‘Obama for yo Mama’ tee: Offensive

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How offensively ‘let’s get all ghetto’ is this T-shirt from Urban Outfitters? The Rage has a hunch that it was a hipster white dude who came up with the slogan: ‘Obama for yo Mama.’ Who says ‘Yo Mama’ these days, other than drunk frat guys on Spring Break?

Wikipedia notes: ‘Although the phrase has a long history of including a description portion (such as the old, mostly harmless insult ‘your mother wears combat boots’), the phrase ‘yo mama’ by itself, without any qualifiers, has become commonly used as an all-purpose insult or an expression of defiance. ‘

They also trace it back to the early 90s. Hmm. The Rage thought that Barack Obama was running on a platform for ‘Change.’ Whoever designed this dumb, wanna-be urban shirt might want to come up with a more revolutionary slogan for our first African American candidate for President.