Panel one: Two women are talking, one white, one black. The white woman looks annoyed, the black woman looks nervous.<\/em>
\nWHITE WOMAN: so then HE said i was being RACIST! that’s CRAZY, right?
\nBLACK WOMAN: um… do you realize you’ve done this before?<\/p>\nPanel two<\/em>
\nWW: Done what?
\nBW: Ask me to reassure you you’re not a racist.<\/p>\nPanel three: Close-up on the black woman, mockingly imitating a jubilant doctor. <\/em>
\nBW: when i was BORN, the doctor didn’t say “oh, it’s a healthy BLACK baby! god willing, she’ll grow up to reassure WHITE people!”<\/p>\nPanel four: Close-up on the black woman, now with an openly angry expression.<\/em>
\nBW: my PARENTS didn’t say “if we raise her JUST right, then SOMEDAY she’ll make WHITE people feel BETTER about themselves!”<\/p>\nPanel five<\/em>
\nBW: do you UNDERSTAND what I’m telling you?
\nWW: I think I do.<\/p>\nPanel six<\/em>
\nWW: just one thing… you’re not suggesting that I’ve been RACIST, right?<\/p>\nTiny inset panel at bottom of panel six<\/em>
\nBW: Do you even hear the words I say?
\nWW: The ones I like.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Click on the cartoon to see it bigger. Panel one: Two women are talking, one white, one black. The white woman looks annoyed, the black woman looks nervous. WHITE WOMAN: so then HE said i was being RACIST! that’s CRAZY, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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