{"id":7556,"date":"2009-04-29T14:23:45","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T21:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7556"},"modified":"2022-04-09T15:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T22:59:57","slug":"another-racist-cartoon-by-editorial-cartoonist-donna-barstow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=7556","title":{"rendered":"Another racist cartoon by editorial cartoonist Donna Barstow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racist cartoonist Donna Barstow<\/a>, who is here seen being responsible for racist cartooning<\/a> on the subject of swine flu, has unsurprisingly dabbled in racist cartoons<\/a> before.<\/p>\n

In the following cartoon, she shows herself as unsavvy about race politics affecting African Americans as she is about race politics affecting the relationship between the United States and Mexico:<\/p>\n

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As we all know, the only real, good hair is the hair possessed by white people — smooth, silky, shiny, straight, lushly falling whitey white hair. Hair possessed by black people is funny. It’s not like hair at all. It’s like plant growth!<\/p>\n

Of course, it’s been well-documented by many bloggers of color that the politics of hair are used to suggest that black people cannot maintain a decent<\/a> or professional appearance<\/a> if they wear natural hair, that their hair is something abnormal that needs fixing<\/a>, and that their appearance is deviant in comparison with the white default<\/a>. Black people are sometimes charged more for styling their abnormal, so-not-white hair<\/a>. Kinky, nappy hair is ugly and insulting<\/a>. And of course, black-looking hair is “bad hair” and white-looking hair is “good hair.”<\/a><\/p>\n

But I’m sure the observation that our first African American president “looks like a Chia pet” is totally race-neutral, and nothing to do with making fun of him for looking so blatantly non-white, just like all those other totally<\/a> non-racist<\/a> visual<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Racist cartoonist Donna Barstow, who is here seen being responsible for racist cartooning on the subject of swine flu, has unsurprisingly dabbled in racist cartoons before. In the following cartoon, she shows herself as unsavvy about race politics affecting African … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26651,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7556\/revisions\/26651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}