Show us the cartoon - then we'll tell you!
A picture speaks a thousand words.
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
Yup, I'd call that rascist.
Aaron Macgruder (the illustrator) is vehemently anti-white. The Boston Glop (globe) runs Boondocks - it is routinely, racist, violent (against whites), crude, anti-Christian, and anti-American.
Relax...Boondocks is left-wing but not racist. Check out the Christmas strips with the black Santa picking on the black kids for being lazy and criminal, then on the ones mocking Kwanzaa [sp?].
It's true that as black man the author has more freedom to discuss racial issues than a white cartoonist would, but that's hardly his fault.
I get your point that double standards and that black people can be overly sensitive about jokes or stereotypes does that mean that white people have to be that way too? I just don't find that particular comic offensive.
Artist: Aaron McGruder
Confronting Bodies: The Washington Post
Date of Action: November 2003
Specific Location: Washington, D.C.
Description of Artwork: Aaron McGruder is the creator and author of "The Boondocks," a comic strip that features several African American characters. The teenaged protagonist, Huey Freeman, frequently asserts his political views.
Description of Incident: In the strip in question, Huey and his friend Caesar suggest that U.S. National Security Advisor, Condoleeza Rice, "needs some good ol' fashioned lovin'." The Washington Post suggested that since they could not verify whether Rice was involved in a relationship or not, they would not print the strip.
Results of Incident: The Washington Post discontinued "The Boondocks" for the week.
Darn! I just raced out to the box to see if it was in my Sunday paper, "The Wisconsin State Journal." No luck!
Quite surprising, though. I'll check "The Capital Times" on line. That's our local socialist rag, so I'll bet it's in there!
BRB.
I, too, have seen this stip and it is truly disgusting. Those who are attracted to something of this nature are illiterates, hence only two words.
I cancelled my local paper because of a Boondocks strip. The paper's circulation has since declined, in sync with MSM declines everywhere. That paper has since dropped Boondocks, which is indeed racist.
Hey, anything goes as long as you're on the left side of the fence. You can make a movie titled "White Girls" or "White Men Can't Jump", or if you're a stand up comic who happens to be (insert ethnicity), devote a third of your routine to making fun of whitey. Hell, I think some of it is pretty funny myself. Its just the feigned indignity and crocodile tears shed by the suddenly sensitive leftists when we return the favor that galls me.
I wonder how the Philidelphia Inquirer would react if he drew an effiminately dressed man standing there and said "gay people".
"Just damn" ping?
"Its a Black Thing"