Monday, December 9, 2013

This Cartoon Is Racist?


From The Best Of The Web:
For the University of Alabama's football team, the Nov. 30 season finale against intrastate archrival Auburn ended almost as disastrously as ObamaCare began (and as it has continued). After leading 21-14 at the half, the Crimson Tide gave up a touchdown to the Tigers in the third quarter. Each team scored again during the fourth, leaving the score tied, 28-28, with seconds remaining in regulation....
This isn't a sports column, but there's a reason we opened with a nine-day-old play-by-play. Back in Tuscaloosa, the Alabama loss led to a kerfuffle last week involving the student newspaper, the perplexingly named Crimson White. Its cartoonist drew a strip, published Thursday, depicting the final play under the title "This Is What Happens in OBAMA'S AMERICA." The last two words were in massive letters, drawn in horror-movie style, with what was supposed to look like blood dripping from them.
Alabama was driving, but it looked as though the clock had run out. It turned out, however, that Alabama's T.J. Yeldon had managed to get out of bounds with a single tick left. Rather than take a knee and go to overtime, Alabama decided to try a long field goal--which missed and was returned for 109 yards and a touchdown by Auburn's Chris Davis. Final score: Auburn 34, Alabama 28.
Later that day, editor Mazie Bryant posted "A Statement From the Editor-in-Chief" in which she explained that "the cartoon was meant as satire . . . as a lighthearted look at some of the more absurd explanations given for Alabama's collapse at the end of the Iron Bowl game against Auburn last Saturday."
Only in Obama's America could something so obvious have eluded anyone. "Unfortunately," Bryant noted, the cartoon "has been perceived by many readers as having racist intentions."
Such complaints are frivolous. The cartoon had no racial overtones. True, Davis, the hero of the game for Auburn, is black, but both teams are racially integrated. It seems, however, that the "racism" complaints centered not on the drawing but on the words--on the reference to President Obama, which likewise was without racial overtones.  http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303560204579248310814819096
The cartoon has some validity, from a conservative stand point as Obama has run all over the constitution by deciding which laws to enforce or not enforce, changing laws without the authorization  of Congress and abusing executive privilege.  Of course, liberals, for the most part, would disagree.
But because Obama was criticized, this is now racist? 
Guess I am just an old red neck racist then, according to liberals.
And guess what, I really don't care and it won't make me back down from being critical of the Liar in Chief.

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