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This is beyond sad. A nation with no sense of humor.
« on: February 20, 2009, 03:07:14 PM »
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Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz was in front of a classroom full of black and Latino kids, drawing presidents. He sketched Bush, then Clinton. Next came his favorite, the man he voted for: Obama.
"Hey, those lips are big," Alcaraz heard a black girl say from the back of the room.

Alcaraz was disturbed. "I try to bend over backwards not to make him look like a cartoon stereotype," and certainly not a racial stereotype, he said.

Editorial cartoonists are bending over backwards a lot these days, as they try to satirize the nation's first black president. And when they don't, the result is the kind of outcry that erupted this week after a New York Post cartoon featured a bloody chimpanzee—intentionally or unintentionally evoking racist images of the past.

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http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D96FGCO02&show_article=1

I'll bet this guy catches hell for this statement because he is a conservative;

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Perhaps race relations would improve, Lester said, if black people lightened up a bit: "They're not too good (at being) made fun of. We can all take a joke."

Where is it going to stop and who gets to make the rules? 

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Re: This is beyond sad. A nation with no sense of humor.
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2009, 09:16:19 AM »
Ah, but it's okay when you stereotype black conservatives.  Just ask Pat Oliphant:

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Re: This is beyond sad. A nation with no sense of humor.
« Reply #2 on: February 22, 2009, 09:28:57 AM »
It has nothing to do with humor.

If there were actually racism involved that would be one thing but there isn't; this is about controlling political speech and it is as heinous as the deceptively named Fairness Doctrine.
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Re: This is beyond sad. A nation with no sense of humor.
« Reply #3 on: February 22, 2009, 01:31:55 PM »
No one got upset with Condoleeza Rice being depicted that way.  ::) Why the uproar with Obama. Obama is half Black.
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Re: This is beyond sad. A nation with no sense of humor.
« Reply #4 on: February 22, 2009, 02:39:35 PM »
No one got upset with Condoleeza Rice being depicted that way...
Or Collin Powell (before he flipped)
Or Clarence Thomas
Or Michael Steele
Or Janice Rogers Brown
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Re: This is beyond sad. A nation with no sense of humor.
« Reply #5 on: February 22, 2009, 03:42:32 PM »
Or Collin Powell (before he flipped)
Or Clarence Thomas
Or Michael Steele
Or Janice Rogers Brown

It is not just the double standard that makes me angry.  It is the fact that we are not allowed to have humor anymore unless it is directed at rednecks or straight white guys or blonde women.  That really narrows down the field.

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Re: This is beyond sad. A nation with no sense of humor.
« Reply #6 on: February 22, 2009, 05:11:42 PM »
It is not just the double standard that makes me angry.  It is the fact that we are not allowed to have humor anymore unless it is directed at rednecks or straight white guys or blonde women.  That really narrows down the field.

KC

At least we can still pick on Okies......
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