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Presidents are fair game for satire. Lord knows George W. Bush inspired his share of vicious humor. So did Nixon and Clinton.

Most presidents are lampooned for what they’ve DONE. It’s rare to see them mocked for who they ARE. Roosevelt was in a wheelchair. Kennedy was a Catholic. Barack Obama is Black. Start making fun of something that’s integral to someone’s being, and you’re on shaky ground.

We’ve already seen our share of racist anti-Obama humor — the “can you really call it the White House” t-shirts, the over-the-line cartoons, the “Barack The Magic Negro” songs.

Enter Hoboken, New Jersey greeting card company “Noble Works,” who are selling their new line of Obama-themed greeting cards. The cards seem geared not towards Obama fans, but Obama haters. “St. Obama The Chosen One,” reads one card. “This is my Mount Rushmore Pose,” says another. And while some of these cards play on the tension between the existence of a sitting Black president and continued racism (like: “Sorry I’m Late. I Couldn’t Get A Cab”), others may be borderline: (“President: Now Available In Black”).

Some white Americans continue to struggle with how to properly conduct themselves in a multi-cultural society, which means that we’re going to continue to get humor like this for a while — not really all that funny, not really all that free of racism.

What’s your opinion? Are these hilariously edgy, or innocently over-the-line, or borderline racist?

Tags: Barack Obama, Racism
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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/_mz_k_/ _mz_k_

    theses are funny…# 2 is almost crossing the line, but the rest aren’t in bad taste. all humans need to be able to laugh at themselves sometimes…even black folks

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/S3Xii_CARAM3L_90/ S3Xii_CARAM3L_90

    People need to lighten up! Jokes have been made about every president, celebrity, and spokesperson out there! If he isn’t complaining why are you! Anyway the “rednecks”, “crackers”, “specs/wetbacks”, and asians are picked on all the time! Jokes are always made, laugh about it and move on! If you can’t laugh about yourselve and your own kind then you should laugh at anything! The only people making this whole thing about race is those who themselves are prejudice (blacks, whites, and every other race)! So grow up and laugh!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/SEXII_BLACK03/ SEXII_BLACK03

    W3LL I DONT THINK ITS FUNNY AT ALL I JUS THINK ITS RACIST N DA JOK3S N33D 2 STOP…DIS IS DA 1ST AFRICAN AM3RICAN PR3SID3NT DANG CHILL OUT N L3T DA MAN DO HIS THANG…CUZ DA COUNTRY CAN’T G3T NO WORS3…SO I F33L DA JOK3S NEED 2 C3AS3…WH3N A WHIT3 MAN GOT PRESIDENT U DIDN’T H3AR R S33 (IF ANY) AS MANY JOK3S…N 3V3RYON3 N33DS 2 R3M3MB3R DAT D3R IS A HIGH3R MAN…DATS Y H3′S PR3SID3NT NOW!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/my_brooks_7204/ my_brooks_7204

    people are just takin some of them the wrong way. a couple were WTF !!!!!!!! cards but a few were kinda funny. evrything isn’t about race and people need to stop thinkin it is.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/heyhey16/ heyhey16

    If Bush was respected in his first 100days in office then President Obama should be respected as well. we need to stop trying to explain away their “little slaps” and start out and out b****ing about for real cause the only way we’ll get respect is if we demand it. haven’t you noticed Obama has won the right to be the “president” and yet nobody calls him Mr. President or say Pres. Obama in the news or any where else. all im saying is just show respect. and those cards are racist as you know what.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Rhemawrd/ Rhemawrd

    The only “joke” in any of these cars is the same sort of “jokes” I heard from white racists in the 60′s. Nixon was joked about for his Watergate scandal. Clinton was joked about for his “but I didn’t inhale” comment and the Lewinski affair. Bush was joked about because he kept getting caught in his lies, and for having a vice president who confused his hunting buddies with game birds. Only Pres. Obama is being joked about because of the color of his skin. That’s the difference that people don’t seem to get. And it’s about time it stopped. If this were to happen with any of the previous presidents, the public outcry would be outrageous. We should be boycotting this card company and the New York Post. I, personally; don’t find either even remotely worthy of the recycling bin.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ArkPlayalistic/ ArkPlayalistic

    i think that tha hatin needs to stop yall had a chance 2 put tha white manin but GUESS WHAT? HE COULDNT CUT THA MUSTARD…SO JUS DO AMERICA A FAVOR N JUS DEAL WIT THA MAN…OBAMA BIATCH!!!!!!!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com//

    I mean this is 2009……

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Dvine2/ Dvine2

    America has had 43 white men as president and the first time there is a black man all they can do is focus on his race, yes the cards are offensive because the were created on the basis of stereotypes for blacks. Jokes are jokes,don’t act like you dont know that difference,these are not jokes. President Obama is a well-respected diginfied man , he knows his job is to take care of america so Im sure the stuff they say will roll off his back. But please dont assume it will make him a lesser president.Even before he became president we knew his worth. BIG UPS TO ALL HIS HATERS!!!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bigman6/ bigman6

    NO need to get mad, let them hate, 43 white men tore this country apart to high hell, after over 200 years of messing up the country, it’s time for a change. They just mad cause they lost all they had, if a black man had did any of those racist things he would be put on front street in front of everybody. They just mad, we took their sports, their women and now their White House, it’s a fact blacks ate going to be here for a longtime after they are gone. How can Obama mess up, something that was already messed up anyway, they need to come up with all that money that was in the bailout for the housing that no one can account for, like that first 350billion, and they need to do more investigation into these two alleged terrorist attack and see who lol and make jokes when we find out what really happened,it’s always something bad happening with them Bushes.

  • Anonymous

    Wow…… it’s really good to know the about the incredible personality of the world. Mr. President is really looking cool and impressive in the Greeting cards. It’s really the exceptional and unique information about him. Thanks for sharing.

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