Re: [Marxism] Sign petition to get FCC to investigateMurdoch'sprivilige in lieu of NY Post cartoon

[Debordagoria <phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxx>]

John Thornton wrote:

"We are nowhere near the point in race relations in the US where we can 
pretend that lampooning a white person as a monkey is no different than 
lampooning a Black person as a monkey.
It is no different than the fact that I have called many young white 
male students "boy" when I was angry but I would never call a Black 
student "boy".
There is too much baggage attached to that word and no one can pretend 
otherwise.
It is completely irrelevant that Bush II was frequently portrayed as a 
chimp."

This seems completely obvious to us on the Left, but my white students find it 
totally incomprehensible, and see it as an unfair double-standard. And of 
course the election of a black President confirms their feelings on this and 
makes enlightening them even more difficult.
Michael D.

--- On Mon, 2/23/09, John Thornton <jthorn65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: John Thornton <jthorn65@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] Sign petition to get FCC to 
> investigateMurdoch'sprivilige in lieu of NY Post cartoon
> To: phantasmagorias@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 1:25 PM
> Ruthless Critic of All that Exists
> wrote:
> > To be fair, there are  thousands of cartoons
> depicting George W. Bush
> > as an ape, too.
> >   
> 
> 
> There is a long history of equating Blacks with monkeys in
> a virulently 
> racist manner and the cartoonist knew that.
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