Is Missouri newspaper’s ‘provocative’ cartoon kind of racist? Yup, it’s pretty darn racist

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Columbia (MO) Daily Tribune is facing a bit of heat today after running the above cartoon by Gary McCoy on Wednesday’s editorial page, with people pointing out, “Dudes, that some real racist bullshit you got there.”

Of course it didn’t help that the Trib ran it in conjunction with the buttoned-down racism of Rich Lowry from National Review, who wants the blacks to quit making the normally super-nice police officers — who punish jaywalking with summary execution in the street — become even meaner and try to kill them in larger numbers which would be much harder for conservatives to defend.

Not that they wouldn’t try.

In a response to Romenesko, CoTrib managing editor Jim Robertson explained:


I admit I didn’t anticipate the reaction. I’m responding to complaints, most of which have come through the Twitter universe, by asking them to consider the context. On three of the preceding four days our editorial page featured local cartoons about the Michael Brown tragedy, the militarization of the police response and a likeness of Lady Justice with six bullet wounds.

The editorial cartoon yesterday accompanied a Rich Lowry column about the unfortunate presence of looters and how that is not a legitimate form of protest. Provocative yes. Racist? Certainly not in intent.

So, you know, both sides do it. Equal time and such and such. As for not anticipating “the reaction,” which is coming from you commie outside Twitter agitators and not from the good people of Columbia, MO., Robertson might have considered the reactions to the cartoon at McCoy’s home at Townhall.


Janice Dodd Why do blacks have a problem understanding why they don’t get any respect??? I have never been a racist but find I feel uneasy around a black person now.. This is not without reason.. I make myself smile at all people and give each a fair chance, but I will not go into certain neighborhoods.. Sad..

Elwood Ballard This is just like the adulterer, Martin Luther King. Every time he gave a speech, there were always 3 busloads of outside Blacks to get the riots started. Then they would leave so the ignorant and illiterate locals could continue with their plundering and theft. Yes, I am old enough to remember this type of lawlessness!

Dale Reynolds Let them Burn, Burn, Burn, Burn, Burn, Burn until Ferguson is a pile of ashes… OH while the Sane Ones use the not used fencing to build a Border Fence around Ferguson to contain the rampaging animals.


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/08/21/is-missouri-newspapers-provocative-cartoon-kind-of-racist-yup-its-pretty-darn-racist/

[shenmue]

1. The what?

Were these people raised by squirrels? Wait, squirrels are handsome creatures with some dignity. Good grief.

[immoderate]

2. They (supposedly) criticised the police state. The racism is for balance.

--imm

[loyalsister]

30. I was very surprised that they ran that in my town

If I had a subscription I would cancel it.

What they usually run in the tribune...

http://www.columbiatribune.com/opinion/darkow_cartoons/


They did run a good story about the rally that was held yesterday.

[Louisiana1976]

3. I agree 100%--that editorial cartoon is racist. I've been to Columbia, MO and had no idea

such an attitude prevailed.

[etherealtruth]

4. WTF?

I mean seriously WTF did those folk think?

[theHandpuppet]

5. "I admit I didn’t anticipate the reaction"

[Lochloosa]

6. "I have never been a racist but"..kind of says it all

[A Simple Game]

9. But... I look good in white and only wear the hood on bad hair days... honest! n/t

[alp227]

7. What, they didn't know Glenn McCoy was a right wing asshole anyway? nt

[blm]

13. And that Townhall is part of the Moonie News propaganda media

developed over the last 3 decades by a Korean cult leader?

Gee - RWers always manage to leave that huge FACT out.

[heaven05]

8. this is amerikkka

2014, with an AA POTUS. Man, what a fucking reaction to Barack Obama as POTUS. That is the root of amerikkkan racist mentality, lately. They always have an reason to be pissed off at the 'others'. Janice, Elwood and Dale, I won't pray for your souls to be saved, EVER!

[blackspade]

10. That is some racist bullshit.

Unbelievable.

[tooeyeten]

11. How did they vote?

During the last two presidential elections, Columbia? Missouri, or Missourah if you're a native.

[Art_from_Ark]

15. Columbia (Boone County) went for Obama both times

The city is home to the main campus of the University of Missouri and tends to be a little more liberal than the state in general.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

16. From the comments section of the linked to article

Columbia is a rather liberal town. The owner of the Trib, however, is known to be a jackass. Now its clear he's a bigot.

[Dont call me Shirley]

17. Or Misery, if your in the bad end of the stick in Missourah

That cartoon is disgusting. That's what disgusting really is; not minorities voting.

[tooeyeten]

18. As a matter of fact

Boone County was carried by POTUS, while thr state of Missourah was carried by the GOP candidate both elections.

[Darkhawk32]

20. See my post below.

[Ino]

27. Not true...

Some natives pronounce it Missouree, other natives say Missourah.

Born & raised here, I pronounce it Missouri. Cuz that's how it's spelled, dammit!

[tooeyeten]

33. Limbaugh and Fox-ites

In rural areas generally say "Missourah" no matter this spelling, doncha know.

[snooper2]

31. actually, if you are a native it is pronounced "Missery"

just FYI

[byronius]

12. Openly, hatemongeringly racist.

Sick.

[calimary]

14. Hideous.

Shameful. Disgusting. Disgraceful.

And yes. Pretty darn racist.

[Darkhawk32]

19. As someone that lives in the Columbia, MO area, racism is alive an well.

Columbia itself is a blue oasis in a red desert, but go outside of the city limits and you'll find the nastiest, most vile element of humanity.

[tooeyeten]

22. We're loaded

Around the country, in every nook and cranny.

[SaintLouisBlues]

24. Little Dixie (Missouri) wiki excerpt:

"Little Dixie is a 13- to 17-county region of mid-to-upper-mid Missouri found along the Missouri River, settled primarily by migrants from the hemp and tobacco districts of Kentucky, Virginia, and Tennessee. Today, the region identifies with the Midwest, but because of Southerners settling there first, the pre-Civil War culture was similar to that of the Upper South. The area was known as Boonslick country.[citation needed] When the Southerners resettled in Missouri, they brought their cultural, social, agricultural, architectural, political and economic practices, including slavery. On average Missouri’s slave population was only 10 percent, but in Little Dixie, county and township slave populations ranged from 20 to 50 percent, corresponding to the concentration of large plantations along the river.

While definitions of the counties included in Little Dixie vary, in 1860 the following counties had plantations and populations with proportions of slaves of 25 percent or more: Callaway, Boone, Howard, Saline, Chariton, Lafayette and Clay. The only other county of the state where the enslaved population was as high in 1860 was New Madrid in the southeast, devoted to cotton plantations along the Mississippi River.[1]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Dixie_(Missouri)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. It's that way nationally. A simple Sunday drive for some produce? Meet the cast of Deliverance.

[tooeyeten]

21. Mr. Managing editor

While disregarding the outrage and justifying the overt racism instead as provocative in nature, would be considered a nincompoop.

[bullwinkle428]

23. Ugh - looks like the kind of shit I'd find at Stormfront.

[Warpy]

26. "I have never been a racist but.." means you're a racist, Janice.

Elwood, honey, your memory has failed you.

Dale, ever consider that anyone who calls other human beings "animals" might be the one who belongs in a cage? At least you're a bigot right out in the open.

I wish I could say these yahoos were confined to St. Louis. Unfortunately, they're with us every day. Of the three, Janice is the most pathetic. She might lie to herself but she doesn't fool anybody else out there.

[DonCoquixote]

28. The scary thing is

The ones that have the SS tattoos are potentially less harmful then the ones like Janice, because they will be sneaky, and not stab you until just the right moment.

[Scuba]

29. Holy fuck, that's soooo blatant. Only a racist would allow it to be published.

[Rex]

32. WOW.