In these times
Aug. 3rd, 2009 06:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captainsblogSo an FB friend posted an online comic earlier today. Just on the basis of the first panel, I drew a conclusion as to what it depicted.
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Eventually, though, I read on and realized what the current-event context of the entire comic was, which you can see here:
I'd like to think, based on understanding that this was riffing on last week's White House Beer Summit, that my first reading of the first panel was over-reactive, out-dated and definitely pre-post-racial for our new era of colorblindness.
Then I thought of the other Boston cop who proudly emailed his colleagues last week calling the black Harvard professor (ex-)defendant a banana-eating jungle monkey and who, when called out on it, insisted that he "didn't mean it in a racist way."
Right. And that cross he wanted to burn on his lawn? That was just to keep the family warm in a season of high heating bills.
Keep dreamin', Martin. We still have a ways to travel from the gallows to the mountaintop.
[Poll #1439289]
Eventually, though, I read on and realized what the current-event context of the entire comic was, which you can see here:
I'd like to think, based on understanding that this was riffing on last week's White House Beer Summit, that my first reading of the first panel was over-reactive, out-dated and definitely pre-post-racial for our new era of colorblindness.
Then I thought of the other Boston cop who proudly emailed his colleagues last week calling the black Harvard professor (ex-)defendant a banana-eating jungle monkey and who, when called out on it, insisted that he "didn't mean it in a racist way."
Right. And that cross he wanted to burn on his lawn? That was just to keep the family warm in a season of high heating bills.
Keep dreamin', Martin. We still have a ways to travel from the gallows to the mountaintop.