I would like to start off this entry with a few mementos of days gone by.
A cartoon of former president George W. Bush depicting a man devolving into a monkey, who happens to be Bush. Taken as a still from a YouTube video.
This is a altered image of a presidential press conference, in which Bush is made to look like a monkey. See it here
One of countless comparisons of Bush to a monkey.
The point of all this is to remind everyone that for the last eight years, there has been FAR more comparisons made of the former president to a monkey than there ever will be of President Obama. Now, I realize white people have not historically been called "monkeys" in a racist way, but in my opinion, this is just as bad and just as racist.
I don't care if you are black, white, yellow or purple. You mock another man and it's a guarantee others from that race will be offended.
Unless, of course, you mock a white man. There is, apparently, no such thing as racism against white men.
Of course I'm being facetious. Because there is. But any white person who would think such a thought would likely be too afraid to voice his or her concern. It would clearly be a social taboo for a white person to claim anyone was being racist against him.
Personally, I'm tired of it.
I'm sick of the overpowering liberal ideologies that drive this university, my classes and my fellow classmates' minds. I'm sick of no one questioning what they're told.
The cartoon was within the newspaper's, the editor's and the cartoonist's free speech rights. They could have chosen to be more picky about editing it, but they didn't. They edited, they decided. And they chose to run it.
It was not meant to be Obama, or a inference that black people are monkeys. We know that racism is bad, and most of us agree, hopefully. Everything that happens that involves a black man or any other minority is not meant to trod on them.
A cartoon of former president George W. Bush depicting a man devolving into a monkey, who happens to be Bush. Taken as a still from a YouTube video.
This is a altered image of a presidential press conference, in which Bush is made to look like a monkey. See it here
One of countless comparisons of Bush to a monkey.
The point of all this is to remind everyone that for the last eight years, there has been FAR more comparisons made of the former president to a monkey than there ever will be of President Obama. Now, I realize white people have not historically been called "monkeys" in a racist way, but in my opinion, this is just as bad and just as racist.
I don't care if you are black, white, yellow or purple. You mock another man and it's a guarantee others from that race will be offended.
Unless, of course, you mock a white man. There is, apparently, no such thing as racism against white men.
Of course I'm being facetious. Because there is. But any white person who would think such a thought would likely be too afraid to voice his or her concern. It would clearly be a social taboo for a white person to claim anyone was being racist against him.
Personally, I'm tired of it.
I'm sick of the overpowering liberal ideologies that drive this university, my classes and my fellow classmates' minds. I'm sick of no one questioning what they're told.
The cartoon was within the newspaper's, the editor's and the cartoonist's free speech rights. They could have chosen to be more picky about editing it, but they didn't. They edited, they decided. And they chose to run it.
It was not meant to be Obama, or a inference that black people are monkeys. We know that racism is bad, and most of us agree, hopefully. Everything that happens that involves a black man or any other minority is not meant to trod on them.
But wasn't Bush really a monkey?