is ok too. However, I think both are disrespectful,

  10. Toooo Funny :) )

  11. Good one !!! You should be able to react anyway you would like just as long as it has no foul language on it!!!!

  12. Screw the public outcry. How do they know the watermelon is not for his white side.? White people eat watermelon too. Of course the liberals never claimed that Obama was the first half white president or the first half black president, that’s why people forget about his communist, socialist white side because the screams of racist would ring hollow if they accurately claimed, ” we finally got a half black president, next time we may just try to get the real thing. Hopefully America will one day get a black or brown or green president as long as it is one that is a real American and does not serve the 57 Islamic states and the Muslim Brotherhood. GYHOOYA Congress!!!

    • Gee, everyone has been vilifying, mocking and stereotyping the white Southern men for 150 years. He’s been everything from incestuous and inbred, to a redneck, to ignorant, hillbilly, stupid, and so many other things I can’t name’em all. Oh, they can’t talk or spell right. If I can learn to live with all that, ya’ll should be able to live with a little watermelon eating…

      Michael– Deo Vindicabamur

  13. I love watermelon. I wouldn’t consider it racist to take my picture eating it. In fact, if you have a stomach ache, eating cool watermelon actually helps to settle it. However, I do take issue with the disrespect of this poor watermelon.

    • @Betta
      Now that was funny!
      I needed a laugh!
      Gee, I don’t care if someone makes fun of me because of what I eat or like.
      Actually I consider it a form of compliment. But really, the racism part comes in when people are wanting to make it a power play, vying for power and authority over another. In that case, the picture can be taken as racist or bigoted by either side. Still, the point is, racism, like most everything else in life, is only what a person makes of it.

      Does that make another person a racist for calling me a white cracker? I don’t think so, but if I like crackers and I fit their description, I guess to them I am a white cracker, which must mean I offend that person. That either they are really trying to pay me a compliment.

      Maybe I can tell you about the colored fellow that helped raise me? I’ve already mentioned him once today, and I do think of him almost every day, even after 50 years. I’ve worked with him, stayed in his home, eat and drank with him out of his own glass and plate. He taught me a lot in life and I am so thankful for it and him. He is a part of my life and family.

      He said one day, long ago, that he despised the word black and being called black. He said to him it was an insult and he went on to say that many colored people years ago thought the same thing. He said he preferred the word colored because he considered himself a man of color. That he wanted to have a colorful attitude about life. He said to him it also meant a form of charm and dignity as it does not define one as being one certain color. He said colored people are not black, but shades of brown. Nor did he like the Afro American theme that was beginning to take hold. He said that was nothing but black people trying to boost their ego and arrogance. He said he was an American and wanted to known as being an American. Color he said, had nothing to do with it.

      Oh at the stories I learned and could tell from “Mr.” Frank (I use Mr. when paying higher respects among others. Normally he was just good ole Frank to me.) I could about how his mother grew up a slave and what she told him about that. (It’s different than anything you hear.) I could tell you about the jokes and good times we had together, all the while he was telling and teaching me things. It from relationships like this that love is born. Yes I loved ole Frank for the human being he was. He has become a part of me and he will always live on in me as long as I live. The world is desperately short of Franks today, in all colors, sizes and makes…… I miss him terrible…

      Michael– Deo Vindicabamur

      • What a beautiful story of friendship and love across barriers. I certainly would love to read the story of your life with him and the stories his mother told him. Love that stuff. It does the heart good. Do you have this written somewhere online?

  14. I don’t see anything racist or wrong with this effigy of Obamination eating watermelon any more than the liberals see anything wrong with depicting Jesus on the Cross with ants crawling all over it or Jesus on the cross being in a jar of urine. There’s not one thing wrong with this effigy. They guy has a right to freedom of speech. These whining liberals are the epitome of pure, unadulterted HYPOCRISY!!

  15. The charicature is about as tasteless as a lawn jockey but the owner is within his rights to display it. Pesonally, I think it looks more like Richard M. Nixon than obama.

    • You must be a Liberal since it is not to your Liking, the Statue is ART, nothing wrong with Art is there.
      You may worship the ground Oblammer walks on but with look at him with an open Mind and can read and come to our own Belief.

      • Personally, as a 31 year navy veteran sworn to uphold the Constitution against all enemies both foriegn and domestic, I despise obama and his policies. You missed my point which is I find the charicature distatasteful but still support the individual’s right to display it. I’m just waiting for some notwit liberal reorter to try to tie it to Tea Partiers, Conservatives, Reublicans or anyone elso whp disagrees with the fraud-in-chief. We’ve already given this more attention than it deserves.

        • Why is it if you disagree with someone on here, you are immediately labeled as a liberal? Some people in here cannot stand being disagreed with.

        • My Sincere Apology to you I misread your comment and Thank You for your Sacrifice & Service to our Country. We have served under Prior Presidents (Nixon for me) But I would not serve under this Fraud and UNAMERICAN president.

          • Thank you for your response and your service as well. It’s a pleasure to communicate with an adult. I served under President’s Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, & Bush Sr. I’m glad I’m not some platoon leader somewhere having to tell my men, “If you get cutoff or lost behind the lines, hang on, because you know we’ve got your back and will come and get you.:” when the CinC won’t even get the back of one of his Ambassador’s when he had the means to do so. This pres is no leader. I wouldn’t follow him five feet. I don’t trust a word he says and he rates on my esteem chart slightly below whale poop at about the same level as John Kerry and Hanoi Jane.

          • I agree about Kerry. That is the worst choice for secretary of state possible. That man is a black mark on our nation, a coward, and fraudulently awarded himself a purple heart. He protested the war in Vietnam by going to Washington in his uniform with his long hair. Remember, the swift boat people (veterans of vietnam) are the ones who kept him from being president.

    • Things are whatever one makes of them. I think it is an issue made of something insignificant.

  16. It fits perfect in front of his trailer! I’m sure his family has owned plenty of negroes before.

  17. Would people had reacted if a statue had been displayed of of Obama eating dog?

  18. I love watermelon and fried chicken, so l guess this will make me a racist. I think it is cute to let people see what is happening to our USA, obama in making slaves of all people.

  19. 1st Amendment, Freedom of speech, if you don’t like it, don’t look at it. I like it myself

  20. I really did’t know muslims liked Watermelon

  21. I thought the statue was Bill Clinton.

  22. Obama made it publicly known that he is a racist at a press conference when he brought up the subject of the Boston police officer and the colored professor. He interfered in something that was none of his business.

  23. Just make a half black, half white man eating crackers or half watermelon and half crackers. How silly either way. Who cares what people say. Does this all remind everyone of about the 4th grade with the silliness? Who really gives a rat’s behind. The man has a right to say and display what he wants. It is none of no ones’ business. It was juvenille of him and just as juvenille of those who oppose it like the man did a crime. It is not a crime, just all silliness.

  24. Too bad he couldn’t or didn’t make a statue of him eating our money and our grandchildren, that would have been a bit more realistic and fitting.

  25. THE ONLY THING I SEE “WRONG” WITH THIS EFFIGY IS THAT HE SHOULD BE EATING “PORK”. IT’S NOT RACIST BECAUSE THIS THUG IS HALF WHITE AND HALF BLACK AS FAR AS ANYONE CAN DETERMINE WITH THE LIFESTYLE THAT HIS MOTHER LIVED. REGARDLESS OF WHAT HIS RACE REALLY IS, HE IS DEFINITELY AN IMPOSTER, ILLEGAL, NARCISSISTIC, PSYCHO-PATH WHO IS DETERMINED TO DESTROY AMERICA AND IS DEFINITELY ON A FAST RACE TO THE FINISH LINE. THIS THUG/TERRORIST NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED AND SENT TO GITMO, ASAP.
    I APPLAUD THE KENTUCKIAN’S USE OF HIS FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHT. THE THUG IN THE WHITE HOUSE IS TRYING TO DESTROY THE CONSTITUTION AND OUR RIGHTS BUT WE MUST USE THEM OFTEN TO PROVE THAT WE WILL STAND UP AND FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY, OUR RIGHTS AND NO RADICAL MUSLIM OR ANYONE ELSE REGARDLESS OF WHO THEY ARE WILL TAKE THIS COUNTRY AND US DOWN.
    GOD BLESS AMERICA AND HOPE THAT WE HAVE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR WITH ALL THE THUGS AND CROOKS IN THIS GOVERNMENT BEING OUSTED AND WE REGAIN “SOME” HONESTY AND NEW FACES.

  26. We need a statue of Obama in London, Ky. He could be eating chicken. We are the home of the World Chicken Festival after all. Just saying.

  27. “Under Fire” Does this mean some one should be aware that he could burn up and he needs a fire extinguisher?
    “Racist” Does this mean that the builder of the statue is off to the races?

  28. I cannot comprehend the term ‘racist’.
    Is this a one-side term, created by the Government to incite riot, hatred, and discontent and applicable to only one type of a person who may have a minimum of 1.0 % of African blood in his/her DNA?

  29. Shhhh! Don’t report things such as this.
    Everybody will want one.

  30. Complicit media use either undocumented numbers or percentages to substantiate false claims designed to facilitate their agenda’s acceptability in the trusting public mind. It has become obvious that few do the math and many simply echo the endless absurdities thereby propagated.by once trusted media content. What better way to hide voter fraud in elections stolen with highly improbable results providing more delay time in the citizenship question at hand. Research will prove that “the party of Lincoln” was as corrupt then as it is today in failing to question undocumented proof of eligibility first brought to forefront in the opposing party’s candidate nomination process..
    The undocumented alien now posing as the dully elected US President can in no way justify his continuing abuse of US servicemen assigned high risk tasks with their hands tied behind their backs while leaking classified info for movie production except by personal jihad. Nor can the attempted blame of the Benghazi episode on yet another US citizen practicing first amendment rights within the boundaries of the US. be designated as cause for justifiable death of any victim of imam approved violence.
    We’re becoming aware of congressional politically correct inadequacy but where the hell are the watchdog media’s investigative journalists? Finding honest news has become a necessary DIY internet effort.

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