How refreshing to read an actual apology, and not that "anyone we may have offended" crap we hear so much of today.
heh... looks like the cartoonist has been watching Sarah Silverman.
"racistest"?
What am I missing here?
Wasn't there a "Flintstones" episode where Fred and Barney participate in a lynching?
1970!!!!!
~`>+*^~!
For perspective, that's the same year Doonesbury started. For more perspective, it's not all that crazy considering the climate of comics throughout the world at that time... the book Black Images in the Comics is pretty compelling in this regard, if a bit too brief.
The "Family Circus" introduced Franklin, a black friend for one of those Billy/Jeffy things a few years ago. I hate the "Family Circus" yet I find myself checking it out once a week in order to justify my hate much as I do with this here Slog. Anyway, they had Franklin high-fiving and then Billy/Jeffy jive-talking and this is why I loved the Dysfunctional Family Circus which Bil Keane eventually nuked.
I stopped reading the comics years ago, mostly over protest that they kept rerunning "Peanuts" instead of making room for an artist that wasn't, you know, dead. But for some bizarre reason I became aware at some point that I had never seen an African American appear in "Marmaduke." Then, after many years, there one was. A basketball player appearing on the family living room TV.
Peanuts had a character named Franklin too. D'you figure he was bussed into and from their neighborhoods?
Jackson's legs are longer than Dennis'.
So there's a good reason he's havin' trouble.
Ketcham was clearly trying to make a statement. The illustration of Jackson doesn't match his usual illustration style. I'm surprised he didn't put a banana in Jackson's hand. I really don't think he was out of touch and missed the 1960s.
Sweet Holy Jesus.
So a race between McCain and Obama? What's the problem?
Terrible.
How about this stereotype for white adult working males?
http://samueljscott.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/homer_simpson.jpg
Yet, Seattlites praise this stereotype every day...hypocrites....
If someone has to explain to you what is so very wrong with the Dennis the Menace comic and why your Homer comic isn't even a close comparison then either you are a total moron, a total racist moron, or a total racist republican moron. So, which is it?
@10,
Check out the Comics Curmudgeon. He loves hating on Family Circus.
@18:
I'm a white adult working male who is offended by the stereotype of Homer Simpson.
http://studio2628.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/homer_simpson31.jpg
That's hilarious. C'mon, stop being so PC.
I did this to make a point - racism is a liberal invention just like the holocaust.
@22:
...that wasn't me by the way...that was my dummy.
Here he is "partying":
Here's yet another horribly racist site:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/
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It is important to know that when you hear a white person saying “we should do some ultimate this weekend” or “I’m so pumped for ultimate,” they are talking about a sport and not an “ultimate solution”-type race war. Though a quick look at a field full of Ultimate Frisbee players might lead one to surmise that an ethnic cleansing has taken place.
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My point is that I am a victim in so many ways.
Doesn't surprise me that the artist was born and raised right here in liberal, tolerant, diverse Seattle. Queen Anne High '37.
is kesh sockpuppeting bailo? we need a hetchet job.
BTW, comics curmudgeon is fucking hilarious.
My point is that I am a victim in so many ways.
Posted by John Bailo
Being a "loser" is not necessarily the same as being a "victim", although the two are not mutually exclusive.
@17 and @20: White working males are in power. (Just ask Obama and McCain who are spending hundreds of millions to sway them. Or any woman. Or any non-white person.) They have power because they vote.
It is generally okay to make fun of the powerful. It's not okay to make fun of those without or with less power. That's the difference.
I don't think the Cleveland Press had to apologize for anything. It's clear that they reprinted the strip to illustrate the racial mindset of someone from a particular, bygone era. To protest that is akin to wanting to ban Huckleberry Finn because they drop the "n-word" casually. It's exactly like Thora Birch's art exhibit in Ghost World. Fucking idiots didn't understand what they were looking at and just wanted to shut down the whole exhibition.
Oh, crap, that'll teach me to follow the link first, then post. Forget the first couple of sentences I said.
@25 dreads the thought that a Bailo government would switch to Suse Linux and eliminate his paid astroturfing fees.
=v= John Bailo's regurgitation of coded racist tropes says more about himself than about anyone else. I'll note thought, that when white supremacists attempted to bootleg images of The Simpsons, the producers pointed out that the Simpsons are in fact yellow, not "white."
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