Obama's Ice Cream Flavor: "Black Power?"

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When President Obama stopped for an ice cream cone at Bar Harbor, Maine's Mount Desert Island Ice Cream last weekend, he might have thought it was a relatively uncontroversial move.

Yet his choice of venue, as the Bangor Daily News reports, was quickly seized on as evidence that, as one blogger put it, the president was trying to "send a subtle message to his core radical base."

That message? "Black Power."

The speculation was prompted by the company's logo, which you can see at left. A small number of right-leaning bloggers say the president's choice of the shop as evidence that he wanted to send a message by stopping at a shop whose logo is reminiscent of the black power symbol of the 1960s.

Unsurprisingly, the woman who owns the shop, Linda Parker, is not exactly Huey P. Newton. A white woman in a state with a one percent black population, she told the Bangor Daily News that she chose the stark logo to differentiate her shop from larger ice cream makers who tend to use softer images.

Noting that Howard Stern uses a similar image, she asked rhetorically of Stern's radio program: "Is that the new black power comedy show?"

"All I'm doing is getting up, making ice cream, and going to bed," she told the newspaper. "That's all I do all summer. No time for radical insurgency."

[MinniePearlJam]

There isn't a day that goes by that this guy isn't scarfing down cheeseburgers, french fries, and ice cream. I think his wife (you know...the one wearing the pants) needs to worry about her husband making healthy food choices before she starts preaching to us.

[newine]

"What does it say about whites' tenuous grip on mental health that in mid-August 1969 (and also in 2010), forty-four percent of whites told a Newsweek/Gallup National Opinion Survey that blacks had a better chance than they did to get a good paying job--two times as many as said they would have a worse chance? Or that forty-two percent said blacks had a better chance for a good education than whites, while only seventeen percent said they would have a worse opportunity for a good education, and eighty percent saying blacks would have an equal or better chance? In that same survey, seventy percent said blacks could have improved conditions in the "slums" if they had wanted to, and were more than twice as likely to blame blacks themselves, as opposed to discrimination, for high unemployment in the black community.
In other words, even when racism was, by virtually all accounts (looking backward in time), institutionalized, white folks were convinced there was no real problem. Indeed, even forty years ago, whites were more likely to think that blacks had
better opportunities, than to believe the opposite (and obviously accurate) thing: namely, that whites were advantaged in every realm of American life. Truthfully, this tendency for whites to deny the extent of racism and racial injustice likely extends back far before the 1960s. Although public opinion polls in previous decades rarely if ever asked questions about the extent of racial bias or discrimination, anecdotal surveys of white opinion suggest that at no time have whites in the U.S. ever thought blacks or other people of color were getting a bad shake."
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[newine]

What the hell! What is this? CBS please print something that's newsworthy.This is, as Sarah Palin would say- repudiateable!!!

[CommonSenseToday]

I have to laugh at how stupid this is. Reminds my of McCarthyism and I'm not old enough to remember that. A Racist ice-cream cone. Tea baggers are really reaching. Excuse me while I laugh my ass off!

[EyesStationZebra]

The ice cream parlor's logo is a stylized HAND HOLDING A SPOON, an implement right-wing types and their friends in Congress might be familiar with, so accustomed are they to feeding at lobbyists' troughs.

[TheMemekiller]

I need to know more before forming an opinion. What did Obama order? Was it vanilla or chocolate based? Did it include oreo?

[TheMemekiller]

I think it was a response to the racisim inherent in Boehner's purchase of a MooLatte and DQ.

[UForgotPoland]

Americans really need to get over the racial mindset, and all sides are to blame. .

[tsigili]

Maybe. More likely Obama has a weakness for ice cream. (His dietary choices, have not been overly healthy.)

[LIBERALS-lie]

and this is a suprise ?

[documemts]

Baggers: The zombie-republican undead.

[MinniePearlJam]

actually "documents"...Democrats make up nearly a third of the Tea Bag Party according to CNN.