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Ohhhhhh geez, we didn’t want it, but we got it. A concerned citizen from South Bend has forwarded what they claim are the truly sickening screen grabs from the Facebook page of Henry Davis. He’s the South Bend City Councilmember who posted an image of a dog being sexually assaulted in order to draw attention to an (utterly false) article claiming that DOMA was somehow linked to bestiality.
We’re told by our source that they forwarded everything along to the local police for investigation, so authorities are on the case.
And also: take these with a grain of salt. There’s no way to confirm whether they’re real or not. There’s always a chance that some sicko faked them, or someone posted them from Mr. Davis’ account without his knowledge. We do not have confirmation from the Councilmember’s office that they’re authentic, but we’re posting them to show you what’s circulating in South Bend right now.
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Meanwhile, the Councilmember publicly non-pologized at a press conference yesterday. Standing before a broken microphone with a group of ministers behind him, all he would say is that it was “an attempt to start a discussion on a reading that jarred my sensibilities.” So, does he think homosexuality and bestiality are related, is that why he was jarred? Or was he jarred by how homophobic it was? Or was he jarred by bestiality and for some reason that made him think about DOMA? Nothing in his statement really made sense. So, good job, everyone.
Mr. Davis, we should point out, is a Democrat. In fact, he opposed the passage of Indiana’s marriage equality ban.
It’s still a little unclear what he thought he was accomplishing by posting the image and article. His explanations are … kind of gibberishy.
Here’s what our source claims is the original post. “I am aware the picture is disgusting and way out of order but read the content in its entirety,” it says, which is consistent with media reports of the post.
His followers immediately freak out. “It’s not true,” “I think you need mental help,” they write to Mr. Davis.
The screen grab purports to show Mr. Davis responding, “Why can’t I post stuff on my page that I want to post? Again, I think it is disgusting just like I think it is disgusting that slave owners raped their slaves and everyone is concentrating on the dog but forget about the man who has been getting raped or maybe that is an accepted social norm.”
Wait, what? What man is getting raped? Who? Huh?
This image depicts Mr. Davis responding, “So you rather that I post some men hanging from a tree with their bodies smoking from being lynched? Look we better start in engaging in uncomfortable convo before we ended up in a situation we cannot get ourselves out of” … what? What are you talking about?
It’s like there are two totally different conversations happening here. What does this have to do with lynching? Why are the bodies smoking? What is the situation we cannot get ourselves out of? Because we are definitely in that situation now.
Later posts — and again, Mr. Davis hasn’t confirmed that they’re really from him — go on, “What’s ridiculous is that our children can be exposed to an over sexed society that makes them choose a sexuality before they can brush their teeth.”
And then later: “Challenge the norm and question the obvious.”
These are all very interesting thoughts, but once again: what do they have to do with a picture of animal abuse? Also, once again, what are you talking about? Who is making children choose a sexuality? Society may be over-sexed, but what is this “choosing” business?
This isn’t just an unexamined prejudice at work. It seems to be the product of a train of thought that veers uncontrollably from subject to subject.
A source reports that they filed a formal complaint. Here’s the text that they sent us, emphasis ours.
Here’s one more screengrab. When one person asks that the post be taken down and “find another way to make your point,” the image indicates that Mr. Davis responded, “I don’t have a point but our kids are being raped spiritually and mentally everyday and we say nothing.”
What? Just … what? Who is raping children spiritually and mentally? He’s clearly worked up about something but we just can’t follow this metaphor.
The whole rotten situation seems to be getting rottener by the second, since if these screen grabs are real, they indicate that this guy really does have difficulty putting a thought together. And again: WHY THE DOG?
The last words purported to be from Mr. Davis in the screen grabs are: “If I can wreck my career off of one facebook post I never had a career.”
Oh.
Ogre Magi
Sounds like another brother man on the DL
Stache1
The guys clearly nuts. Hopefully this gets out so his constituents can see it and decide accordingly.
that_dude247
I only clicked the story b/c I thought it was a black man in India. Indiana? Next!
Scribe38
@Ogre Magi: Dude has plucked eyebrows, manicured nails, and suspect voice; yeah he is in the self-hating, secret d*ck sucking, religious brain washed club. I give it a year before he gets outed. Isn’t posting pictures of humans having sex with animals illegal? Yet the so called protectors of God’s words are standing behind him. Wtf?
jckfmsincty
A psychiatric examination might not be a bad idea. And, one for jimbryant too.
that_dude247
@jimbryant: Jim, as if you know anything about black culture.
DShucking
Sure didn’t tale him long to play the race card.
Scribe38
Oh God, the sad little troll doesn’t care what we have to say to him and yet he post every damn day. Well at least enough posters pointed out that his bullsh*t views on Obama and NAACP were so wrong he actually stopped going there. I would love for the troll to say this crap to my black face, but he is way too much a coward to ever speak his hatred in the real world.
ZaneStuart
@jimbryant: You said: “I am sick and tired of this pro-black PC that exists in the USA which says that black people must never be criticized using the word “black”. As far as I’m concerned, if it’s OK to use it for good then it should be OK to use it for bad.”
I’m sick and tired of you posting absolutely senseless garbage.
Again, you missed the mark. It wasn’t your use of the word “Black”.
You’re stupidity is amazing.
robirob
An obvious attempt to equate homosexuality with beastiality. Like homophobes try to make homosexuality synonymous with pedophilia in order to gross out the general public whenever they hear the word gay or homosexuality.
jimbryant
ZaneStuart,
Listen, I don’t have any time for black people who demand to be treated equally but then go around saying that gays don’t deserve to be treated equally. It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.
If you don’t understand hypocrisy, that’s your problem. I’m not here to provide comfort to the ignorant.
Gigi Gee
“If I can wreck my career off of one facebook post I never had a career.” Exactly. You never had a career.
tricky ricky
thanks to people like myself, South Bend, Indiana, finally has a non discrimination policy which includes the LGBT community. that being said, this sorry assed son of a bitch needs to RESIGN!
tricky ricky
dear queerty, nothing is faked. people are royally pissed about this jerk and his postings.
Mezaien
No need to get exited about him! he is what we call in South Africa, “SKABENGA”..
hassia
@jimbryant: Quite an interesting statement from you. I have a question seeing as for you, all black’s are monolithic, do you share the same logic with Russians, who are white. Does that make all white people hypocritical?