Top KS Democrat calls GOP "redneck rap" racist

Kansas Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley says state Rep. Bill Otto's "RedNeck Rap" is "disturbing" and evidence of "bigotry."

Throughout the "rap" (here's the youtube)Otto sports a ballcap with the words "Opossum, the other dark meat" handwritten on the front. In his song Otto criticizes President Obama's policies. At the end the LeRoy Republican points to his hat and says "A little greasy, but hey."

Otto says it was a parody of rednecks, not a racist comment. Hensley doesn't buy it.

"I am appalled," Hensley, a Topeka Democrat, writes in a statement. "... If Opossum is the other dark meat, what is the original dark meat he is referring to? ... It is only logical to presume that Otto was making reference to the President's race....

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/20258#new

You tube says video has been removed by user. http://www.youtube.com/videos?ytsession=2zLhbh1B-xK7glK0axDC3j6RnQK3FatTuPk7tTQS3xgfHk5I8XlA04XP3_NYG90CIKM4s43L-zJJS_CdF4ELBRZLg-E2aC4whe9Klpq-RetwtvbGHa5_giay0fgOgw7-HI46bBygT9NCa0Kkf0k2J-pv9JO6-FOegSxtMf7_TTIsmmBEDnh8gw3Qalvm9n1lyygIwzXGXjKxi4RFvkb7pMcc3H6o0YosWZsXJa9v6eRPMfxzxmomLvKLVZt4OKmxDdLA0X-bVrk7UKxdP0QzBaHRUCYjHvhNUQDoHXfZxs92d6Be86ClkimEKXVW3IoFqzZBQT-yj4R90APWTVbeuw

Associated Press
10/15/09 3:55 PM PDT

TOPEKA, KAN. — A video titled "RedNeck Rap" that features a Kansas lawmaker repeatedly criticizing President Barack Obama's policies while wearing a hat describing opossum as "the other dark meat" has been removed from YouTube.

Republican Rep. Bill Otto said Thursday afternoon that he didn't remove the video and didn't know why it had been taken down.

He says criticism of the video is unfounded. He says the hat's saying, which he repeats at the end of the short video, refers to redneck stereotypes, not Obama.

But Kansas Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley says he's appalled by the video. The Topeka Democrat says it's logical to conclude the reference is to the first black president's race.

Otto says he doesn't know what Hensley's "getting at."

The White House isn't commenting.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/nation/kan-legislators-anti-obama-video-that-also-calls-opossum-other-dark-meat-removed-from-web-64450817.html

Hard to believe he keeps getting re-elected.

LOL