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The Whites-Only Basketball League

Cidu Bill on Jan 22nd 2010

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This amuses me for some reason; but I suspect there’ll be a follow-up in a few days revealing that this was all a hoax.

Filed in Bill Bickel, basketball, race | 25 responses so far

Uncle Tom

Cidu Bill on Jan 7th 2010

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Nicole: Is everyone tired of War on Christmas and Global Warming discussions? Me too. 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

Filed in Bill Bickel, comic strips, comics, humor, race | 47 responses so far

Oprah

Cidu Bill on Jan 12th 2008

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“Because, son, Oprah doesn’t have an obligation to support every self-important buffoon just because he happens to be black”?

Or he can just sit there thinking “Curtis just asked me a question so clever and insightful that I just have to sit here stunned at his brilliance”

Or maybe I’m missing something here, but I seriously don’t think I am.

Filed in Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Curtis, Jesse Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, comic strips, comics, humor, politics, race | 7 responses so far