SS Pride
Bob McDonnell doesn't care about black people. But he's a conservative so that shouldn't come as a surprise.
The GOP seems more invested in the Civil War than the Confederate Tchotchke Industrial Complex that makes all those dumb ass bumper stickers for hillbillies. 150 years after the Civil War ended slavery, Governors of former slave states don't forget to mention it while proclaiming "awareness" of the Civil War. It's done on purpose as one part of the larger GOP strategy: convincing the most privileged class of human beings on earth - White Americans - that they are actually part of a minority that has been horribly wronged for centuries.
Pat Buchanan, MSNBC's senior political racist, was getting fired up about the slavery-ending war on Hardball. Buchanan, a war crime apologist for any atrocity ever committed against a brown person, calls General Sherman the "great terrorist" of the Civil War for all the pillaging he did. This is the type of person who says black people need to get over the past.
Pat "Both Sides Were Right" Buchanan also writes: "Slavery was not the cause of this war. Secession was..." Logic 101, Pat. Why were they seceding? For fun?
Wednesday: Tiger Awareness Month
posted by Matt Bors at
2:22 AM
6 Comments:
Great comic. I once saw Amiri Baraka mock the Dukes of Hazard along the same lines. "Would the German Duke boys drive around with a Swastika on the General Lee?"
The big difference is that Germans feel shame about all this.
Gotta love that little zoom panel/eye pop thing there in the bottom row (does this have a technical name?). That's some fine cartoonin'.
Hilarious as always, but it'd be great if the first sentence "McDonell doesn't care about black people" could be a hyperlink to the most relevant news piece on his confederacy month proclamation and subsequent apology (for people like me who get the news through you and are confused of context until they google the topic in question).
Cole - I agonized over whether or not to include it. I defer to Wayne and Garth on the term: "Extreme Close Up! Whoooaaaa!"
MC N - Sorry, but this one was a big issue on most news outlets so I thought everyone knew.
Amen to that, MC Nedelsky.
Anyway, this strip was as well-drawn as it was convincing.
I consider the fact that Pat Buchanan is paid huge sums to spew his hate –– rather than being locked in a bamboo cage –– to be one of the signs that our society is well and truly fucked.
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