Barnes & Noble would like to publicly apologize for what happened in our Coral Gables, Florida store. We believe that a customer played a cruel joke and placed an inappropriate title in the front window of our store, where we were featuring books written by or about President Obama. We want to assure our customers that the book placed by someone other than our booksellers was never intended to be included in our display and was removed as soon as we became aware of the situation. We are looking into it and are taking the steps necessary so that it does not happen again. From time to time customers will move titles from one area of the store to another. In this particular case, we do not condone whatever message may have been intended with the placement of this title in our Presidential display. It certainly was not part of our merchandising and we regret that we didn’t see the placement of this title immediately.
Mary Ellen Keating, Spokesperson
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
via Black Power
Some idiot thought it would be funny to put a book about monkeys in the front display of Barack Obama related literature. This comes after the NY Post had a dead monkey in a cartoon, a mayor had a picture of the Whitehouse with watermelon and someone sent Obama a letter with HIV blood. The man already has to deal with the recession now this bs.
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Is he gonna have to deal with this for four whole years?
CORAL GABLES I STAY IN MIAMI THATS LIKE A FEW MINUTES FROM ME SO IM FINNA GO OUT THERE RIGHT NOW AND SEE WHAT THE PROBLEM IS ALL THIS RACISM NEED TO STOP IF U GOT RACISM IN UR HEART APPROACH A BLACK PERSON WIT IT DON’T THROW SHOTS SUBLIMINALLY LETS CONFRONT THIS ISSUE WITH WAR PLZ
MAN OH WELL WE CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT ANYMORE JUST IMPROVE OUR OWN LIVES UNTIL JESUS COMES BACK.
“Some idiot thought it would be funny to put a book about monkeys in the front display”
LMAO HOW IS THAT NOT FUNNY??????
@ j.p
“LETS CONFRONT THIS ISSUE WITH WAR PLZ”
lol are u serious its a joke in bad taste but each president had to deal wit sum kind of joke towards them bush was an idoit, clinton was a sex fiend, george senior well every1 said his wife looked like a man lol ..soooo yea u get the pic.
40 Says:
February 28th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
“Some idiot thought it would be funny to put a book about monkeys in the front display”
LMAO HOW IS THAT NOT FUNNY??????
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are you fucking stupid?
this shit is funny..but i can see why people wont think so…put it like this all the nonblack people are laughing….its like if somebody’s gettin hiked on, its funny to everyone except for the one who’s getin hiked on….but still this shit is pretty fucked up
its funny as fuck but also very disrepectful. any bwoi diss di link mek di paper
Just Keep It Moving and ignore the distractions.
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didnt they used to put a monkey picture next to bush’s face??!?!?!??
ye that just cray i don’t know why some one would do some thing like that there some strange people out there for real new york stand up thow you dun know what it County Of Kings run thinzz
this shit is just stupid. some things just never change
RTNY DO YOU THINK IT’S REALLY SMART TO REPORT EVERY RACIST ACT AGAINST PRESIDENT OBAMA?
PLEASE DON’T MAKE YOUR MEDIA THE ECCHO OF SUCH PETITENESS BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT’S WORTH MUCH MORE
i want some one to put something up my Obama if you get me
This random prejudice act is thrown on a website to continue to try and bring racism to a wider audience in hopes of what? To tell the world racism still exists…is this serious? Nothing is going to get better if people still care THAT much about this kind of stuff. Do you think blacks are the only group of people made fun of everyday? A gay man probably can’t walk on the streets without being made fun of in some way, how bout someone who is mentally challenged, or maybe someone who is an amputee, maybe a day to day nerd? Society still is throwing a fit about this stuff, and its sad. Yes racism still exists and so do a lot of other forms of bullying, is it horrible that an individual could think like this, of course, but when will society grow out of this nonsense and be bigger than this constant bullshit. I could see those individuals growing out of caring about the idiots who commit these acts way before the racist’s and bigot’s of the world figure things out. This shit isn’t even what is fucked up anymore, it is Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Spike lee who are fucked up, when they got nothing else to complain about. Grow up world, because this continuous front page bullshit about someone committing a nonsensical act of racism is only handing out attention to idiots who love it, and essentially saturating the actual act of fuckery.
I REMEMBER THEY WERE CONSTANTLY CALLING/COMPARING BUSH TO A MONKEY HIS WHOLE 8 YEARS
GLAD TO SEE WE HAVE PEOPLE THAT UNDERSTAND WHAT’S GOING ON…THEY ALWAYS EDIT MY POST, OR JUST DON’T POST THEM…BUT CONSTANTLY PUTTING UP EVERY GODDAMN RACIST REPORT ABOUT OBAMA!….THEY ARE TRYING TO FAN THE FLAMES. I WONDER WHO OWNES THESE SITE NOW?…ANYWAY WE ON TO YOU DUDES..REAL TALK.
TREY..YOU MUST BE WHITE. HISTORICALLY, EVEN IN THE CONSTITUTION LABELED SO CALLED BLACKS 3/5 OF A MAN, MEANING THE REST WAS APE. CALLING YOU A CRACKER IS NOT THE SAME AS CALLING ME NIGGER…HISTORICALLY CRACKER DOESNT MEAN SHIT TO YOU..YOU HAVE BEEN IN POWER FOR THE PAST 400 YEARS, WHY WOULD IT BOTHER YOU?….BUT I KNOW YOU KNOW THIS…YOU JUST PLAYING DUMB.
honestly i’m not black so I can’t describe how outraged i would feel about this but i can say that when i hear beaner jokes or spic jokes it doesn’t bother me. i mean thats why they say what they say or do what they do, so they can get a rise out of YOU. you can fight everyone that makes rascist comments but the real power is when you ignore their ignorance. just brush that shit off your shoulder. same thing with these posts, the dudes that run this site just want hits, thats all they care about. at the end of the day, if they can get that traffic flowing to their site, then maybe it will put a few extra dollars in their pocket. the point is that this kind of shit bring attention. people are interested in the bad all the time, and in the good sometimes.
Why do you black people get so sencetive when we make 1 small joke!? lol Common look how many white jokes you guys been using since the 90′s! Its 2009 Can we make 1 joke with out having it be so racisit all the time ? YOu feel me my nigga?
MATTER OF FACT…A WHITE GUY…START WITH SOME JEWISH JOKES. SEE HOW THE A.D.L. GETS UP IN FLAMES.
WHY DON’T YALL MAKE HITLER JOKES AGAINTS THE JEWS? CAUSE YOU FUCKING SCARED.
BLACKS ARE AN EASY TARGET.
I’M NOT IMPRESSED…I WANNA SEE SOME CHEAP JEW JOKES ON T.V….THEN WE CAN GET THE JOKE CRACKING GOING ON.
ALL MONEY AINT GOOD MONEY. THIS IS WHAT WHITE PEOPLE DO, MAKE MONEY OFF NEGATIVITY. I THINK WHITE PEOPLE REALLY CAN’T HELP IT..THEY ALWAYS GOT TO INTO DEVILMENT.