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OT: Political Poll - Racist or Not Racist?
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<blockquote data-quote="Bill V" data-source="post: 886314" data-attributes="member: 54538"><p>No, that's not what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is that this image would not have been done if Obama was 100% white. The only reasons an African tribal witch doctor was used, instead of an image of the spiritual healers of any other race or culture, is because Obama is black, and because the originator wanted to implicitly tie in other race-based negative connotations of the African race to Obama. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>True, but in this case, it's not using Obama's physical features, it's using his racial background.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I don't feel the Bush image you used is appropriate, either. However, there is a huge difference between them. The Bush image is playing off a similarity in physical characteristics, but with the knowledge that there is not physical/genetic link, and is therefore truely drawing an analogy. The Obama image is, at one level, saying that Obama's medical plan is somehow the result of his genetic/racial link to African tribesmen. It's far more than making an anology. That's racism.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That said, I do want to amend my earlier response, to say that of your three options, in addition to the answer being all of #1 and part of #3, it's also part of #2. The first word of that answer, "No.", is wrong. But the rest, "The image is political satire which is often not flattering but has been around for hundreds of years in cartoons and other mediums.", is true. But the fact that that statement is true does not in any way make the image non-racist.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bill V, post: 886314, member: 54538"] No, that's not what I'm saying at all. What I'm saying is that this image would not have been done if Obama was 100% white. The only reasons an African tribal witch doctor was used, instead of an image of the spiritual healers of any other race or culture, is because Obama is black, and because the originator wanted to implicitly tie in other race-based negative connotations of the African race to Obama. True, but in this case, it's not using Obama's physical features, it's using his racial background. I don't feel the Bush image you used is appropriate, either. However, there is a huge difference between them. The Bush image is playing off a similarity in physical characteristics, but with the knowledge that there is not physical/genetic link, and is therefore truely drawing an analogy. The Obama image is, at one level, saying that Obama's medical plan is somehow the result of his genetic/racial link to African tribesmen. It's far more than making an anology. That's racism. That said, I do want to amend my earlier response, to say that of your three options, in addition to the answer being all of #1 and part of #3, it's also part of #2. The first word of that answer, "No.", is wrong. But the rest, "The image is political satire which is often not flattering but has been around for hundreds of years in cartoons and other mediums.", is true. But the fact that that statement is true does not in any way make the image non-racist. [/QUOTE]
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