What’s With The Racist Caricatures?
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Sep 15, 2008
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I keep wondering why people don't see things like this and always understand why it's racist.
In this case, the two perpetrators were Mark Whitlock and Bob DeMoss, two writers from Franklin, TN. They decided to put this together and sell it at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C., where both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney were among speakers at the forum.
The organizers of the forum asked these two guys to stop selling the item after it had been a hot seller on day 3, saying they hadn't realized the boxes displayed "offensive material." The summit was sponsored by the lobbying arm of the Family Research Council; yup, this was really family material, wasn't it?
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It's kind of a misnomer for me to say that I've been in mixed company when there's been a caricaturist around, as I've always been the only black person in the group, but i've had people wonder if I had a sense of humor because I've never had a caricature of myself done. I know that if someone thought that they should make my lips bigger, if only in caricature, that it's all in good fun. No, it's not all in good fun, and no, I can't allow that, and it's reinforced by the picture above.
Someone please tell me why some people are missing the point, that things like both of these are racist and insulting, not funny or fair.
I don’t think you are alone. It certainly is causing a lot of debate.
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Well, that was certainly “stimulating”. And out of the 7 comments, 5 against, 2 for. Interesting to say the least; and yes, I’m not the only one. But the “I didn’t think Aunt Jemima was racist” stuff is stupid to hear in 2008.
Sorry Mitch, but I am not familiar with Aunt Jemima.
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It was the name of a pancake mix for decades, until sensitivities changed around here. This is a picture you can check out.
Is that a picture of the lady who came up with the recipe? We have a product called Coon cheese which has been out for ages and someone tried to change it because they found it offensive. Didn’t work though because Coon was the surname of the man who developed the cheese.
No Sire (you’re killing me!), that’s just a caricature, a better one than the original though, of a black woman that the corporation thought would be a good image for their product.
As for the cheese,… I’m not sure how well that would go over here. If the owner wanted to actually sell any of his product, he’d change the name.
The cheese has been out since I’ve been a kid and is very popular. Actually, I did a quick search and the creator was actually and American.