Jesus. New York Times really published this? I mean imall for race jokes but thats pretty fracked up.
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Seriously?? I like race jokes, but damn.
Jesus. New York Times really published this? I mean imall for race jokes but thats pretty fracked up.
damn infractions
maybe it's not meant to be a race joke but a policital tin foil hats joke, like "the president is just a monkey for all the people behind the curtain pulling strings"
if not, well, that's pretty messed up!
if a woman is crushed by a tree in the forest...what was the forest doing in the kitchen?
they knew what they were doing.
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it wasn't the new york times they fiend for Obama. it was probably the new york post. the joke is messed up either way.
The first thing that came to mind was the pet chimp that just got killed after attacking the woman. I think it's time to stop with the chimp = AM, hell I call lots of white people monkeys including my daughter*
Who we adopted from a couple of spear chuckers....
yeah my bad, new york post, but im shocked they had the balls to put that in there.
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post has hated obama since day 1. i'm just shocked at the lack of unity in this country. here in n.y all the papers and news stations are split right down the middle some dems some republicans. you can never get the true story, only a democratic or republican portrayal of the story
It's in bad taste, but a lot of stuff is. It's not funny, but political comics aren't every funny.
Next story...
there's a couple things wrong with this
i guess i could look past the chimpanzee thing but i don't get the shooting.
I can't wrap my head around what they intended to show by doing that
there was a story where this ladys monkey attacked her friend and the police came and shot it. thats where that whole thing is from. but when i read the caption i holy shited.
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I like the subtlety DT haha
are you fracking stupid? honestly.. they have been calling the president a monkey for YEARS. go look it up. www.google.images.com. type in George Bush Monkey
i would post the hundreds of pictures, but thats a pain in the ass.
get over it.
edit: thats not even google's images link. hahah
dude shut the frack up. you type with permanent PMS. all i'm saying is that was a pretty poor choice for the first black president.
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dumb cartoon
the outcry should be over the total lack of funny
well, did the post ever show a photo of bush being shot as a monkey?Originally Posted by DJ-NJ
How about a different take on it:
Considering the bill was written by Pelosi and Reid, and NOT Obama and the bill was full of such ridiculousness, could the Post be eluding that the bill was written by a monkey.
Bottom line, you're not sure exactly what the Post's intentions were and what angle they were shooting for. Don't immediately jump at the race card. Regardless though, I think we can all agree that it wasn't funny...
When Obama took office, you were only paying $1.95 per gallon of gas...
haha but dude come on. you dont think they clearly knew what it would generally be interpreted as? i mean i dont care that much, but for realsies.
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any publicity is good publicity
mission accomplished
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Sorry not the same thing, he's black you can't call him a monkey, don't act all fracking retarded like you don't know why... That goes for anyone in this thread pretending like there's no reason this is a big deal to anyone. I mean if your little brother wanted to be Kobe Bryant for Halloween would you break out some black shoe polish and paint him up? frack no, everyone on here knows better. You could show Obama getting put into an oven by a caricature of Republicans and have some corny caption about Reps, "putting the heat on" or something, but if he was Jewish you couldn't do it. If you're Carlos Mencia you can say whatever you want and be not-funny, if you're a legit newspaper you should know better. If I was black I'd be fracking pissed off too.
link says huffington post, not NY times.
maybe they both published it.
maybe not?
either way, bad idea.
calling a president a monkey is fine, but when you have the first black president in office, you have to be careful cuz a lot can be taken wrong.
I wouldnt use show polish on the skin. It takes a while to get off. You should use more of a chamomile tea mixed with a white skin lotion. It creates a nice brown glow. But thats neither here nor there, I know what your point was.
I agree with you 100% about the cartoon. Not only is it not funny but it hinders racism from finally dying off.
I disagree that my little white brother cant be Kobe Bryant, a Jew or even and Eskimo. It's halloween. I would be more reluctant to let him be something that promoted racism like KKK member, a black man in a DOC jumper or a Jew with a suit made out of money. But being Kobe Bryant is stating his admiration for an NBA all-star. Are you saying he couldnt lather the brown paint on and dress as the 1st Black President this Halloween?
I do think we are on the same page though. This cartoon along with racsim shold cease to exist.
I would let my kid go out as Kobe Bryant or Obama or whoever the frack but I wouldn't let him blackface it up even if I couldn't find a Kobe mask at the store.
exactly what i think except i was too lazy too type. and to guy before, it was the new york post.
damn infractions
I personally find this ridiculous!! It is ideologies such as these, which is why our country will never over come the race issue...
When Obama took office, you were only paying $1.95 per gallon of gas...
blackface has a pretty shitty history, and it's offensive to people. white people generally avoid wearing blackface because of that history. if you don't care, go out in blackface if you feel so inclined. do whatever you want.
Racism will never die off.
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For the OP:
There was this snail who wanted to be a Formula One racing driver. He went along to the track and asked if he could drive. The racing team manager said, 'Yes, but you can't have a number on your car, you can only have an 'S' because you are a snail.'
The Snail was OK about this is so he entered the race. The race started and the snail's car was at the back...but suddenly he sped to the front, over-taking all the cars and won!!
As the spectators saw the Snail speed past them, they yelled 'WOW! LOOK AT THAT S-CAR GO!!'
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oh. my grandma tells the same one, but its about a snail named sammy who lives in france, and is the first snail to own a car in the city.
no. i just call out the idiots like you. you serve zero validity in your thinking/post. you probably heard that on the radio and posted what those idiots said.
except not. the artist got fired.
( on the same note.. the editor in cheif(?) is black. there ya go )
HES BLACK!!!!! everybody wanted a black president and they got it. i have no problem with it. after i saw Mccain was a total and utter retard i was all for it. "YOUNG BARACK IM ALL FOR IT, BUT I'MA.. BLACK REPUBLICAN" who cares if hes black???? isnt that what we are trying to get at? EVERYBODY IS EQUAL. it shouldnt matter whether it was a monkey, a hippo or a fracking GOOSE!!
that's what political cartoons are. they have almost two sides. one funny(always unfunny) and one side portraying something personal.
why the hell not? a lot of people around here wore BB shirts/hats and used black skin paint to dress up as Big Black. i didnt hear shit from the black kids around.
For some reason that reminded me (even though there's almost no relation) of this joke:
These two sausage are in a frying pan. The one sausage, looks over at the other one and says: "Wow, it fricken hot in here!". The other sausage looks back and says: "Holy shit, a talking sausage!!".
Very offensive sterotype. Black people have a right to be offended. Blackface is typically portraying black people as slow, uneducated people.
Not offensive, nor would I even consider this "blackface". There is no attempt here at all to portray flava flav as uneducated or stupid.
Yes blackface has a shitty history, but to think people who dress up as a black celebrity for halloween is even remotely in the same category as blackface is absurd...
When Obama took office, you were only paying $1.95 per gallon of gas...
i'm not making the argument for political correctness, i'm speaking purely from a practical standpoint. i personally would not walk around with my face painted black for the same reason i don't say 'nigga' or have a buddhist swatstika on the bumper of my car. the fact is that white people painting their faces black/impersonating black people was somewhat ruined by the history of blackface. maybe not as bad as the nazi's ruined the swatstika, but still enough that i personally wouldn't wear black makeup around out in public, because i'd prefer to avoid the misunderstanding altogether. if there was some extra payoff or value to me for dressing up like a black guy i'd have to weigh that against the risk of confrontation or a headache. but for me there's not, it's just a costume. challenging the lack of social acceptance of impersonating a black person is not a cause that interests me. i wouldn't send my kid down the street like that either, that would be foolish IMO.
Last edited by BART; 02-20-2009 at 08:14 AM.
All I know is throughtout bush's term, I saw COUNTLESS cartoons depicting him as a monkey. If doing the same for Obama is considered rascist, then this country hasn't taken a step forward by electing a black president, it's taken a step back
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