Political cartoons can be a lot of fun. One of my favorite teachers in high school would present us with several of them once a week and since we were high-school students who didn't exactly pay a great deal of attention to current events, we normally didn't have any idea what they were referring to. For the most part, once they were explained to us they were pretty amusing, which is kind of the idea I suppose.
However, every now and then someone pulls a Kathy Griffin and goes a bit too far with it, and that is exactly what has happened recently when people on the left once again try to race-bait with their dubbing of anything that is politically divided into a race thing.
If this was just some random-ass person doing something a bit naughty that wouldn't be so bad. There are terrible people out there in case you hadn't noticed. However, this was published and broadcast by one of North Carolina's most prominent state-wide news stations and thankfully, they are receiving some pretty heavy backlash from it. A great deal of it is coming from the state's Lt. Governor Mark Robinson, who is a Republican and here is a picture of him.
I don't know if you know anything about the KKK, I know very little, but they tend to not let black guys be a part of whatever they are doing. Also, the KKK reference is a really stupid one that people keep using seeing as how they barely exist as an organization these days.
This all stems from something so ludicrous that I can't believe that it is even being discussed by the NC school board. They want to wipe out certain aspects of history class because it is considered "divisive" and "lack a unifying American spirit".... whatever the hell that means.
Basically, they want to re-write history and glance over certain things or not talk about them at all. I seem to remember a big case like this that happened a long time ago and it was seeking to ban evolution from being taught in schools.
Is 1984 really happening right now? Is Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 happening right now? I realize this is not an actual book-burning but it is a figurative one in that this school board is seeking to eliminate parts of history that they don't want kids to know.
When someone in a political position receives opposition from this it seems the first thing that the left will attempt to do is call the other side racist. It's getting old folks, and I am happy that our black Lt. Governor is standing up to this nonsense. The race card has been overplayed to the point where calling someone racist doesn't even mean anything anymore and this is not just true in North Carolina.