Blessed Love and Greetings,
You know the cartoon that has many in an uproar was indeed racist. It used obvious symbols that perpetuate ridiculous stereotypes. Artistic license? Yes. But were it a jew or a gay would you brush it aside just like that? Imagine if that cartoon appeared in a South Fla tabloid using a jewish stereotype or a homosexual one. The ACLU would be up in arms. Have Blacks in America been likened to monkeys in the past? Yes. Have issues with the police and police violence against Blacks been paramount in our discussions on race? Yes. To be honest if the cartoonist wanted to stay above the fray while still dancing that tightrope, he should have made the police Black.
What disturbs me more is how there seems to be no outrage at what appears to be an overt threat against our political leaders generally and the President specifically. Had this been directed at any other President to date, had it been then drawn by a Black cartoonist, or worse yet an anti-American communist or Muslim, the phones at the White House would be off the hook. Rush and his peers would be fielding hate filled rhetoric and mantra laden phone calls from the very same individuals who are saying this amounts to little more that satire. Murdock himself, would have no choice but to relieve himself of this cartoonist and make national apologies.
It is an embarrassment to live in a country that eschews such moral holier-than-thouness while still attempting to sweep under the rug what can really only be described as crude, thoughtless and irresponsible journalism.
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