"I'm not going to try to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it, and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance and spirit of south Louisiana in words...IT JUST IS WHAT IT IS."
-Chris Rose, N.O. Times-Picayune, 8/29/06
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Can You Explain This Cartoon?
According to the National Action Network this cartoon ran in today's New York Post newspaper.
5 comments:
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HATEFUL, ignorant, racist bullshit. Looks like a threat to me. Where did you find it?
Whoa! I agree with Charlotte. The racial undertones aren't even under anything--they're right on the surface. If it weren't a "political cartoon," don't you think it would be worth the Secret Service looking at, making some calls, staring the cartoonist down with those opaque black sunglasses? Ew, yuck.
I bent over backward trying to see this as NOT racist... but at the end of the day, I can't. There's just no two ways about it, no other way to read it.
5 comments:
HATEFUL, ignorant, racist bullshit. Looks like a threat to me.
Where did you find it?
Whoa! I agree with Charlotte. The racial undertones aren't even under anything--they're right on the surface. If it weren't a "political cartoon," don't you think it would be worth the Secret Service looking at, making some calls, staring the cartoonist down with those opaque black sunglasses? Ew, yuck.
I'm assuming this "comic" is referring to the chimpanzee attack in Conn.
link
It ran in today's NY Post. Apparently, Al Sharpton and NY's governor didn't find it amusing either.
I bent over backward trying to see this as NOT racist... but at the end of the day, I can't. There's just no two ways about it, no other way to read it.
It's ugly.
http://www.colorofchange.org/nypost/
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