A history of black-white relations in the US (Toon)

[gollygee]

[Cheese Sandwich]

1. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

[1StrongBlackMan]

2. I would so love to up-date this cartoon to add a panel or two ...

I would add, after the last panel, one that has the white guy looking around at the level he is on, unsatisfied, seeing a bunch of white people and a few Black people, then looking up, and seeing another white guy, on the higher level.

Then have him ask two characters, one white and one Black, on the second level, "wanna give me a boost? ... This is for your own good."

[brer cat]

3. +1 nt

[zentrum]

4. Terrifically true toon. Thanks. n/t

[SusanCalvin]

5. Yep.

Built on slavery and genocide, as Thom Hartmann has been saying.

Not saying we don't have our good points, but those who do not remember history.......

[StrongBad]

6. Only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves at the peak of slavery

As such, to be accurate this cartoon should provide a disclaimer that this only applies to the modern day descendants of a very small amount of people.

[Solomon]

7. wtf!? the white guy in the cartoon doesn't have to

be a slave owner to take advantage of climbing the black guy's back. You apologists make me sick! Denial!

[StrongBad]

9. So...

By that logic any white person who achieves more than a black person did so by metaphorically climbing on top of a black person's back?

[YoungDemCA]

11. Oh FFS

[gollygee]

8. You think slavery is the only way African Americans have been used? n/t

[StrongBad]

10. No, but that is what the cartoon is implying.

Otherwise, the black person wouldn't be depicted as being in chains and then later in slave clothing minus chains. Slavery is the only factor being considered in the cartoon.

Actually, the more I think about it, this is really offensive to black people.

The modern day equivalent black man is still dressed in slave clothing implying that he hasn't progressed at all since the end of slavery.

All in all a weird cartoon to me.

[gollygee]

12. It's a cartoon

It's a few frames. White America has benefitted from the oppression of African Americans in a number of ways.