More Outraged Than Thou
Cidu Bill on Jul 18th 2008
The NAACP and David Paterson (New York’s first black governor) have entered the Condemn the New Yorker Cover Derby: The NAACP is calling it “tasteless, Islam-a-phobic, mean spirited and racially offensive” while Governor Paterson, not to be outdone, called it “one of the most malignant, vicious covers of a magazine I have ever seen.”
Out of, you know, all the very many malignant, vicious magazine covers he’s seen.
Now here’s the amazing thing about this story that’s garnered worldwide attention:
And right here I’m warning anybody who’s easily offended to stop reading
Last week, Jesse Jackson told a fellow guest on a television program — when he thought the microphone was off — that he doesn’t like the way Barack Obama “talks down” to black people and that he’d like to “cut his nuts off.”
This week, the network confirmed that he also referred to Obama as a nigger (I refuse to say “the n word,” because I’m not 8 years old).
At the risk of putting things in perspective, shouldn’t this have been a bigger story? Sure, it was reported, but it’s been completely overshadowed by a cartoon which nobody seriously believes was intended to denigrate Obama.
A leader in the black community calls a black presidential candidate a nigger… and a drawing.
I am not seeing worldwide condemnation. I am not seeing the outrage. I am not seeing Governor Paterson and the NAACP making speeches and releasing press statements.
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