Racist Boondocks Cartoon in Sunday papers 1/9/05

Philadelphia Inquirer | 1/9/05 | American Infidel

[yarddog]

Only slightly racist but not very funny.

[solitas]

I looked forward to reading those little (nippers) in the paper every day - it always gave me more proof at their inferiority (the comic - not the species as a whole).

The Connecticut Post (local paper in southwestern CT) picked them up for about a month or so and dropped them without fanfare after people started writing letters; naturally those "at the other end of the greyscale" were incensed at it's being dropped so the paper filled the slot with another similar-type 'comic'.

[Atlas Sneezed]

It reflects a classic (and often true?) racial stereotype:

Black people displaying bitter resentment at white people who work harder at improving themselves while the black people generally do poorly by such measures. (More severe obesity epidemic among American blacks than whites.)

An analogous cartoon could have been a white kid trudging through the snow into a public library with a stack of schoolbooks, while a couple idle black kids stood by bitterly muttering "white kids." It might even be more potent it if were "Asian kids".

[1rudeboy]

You guys are reading this all wrong. The runner is racist, not only because he's white, but also because he is more lightly-clothed and mobile, while his two observers are heavily-clothed and immobile . . . a symbol of the oppression that the African-American (and the gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender/questioning) community suffers every day!

[BurFred]

Amen.

[cyborg]

The two boys attribute him running with no coat, no hat,etc. on in the snow to white people being crazy. I've heard similar come from the mouths of black people.

[Poser]

Let's see...

Two black people standing around doing nothing, ridiculing a hard-working white person.

Yup. That's pretty racist. I wonder if the author understands what it's really saying.

Maybe he does and that's the message.

[cyborg]

Boy everyone is reading the wrong thing into this cartoon. Some posts in this thread are showing what some freepers apparently believe about black people more than what this cartoon is saying.

[bigsigh]

perhaps, we're paying much too much attention to this idiot and his cartoon. Write your paper and tell them to get it off the kids comics page.

[cyborg]

ping

[csvset]

It would have been funny if the "jogger" was saying, "Black People! ".

[shellshocked]

If anyone asks, my black friend did it.

[cyborg]

It may not be said where you like but just read this thread. You should be well satisfied with what people are saying on this thread.

[cyborg]

thanks I see someone else figured out this cartoon

[Future Snake Eater]

LOL! A fitting reversal...I wonder how many newspapers would run that cartoon?

[TexasCajun]

"BuckWheat" strikes again!

[cyborg]

Raciss?

[Old Professer]

Lighten up guys, you sound like a bunch of young buck deer standing in a clearing holding a pissing contest while complaining about the unfairness of high-powered rifles and opposable thumbs.

[shellshocked]

#42 - Nice.

See as a white racist, I think the white man is just showing the two stuck black people that even in a climate of hardship one can move quickly ahead, thereby showing what is possible.

Of course, the black racist would say that the white guy didn't even bother to stop and help the two stuck black people, leaving them stuck.