Why is it that when a black is Democrat, some assume they are legit, and when they are Republicans, they are Aunt Jemimas, Uncle Toms, front office niggers, etc., etc.?
It seems that certain syndicated cartoonists and a certain radio DJ are upset with Republicans. They are in possession of the wrong blacks, we are led to believe.
Why is it that blacks are assumed to be a homogenous group? Dare I call that... Prejudice?? Racism??
There, I said it. Go ahead - hang me out to dry. Meanwhile when you are in the right, you really don't need to listen to the crap.
This dated editorial from the WSJ says it all...
- Bill
Cartoon Calumny
Why is Condoleezza Rice's race fair game for Administration critics?
Friday, October 22, 2004 12:01 a.m. EDT
It's no secret that Jeff Danziger is a syndicated cartoonist who leans left of center. But who knew that he also considers himself an arbiter of black authenticity?
One of Mr. Danziger's recent illustrations features National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as a semi-literate mammy. Ms. Rice--a Russia scholar, former provost of Stanford University and concert pianist--is drawn barefoot and wearing a housedress. Mr. Danziger forgot to put a handkerchief on her head, but the size of her lips has been exaggerated sufficiently to make up for that oversight. She's sitting in a rocking chair and nursing an aluminum tube as though it were an infant. The caption reads: "I KNOWS ALL ABOUT ALUMINUM TUBES! (Correction) I DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' ABOUT ALUMINUM TUBES . . ."
Mr. Danziger, a proud member of the media's "Bush Lied!" brigade, is making a point about the administration's supposed manipulation of prewar intelligence on Iraq. The caption is an apparent reference to Prissy, the house slave in "Gone With the Wind" who uttered something similar about babies.
A substantive debate about the president's handling of the war is something reasonable people welcome, especially in an election year. But it's impossible to see where the national security adviser's race or sex fits in to a debate about what Saddam Hussein planned to do with his aluminum tubes.
Prompted by a deluge of complaints about the caricature, Mr. Danziger sent out a form letter defending himself. He says that the cartoon isn't racist because the idea "was suggested to me by a friend who is African-American"--as if blacks are incapable of being racist. He then goes on to dismiss Ms. Rice as "a political operative, out of her depth." This is a man who doesn't know when to stop digging.
The cartoon has since been removed from both Mr. Danziger's Web site and that of the New York Times Syndicate, which distributes it. But racist or not, the illustration is certainly revealing. For liberals, Condi Rice's real crime is bucking Democratic orthodoxy and working for a conservative president. This makes her fair game for race-based attacks even when the issue at hand has absolutely nothing to do with race. She is a black woman who, in Mr. Danziger's view, has wandered off the liberal plantation. And this is his way of putting Ms. Rice and other black conservatives in their place.
