I'm sorry you aren't able to grasp the distinction between defending a racist cartoon (which I did not do) and supporting a nonracist political point (which is what I did). It simply is not the case that all political criticisms of Condi Rice are automatically racist. In fact, it's racist to claim they *are* all racist.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : Sorry Judy, when you justified the politics of it, you defended it. Doesn't matter what else you say about it.Saying it was disgraceful is like putting lipstick on a pig and refusing to call it a pig. From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9:11 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Consolation No, Mike, I am NOT defending the cartoon. I said it was "disgraceful." As I said, your reading comprehension is in the toilet. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : No Judy, my reading comprehension is just fine and you continue to defend the cartoon by justifying it. From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Consolation Your reading comprehension is getting worse and worse. I didn't defend the cartoon, I said I understood why some might do so: because the *political* point was valid. The political point had nothing to do with race. If Prissy in GWTW and/or Condi had been white, the exact same point would have been made with the same cartoon without the racial aspect. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : It is a matter of hypocrisy Judy. Ollie suggested that a cartoon of Michelle Obama was racist because of her body mass as opposed to Trumps former model wife and I countered with the hypocrisy of the left. If you didn't notice, I followed that sentence invoking the Times and the Post with a question mark. No, it wasn't published by them but was by a syndicated cartoonist that they frequently publish and continue to do so. Let's not play stupid Judy, you know exactly what the sentiment of that cartoon was meant to convey. A black woman sitting in a rocking chair, rocking an aluminum tube as if it were a baby with a play on words from a famous movie. The line, "I don't know nothing 'bout birthing babies", mocking a simpleton, an uneducated lazy slave, one who does what the massa tells her to do. The very fact that you can defend it, while claiming you're not, is ten times lower than my not knowing that neither the Times nor the Post actually published it even though it was one of their syndicated cartoonists. It was all about hypocrisy Judy.. From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Consolation For you to suggest the cartoon was published in the New York Times or Washington Post when you knew it wasn't was pretty low, Mike. And I just got done saying myself that the accuracy of the caption wasn't relevant. I don't know what "sentiment" the cartoon was intended to evoke, and neither do you. The political point, though, was valid, and I would guess that's why some defended it. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : No Judy, I didn't need a source. I remember the controversy it caused. Whether it was published in a news paper or not, it was defended by liberal bloggers and people in the media and there was more than just that one cartoon. The accuracy of the caption is irrelevant. It's the sentiment that it intended to evoke, that she was a stupid, uneducated, black woman, still on the plantation. WWW.iwf.org/media/2434659/IWF-Denounces-Racist-Depictions-of-Dr-Condoleezza-Rice-in-Popular-Editorial-Cartoons From: "authfriend@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016 5:28 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Consolation ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : (snip) A cartoon about Michelle being big and husky?How about the one with Condolezza Rice crying *I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' tubes* while rocking ion a chair with a rag tied around her head as if she were a slave in Gone With The Wind. Was that New York Times or Washington Post? Hmmmmmmmm? That disgraceful cartoon was never published in a newspaper, only on the cartoonist's Web site. So much for the accuracy of your right-wing sources. (You have the caption wrong too, but it doesn't make any difference.)
