Are these Cartoons Racist? Or just "political"

[emilynghiem]

Racist cartoons of Condoleezza Rice Alas a Blog

I read in Allen West's book that no one on the liberal side raised any cry of "racism"
when Condoleeza Rice was depicted as an uneducated wet nurse, based on a character in a novel.

I looked up the reference and found explanations defending both
this and another cartoon as more "political" in opposition than "racist."
(Please see ^ link above ^)

When is is "okay" to use someone's characteristic features or associations
in a political cartoon, and when is it considered abusing their "race" to exaggerate or associate them this way?

Are these Cartoons of Rice
any more or less "racist" than the cover cartoon showing the Obama's
as Terrorists, and exaggerating their features?



The Five Most Racist Obama Cartoons

 

[TheOldSchool]

Those cartoons of Rice are remarkably tame compared to the disgusting rhetoric of the right.

 

[martybegan]

Those cartoons of Rice are remarkably tame compared to the disgusting rhetoric of the right.
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OH RLY???

 

[FuelRod]

I'd call the New Yorker parody. The watermelon is over the top.

 

[S.J.]

Payback's a bitch, ain't it?

 

[cnm]

OH RLY???

Could someone please explain where the racial references are in these cartoons?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Those cartoons of Rice are remarkably tame compared to the disgusting rhetoric of the right.
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OH RLY???

Please explain ANY racist connotations in those.

 

[martybegan]

OH RLY???

Could someone please explain where the racial references are in these cartoons?

It's more subtle, but its there. Try and figure it out for yourself.

 

[martybegan]

Those cartoons of Rice are remarkably tame compared to the disgusting rhetoric of the right.
{pics snipped for brevity}

OH RLY???

Please explain ANY racist connotations in those.

Its subtle, but its there, the first one also has some good ol'
sexist connotations to it as well.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Those cartoons of Rice are remarkably tame compared to the disgusting rhetoric of the right.
{pics snipped for brevity}

OH RLY???

Please explain ANY racist connotations in those.

Its subtle, but its there, the first one also has some good ol'
sexist connotations to it as well.

In one she's a parrot and in the other she's continuing to support war which she has continued to do unapologetically. Where are the KFC buckets, watermelons, and ebonics references?

 

[cnm]

Oh, no racial references. Okay, thanks.

 

[ClosedCaption]

OH RLY???

Could someone please explain where the racial references are in these cartoons?

It's more subtle, but its there. Try and figure it out for yourself.

like so subtle it doesnt exist and you cannot explain it.

 

[martybegan]

Those cartoons of Rice are remarkably tame compared to the disgusting rhetoric of the right.
{pics snipped for brevity}

OH RLY???

Please explain ANY racist connotations in those.

Its subtle, but its there, the first one also has some good ol'
sexist connotations to it as well.

In one she's a parrot and in the other she's continuing to support war which she has continued to do unapologetically. Where are the KFC buckets, watermelons, and ebonics references?

Those are the easy ones. Also, were all of yours from major sources?

Hint, the lips are usually a give away, also in the 2nd the general cave-manish look of her is a form of subtle racism, you often saw it in cartoons of the irish in the late 19th/early 20th century.

 

[martybegan]

Oh, no racial references. Okay, thanks.

The first one is hugely sexist, but since she's a conservative, I guess she deserves it.

 

[martybegan]

OH RLY???

Could someone please explain where the racial references are in these cartoons?

It's more subtle, but its there. Try and figure it out for yourself.

like so subtle it doesnt exist and you cannot explain it.

see below.

 

[ClosedCaption]

OH RLY???

Could someone please explain where the racial references are in these cartoons?

It's more subtle, but its there. Try and figure it out for yourself.

like so subtle it doesnt exist and you cannot explain it.

see below.

Is your explanation down there?

 

[martybegan]

Here's another one.

 

[martybegan]

OH RLY???

Could someone please explain where the racial references are in these cartoons?

It's more subtle, but its there. Try and figure it out for yourself.

like so subtle it doesnt exist and you cannot explain it.

see below.

Is your explanation down there?

see above.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Those cartoons of Rice are remarkably tame compared to the disgusting rhetoric of the right.
{pics snipped for brevity}

OH RLY???

Please explain ANY racist connotations in those.

Its subtle, but its there, the first one also has some good ol'
sexist connotations to it as well.

In one she's a parrot and in the other she's continuing to support war which she has continued to do unapologetically. Where are the KFC buckets, watermelons, and ebonics references?

Those are the easy ones. Also, were all of yours from major sources?

Hint, the lips are usually a give away, also in the 2nd the general cave-manish look of her is a form of subtle racism, you often saw it in cartoons of the irish in the late 19th/early 20th century.

Are the Boston Globe and Boston Herald not major?

Her lips are like a bird beak and her "cave-manish look" seems to me like just her looking angry. Meanwhile while you are looking for hints of subtle racism I'm showing you blatantly obvious, in your face racism. It's amazing you would confuse the two.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Here's another one.

That cartoonist was banned by many liberal sites such as Daily Kos and many civil rights groups came out against it. Where is the conservative opposition to Obama being drawn with watermelons and KFC buckets?