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#466392 - Sat Apr 11 2009 01:30 AM Afro-American Touches Queen!
vendome Prolific Registered: Sun May 21 2000 Posts: 1778 Loc: Body: PA USA Heart: Paris	Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II was recently touched by an Afro-American woman (Michelle Obama)in a significant breach of royal protocol. Not since Jimmy Carter kissed Her Majesty the Queen Mother on the lips and the Australian Prime Minister touched the Queen's spine while guiding her to the proper location has there been such an outcry. One person who deserves an outcry is the Obama Administration's Chief of Protocol for dereliction of duty. President Obbama and Mrs. Obama should have been briefed on the various requirements/social niceties of the counttries they visit to prevent embarrassment on both sides. Our Protocol guy should cry on his way out. _________________________ I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did. Yogi Berra
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#466393 - Sat Apr 11 2009 03:41 AM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
Jabberwok Enthusiast Registered: Tue Jun 24 2008 Posts: 427 Loc: Sussex England UK	The queen put her mitts on Mrs Obama first, so Mrs O returned the favour. At least she was quieter than some of the others in the photoshoot, it's being yelled at or near that little old ladies find disconcerting. I think you'll find it's Buck House protocol fiends and royalist newspaper columnists that are in a tizz about this rather than her Maj. _________________________ 'The United Kingdom. Slightly smaller than Oregon' CIA World Factbook
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#466394 - Sat Apr 11 2009 05:20 AM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
sue943 Administrator Registered: Sun Dec 19 1999 Posts: 38005 Loc: Jersey Channel Islands	All very strange. At least Lizzie didn't look shocked as she did when the former Australian PM put his hand on her back! _________________________ Many a child has been spoiled because you can't spank a Grandma!
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#466395 - Sat Apr 11 2009 06:45 AM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
supersal1 Mainstay Registered: Sat Jul 17 2004 Posts: 727 Loc: Essex UK	It all looked a little condescending to me, rather in the manner of a gracious hostess steering a bewildered old aunty to a comfortable seat at a family party. Which would have been OK if it had been Her Maj visiting the Obamas on their home turf.
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#466396 - Sat Apr 11 2009 10:49 AM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
ysmay Enthusiast Registered: Fri Feb 13 2009 Posts: 292 Loc: New York USA	Quote: It all looked a little condescending to me, rather in the manner of a gracious hostess steering a bewildered old aunty to a comfortable seat at a family party. I guess it's really open to interpretation. I choose to see it in a positive light and suggest that it showed affection and politeness rather than condescention. I think the papers/media like to make these little things adversarial so that they can sell advertising, but I'd rather not take the bait. Y
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#466397 - Sat Apr 11 2009 10:56 AM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
MadMags Star Poster Registered: Sat May 03 2008 Posts: 17092 Loc: Orosi Costa Rica	I'm more perturbed by the fact that one person's skin colour was alluded to, but no-one else's. _________________________ A smile is a curved line that sets things straight. ~ Anon.
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#466398 - Sat Apr 11 2009 11:16 AM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
Jabberwok Enthusiast Registered: Tue Jun 24 2008 Posts: 427 Loc: Sussex England UK	Like ysmay pointed out, controversial sells papers and gets people twittering. I was puzzled by the fact that vendome is a Francophile, and yet seems annoyed at the breech of protocol. Don't you remember what the French did to their queen? _________________________ 'The United Kingdom. Slightly smaller than Oregon' CIA World Factbook
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#466399 - Sat Apr 11 2009 11:24 AM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
MadMags Star Poster Registered: Sat May 03 2008 Posts: 17092 Loc: Orosi Costa Rica	Although I'm busy outside, I just had to come back in and expand on my post. I'm not just perturbed, I'm offended. That is a racist, uneducated remark, and I'd like to know what the fact that she is an "Afro-American" has to do with it? _________________________ A smile is a curved line that sets things straight. ~ Anon.
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#466400 - Sat Apr 11 2009 11:42 AM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
Jabberwok Enthusiast Registered: Tue Jun 24 2008 Posts: 427 Loc: Sussex England UK	It has absolutely nothing to do with it, hence controversial, offensive, provocative and a dispute starter. _________________________ 'The United Kingdom. Slightly smaller than Oregon' CIA World Factbook
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#466401 - Sat Apr 11 2009 12:16 PM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
jordandog Forum Champion Registered: Tue Apr 17 2007 Posts: 5097 Loc: Ohio USA	Quote: It has absolutely nothing to do with it, hence controversial, offensive, provocative and a dispute starter. I agree with that completely and find this disgusting. My comments have nothing to do with any news portrayal of the situation because the news would never, in this day and age, present the story in the same manner and with that disgusting 'headline'. I agree with ysmay in that "it showed affection and politeness rather than condescention." There is however no politeness in the title of this thread and it is extremely condescending. I can only wonder what members of FT who aren't 'caucasian' will think if they happen to see this. Shame on you. _________________________ The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.-- Richard Bach [i]Illusions
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#466402 - Sat Apr 11 2009 02:16 PM Re: Afro-American Touches Queen!
ladymacb29 Moderator Registered: Wed Mar 15 2000 Posts: 16214 Loc: The Delta Quadrant	Quote: It has absolutely nothing to do with it, hence controversial, offensive, provocative and a dispute starter. And that's exactly why I'm closing this thread. _________________________ "Without the darkness, how would we see the light?" ~ Tuvok Editor for Television Category
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