Baton Rouge parade mocked black men killed by cops, portrayed Obama as pimp
The Spanish Town parade earlier this year was full of racist imagery, including President Obama made to look like a pimp. Onlookers waved confederate flags.
The most offensive image here is the one of the pink flamingo — which is the parade’s official symbol — getting punched by a fist with a sign that reads, “I can’t breathe!” hung around its neck. This is a clear reference to Eric Garner, a New York man who died after being placed in a banned chokehold by police.
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The float also makes fun of the Black Lives Matter movement with its own hashtag #PinkLivesMatter.
McClatchy notes that a lot of the floats in the Spanish Town Parade are designed to be offensive, but some local residents think that making fun of a black man who was killed at the hands of police during Black History Month takes things way too far.
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