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I am disgusted to learn that 6 seconds of video of Michelle Obama on the Jay Leno show is circulating the interwebs as a "comedy" bit. The original video has been edited to suggest that The First Lady said that the President "beats" her.
I am disgusted to learn that 6 seconds of video of Michelle Obama on the Jay Leno show is circulating the interwebs as a "comedy" bit. The original video has been edited to suggest that The First Lady said that the President "beats" her.
I don’t care who you are. I don’t care where you come from. It doesn’t matter what your politics. Your religious view are not important. But in my opinion if you think that domestic violence is funny, then you are an evil human being.
Video Excerpt –Poorly edited hatchet job
Complete VIdeo
The statement taken out of context is at 6:28
“When he beats me at tennis, that gets to be pretty annoying. And he beats me quite often.”
By the time you finish reading this sentence one woman will have been violently beaten. Women who return to their abusers often end up dead.
Help end the cycle of violence. If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse and violence, please see the resources below for help and support.
Help end the cycle of violence. If you or someone you know is a victim of domestic abuse and violence, please see the resources below for help and support.
RESOURCES
National Organization of Women
Feminist Majority Foundation
End Abuse
Resource Center
Safe Horizon
YES. I find it absolutely incomprehensible that in this day and age where SO MUCH has already been publicised about the extreme seriousness of domestic violence that some people are STILL capable of laughing about the issue as if it was a joke...!!!
ReplyDeleteA survey recently showed domestic violence to be the NO. 1 cause of ill health, disability and death in women between the ages of 20-40 in Australia (let alone the impact it has on the children of these women who witness the abuse and are abused themselves too) !!!!!
Domestic violence is NOT a laughing matter!!!!!
DragonFlyer aka Kallena
It does not surprise me that this was done.It all wraps up into one giant ball of stereotypical racism!!!Obama is black,'black men ALWAYS beat up their women' and it goes on and on!!!Our president has been portrayed as everything negative 'under the sun' so here we go with yet another 'poison arrow ' This so called 'civilized society' is showing its true colors more and more which each passing day.It saddens and grieves me that anyone could find this inference funny!!!I'm almost certain that we will see more negative 'quotes and quips 'that will certainly appeal to the IGNORANT as we go forth.Hey DUMB ASSES..DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS NOT FUNNY AND NEITHER ARE YOUR JOKES!!!!' Jay Bascom
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