Uncle Tom
Cidu Bill on Jan 7th 2010
Nicole: How about a discussion about race … we haven’t had one of those in a while
I thought this was an LOL, but I wonder about others. I know Keith Knight is black, but I am not sure that would matter to me, but it might to others. Is this comic offensive? Is it less offensive because it was drawn by a black man? If Keith was white, would the comic considered racist ?Just as a matter of interest: These two interviews explain how “Uncle Tom” evolved into an epithet, when in fact the Uncle Tom’s Cabin character was truly heroic. Interestingly, the public perception of Professor Henry Gates, the subject of the second interview, went through a similar change a few months after the interview was recorded, when he became less well known as a leading African American scholar than as the man who got arrested after throwing a temper tantrum with a Cambridge police officer -Bill
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