Gergen: "That cartoon is dripping with racism."

[jefferson_dem]

Just now. On CNN.

[onefreespiritedchick]

1. Isn't that the truth!

And, Ron Christie...was just unbelievable actually trying to defend this.

[jefferson_dem]

2. Christie is a lying douchebag.

He knows damn well what the cartoon is about...but doesn't have the stones to step up and say it. What a toolbox.

[Cha]

3. And, this guy says it is, too..

Even though, cowards who promote this kind of thing swear it isn't..

<snip>

"Jan Nederveen Pieterse, a professor of global studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of “White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture” (Yale University Press, 1995), said, “I agree the cartoon is racist, without a doubt.”

Professor Pieterse, who is Dutch, said that portrayal of non-Westerners as primates became well-established in both the United States and Europe in the late 19th century, and has affected not only blacks, but also the Irish and Chinese, for example.

“It’s absolutely outrageous,” he said of the cartoon, “and I think people are concerned because it sets a nasty, mean, very aggressive tone. You can’t get any lower.”

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http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/chimp-stimulus-cartoon-raises-racism-concerns/?hp

[Number23]

4. Hmmf! What the hell does he know??

With his fancy degrees and actual experience in researching these types of things. I'll take the word of an anonymous poster on the Internet who has read the mind of the cartoon's author and found the EXPLICIT meaning behind the drawing any day!

From the article:

"Professor Rojecki rejected Mr. Allan’s assertion that the cartoon was devoid of racial content. “It strains credulity to imagine that there is any association between a chimpanzee that was shot because it had attacked someone and a bill that has successfully passed through Congress,” he said. “It makes no sense. What possible explanation could there be?"

"Professor Pieterse, who is Dutch, said that portrayal of non-Westerners as primates became well-established in both the United States and Europe in the late 19th century, and has affected not only blacks, but also the Irish and Chinese, for example."

Idiots!!
:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[oviedodem]

5. Why can't Christie 'slip' off of a train platform. Please for the sake of humanity

[donheld]

6. The racism is just so obvious

I'm troubled some here at DU don't see it.

[EffieBlack]

7. I'm not as bothered by their failure to see it as their knee-jerk

attacks on everyone who does.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

8. My God, I hope we don't have 4 or 8 years of this crap

To do the cartoon in the first place is bad enough, but then to lie and say it's not what it is....well. Two wrongs still don't make a right.

[Jennicut]

9. Gergen and Borger and Soledad O'brien all thought it was racist