{"id":22851,"date":"2017-03-21T08:36:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22851"},"modified":"2017-03-21T08:58:28","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T15:58:28","slug":"cartoon-who-we-call-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=22851","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon: Who We Call Racist"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"racists-are-unicorns\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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One thing that continually bugs me is the “racists are unicorns” view, which I hear usually but not exclusively from the right. Basically, in this view, almost no one is racist, and no act is racist. Sure, KKK members are racist, but nothing else – not vote suppression, not claming a judge is biased “becuase he’s a mexican,” not the racial wage gap – can be called racism. Because naming racism is considered worse than racism itself.<\/p>\n

Artwise, this is one of the cartoons I did with superdistorted figures – huge heads, tiny everything else. It’s always a fun challenge to try and make these anatomically impossible people work out well. I also decided that the mentor character should keep his nose held high, high in the air in all four panels.<\/p>\n

TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON<\/p>\n

Panel 1
\nAn older white man in a three-piece suit is lecturing to a younger white man wearing a short-sleeved shirt with a tie. We can see that they are indoors; there\u2019s a window with curtains behind them. Throughout this cartoon, the older man has his head lifted veryhigh (i.e., \u201cnose in the air\u201d).<\/p>\n

OLDER MAN: Liberals call anything they disagree with \u201cracist.\u201d But we Republicans are more serious.<\/p>\n

Panel 2
\nThe older man continues lecturing, holding out one hand in a \u201cstop\u201d or \u201cslow down\u201d gesture.
\nOLDER MAN: Racism is a serious accusation. Before calling anyone \u201cracist,\u201d we always ask, \u201cis racial animus the only possible motive here?\u201d<\/p>\n

Panel 3
\nA close-up on the older man, who is now looking positively indignant.
\nOLDER MAN: And we NEVER call our enemies \u201cracist\u201d just to score a cheap political point!<\/p>\n

Panel 4
\nThe younger man asks a question; the older man looks pleased with himself as he answers.
\nYOUNGER MAN: Wow. So is there ANYONE we DO call ra-
\nOLDER MAN: \u201cBlack Lives Matter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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