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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. <<<snip>>>
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."
No one got upset with Condoleeza Rice being depicted that way...
Or Collin Powell (before he flipped)Or Clarence ThomasOr Michael SteeleOr 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.KC