Cartoon: Black Endorsements

[Ichingcarpenter]

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Bors explained the cartoon in a post at the Daily Kos:

The "Magical Negro" is a trope in cinema where a black supporting characters are "portrayed as coming to the aid of a film's white protagonists" and who "possess special insight or mystical powers," as Wikipedia has it written up. From who Ta-Nehisi Coates is voting for, to shots at John Lewis and Killer Mike's respective endorsements and missteps to reconciling the '94 crime bill and various problematic statements over the years, black support of candidates have become like Magic cards, used to defeat foes in online combat.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/2/24/1489904/-Cartoon-Black-Endorsements-Matter

[JackInGreen]

2. That's effing hilarious

earlier today a few friends and some of the fam were talking about the political situation, and we started talking about JUST this...
Though we were using Yu-Gi-Oh as a metaphor instead 'You've activated my TRAP CARD!'. It's pathetic the way that the disenfranchised are now used as a bargaining chip, a piece on the board. It's a little scarier that most of it seems volunteered past a certain level of privilege.

[Gothmog]

3. Great cartoon

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Why it is offensive to me that

anybody, and I mean ANYBODY, claims to speak for a whole group. None of us do.

And this is a very apt analogy. Those who played any of the CCGs will particularly get it