What year are we living in again?
From the Asheville Citizen-Times, via Feministe.
UPDATE: Wow, Asheville is full of awesome stories today! Hoyden About Town reports that an Asheville Denny’s employee called the police on a customer because she was breastfeeding her child. Forty states, including North Carolina, have laws explicitly allowing women to breastfeed in public; Washington does not.
FAIL
At least those idiots know my President is left handed. He’s not a pointer though. That’s condescending.
Oh wow. You know, Slog peeps, there’s a whole world of nauseating right-wing comics who will be letting their racist poisons hatch out soon. No one barely talked about them during the GWB years.
Now with Obama as president, this is just the start. And it’s about time they are called out for what they are.
On the flipside, the right-wing cartoon parody, Kelly, in The Onion is going to become amazing.
That sweatsuit isn’t nearly baggy enough. Is that what we’re offended at here? I think so.
A Wyatt Mann is syndicated now?
Isn’t it “pop” a cap?
If so, doesn’t that make this joke horribly lame as well as horribly racist?
Every time I hear those sweet words “President Obama” I know the fucking racist dickwads like this cartoonist must feel their blood curdle. Some people will be stupid until the day they die and never know it. It’s because of the southern racist fools that voted for that incompetent southern fool George W. Bush that we were finally lucky enough to get a President like Obama. So they only have themselves to blame. So they can suck my dick!
Check out the rest of his comics. Even when he’s not being racist he’s not funny.
It’s in North Carolina. The racist overtones probably flew right under the radar.
It’s BUST A CAP, you stupid SLOG WHITE BLUE EYED RACIST IDIOTS WHO PRETEND TO BE COOL BUT DONT EVEN KNOW THE SINGLE MOST OFT REPEATED GANSTA PHRASE IN HISTORY!!!!!!
I don’t think it’s racist at all. I think it’s an attempt to show what white guys are NOW afraid of from black men… It may be poorly done, but you can’t just assume that the guy’s a racist because he’s not funny. Seriously, if anything he’s picking on racist attitudes. Maybe I’m the only one who sees this?
I’m more offended at how much of a wuss the white guy is.
That corporate CEO’s suit is made of straw! This recession must be worse than I thought.
@11 – I think that might have been his intent, but it didn’t succeed in coming through.
Well, it’s Asheville, which looks and feels a lot more like Olympia than most places on the east coast. This is surprising, and stupid.
Well, the guy’s clearly not funny. You have to check out this one…
http://cohencidents.com/images/lob.gif
And his other cartoons here…
http://cohencidents.com/archives2.html
They’re so bad, they’re good.
He’s clearly just incapable of forming a coherent thought, but not likely racist.
@ 2 — Actually, Obama’s array of rhetorical ornamentation includes the two-fingered, thumb-up pointing gesture (a.k.a. the “toy gun”).
If it’s any consolation, the cartoonist will soon be out of a job along with the rest of that newspaper’s staff.
@15- This one reminds me of a Mr. Show sketch:
http://cohencidents.com/images/barberhop…
And if Mr. Show had done it, I would’ve laughed my ass off. But, this cartoonist? I’m not sure he gets his own joke.
Trash.
This is about the ludicrous fear that white people have towards blacks. Whites aren’t afraid of the big negro with the gun, now it’s the skinny halfy that’s POTUS.
And nothing else that this guy has done has any racist overtones to it. So over eager to take a racist to task, most of you didn’t realize it wasn’t racist.
I am very surprised – Asheville, NC is known for being very liberal.
That is one of the wittiest cartoons I’ve ever seen in my life. Thanks for posting it.
Everyone with any sense knows that negroes never steal, rape, or kill, EVER! If you think they ever do stuff like that, you are a total evil RACIST!!! You need to go to white-privilege re-education camp!!!!
Any uneducated mofo in here who thinks blacks are now going to attack whites are ignorant. Numerous research has proven that the correlation between perpetrator and victim is that perpetrator and victim have similar characteristics, thus crime continues to be intraracial.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/ra…
In 2005, offending rates for blacks were more than 7 times higher than the rates for whites
Although slightly less true now than before, most murders are intraracial
From 1976 to 2005 —
* 86% of white victims were killed by whites
* 94% of black victims were killed by blacks
Stranger homicides are more likely to cross racial lines than those that involve friends or acquaintances
For homicides committed by —
* a friend or acquaintance of the victim, less than one-tenth (8%) were interracial
* a stranger to the victim, one-quarter were interracial
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The single best indicator of violent crime levels in an area is the percentage of
the population that is black and Hispanic.
Interracial Crime
Of the nearly 770,000 violent interracial crimes committed every year involv-
ing blacks and whites, blacks commit 85 percent and whites commit 15 percent.
Blacks commit more violent crime against whites than against blacks. Forty-
five percent of their victims are white, 43 percent are black, and 10 percent are
Hispanic. When whites commit violent crime, only three percent of their victims are
black.
Blacks are an estimated 39 times more likely to commit a violent crime against
a white than vice versa, and 136 times more likely to commit robbery.
Blacks are 2.25 times more likely to commit officially-designated hate crimes
against whites than vice versa.