Posted on 01/09/2005 7:31:05 AM PST by American Infidel
I know I shouldn't be nearly as angry as I am over this (In fact, I know I shouldn't even care), but I couldn't help but notice that featured prominently on the top of the front page of the comic section of today's Philadelphia Inquirer (big surprise) was today's blatantly racist Boondocks comic strip. The strip in question consisted of one frame in which two young black characters observed a white character jogging in the snow while dressed for warm weather. The line written for the black characters is simply “White People”. The implication was obviously that only white people would do something as stupid as to go jogging in the winter, while being dressed for warmer weather. Imagine for a moment that the strip consisted of two white men waiting for a bus to take them to work while observing a black man sitting on the corner, drinking a 40 ounce malt liquor beverage, with the line, “Black People” coming from one of the white characters, implying that only black people would be sitting on the corner on a week day, getting drunk while other people were on their way to work. Not only would this strip never see the light of day, but all future strips from the cartoonist would have been cancelled. The Philadelphia Inquirer on the other hand, chooses to run the strip and to feature it prominently at the top of the front page of the comic section. I understand that Aaron McGruder is the “voice of angry black America” and that he must be treated with kid gloves, otherwise they will be accused of being racist and no corporate entity wants that kind of P.R., but this is ridiculous. It's not the strip itself that ticked me off (it was sort of humorous actually), it was the hypocrisy and the double standard of UPI, the Philly Inquirer, and the other urban newspapers that I am sure ran the strip today. OK that's my rant. Thanks for listening.
I think you're correct. As a white guy who graduated from a historically black university, I believe that race relations aren't nearly as good as most white people think they are - and they aren't nearly as bad as most black people think. The truth, as usual, is somewhere in the middle.
Hmmm...I imagine you wear a Speedo in the summer, too?!
Come to think of it, I bet those same black people, make fun of you then, too.
Oh, BTW, my husband used to wear shorts through November. He called them his lucky football shorts. I told him, you might win the game, but you won't be getting lucky wearing those stupid shorts in November.
Sweet. best laugh I've had today.
If you left the word "most" out, I would fully agree.
lol, lady I'm a rancher. If I go swimming I don't need no stinking speedo
i dont get it
LOL...
I'll have to check it out. Thanks!
The real Racism here is that a black Cartoonist is allowed to do this, while a white Cartoonist would be ostracized. It is the same old song, a black man is not capable of racism becasue he has been oppressed, while all white men are automatically racists becaue they are oppressors.
Fortunately, this is only the Leftist Socialist view and not the Conservative or even mainstream view. There are millions of black people who know that all whites are not automatically racists. And they know there are many racist black people. Even many who are aware of dark-skinned black vs. light-skinned black racism.
But the Leftist Socialists in the MSM keep singing the same old song, and that is why a black Cartoonist gets away with what a white Cartoonist could never do these days, without a maelstrom of protest and boycott threats. Just imagine a cartoon of 2 white children in front of a fan drining tall lemonaids and watching a black jogger running in 120-degree heat, saying "black people" and see the firestorm of protest from Jesse Jackson and the black fascist elite.
Excellent!
Excuse me but IMO bigoted IS racist. They are one and the same word. You are bigoted because you have prejudged one race of people, in this case white. When you prejudge, you are prejudiced, hence a racist. I like the word prejudiced better because it says it better and the term racist seems to conjure up images of people torching buildings and throwing bombs, but back to the original statement: Bigoted is racist.
My question is simply....
When did cartoons stop being funny? I know there are a few out there, God rest Charles Shultz's soul.
If you want to get ticked off at McGruder look at the strips concerning Condi Rice. It doesn't help anybody to be overly sensitive.
i don't remember saying anything about that on #36.
That's epic!
I don't see MacGruder expressing racist sentiments. I do see lots of bigotry and lots of anger, which leads to muddled thinking on his part.
All in my humble opinion, of course. :)
Lumping disparate people into a group - implying that they're all the same - abilities, tastes, proclivities - is a vile thing. Pre-judging - manifesting prejudice - hurts anyone who does it. It's the work of the devil. He invented it. This filthy strip is like the sweatshirt that says "E=MC2. It's a White Thing." It should offend you if you're decent.
Actually, I'm not hung up on it, I just didn't think that the strip was funny. If anything, the strip is more a generalization of the difference in the work ethic between Blacks and Whites. It's the Blacks who should be complaining.
Because the role of cartoonists is to comfort us.
But sensitivity is a renewable resource.
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