Real Scary Stories : Latina Decorates Casa for Halloween with a Stabbed Obama
1:21 pm By Maegan La Mala · Los Angeles| US Presidential Race 2008| race
31 Oct 2008
VivirLatino hasn’t endorsed a candidate, except to say that you should not vote McCain. So excuse us if we don’t get the joke with all the Obama effigies being hung and stabbed as in the picture above.
A Los Angeles-area McCain supporter has removed a Halloween effigy of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama hanging from her balcony with a giant butcher knife through its neck.
Lisa Castañeda of Redondo Beach put up the blood-covered figure on Wednesday. A placard read “Nobama.”
Emotions stirred in a Redondo Beach neighborhood Wednesday when a resident hung an effigy of Sen. Barack Obama from her balcony with a meat cleaver slashed through his throat as a Halloween display.
“I disapprove of him, period,” she said. “I am appalled by a man who is so close to being our president who won’t put his hand on the Bible, who won’t wear a flag pin.”
Castaneda included the effigy in a larger Halloween display and says she didn’t mean to be racist or offensive. But the display drew immediate criticism and she took it down Wednesday night at the request of a McCain campaign representative.
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3 Responses to Real Scary Stories : Latina Decorates Casa for Halloween with a Stabbed Obama
dopegirlfresh
October 31st, 2008 at 2:04 pm
she didn’t mean to be offensive? what’s more offensive than portraying bodily harm to another human being? i cannot wait for this crap to be over with.
kelly
October 31st, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Ha! VL hasn’t endorsed a candidate except to not vote for McCain! Funny!
Seriously though…what is with people? One of my mom’s co-worksers says she doesn’t want to vote for Obama because he doesn’t wear a flag pin or salute the flag. Aside fromt he fact that I have seen him do both, to me, real patriotism is how you treat yourself and others and what you do to ensure a better country and world through your social activism and political policies.
It just makes me wonder if these aren’t really excuses to hide the real truth…not wanting to vote for a black man.
La Macha
October 31st, 2008 at 3:20 pm
i cannot wait for this crap to be over with.
I’m totally with you–the ugliness that this election has brought out in the form of racism, sexism, nationalism…ugh. I guess it’s good that it’s kinda staring us all in the face now so we can’t really ignore it anymore, but I’m SO tired of waking up to these news stories.
It just makes me wonder if these aren’t really excuses to hide the real truth…not wanting to vote for a black man.
Mhm. I don’t doubt for a minute that this woman is seriously feeling some of the black/mexican tension–I also wonder how much of this is a sign of her assimilation experience–I know a *lot* of really conservative Mexicans/Latin@s that look at Obama and feel threatened because of how his ’story’ messes around with the assimilationist “be grateful for any scrape they offer you” experience. He’s not grateful enough in their eyes, not cuz he’s black, but because he has an “almost immigrant” experience and he’s been ‘blessed’ with all the goodness that the U.S. can offer those who pull themselves up by their bootstraps–AND he’s not grateful? Ai, pinche!