Who wants to guess what's happening in this picture? OK, I'll start. This is the Fayettville chapter of the NAACP, after being informed that R. Kelly has been nominated for another Image Award. Any other guesses?
UPDATE--Win:
I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure it involves Flavor Flav and a Sarah Palin look-alike.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
The Negro community after Jesse Jackson/Cornell West/John McWhorter/Insert-Any-Other-Traitorous-Black-Here is caught again on tape castigating Obama.
Nonhumerous instant response in Boston is that they're looking at Diane Wilkerson, our state senate lady who went from perennial scandals to losing her primary race to pursuing a write-in campaign to getting nabbed by the FBI.
I think it is: African Americans United Against The Bradley Effect
Deploring Andrew Sullivan's godless demands for Sarah Palin's medical records?
Sorry to ruin the fun, but I can tell you exactly what it is.
The brother at the podium is former Los Angeles firefighter Tennie Pierce, addressing the LA City Council.
Pierce sued the LAFD for racial harassment after fellow firefighters put dog food in his spaghetti. It caused some uproar here in Los Angeles a year or two back, and it brought out the negro community to frown upon some shenanigans. The light-skinned brother to Pierce's left is noted LA activist and OG commentator Earl Ofari Hutchinson.
This site has the unedited photo: http://laurbanroundtable.typepad.com/my_weblog/photo_gallery/
And a google search for Tennie Pierce will bring up other shots from that event, but none as shaming as the one above.
Perhaps Senator Chambliss was paying them a visit after his "the other folks are voting" comment.
A scene from Sad Saxby Chambliss' worst nightmare
No witty backstory attempt here.
When I first saw this last year, I laughed so hard I almost tore a lung. Then it popped up in your comments and nearly sent me to my grave.
TNC comment section keeps it crunk!
Well, the first time I ever saw this, I was linked to a forum of people of color. An intensely homophobic visitor had just come to tell them the problems of African-Americans were caused by the gays. . .
It's the Negro Community learning that David Alan Grier has been given a his own show on Comedy Central.
And a google search for Tennie Pierce will bring up other shots from that event, but none as shaming as the one above.
Posted by Ike Moses | November 1, 2008 11:46 AM
What's "shaming" about this photo?
As usual I'm wandering way off topic here, but fwiw:
The bearded guy immediately behind the guy at the podium reminded me a little bit of Emery Barnes, who represented the constituency of Port Moody-Coquitlam in the British Columbia legislature for years (he'd come up from the States to play in the Canadian Football League, liked Vancouver, and stayed). He earned a Social Work degree and belonged to the (left-of-center) New Democratic Party.
That made me wondere what became of Barnes since I left BC in the early 1990s, so I Wikipediad him and learned two things: one, that he'd been made speaker of the lege in 1994, and, two, that he'd died in 1998. Now I'm feeling blue about a 10-year-old death. What a softy, eh?
the NAACP watching a live feed of "real Americans" outside a McCain/Palin rally?
KarenZ,
Maybe my phrasing is awkward, and if that's the case, pardon me. But I would definitely feel shamed if I was being frowned upon. For clarity, I'm not saying the photo is "shameful."
The Wire loses again in the Emmy's; Boston Legal gets another award!
Testifying, collectively, against William "Dollar Bill" Jefferson at his trial. Can't a US Rep get a character witness? No?
What's wrong with this cat eating dog food?
I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure it involves Flavor Flav and a Sarah Palin look-alike.
Dog food ain't nutritionally optimized for cats, cuz.
Last spring, the South Carolina Congressional delegation sent a message to Bill Clinton.
I have a guess:
John McCain just pointed at them and called them "Those ones."
I don't think they took to that.
My guess is full of weakness compared to some others, but, here goes.
Obama at his inaugeration saying, "Where the white women at?"?
The board of deacons at my church after somebody asked if they wanted the following campaign sign:
Yeeeeeeeah Boyyeee! Flavor Flav for Senate, 2010!
MeDrew, Mel Brooks called and he wants his joke back.
Maybe it's the Obama inauguration, and the band is playing "Dixie."
(Or "Sweet Home Alabama.")
Because I recognize the breadth of social and cultural concerns exemplified by this blog, I'm guessing it's a response to the Mad Men episode where Don Draper skipped out on his partners in Los Angeles and took up with that weird young woman...
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown
Michael Richards tests out his latest stand-up routine.
Collectively undergoing fart therapy for high blood pressure
John McCain's claim to have been the inspiration for Harriet Tubman receives a less than enthusiastic response.....
No, Mr. Duke, your meeting is at 1273 Main, not 1723 Main.
gracchus- Ouch. I deserved that. But you have to admit it was a damn fine joke in the original context.
At a dinner the week after the company was allowed to go bankrupt, the Lehman Brothers discover that
a) Goldman Sachs would be bailed out;
b) It really was all due to those damned CRA mortgages
The deacon board just learned that a merry prankster peed in the lemonade during Sherrie Cogswell's wedding reception.
I'd like to think it's the reaction to hearing that the Yes on 8 folks put out yet another lie, this time a flyer that claims Obama supports Prop 8, which he has flat-out said he doesn't.
That said, Ike, thank you! I first saw this on LJ a good two years ago, and no one seemed to know where it was from. You've cleared up a huge mystery in this house.
They just figured out that after 400 years of ancestor bones buried in this earth and 400 years of blood, sweat and tears soaking this soil, that Sarah Palin doessn't think of them as the "real" America.
That one white guy in the back (far right) is like: "Yeah, I frown on them, too!"
Thanks for posting this pic. It made my day.
A team of lawyers for Whites had concluded that Colin Powell broke race-trade contract terms when he endorsed Obama; the lawyers for the Blacks (pictured above) have just been informed that Powell is to be immediately returned and Barack Obama taken as compensation. Barack Obama is now a white candidate; sorry Blacks, not this time!
(http://www.comedycentral.com/videos/index.jhtml?videoId=162807
@Evan - who can we get for Michael Jackson?
Oh this picture made my day and you guys are so funny.
Let me ask you guys something. I'm white. Suppose I were to copy that poster ("The Negro Community...", blow it up into a large banner, and hang it on my office wall.
Then, when people came into my office and didn't know what to make of it, I could say, "Oh, one of my best friends sent that to me. He's black."
Here's an honest question. Who would have the hardest time with that? White people, or black people?
My guess is, I would become instant friends with any black person who saw it. And white people would regard me as untouchable.
Someone in the audience was trying to make an analogy between Obama's campaign and a TV show:
"Barack Obama is like Ross on 'Friends'... you guys used to watch 'Friends' right?"