Kansas State. Rep. Bill Otto (R-LeRoy): “Opossum--The other Dark Meat.”

By GottaLaff

A sharp-eyed reader, mdyerstudio, grabbed a screen shot of a now-deleted YouTube of a Rushpublic state representative from Kansas. See his hat? See the blog title? Now you know why it was deleted: [UPDATE: I just went to YouTube. It says it was deleted due to copyright infringement. The link sent me to a "locked" site.]

State Rep. Bill Otto, R-LeRoy, sang his song on a YouTube video. At the end of his song, Otto points to his hand-lettered hat and says, “Opossum, the other dark meat. A little greasy, but hey ...”

Nah, that's not racist at all.

A southeast Kansas legislator on Thursday said he wasn’t making a racial reference as he sang an anti-President Obama “Redneck Rap” while wearing a hat that said: “OPOSSUM the other Dark Meat.”

State. Rep. Bill Otto, R-LeRoy, sang his song on a YouTube video.

Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka called him out, and said this was not a one-time thing:

“If Opossum is the other dark meat, what is the original dark meat he is referring to?” Hensley asked.

Hmm, thinking... thinking... who on earth could he have been talking about?

Hensley added: “After a nearly three-minute rant about President Obama and his administration, it is only logical to presume that Otto was making reference to the President’s race. It is not only thoughtless, but outrageous for an elected official such as Bill Otto to make this reference to describe any person, let alone the President of the United States."

Okay, now let me know if you've heard this one before. Otto says it's not about race. Honest it isn't! Otto said that he just didn't see how a "reasonable person could think that."

Color me unreasonable.

Here's Otto's own very logic in his own very words:

“Rednecks eat possum. The possums are associated with rednecks,” said Otto.

Much more here. Go ahead, pop over to see how not-racist Otto is.