I have to apologize from the newsdesk at DP Dot Com.
Our extra-curricular NYC activities have left us no time for blogging and working a real job. So in the meantime and in between time I leave you with an image forwarded to me from ERNIE.
The New Yorker was once considered a politically liberal-minded cultural magazine. The same folks that would subscribe to the New Yorker are the same folks that know only one Black person and that is usually their mail deliverer.
I don’t pretend to ever read that shit because the demographic they pitch their articles to spends their money at Crate & Barrel. Not that bootlegg ass CB2, but the REAL Crate & Barrel store. They be on some Williams & Sonoma shit. I fucks with A.J. motherfucking Wright.
Is the cover racist? Emmm, nahh.
Is it supremacist? Emmm, prA’li.
This is still just July. Wait until August and September roll around. The mainstream media will have middle America in a panic.
Can we get up to date data on gun sales across the country?
My dude, the entire point of the cartoon was satire. Dude put together all of the bullshit propaganda being tossed at Barry and Lady O and wrapped it into one image to show how preposterous it is in total.
That shit’s gonna be this year’s couples Halloween costume contest winner.
Some people are really upset over this image.
Racist??? Not at all.
If this dude wins in November do you know how many cartoonist are going to go at the Obamas? I think I will, just for fun
I’m wondering who decided to comment on this image first, turning it into a controversial issue that amounts to nothing. It does nothing for the high school kids getting shot in Obama’s backyard. But we do know that Michelle Obama will be extra careful with statement, lest she get painted into another corner questioning her patriotism.
I love the Afro!
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I think the cover is supposed to be ironic.
Bah, i dont think its racist.
Itd be racist if it was in the washtington times or some other obviously republican rag, but seeing as how its the NewYorker (check the superlong BillO’reilly article where they ether’d the dude), i doubt it. The thing the cartoon is directly referencing is the “terrorist fist jab” phrase that came up on Fox News (as well as the fear that many in the flyover states have about him being a secret muslim/terrorist)
It brings up an interesting subject though. The overt sensitivity with which alot of his supporters treat him. It’s coddling in kind of a racist way. The man is cooler than a bowl of gazpacho. He can stand up against a hurricane breeze, but if his supporters cry “racism” when it’s clearly not the case, it only stands to hurt him and his campaign, i think.
If the cartoon had been in the Amsterdam news or something, this probably wouldnt even be an issue.
Can we get up to date data on gun sales across the country?
Max says: According to the NSSF (National Shooting Sports Foundation) gun sales are on the rise, coinciding with the downward stats on violent crimes in the US.
According to the US Department of Treasury, Firearm and ammunition sales equaled $2.6 Billion in 2006, up 2.6% from 2005 the most recent year stats are available.
And that’s not even counting the sales the gov doesn’t get a cut from, i.e. sales in the hood.
^CeezDiem, cosign about the Amsterdam news. What if the illustrator was black and the image appeared in the Daily Sun?
No Doubt.
When you look at that cover in its context, it’s satirical. If your first reaction is to call the cover racist, you’re taking things at face value and you’re doing yourself a disservice by jumping to conclusions. It’s a horrible way to approach life and you’re only going to live a very short, close minded life.
Of course the New Yorker only did it to gain attention because, hello, that’s what news papers/magazines/tabloids do.
I agree w/ CeezDiem about the kid glove Obama supporters have toward their man ie: http://dallaspenn.com/weblog/?p=2566. Hilary couldn’t even fart w/o offending Obama stans. If he’s gonna be president, he should expect LOTS of things like this, because when you’re in that seat Letterman and Leno are gonna be all over that ish, and it ain’t ’cause he’s black.
An organized boycott is being started by all the Black readers of The New Yorker.
All three of them have joined forces to cancel their subscriptions.
The biggest slap in Obama’s face is not the cartoon or Fux News but his pandering and buck dancing 12 hours after getting the Democratic nod. Check his routine at AIPAC, American and Israeli lapel flags and his anti-Palistinean rhetoric far to the right of even rabid right wingers. Ernie
Co sign to Big Ern and Ceez : I’m j00ish, made my first trip to the Holy Land in January and am sick over the pandering and kneeling that the Democratic Party does to AIPAC.
Btw, the sensitive Barry’O supporters are the kind of people that are ready to get offended for SOMEONE ELSE at the drop of a hat. So soft, so sensitive that they want to (but don’t have the sach to) run up to a black person and say “YOU SHOULD be offended by this image…it’s racist.” No one wants to talk about that because as soon as they do, their argument starts to unravel in that it’s based purely on fallacy.
even though its satire i think alot of people will use it to try to make a point against Obama, alot of people refer to him as hussein
a lot of people refer to him as hussein
^ a lot of people are stupid too
Dallas my dude, its all fuckery so I gotta say fuck dat shit. Whats good with Dark Knight midnight show my Dude?
When you look at that cover in its context, it’s satirical. If your first reaction is to call the cover racist, you’re taking things at face value and you’re doing yourself a disservice by jumping to conclusions. It’s a horrible way to approach life and you’re only going to live a very short, close-minded life.
^ while that may be true it’s also naive
images are easily ingrained into peoples mental’s, and the only reason that image was even conjured up is because its already in the psyche of white America.
Of course a mag’s going to want to capitalize off the image and cry SATIRE in its defense.
Meanwhile the population that’ll actually stop to read the article, never mind those that will just capture the image or accept it at its face value, the satire will be consumed, digested and eventually pooped out in steaming pile of caca with all the other negative imagery, sound bites and jargon left from the campaign.
Just because its constitutional doesn’t mean that it’s beyond reproach, the fact that the New Yorker would display this imagery is in fact insulting at least it should be to you as a conscionable being. It’ll be a shame when one of the most important elections in history comes down to a the fear conjured by a shitty hand drawn cartoon.
The New Yorker should be scrutinized for this image of Obama…jeeez there’s even an American flag cast to flames!!! Talk about playing to voter’s fears!
I’m afraid the satire will be the last thing remembered about the article.
Please man…I have two arabic names and a jewish one. We could put me into politics and really have some fun.
I’m pretty sure no one’s going to look at this image and suddenly decide to NOT vote for Obama.
(Cut to Jim Bob dropping his John Deere catalog and picking up the NewYorker, thinking “Well, this ahere cartoon makes a good, I say, makes a good point! Cast me one of them there votes for John McCain”)
Like Tracy Morgan said, America’s a racist country. Period. These views were out there already, and i’d rather they be out and about so they can be discussed as more than just hearsay and rumors, than shushed and put away and censored by liberal crybabys.
/\ Does Jim live in W. VA?
Sangano, I cosign. I was trying to find a way to articulate exactly what you said. And you said it ten times better than I could. PROPS to you for that.
In a post literate world IMAGE IS EVERYTHING and therefore IMAGERY IS POWER.
Ernie
I think that if Barry-O gets elected than Negroes better get used to the him being cartooned not because he’s black but they’re not gonna change his skin tone to make it more appealing. Honestly in a lot of ways us Negroes are now mainstream and will have to deal with it with out getting all Sharpton-esque about it.
For example Negroes of all shades were upset by the LeBron & Giselle VOGUE cover. I was disappointed by how many Negroes were all in a huff of LBJ’s alleged “aping” and rehashing the tired sterotype of white men/black women that ever time a brother and a snowflake are together is some primordial sexual shit.
Lets face it Negroes, black folk, African-Americans, niggas/niggerettes, what ever brand of person of color you are – WE AIN’T GOING NO WHERE. We can’t knee jerk at every image drawn of us, especially when we let 15 years of Nigger Action Rap go unchecked. This man is an INTERNATIONAL FIGURE, he’s gonna get cartooned & lampooned. He’s a black man gunning to run a white nation and one of the bastions of white supremacy. Whether beatified or villified Barack Obama will be CARTOONED.
I can understand the original concern when seeing this picture but like someone said above, the question is – Is it the cartoon or where is being published? Obama has already been aligned with Curious George (which I can’t front he kinda resembles) and these are the images we see. Its alot harder when you actually like the guy to see satire especially when he “looks like you”. Had this been Gee Dubya cartooned as Pinocchio with his dad, Rumsfeld, Chaney, etc working the strings while he’s blowing a line off a barrel of oil, it would be on all of our t-shirts and wallpapers.
If he wins and holds it down he’s gonna be a subject for years to come, as the President of the United States and his alleged policies in jest and truth, he’ll be no different than the last 40 other presidents, other than they better order more brown crayons/pastels/pencils/markers/watercolor/yougethefuckinpoint.
I’m a Latino from the Boogie Down Bronx now living in the Backwoods South of Virginia Beach. What I believe you should all take into consideration is that ignorant people (some white, some just ignorant) take all this shit very seriously.
I can’t count how many times I’ve received emails this year saying, “Obama is a radical Muslim, do not vote for him.” Wake up ya’ll people believe this shit like they believe Democrats care about the poor and that’s the real problem with this satire. PEOPLE BELIEVE IT!!!
The New Yorker should have been responsible because what they just knowingly did was burn a very powerful visual image into the heads of ignorant people to brainwashed to do their own research on the candidates.
Co-sign to Ernie & Sangano… This could very well be one of the last thing people remember visually and believe it can alter some votes…
Ivan Sanchez
http://www.egradioonline.com/2008/07/new-yorker-does-obama-dirty.html
I feel a blog coming on!
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One.
Hey Ernie, yeah “Images Have Power”
Peep the image I created a while back, that is pure satire.
http://dallaspenn.com/weblog/?p=2408
While people want to believe the idiotic propaganda, it really needs to be discussed. When Hillary Clinton was questioned about Obama being a Muslim her response was a slick backhanded slap. It’s not like Sly Fox is not already painting pictures of Michelle Obama as unpatriotic.
Hopefully this image will get people to discuss all the disturbing trends going on in American politics and not the New Yorker’s bad judgement. Surely McCain will win some states, I don’t know how considering his many public gaffes and contradictions . . . but this image will not be heavily discussed or analyzed come November.
^Ivan, I understand your point. My brother was telling me the exact same thing. My reply to that, you just explained the need and possibly the reasoning for the electoral college system. Sad but true.
I like McCain. Been a fan of his since he played Uncle Fester on “The Addams Family” Ernie
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@Sangano
My point is that the cover isn’t racist, but just a very poor ploy on behalf of the New Yorker. It’s for shock value. Sensationalism.
What really sucks about this situation is that simple minded people to lazy to actually do their research will assume Obama is in fact a Muslim extremist and not vote for him. Then again I’m sure he wouldn’t want their vote… I wonder what conservatives think of the cover…?
in my opinion the cover is racist.
not like i’m voting for Obama anyway.