So I was watching MSNBC last night, "The Verdict", and Dan Abrams was talking about VP choices. The on-screen graphics had a playing card motif.
McCain was the King of Diamonds.
Obama was the King of Spades.
Now, I'm not yet 40, but I know that "spade" in addition to being a type of shovel, is also an ethnic slur - a derogatory term for "black person". The term is even derived from a playing card deck rather than the shovel. So...is their graphics person a latent racist? Did they "slip one in" meaning it as a joke? Are the producers at MSNBC idiots? Or was this all just a strange, honest mistake?
I sincerely doubt I'm the only one who found this graphic, if not outright racist, at least very strange.
Here's a screen cap:
From here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
click on "Presidential Veepstakes" Graphic first appears around 3:10 into the clip.
This was aired on 8/18/2008.
I searched DKos and didn't find anything on this yet.
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