'Satirical' Obama Cover Stirs Controversy

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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

he is your atypical BLACK candidate

We haven't had enough black candidates to have a "typical" one.

They've observed enough black people to have their perception of a "typical black person." That perception is what resonates in every aspect of society, including the political realm. That's what all this stuff is really based on. Not politics.

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

In essence, it misses the point of why the thinking and intelligent person, who sees past the surface wouldn't want him for president, but it hits the point why the fear mongerers and bottom dwellers don't want him for president.

The "fear mongerers and bottom dwellers" are actually not that different than the thinking and intelligent person when we're talking about race. Sometimes they are all one in the same. "Fear mongerer and bottom dweller" aren't exclusive to a particular social class, education level, or political party.

None of it is an irrational (meaning, anger and hatred driven for no explanable reason) response. It's all based on group position and threat of the unknown. Afterall, we're really talking about race dynamics and not politics. If we were talking about politics, the stereotypes of Obama as an unabashing Liberal who will take your tax dollars would've been used and not the stereotypes of Obama as a terrorist and Michelle as some militant/domestic terrorist? (black) woman. The New Yorker folks were doing a satire of individual and cultural perceptions.

(As for the cover itself, I'm unmoved and uninterested. But I don't have to be moved or particularly interested to see what is going on here with American and what The New Yorker folks were commenting on.)