Comments on: Knight ticks off college students yet again http://www.popcultureshock.com/knight-ticks-college-students/51304/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:19:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fred http://www.popcultureshock.com/knight-ticks-college-students/51304/comment-page-1/#comment-547516 Fred Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:43:02 +0000 http://www.popcultureshock.com/?p=51304#comment-547516 "I t gets to the point where we don't have a word that we use to call people racist who actually are." - John McWhorter http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32899516/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/ The above quote explains today's cultural climate regarding race. The word "racist" is too often the word of choice by a Black person who is criticized or suffers a personal setback. It doesn't help that professional poverty pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson play into this "faux racism" mindset. Even comics aren't immune. For example, some Reggie Hudlin fans would lob the "r-bomb" at those who didn't like the writer's run on Black Panther. These racist charges were silly since: a. Some of Hudlin's critics were Black. b. These critics were fans of the Black Panther comics penned by Priest, who is also Black. Thus, I'm not surprised by Keef's cartoon being accused of the very racism it's condemning. “I t gets to the point where we don’t have a word that we use to call people racist who actually are.”

– John McWhorter

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32899516/ns/us_news-race_and_ethnicity/

The above quote explains today’s cultural climate regarding race. The word “racist” is too often the word of choice by a Black person who is criticized or suffers a personal setback. It doesn’t help that professional poverty pimps like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson play into this “faux racism” mindset.

Even comics aren’t immune. For example, some Reggie Hudlin fans would lob the “r-bomb” at those who didn’t like the writer’s run on Black Panther. These racist charges were silly since:

a. Some of Hudlin’s critics were Black.

b. These critics were fans of the Black Panther comics penned by Priest, who is also Black.

Thus, I’m not surprised by Keef’s cartoon being accused of the very racism it’s condemning.

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