NAHHH, NOTHING RACIST HERE

There's a thread over at Free Republic titled "Sign Ideas for Ferguson Counter-Protests." Here are a few suggestions from that thread:

I’d be there to help you protest
But I have to work instead.
So with the EBT I pay for
Your children will be fed.

PANTS UP!!!
DON'T TOOT!!!

("TOOT"? What decade are we in?)

How 'bout:
"Blacks are a protected species".
(Same with any minority.)

WE SHOULD HAVE PICKED OUR OWN DAMN COTTON.

There's concern trollery:

If you have time to protest and loot, you have time to study and work.

Get off welfare, get a job and quit crying about criminals dying committing a crime.

BOOKS, NOT BRUTALITY!

"Get even by getting an education and job"

And one Freeper comments:

Won't work. None of them can read.

It might be a good time to interject this, which is not from the Freep thread:

An officer told Lillian Guthrie to "go get a job" as she and her son protested Monday. She's a financial analyst. pic.twitter.com/n1EL1hjlFR

— Antonio French (@AntonioFrench) August 20, 2014

There's this:

NEED A NEW TV ?
Re-ELECT JAY !! WORKBOOTS OPTIONAL

Which is met by this:

Amazingly, not one pair of workboots was reported stolen during all that looting and pillaging.

And by this:

Workboots are the only thing still available at all of the looted stores!

Now, where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah -- Joe the Plumber's Facebook page:



There are the usual attacks on Eric Holder and the Obamas:

Your slave masters, obama and holder love that they can manipulate you so easily.

Why didn't/don't Obama and Holder live in Ferguson ?
If Obama had a son, he'd look like Holder!
If Holder had a son, he'd look like Michele!

And, of course, many of the signs presuppose that Mike Brown attempted to murder Darren Wilson:

1)THUG TRIES TO KILL COP
2)THUG IS SHOT DEAD
WHICH PART OF "DUH!!"
DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?

"GENTLE GIANTS"
DON'T SMASH
PEOPLE'S FACES
BACK INTO
THEIR SKULLS

"Live like a thug, die like a thug"

Good grief, the cop got his eye punched out.
What don't you understand about a cop being attacked???

Sorry, We're Not Going To Make Beating Cops Legal!

And, of course:

Wilson/Zimmerman—2016

CNN is reporting that, contrary to reports that made their way up the wingnut food chain, Darren Wilson did not have fractured eye socket, although he did go to the hospital after the shooting and was treated for a swollen face. But Fox News hasn't updated its story "Missouri Cop Was Badly Beaten Before Shooting Michael Brown, Says Source," which is still among the "trending" stories on the Fox News home page as I write this. The story is also still on the Fox Nation front page.

Trust me -- America's right-wingers will never, ever stop believing that Brown broke Wilson's eye socket and nearly killed him, just as they'll never stop believing that Trayvon Martin nearly killed George Zimmerman. (Recall that a medical examiner at Zimmerman's trial called Zimmerman's wounds "very insignificant"; even Marc Siegel, a doctor who's a regular medical commentator for Fox, agreed with that.) The point of spreading the eye socket story was to plant the narrative in the minds of people who want to believe the shooting was justified. That effort succeeded.