Yes, you missed it. Jews aren’t off limits to political satire or scrutiny are they, even if you are in a defensive posture. I see now why you defend the cartoon.
I went after the cartoon before I knew anything about the personnel involved. Anyone ignorant to the point of not knowing the connections to racist connations to darkies and tooth paste and watermelons should stay in their polite conversation circles or church service.
I fear the übermenschen more than I do the single cells.
“Colgate to Rename a Toothpaste
By DOUGLAS C. McGILL
Published: January 27, 1989
After more than three years of pressure from shareholders, religious groups and blacks, the Colgate-Palmolive Company announced yesterday that it would rename Darkie, a popular toothpaste that it sells in Asia, and redesign its logotype, a minstrel in blackface.”
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/01/27/business/colgate-to-rename-a-toothpaste.html
Obviously you and I know the long history of toothpaste and watermelons in the theatre of racism. Colgate has indeed pushed back into the market with a 2 in 1 kids mouthwash and toothpaste in watermelon flavor. Given their past I guess it was irresistble.
Colgate 2 in 1 Toothpaste & Mouthwash: Watermelon 4.6 o
Has the cartoonist (Holbert) ever given an actual explanation for the cartoon, what he was aiming for? Maybe in his own words it would make some sort of sense. The article mentioned something about “media appearances” but I don’t remember seeing them.
She is apologizing that the cartoon “has proven hurtful to so many people” – her colleagues at the Boston Herald!! She is not apologizing to the black targets of the cartoon, nor the black-person-in-chief!!
Herzlich, mein tuches!!
She asked for “forgiveness” from her “blameless” colleagues at the Boston Herald “who were hurt” by negative criticism by thoughtless, hurtful people in the general public. She did not apologize to anyone offended by the implied racism of the cartoon. That’s why it is still posted as a slap in the face!
Don’t attribute to incompetence what can be explained by malice.
The honorable thing for the editor to do in this case would be to immediately resign. Apparently Rachelle Cohen doesn’t feel all that responsible for the dumbest thing she’s ever done. And, apparently, firing her was simply out of the question. I think I may barf. Again.
The single cell amoeba’s will eat your cerebellum. Better boil the water in your Neti pot. The Ubermenschen, should they ever arise from the crooked wood of humanity, will integrate with the Over-Soul. ‘Childhood’s End’ isn’t fiction, it’s prophetic…it’s futurism. Should we survive–which I personally doubt.
So, I guess the FACT that the cartoon maker said he had a tube of that watermelon-flovored toothpaste at home is meaningless to all of you . . .
Google is your friend, friend.
He has specifically said it was a comment on the Whitehouse gate crasher and how the cartoonist “saw a tube of watermelon toothpaste that his kids left on a bathroom counter before he went to work”.
Sloppy researching and outrage, Martin.
“The artist who drew it – “a decent and honorable and utterly guileless man who gets an image lodged in his brain” – saw a tube of watermelon toothpaste that his kids left on a bathroom counter before he went to work.”
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“White House Invader Got Farther Than Originally Thought” is the caption of the cartoon.
I have used it myself. It does not taste like watermelon. It tastes like artificially sweetened/flavored candy paste.
My kids like it, though.
It is pretty easy to respond to you with “but of course a liberal will see racism in anything - even a tube of toothpaste”.
Not sure why people don’t ‘get’ the cartoon … I thought (with the caption) that it was self explanatory. The concept was funny but obviously there was a subtext that was racist. I’m surprised it wasn’t Fried Chicken flavored toothpaste.
The Herald is a whore house for conservative scum. The great holocaust that the editor recounted (some darky gave a reporter grief) is an absolute devastating horror. For that she should jump off the Mystic-Tobin bridge but not before chaining herself to every other Herald staffer. They are goddam racist scum even if they deny it and cry crocodile tears when it’s highlighted. When it comes to the Herald it’s NHI, No Humans Involved.
Also, she asks forgiveness all over the place-- but not of the president? Or the people who might have once again been stereotyped? Just her colleagues?
Sylhines,
Not clear. Are you saying that her appointment was covered by the Herald and that the comments were hateful?
Thanks, (& congrats!)
-CI
Plus doesn’t have an electric toothbrush, another evidence of poverty. And jug ears which is…well, I forget. Nice job, GET, as usual.
I’d prefer bubblegum.
I agree with Daveminnj. The target was the guy in the bathtub.