Didn't Sonic Boom have a character in it that was a parody of him?
I just saw the Geno episode where that happened, it's really jarring because most of the earlier clips of him talking to the trolls he was so amiable and cultured. To me Bob always seemed like the type who disliked nonwhite people on a group level but could make exceptions for individuals. There is a pretty strong cognitive dissonance between loving black music (let alone having a massive collection of it) and being such an ass to black people, but that is pretty much American race relations in a nutshell.
Sure looks like him.Allegedly:
I didn't think his autism would take it to that degree; even "normie" Sonic fans brushed it off/accepted it.
The creators of Sonic Boom was asked about this and they initially denied it, they haven't gone back on their statement I believe, but the signs are pretty obvious that they based a lot of that character's characteristics on him.
As far as I'm aware, Bob never actually claimed to be a member of the Klan. The quote that people latched onto went something like this: "I've seen crosses burning. I've seen 'em, fella. And you don't want to see it." Considering the time and place he grew up, I've got no trouble believing that he saw a cross burning or two. Like Marshal Mannerheim said, I think he was just trying to use it to intimidate the trolls, rather than claiming Klan membership.
Jokes on you chris had a Tokyo mew mew manga volume and nothing came of it. Megan probably gave it to him and he put it in the horde to rot
Yeah. As I mentioned, he would have been 23 when the Civil Rights Movement kicked off and he was a very socially conservative Southern white guy, so it's not hard to guess where his sympathies were.
Despite that, and having served in the korean war, Bob seemed to have a fondness for their culture. He had a Korean girlfriend in college and had no issues taking Chris to a korean church congregation. I don't think he's as racist as KF makes him out to be.
There is essentially no hard evidence that he was ever involved with the KKK as well, I know people here like to speculate about it but if he really was, we would have some sort of strong evidence or reputable claim to back that up. He likely knew of the happenings and people who may have been involved in the KKK in his community but that would have been the end of it, as far as we're concerned.
I don't think they'd be any point paying Chris money, just go and make it and say it's a satire comic or whatever.
I don't think we can really make many generalizations about some shit he said literally once while he was pissed off at people who were relentlessly harassing him.
I seriously doubt that the kind of person who would be in the Klan would also be an ardent supporter of the United Nations, like Bob was. I think he was somewhat socially conservative and not exactly thrilled with Chris trooning out, but probably more of an old Southerner than some kind of racial extremist.
