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(9,086 posts)1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)I would add, after the last panel, one that has the white guy looking around at the level he is on, unsatisfied, seeing a bunch of white people and a few Black people, then looking up, and seeing another white guy, on the higher level.
Then have him ask two characters, one white and one Black, on the second level, "wanna give me a boost? ... This is for your own good."
brer cat
(24,401 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)SusanCalvin
(6,592 posts)Built on slavery and genocide, as Thom Hartmann has been saying.
Not saying we don't have our good points, but those who do not remember history.......
StrongBad
(2,100 posts)As such, to be accurate this cartoon should provide a disclaimer that this only applies to the modern day descendants of a very small amount of people.
Solomon
(12,305 posts)be a slave owner to take advantage of climbing the black guy's back. You apologists make me sick! Denial!
By that logic any white person who achieves more than a black person did so by metaphorically climbing on top of a black person's back?
YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)gollygee
(22,336 posts)StrongBad
(2,100 posts)Otherwise, the black person wouldn't be depicted as being in chains and then later in slave clothing minus chains. Slavery is the only factor being considered in the cartoon.
Actually, the more I think about it, this is really offensive to black people.
The modern day equivalent black man is still dressed in slave clothing implying that he hasn't progressed at all since the end of slavery.
All in all a weird cartoon to me.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)It's a few frames. White America has benefitted from the oppression of African Americans in a number of ways.