Thanks to everyone who engaged in my first diary. Shame on whoever attempted to undermine it by placing a tag making it seem like I was pulling a prank on the community.
I had originally intended to use this diary to delve in to the countless right wing / racially coded cartoons of the prominent cartoonist Ted Rall. I am still going to post the images I gathered for those who are interested in seeing what I found so troubling, but first I would like I would like to address something I read in my original diary.
Why did I feel it was necessary to bring this back up?
Because I witnessed Rall's defenders daring people to provide evidence that he had used racist imagery in any of his other cartoons.There were people trying to deny that the cartoon depicted an Ape.
Here's what the defiantly ignorant Rall had to say about that on his blog.
"Of course, all humans are apes. We share 99.4% of our DNA with chimpanzees. Which is why I look like an ape and Brad Pitt looks like an ape and Dick Cheney looks like an ape. To not draw Obama the same way I draw everyone else, to make him look less ape-like than everyone else, seems fucked up."
Rall is a fool in my opinion, but that's not really the point anymore.There was a significant group of people here on this 90% white "liberal" blog that claimed they had enjoyed Rall's work for years and saw no problem with it.
My intention was to find out what they had been consuming and what it was they felt so compelled to defend.
Here's Rall sympathizing with Richard Cohen and mocking the liberals (and non racists of all ideologies) who criticized him.
"The corollary of the Comedy Club Effect is that when people are preconditioned to hate, they tend to hate well and often. Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen experienced this when his “what if I were a bigot” musings (“people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex“) about New York Mayor-Elect Bill de Blasio’s biracial family drew calls for his firing and unsubstantiated assertions that these were really Cohen’s thoughts. It was the exact 180-degree opposite of fair: If anything, white conservatives “with conventional views,” rather than progressives, should have been angry at Cohen for attributing bigotry that the conventional types hadn’t expressed."
http://rall.com/...
Yes, Cohen and white conservatives were the real victims of that story. (snark tag for real this time)
That's what his fans have been reading.
So here's what Rall's fans had been viewing and apparently laughing at.
Teabaggers ain't got sh*t on Rall
Obama's bringing back slavery.(of white people in the cartoon)
Also apparently the Obama administration is branding Michelle and Biden and selling their merchandise. WTF?
Obama palling around with terrorists
So many right wing memes here. Seriously what's progressive about this cartoon?
So now the truther Rall is trying to smear Obama by invoking 9/11?...WTF
Here this hateful cartoonists attempts to exploit the tragic murder of a black child for his political agenda. Rall places Obama in the role of Zimmerman.
The Nigs in the white house are gonna kill our blonde white girls
I'm gonna ignore the idiotic Syria analogy here because we all know how that played out. (another foreign policy victory for the Obama administration)
Just look at what we have here. The tasteless decision to use Obama's daughter to attack him.Obama as the amoral "gangsta" thug black man teaching his children to gun down whites who wrong them. Then we of course have the monkey man making his return.
That n!&*a ain't done sh*t
Here Rall BLATANTLY attacks Obama on racial terms.Obama hasn't accomplished anything in his career. He only got where he is because he's black. He tricked guilty whites in to voting for him. Also notice how Rall AGAIN utilizes the chimp like caricature of Obama in the panels with his arms raised.
Last one I promise. Lol
Rall's resentful title for this one was "Shocker:Black Chicagoan endorses Black Chicagoan"
Cuz you know us black folks only votes for duh colored one! Chocolate we want chocolate!!!
After viewing this small sample of what this cartoonist puts out it's hard to imagine ANYONE trying to claim he is "progressive". Hating Bush and having Paultarded views on foreign policy don't make you a progressive. Invoking right wing memes to slander Obama and dabbling in racism don't either. Rall and his fans are Libertarians. Some may claim to be leftist libertarians but even then they AREN'T allies of liberals.
Liberals reject racism 100%.
9:27 PM PT: I promised the Oprah cartoon would be the last. But these 2 are so disgusting they need to be shown.
Sorry
(Obama youth on their uniforms)
posted 1 month after Obama's election. He was not even sworn in yet.