Yeah, but they put this lawn jockey in the White House.....that makes it different.
One really doubts the primitives have sufficiently sophisticated cerebral capacities to understand the subliminal, and those 0bama-in-the-boxes are as subliminal as all Hell, every single old racial stereotype and caricature embedded in them.
That's why we suspect they were designed and marketed by a secret member of the Ku Klux Klan or something, knowing he'd be making some big bucks off the primitives, and the primitive-like.
And this is from two lily-white guys in Nebraska; of course, race has never been a big issue here--but here you have two guys utterly unaffected by race, who wouldn't have these things with ten miles of their homes, they're so offensive.
I have lots of books on non-sound-based popular culture, and in one of them's an illustration from a "darky toy" offered by Montgomery, Ward in 1903, three paddles on which are painted faces of "darkies" looking eerily similar to the babbling sister primitive's new toys. A rod passes through the handles of the paddles. A ball is included. One tosses the ball at the three rotating "darkies," aiming to hit them so as to make them spin.
I have no opinion on race, other than that too much is made of it, but man, I imagine the babbling sister primitive makes David Duke look like a paragon of tolerance.
And the dirty, squalid, sleazy, trashy, barbaric, primitives think they're superior to decent and civilized people in the south who have traditional values on race?
Yeah, right.