Comments on: HuffPo Sees A Racist Around Every Corner

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:37:58 +0000

Dee — funny, no. Also racist, no.

It is at it unfunniest in that it makes light of the damage that wild animals can do to humans.

My dogs may be animals, but they’ve been bred for 100s of generations to be friendly to people and even at that one cannot completely trust them not to attack.

In fact, isn’t their ability to attack one reason people own them? You really would not want to make my Great Pyrenees think you want to hurt me. Nor would I want the dog to think I was going to hurt my husband. He’s protective of us both.

A chimp is only one generation away from a wild animal, and to make fun of the chimp’s death is to belittle the injuries he caused to the woman. Why this cartoon is not funny has nothing to do with race or politics. It’s just plain mean.

For blacks to find it discriminating for them, but not whites, to be compared to chimps or apes simply shows a humongous misunderstanding of evolution, to their detriment.

By: Teresa

Teresa — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:12:56 +0000

I read this right after reading the story about Eric Holder calling us a

Nation of Cowards

Of course I am now giggling madly after reading your post… remember we’re supposed to be brave and talk to each other. ROFLMAO.

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:31:46 +0000

Did anyone actually find this funny?

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:22:12 +0000

Imagine the cartoon during Bush’s administration with the caption “I guess somebody else will have to write the next farm bill.”

Why is OK to make fun of a white man with chimp jokes, but not a black one? Actually it’s not — the caricatures of Bush as chimp always bothered me.

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Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:58:14 +0000

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By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:28:19 +0000

Even so, that’s still not racist, is it?

By: Jeb

Jeb — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:24:11 +0000

It’s clearly a reference to the case from a couple of days ago where the police had to shoot a pet chimp that had gone wild and was attacking its owner.