NAACP: Ad Showing Allen West Punching White Woman ‘Not Racist’

In what may either be the greatest exhibit possible for how minutely and legalistically the NAACP parses ads, or the greatest exhibit possible for the disingenuousness of the racial Left, the NAACP has come out announcing that the recent ad depicting Florida Congressman Allen West attacking white women with boxing gloves isn’t racist. No, really, not at all. Read the NAACP’s reasoning, via the Huffington Post, below:

But NAACP spokesman Hillary Shelton said he watched the ad several times, specifically looking for the concerns raised by West, and saw nothing.

“Racist is not a term I would utilize to sum up this commercial,” Shelton told The Huffington Post. “It looks like a traditional, political, partisan commercial.”

“The language utilized doesn’t present Allen West as a stereotype of an African American,” Shelton said. “The ad has him looking very well groomed, a serious look on his face and he’s wearing a suit. The only thing superimposed is a boxing glove as a symbolic analysis of his policies being inconsistent with the values of retirees, women and African-American families.”

The NAACP spokesman said the demographics of the people in the ad accurately represent the make-up of West’s district, which makes the ad “fair game” in the midst of 2012 politicking. He also dismissed the idea that the ad is offensive to women.

The younger woman being punched in the face “is not wearing a bikini. The expression on her face is not one of fear. It’s a serious expression, but it’s not of someone being threatened,” Shelton said. “I don’t see the symbolism in any way ingrained in stereotypes, whether it’s race or gender or ethnicity.”

Now, on the one hand, those who are tired of accusations of racism being slung everywhere around the political spectrum may find this to be a refreshing bit of logic on the part of the NAACP. And perhaps it is, but when you consider what else the NAACP has called racist, this has more than a bit of a whiff of disingenuousness. Consider this reaction to Mitt Romney’s speech at the NAACP by Charlotte Stoker-Manning, Chair of Women in NAACP:

“I believe his vested interests are in white Americans,” said Charlette Stoker Manning, chair of Women in NAACP. “You cannot possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he’s coming from. He’s talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts — black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work.”

So referencing entrepreneurship and checking accounts is racist, but showing a black man punching out elderly white women and young white women is fine because there’s no sign of “stereotypical” depictions of the women or the black man in question. This distinction may strike some as elusive, while cynics may suggest that the NAACP’s inconsistently applied sensitivity is evidence of bias. At best, the distinction involved is probably too subtle.

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  • Diane TX
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:12am

    The gold tooth in West’s mouth seemed racist to me. Decent Black men don’t have a gold tooth in their mouth – just pimps, gangsta, thugs and an occasional hip-hop artist.

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    • Ded-Bred
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:31am

      That statement from NAACP says,”Now the rest of you n***ers be good boys & stay on the Democrat plantation. Don‘t forget what Nat’l Black Caucus said about him feeding Chick-fil-A months ago?
      Just dawned on me…..many blacks claim they cannot be racist because they have no wealth to hold whites ‘down’ in poverty.’ Unless you are conservative, that is. Then you‘re ’racist’ to blacks!!!

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    • burnteye86
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:41am

      The NAACP’s very name shows them to be racists. They’re just telling there base what they want to hear. They know white libs think it’s a racist ad, so they have to assure them that it ain’t.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 6:50am

      Thanks to the advent of the “new media,” the Left’s hypocrisy is being exposed almost daily. If there’s one thing most everyone can agree on, it’s that we hate hypocrites!
      WTP are waking up.

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    • kaydeebeau
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 6:52am

      So let’s re-produce the ad, replace West with Obama. Anyone want to guess what the “tune” of the NAALCP would be?

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 6:58am

      @kaydeebeau “So let’s re-produce the ad, replace West with Obama. Anyone want to guess what the “tune” of the NAALCP would be?”
      Oooooo….I like that!

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    • right
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:11am

      kaydeebeau
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 6:52am
      So let’s re-produce the ad, replace West with Obama. Anyone want to guess what the “tune” of the NAALCP would be?

      I was thinking the very same thing.

      And what about this fool:“I believe his vested interests are in white Americans,” said Charlette Stoker Manning, chair of Women in NAACP. “You cannot possibly talk about jobs for black people at the level he’s coming from. He’s talking about entrepreneurship, savings accounts — black people can barely find a way to get back and forth from work.”

      What a way to talk about black people. So as far as naacp thinks, there are NO black people that aren’t dirt poor and none that have a car or a home?
      I know that is NOT true and am tired of the left saying this kind of stuff. Why don’t the self respecting blacks stand up and defend themselves? Why do they continue to allow this?

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    • The_Cabrito_Goat
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:53am

      It is the height of racism, actually. Because it conveys a point. You are 5x as likely to find domestic abuse in interracial marriage between a black man and white woman.

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    • Metalstr8jckt
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:16pm

      Veneers are not a recent innovation to dentistry however they come unglued and break. Gold will last as long as your mouth. You don‘t talk much face to face with many 80 plus seniors who don’t have a full upper and lower plate. Do you? Your little avatar picture…With the “Woody’s girlfriend” cowboy hat…Ha-ha. Going country? To find Texas: Head south and you know you are there when your Northern backside steps ‘in it.” Now scrape the B.S. off of your shoe that you brought down here with you. And then watch us ringing the alarm bell that the border is open and Napolitano is complicit.

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    • hayesstephen
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:18pm

      I truly think that is the dumbest comment I have ever heard!! Not yours DianeTx. The racist Naacp. Man racist are able to twist and lie about anything and their conscientious never bothers them. For shame you nasty filthy liars. But of course leftest drones have no shame nor compassion for others. Just for and their lying party.

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    • Nuncle
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:01pm

      A gold tooth actually has been used for a millenium to indicate the bearer has done the Haj (gone to mecca, thrown rocks at the devil, walk 7 times around the metior… i.e. that they are a Muslim.. Interesting..

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    • Metalstr8jckt
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:43pm

      Most political cartoons are directed towards the least educated of society. A visual aid is necessary to sway public opinion in the desired direction. The “funnies section’ of a newspaper if done correctly makes fun of everyday life. Not a bunch of elected officials who should be testing the limits of hemp rope “stretchability.”

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  • endthemindlessspending
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:11am

    My next Goal in life is to start WET White Entertainment TV, and WhitePeopleMeet.com. See what the NAACP has to say to that. So tired of this nothing can be segregated unless it’s all “African-American”. Time to cut the leash and stop letting them play this little game.

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  • wordweaver
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:32am

    I agree that it isn’t racist, but it is totally unconscionable. Anyway, who cares what the NAACP thinks? They are about as relevant today as the United Nations and the French military.

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    • DocHuck
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:53am

      I agree with everything but the French part, they fought hard with us in eastern Afghanistan.

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    • M13
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:24am

      The French never did any of the combat in Afganistan. There job was never be exposed to enemy fire.

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  • nolefan2
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:24am

    The NAACP is so yesterday. They are fast becoming irrelevant because everyone knows they’re nothing but a bunch of hypocrites. They are not for all “colored” people because they exclude Republicans and conservatives.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:13am

      It’s a business and has to stay relevant to make the top money.
      Isn’t it amazing how much racism there is since the first black president was elected. Now all those obscure racist blacks can now become prominent again. They rely on people that have no idea what is happening or what is at stake, but they prosper.

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  • barber2
    Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:00am

    Apparently, the NAACP is not concerned about the “advancement” of a particular ” colored person,” Allen West. Duh. They, like the Black Caucus, are in the Left wing pocket. Rather like the media. Our entire hemisphere is in the Left Wing pocket. It’s the New Anti-Capitalsit agenda sweeping the hemisphere. Fidel Castro must be thrilled. However, JFK ( of your grandfather’s old Democrat Party ) must be twirling.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:26am

      Actually, JFK is still going back, and to the right. Back and to the right….back and to the right.

      Reference, JFK, Oliver Stone.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:29am

      Obama is reminding me of BJ Clinton in his last few weeks in office.
      Anxious whiny and nervous.
      The moonbats sense they are losing and the anxiety is mounting.
      OMG in Nov 2012

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:26am

      and didn’t the Clintons take off with a bunch of stuff belonging to the White House?

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:10am

      Mostly with the W’s from the keyboards, and the newly discovered miracle, Toilet Paper. Bill didn’t need to use his finger anymore.

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    • Altair
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 10:07am

      Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 2:10am
      Mostly with the W’s from the keyboards, and the newly discovered miracle, Toilet Paper. Bill didn’t need to use his finger anymore
      ********************

      Or a cigar.

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  • MAULEMALL
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:47pm

    So if romney puts up an ad of the half black guy beating and pulling tubes out of a old white woman then giveing her the thumbs down as he throws her off the cliff it would be ok??

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:10am

      Only if he has gold teeth, a chicken drum stick in one hand and watermelon in the other. But if he flashes an EBT card, then you are entering racist territory. Now if you have an unwed black woman having an abortion while Sandra Fluke stomps the fetus, that is OK. Just don’t mention food stamps, then your racist.

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  • Smokey_Bojangles
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:40pm

    If it starred Jesse Jackson Jr it would be.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:19am

      He‘s too ’depressed’ for commercials.

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    • reloader7.62
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:05am

      @GONZO that funny,and the possibility of maybe spending time in the slammer and loosing his government benefits probably don’t help,I‘d be depressed to but it’s of his own doing.

      If he had been a Republican he would have already be crucified by the media and congressional Democrats calling for a new election to replace him.

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  • Wool-Free Vision
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:29pm

    By the way, now that it has been okayed by the NAACP, I would hope that Romney’s people are already busy producing an ad showing Obama beating up white women. I mean, why not? The judges of all things racist at the NAACP have already declared that this tactic is perfectly acceptable. Watch them cry racism when the shoe is on the other foot.

    And let’s not forget how quiet NOW has been about this ad, knowing that if a republican employed the same imagery they would be calling for his head. Hypocrites really piece me off.

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    • obamasacommie
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:43pm

      I seem to remember the NAACP crying about some comment they thought in some alternate dimension they heard from a Halmark card. What a bunch of irrevelant shills, does anyone care anymore what they think. For that matter does anyone care if their called racist, I dont infact depending on the person claiming it I wear it as a badge of honor.

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  • jespasinthru
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:29pm

    I looked through The Blaze articles and found the ad. It’s not “reprehensible”, just lame and kinda goofy. Is that the best the Opposition can come up with? Face it, poverty pimps and Democrat plantation slaves: Allen West has a HUGE fan base. That‘s why they’re so afraid of him.

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  • longun45
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:27pm

    If Allen West had been protrayed as punching a rich black woman Would that not be considered racist by the NAACP.

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:12am

      Dingbat Harry Reid used to be a boxer (hard to believe) so I guess the NAACP would be fine with Harry beating up MaxyPads or SheeelaJacko?
      BJ Clinton swinging at Jesse Jacksons daughter? Would that be COOL with NAACP?
      What a bunch of hypocrites!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      Rangel is so old —he probably couldn’t give a knock out punch to BelaPeeelooski.

      OMG in Nov 2012

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  • bdandsl
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:27pm

    “The language utilized doesn’t present Allen West as a stereotype of an African American,” Shelton said. “The ad has him looking very well groomed, a serious look on his face and he’s wearing a suit.

    In other words, because he’s an educated, conservative, black man wearing a suit and not a hoodie, he‘s not one of us and he’s on his own.

    And they want to be taken seriously? They have become the very thing they claim to be against (same with the unions.) They are the epitome of racism!

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:42am

      NAACP has never left the plantation. They have enslaved themselves to the radical racist view of the LEFT.
      Starr Parker and Doreen Borelli are my heroes of strong african american women who chose their liberty over radical enslavement.

      OMG 2012

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  • 1forthegoodguy
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:25pm

    How is the ad racist? I dare The Blaze readers to submit what they feel is racist about the ad. If this had been a Democrat, would you still feel it was racist? I feel that bringing this up is racist in and of itself, since no one had mentioned this when the ad was posted the other night. Again, and again, right wing Tea Party extremists want to use the race card only when it suits them.

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:31pm

      You’re out of your mind if you think the NAACP would sit by and let a republican run the same ad without screaming racism. A black man beating up a white woman???? Your feigned ignorance is why people call you a moonbat.

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    • marine249
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:32pm

      were have you been the last 50 years?
      In you mommie’s basement?

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    • bdandsl
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:33pm

      The point is that had it been on the other foot they would be screaming racism. It is about hypocrisy that if ‘they’ do it , it’s not racism and if the right had put out an ad such as this, they would be screaming racism at the top of their lungs.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:33pm

      LIARS! What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If he roles were reversed, the boxer was white and the old lady was black, you can bet the NAABD would be howling racism and the MSM would be running it 24/7.

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    • marine249
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:35pm

      O.K. to you it is not racist.
      But it sure is hateful.

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    • Popp40
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:36pm

      Please 1FORTHEGOODGUY, we all know that the left are the one that uses race when it fits their needs. Once again you prove my point that liberals/progressives/democrats do nothing but resort to the psychological defense mechanism of Projection.

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:52pm

      “I feel that bringing this up is racist in and of itself”

      Oh, I see. So, you agree that the NAACP bringing this up is racist. How big of you, but then you also go on to say that someone else is playing the race card. You can’t play the race card and then disallow any discussion of the race card.

      You are twisting and spinning so hard that you can‘t even figure out what you’re saying. Pathetic.

      Like most leftists, you are a walking self-contradiction (also known as a hypocrite), but too stupid to see it.

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    • nolefan2
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:21am

      Oh puleeze. The Democrats have used the race card so much that it is tattered and torn…..and so yesterday. It is beginning to lose its “scary” power.

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    • NancyBee
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 1:31am

      Reminder…..ALERT……ALERT……Don’t feed the TROLLS!

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    • kickagrandma
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 8:08am

      Oh, helllooooo 1~~~

      THE TEA PARTY doesn’t play any deck that holds a race card.

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  • jungle J
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:22pm

    when th naacp speaks only non sense is heard by the sane…others hear whatever they choose to hear.

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    • CatB
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 12:30am

      NAACP .. are the racists. It is a racist organization.

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  • dfissell
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:18pm

    its only raciest or sexiest it it was a white guy and he was beating on a black person and woman

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  • marine249
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:17pm

    N– Nitwit
    A– Acting
    A– As
    C– Complete
    P– Pr–ks

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    • Logistician
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 9:39am

      National Association for the Advancement of Communist People.

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  • Kankokage
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:15pm

    It’s not racist. Why? Because, um….LOOK! SQUIRREL!

    ~your NAALCP

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  • grayling646
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:15pm

    Do the left even know that no one is listening to them anymore?

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    • Wool-Free Vision
      Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:21pm

      They are far too busy propping each other up and paying each other off to care what America thinks.

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  • Wool-Free Vision
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:14pm

    The NAACP is the epitome of hypocrisy. There is no defense for the outrageous double-standard they apply to any and every possible situation. MLK spins in his grave whenever the NAACP issues a statement.

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  • marine249
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:13pm

    the left can not say anything bad about the right.
    ha ha ha ahh $hi!

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  • Kelly Henderson
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:11pm

    The naacp should be outlawed as well as the cbc. They are just legal racist.You folks make me want to barf.If that had been a white man hitting black women would that of been alright with you bozo`s? Doubt it. The whole lot of you clowns should be ashamed.And each and everyone of you should quit.

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  • jespasinthru
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:10pm

    Where’s the ad, Blaze?? I want to see that so bad.

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  • LeadNotFollow
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:10pm

    …
    NAACP would sure call it racist if a White guy was punching a Black woman.
    NAACP are just a bunch of hate-filled, racist, hypocrites.

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  • Sirfoldallot
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:08pm

    NAACP = bias divide

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  • matt708
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:07pm

    what a bunch of morons and racists

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  • Master_and_Commander
    Posted on August 10, 2012 at 11:06pm

    I wouldn’t call it racist either, I’d just call it untruthful, along with ridiculously stupid. End of story, move along.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on August 11, 2012 at 7:21am

      The problem is, if the Republicans made the exact same ad with any black Dem beating an old white woman, all hell would break loose.

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