"I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reasons, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use" -Galileo Galilei

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation" - Oscar Wilde

Thursday, May 29, 2008

Michelle Obama lynched by the KKK?


Why in the world would someone create this cartoon and post it on a MAINSTREAM NEWS website? (Of course, they pulled it down now...so, no use mentioning the site)

My initial reactions to the picture:
  1. WTF?
  2. Well, why should I be surprised? We all know how certain people feel about blacks...
  3. First the negative talk about "assassinations"....now, people are suggesting lynching? I am scared for Obama AND Michelle....
  4. Why do they have her in a sexually provocative red dress, suggesting that she is not the family woman and faithful wife she appears to be?
  5. Why are they BRANDING her like an animal? Despite her intelligence, charisma, and educational background, it appears that many people still see her as nothing more than a wild animal that needs to be controlled and tamed....
Sometimes I feel that no matter how educated, articulate, intelligent, kind, and moral I am, many White people still view me as "less than human."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why don't you credit the DailyKos for being the website that featured this image? That seems counter-intuitive to your line of reasoning. The image was created by the left not the right.

Anonymous said...

Why don't you credit the DailyKos for being the website that featured this image? That seems counter-intuitive to your line of reasoning. The image was created by the left not the right.