A Florida Cartoonist has drawn something that has got the attention of local black leaders, and now they are trying to pull an Imus on him. They say the cartoon is “racist, culturally insensitive and degrading to African-American women.” Let’s take a look and decide for ourselves:
I guess the degrading to women part is the use of the term “ho.”
In Sunday’s Times-Union, editorial page editor Mike Clark said that while he reviewed and approved the cartoon, he admits that “Using the word ‘ho’ was bad judgment, and I regret that I did not edit it out.”
The newspaper’s reader advocate quoted Gamble as saying that while he appreciated that the term was demeaning to women, he said, “I was making a point that rappers are demeaning to women.”
I don’t think he is being “culturally insensitive.” I think the snitch mentality is well established in the thug and wanna-be thug attitude.
The black leaders not only want an apology, they also want “the group also called for the firing of cartoonist Ed Gamble, the hiring of a person of African-American descent for the newspaper’s editorial board and a meeting with black leaders to ‘resolve the issue,’” Pardon me for my whiteness, but it seems like it will take more than one black guy on a editorial board to resolve this issue.
I think there are some black leaders more invested in the victim mentality than they are in reality.
UPDATE:
This is one reason I love social networking sites. I found this on FreeRepublic:
ALBANY — At the time of his death, Shahied Oliver, the 15-year-old youth gunned down early Saturday at a Lark Street birthday party, was facing charges for a March shooting that left a 21-year-old paralyzed from the waist down, court records show.
The case against Oliver stalled after the victim, who — according to court papers — picked him out of a photo lineup and told city police he was “95 percent sure” it was Oliver who shot him, declined to testify, prosecutors said.
Police couldn’t say Tuesday if Oliver’s death was an act of revenge. But his death could be a parable on street life in inner-city neighborhoods and the strength of an anti-snitching culture.
