Sometimes things are sad and funny at the same time — like the RNC’s Rosa Parks tweet yesterday, and how Twitter Justice gave the GOP what they so richly deserved.
In honor of Rosa Parks and her historic nose-thumb at rich, white, bossy men everywhere, the RNC — a collective of rich, white, bossy men trying to make people go to the back of the bus still — posted this infuriating tweet to their official, verified Twitter account Sunday:
Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in ending racism. pic.twitter.com/uxIj1QmtkU
— RNC (@GOP) December 1, 2013
Reaction was swift and often hilarious, but some tweets refused to allow the denial of true things to stand:
Thank u, this is tiny sample of it! @rossssc: I Missed It, When Did Racism End? ~~> pic.twitter.com/nWb5vt21mv <~~ #RacismEndedWhen
— Lourdes Fernandez (@LourdesIsBack) December 2, 2013
Some were just awkward:
#RacismEndedWhen Mitt Romney’s Mexican-born father ran for President, clearing the way for Panama-born John McCain pic.twitter.com/6xrRRtlN3t
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 2, 2013
Zach Braff did his hetero life partner thing:
#RacismEndedWhen I first entered @donald_faison
— Zach Braff (@zachbraff) December 1, 2013
Ah ha. Ahaahahahah. Hahaha. Hahaha. Aha. Ha:
#RacismEndedWhen Rick Santorum forced me to change my Twitter handle to @AngryBlahLady.
— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) December 1, 2013
Okay, you kind of have a point:
#RacismEndedWhen Limp Bizkit added loud guitars to loud sorta rhythmic shouting, thus changing the rap game forever.
— Erin Gloria Ryan (@morninggloria) December 1, 2013
No wait, awkward again:
#RacismEndedWhen LL Brad Paisley agreed that racism is just accidental. “You don’t judge my gold chains, I’ll forget the iron ones” Deal!
— .gif Goddess (@LexiScorsese) December 1, 2013
#RacismEndedWhen Glen Rice went to Alaska https://t.co/4n80hIcIT2 #shade
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) December 1, 2013
And we learned:
.@GOP Why is this upsetting people? Racism IS over; I’ve never suffered from it in my life.
— rob delaney (@robdelaney) December 1, 2013
#RacismEndedWhen some of my best friends said it was over.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 1, 2013
#racismendedwhen the iphone was available in both black and white.
— Nakia (@KiaJD) December 1, 2013
Or most convincingly:
“#RacismEndedWhen he got home safely pic.twitter.com/vt8XTjCPsC“@yurrrbabyma
— Justin (@JustinDemps3y) December 1, 2013
Previous tweet should have read “Today we remember Rosa Parks’ bold stand and her role in fighting to end racism.”
— RNC (@GOP) December 1, 2013
However, as you can see in the tweet above, the RNC’s Rosa Parks position has … evolved somewhat. Maybe #RacismEndedWhen that happened.
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