’)August lets us eavesdrop on a racial roundtable…
(btw, the first time I met August in person – it was at a meeting of the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, Local 203 – he gave me one of his collection of strips, and I laughed my ass of reading it on the subway home so check ‘em out)
Check ‘em where?
Was that strip supposed to be funny?
I’ve seen some of his other stuff and much of it is very funny (unlike a lot of liberals, I don’t immediately write off all political humor that doesn’t fit my ideology off as “not funny”), but this one was big time lame.
As some of you may know, i dig the Dead Kitten Survey.
Yeah, that strip pretty much sucked.
Subway? How long have you lived here anyway?
I dunno. I think its true, if not terribly funny. It depends on what you call funny. Did I fall down and laugh out loud? No. Did I smile a little? Sure. Beats gaggle.
It’s called satire and social commentary, ya? Check out the archives, tho. Some of it is fall-down funny.
Maybe if the Cynthia McKinney debacle, the alleged Duke rape episode (which is looking more and more like another Tawana Brawley incident), and the Condolezza “watermelon” science question hadn’t all happened within the last few weeks, this cartoon would have been funnier.
Back in the real world, it’s pretty obvious that whites aren’t the only ones who practice racism while denying they have a problem with it.
(Nice little jab at the “At least I’m not a journalist” snobbery of bloggers, though.)
See Olliver’s guest appearance!
That’s pretty much just the problem there, Mike. I don’t deny things like the Tawana Brawley incident happening, but the fact that it sticks out as a name “incident” is a testament to its rarity. I don’t walk around with a chip on my shoulder about white people (some of my best friends are white people – really!) but if you take black on white racism and compare it to white on non-white racism, you’re going to get something a little more than fair and balanced. But that’s what happens when – as August pointed out – you get white people all discussing racism.
It’s not as if white – on – black racism is never spoken about. It’s black – on – white racism that seems to be a bigger secret than when “Crazy George” is going to bomb Iran.