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Liberal cartoonists accused of racism
Editorial caricaturists crossed line with black stereotypes, say some
Posted: November 19, 2004
3:10 a.m. Eastern
2004 WorldNetDaily.com
The New York Times and Washington Post have featured editorial cartoons this
week that, in another age, might have found their place on the pages of a Ku
Klux Klan newspaper. And they have some crying racism over their depictions of
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, the president's nominee to replace
Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Jeff Danziger, cartoonist for the New York Times, used Butterfly McQueen's line
from "Gone With the Wind" – "I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' babies" –
to have Rice deny knowledge of the aluminum tubes at the center of the debate
over the administration's rationale for believing Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction.
Washington Post cartoonist, Pat Oliphant, depicted Rice as a jabbering,
"anything-you-say-boss" parrot – with exaggerated lips – telling the
president how great he is.
Doonesbury, the nationally syndicated columnist, drew a four-panel strip that
has Rice confirming former National Security Advisor Richard Clark's accusation
that she didn't even know who Osama bin Laden was before 9-11 and the president
addressing her as "Brown Sugar."
The use of racial stereotypes – exaggerated physical features, ebonics,
subservience – have raised more than a few hackles.
"This stuff is grotesque," Rush Limbaugh told his radio audience "No American,
certainly not a person of Dr. Condoleezza Rice's stature, should be treated
like this. It is a new low. It is an absolute new low for the left. ... They
claim to be holier than thou. They claim to be above all of us when it comes to
understanding the downtrodden and minorities. They claim to be the only ones
that have the ability to have the compassion and understanding, and yet they
get away with racism. They get away with bigotry."
The uproar over the Washington Post cartoon apparently caused Jeff Danziger to
delete it from the archive he maintains at his own website.
"The depiction of Dr. Condoleezza Rice by Jeff Danziger, Pat Oliphant and Garry
Trudeau as an ebonics speaking, big lipped, black mammy who just loves her
'massa' is a disturbing trend in editorial cartoons," added Michelle D.
Bernard, senior vice president of the Independent Women's Forum (IWF).
According to the group's website, IWF was "established to combat the
women-as-victim, pro-big-government ideology of radical feminism ... by
advancing the principles of self-reliance, political freedom, economic liberty,
and personal responsibility.
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