Salt and Sugar

Aint Ya Bama Waffles?

AP-WASHINGTON
Activists at a conservative political forum snapped up boxes of waffle mix depicting Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a racial stereotype on its front and wearing Arab-like headdress on its top flap.

Values Voter Summit organizers cut off sales of Obama Waffles boxes on Saturday, saying they had not realized the boxes displayed “offensive material.” The summit and the exhibit hall where the boxes were sold had been open since Thursday afternoon.

The box was meant as political satire, said Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, Tenn., who created the mix. They sold it for $10 a box from a rented booth at the summit sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council. Read full article here on the Huffington Post
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After watching 2 minutes of the video below that presents an interview with Obama Waffle makers, Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, as they tried to explain their packaging choices and its gross similarity to an Aunt Jemima Pancake box; I still found room for reason. Is it just because Obama is black that I am seeing the similarities in the packaging and is that a testament to my own issue around how “blackness” is presented outside my own home? Ok, you feel that Obama waffles or flip flops on this point or that. Ok, youjust love Aunt Jemima and did not consciously package the box to reflect the ideals of what is most disdained in the country. Your just two Republican fun loving dough boy writers from Tennessee that was inspired while eating in a diner one evening. This is all a truth, indeed.

But what remains is a waffle box with a rap on the side and images throughout that affirm racist lies brandished on Obama from day one. What remains is a clear racist intent within your creative process. What remains is my own speculation of those late night writing sessions and the chuckles and guwhaffs about Obama being an undercover moslem! The backstrokes made in the pool of ignorance that was your creative process. As I write, I am quickly forgetting why I am even writing about this. I am loosing my point, purposefully. And I am bored by this creative process and its ill intent shielded by political allowances and good ole boy humor.

Watch the video and maybe you all may have some words, because me creative process has come to an end: