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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:27 PM Mar 2015

Vendor Sells 'Official Runnin' N****r Target' At South Dakota Gun Show

A vendor at a gun show this weekend in Sioux Falls, S.D. was spotted selling shooting targets with a cartoonish depiction of a black man and bearing the words "Official Runnin' N****r Target," television station KSFY reported on Sunday.

While a crew from KSFY was reporting on the "Collector's Classic Gun Show," one of the station's photographers noticed the targets showing the cartoonish silhouette. The KSFY photographer confronted the unidentified vendor who was selling the targets for 10 cents each and who was unfazed by the photographer's questions.

"Why are those on there?" KSFY's photographer asked.

"Why aren't they?" the vendor said. "They're just targets."

"Aren't they offensive in nature?" the photographer asked.

"To who? Are you a negro?" the vendor said. "You know there's some black people and then there's some negroes."

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Vendor Sells 'Official Runnin' N****r Target' At South Dakota Gun Show (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2015 OP
I'm all over it. KamaAina Mar 2015 #1
all the black repugs are beyond stupid samsingh Mar 2015 #2
Actually a lot of gun control laws go back to the old Jim Crow laws. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #9
"You know there's some black people and then there's some negroes" alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 #3
That kind of racist self-justification was all the rage when I was growing up. Adrahil Mar 2015 #18
+1 Blue_Tires Mar 2015 #20
Guns/accessory manufacturers and even consumers are so tacky. Tar-and-Feather that racist vendor, Hoyt Mar 2015 #4
How's that broad-brushed stereotyping been working for ya lately, Hoyt? friendly_iconoclast Mar 2015 #8
Just part of gun shows for you guys. Hoyt Mar 2015 #11
Not me- I don't go to 'em, and don't own a gun friendly_iconoclast Mar 2015 #26
So your 225 posts in the Gungeon since December are anti-gun? Hoyt Mar 2015 #27
Manichaean dualism such as yours has help to make gun control what it is today... friendly_iconoclast Mar 2015 #28
Cool story Hoyt. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #10
Yeah, gun fancirrs like cruddy stuff. Targets resembling people are bad enough, but vendors know Hoyt Mar 2015 #14
What are "fancirrs"? NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #15
Gun fanciers, you couldn't figure that out? Do you shoot targets resembling humans? Hoyt Mar 2015 #21
LOL...I didn't want to make assumptions. NaturalHigh Mar 2015 #22
I think you fired first snark here. Enjoy your evening Hoyt Mar 2015 #23
"There's some black people and then there's some negroes" tularetom Mar 2015 #5
Don't be fooled by imitators. This is the "Official" runnin' N***** target. Glassunion Mar 2015 #6
Having grown up in South Dakota, I can say I'm not exactly shocked. Comrade Grumpy Mar 2015 #7
Hot tub time machine brought the lunkhead back from the 19th century? nt daredtowork Mar 2015 #12
Message auto-removed Name removed Mar 2015 #13
Defending jokes about killing people of another race. How original of you. arcane1 Mar 2015 #16
what crap. cali Mar 2015 #17
First off, Stephen Fry doesn't have a racist bone in his body... Cooley Hurd Mar 2015 #19
no words justalovebug Mar 2015 #24
Bet he stayed at Bundyville during the Koch Fest there, promoted by their media organ, Fox. freshwest Mar 2015 #25

samsingh

(17,598 posts)
2. all the black repugs are beyond stupid
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:29 PM
Mar 2015

lack of gun laws and police brutality are used to harass the black population.

fu Clarence.

 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
3. "You know there's some black people and then there's some negroes"
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:29 PM
Mar 2015

The racists get dumber even as their opinions get more widespread. Make no mistake, this is only an inch away from the racist trash and race-baiters who inhabit - ahem - every corner of the Internet.

 

Adrahil

(13,340 posts)
18. That kind of racist self-justification was all the rage when I was growing up.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 05:29 PM
Mar 2015

I bet that kind of bullshit is STILL how the racists manage to tell themselves that they're OK.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
4. Guns/accessory manufacturers and even consumers are so tacky. Tar-and-Feather that racist vendor,
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:32 PM
Mar 2015

and anyone who bought one.

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
8. How's that broad-brushed stereotyping been working for ya lately, Hoyt?
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 05:02 PM
Mar 2015

I'm sure attitudes like yours have helped to bring about a string of gun control successes you'll be filling us in on Real Soon Now...


(I'll bet you didn't even notice that the management kicked that racist asshole out of the show...)

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
26. Not me- I don't go to 'em, and don't own a gun
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 09:00 PM
Mar 2015

Got any more stereotypes to trot out for us? Some more 'gun owner porn', perhaps?

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
14. Yeah, gun fancirrs like cruddy stuff. Targets resembling people are bad enough, but vendors know
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 05:18 PM
Mar 2015

a lot of gunners like that stuff.

NaturalHigh

(12,778 posts)
22. LOL...I didn't want to make assumptions.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 06:20 PM
Mar 2015

Your comments to me have always been snarky and somewhat hostile. Is it just that you don't like me, or do you just kind of have some aggression that you need to get out?

Anyway, have a nice evening. I'm going to meditate for a while and get mentally prepared for Justified.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
5. "There's some black people and then there's some negroes"
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:36 PM
Mar 2015

Actually that's probably a true statement, there are many people in South Asia and the Pacific who have extremely dark skin yet aren't Negroid.

But that isn't what this asshole meant, otherwise he would not have titled his creation the Runnin' N****r Target.

I've heard the same bullshit for years from some of the dumbasses in my family, "there's black people and then there's n****rs". But when I ask them to name someone they would consider a "black person" they are oddly unable to name one person.

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
6. Don't be fooled by imitators. This is the "Official" runnin' N***** target.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:41 PM
Mar 2015

Don't buy those cheap knock-offs. You'll only regret it.

 

Comrade Grumpy

(13,184 posts)
7. Having grown up in South Dakota, I can say I'm not exactly shocked.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 04:48 PM
Mar 2015

There is a lot of racism in the state, mostly directed at Indians. (I've heard them charmingly referred to as "prairie n******s".)

There are hardly any black people in the state. My high school of 900 students had one.

Fortunately for the local rednecks, there have been new arrivals for them to hate on: First, Mexicans, and now, Hmong.

Sadly, racism there seems to be positively correlated with being poor and working class white.

Response to DonViejo (Original post)

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
25. Bet he stayed at Bundyville during the Koch Fest there, promoted by their media organ, Fox.
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 08:17 PM
Mar 2015

Wish this guy could be investigated. Weird, it was only coming out west that I learned it was as racist as we were always taught the South was.

We were taught about the murder of laborers from China, what being Shanghai'd meant. too. And how Spanish land grants were nullified and citizens of Japanese ancestry in internment camps were robbed of their land. Not even to mention the indian wars and the environmental disasters caused by greed and arrogance.

But the rest, I had to get here to learn the history, that of an ugly string of depredations on POC. One would have hoped that South Dakota had learned better. Oh, well, probably GOP, too.

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