via New York Post
This immediately brought to mind
"Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a dismal portrait of the white male psyche. Can I really expect white males to recognize that? Yet they must. All of us suffer the consequences as long as they do not."
-Julius Lester
Even if the argument being posed here was not racist, as the artist is arguing- isn't this the cautionary tale of Mark Twain? If you are going to be a satirist you have to be conscious of your audience, and this artist may or may not have purposefully put forth an argument that recalls the hatred seen in Twain's Huck Finn.
1 comment:
I just heard an NPR piece about this cartoon. Interesting! When you get a chance, include your thoughts on the piece -- turn the "blogette" into a blog post.
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