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06-08-2004, 12:14 PM
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Isn't a comic strip suppose to make u laugh...I'm not laughing
Have no words to describe how I felt when I read this...
What do you guys think
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06-08-2004, 12:32 PM
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Shouldn't that be in the reverse? 
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06-08-2004, 12:47 PM
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I think that the cartoon is insulting people who always question minority achievements- it's never on our own merit, they can always find another reason to doubt us. At least that is what I got out of it.
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06-08-2004, 12:49 PM
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Originally posted by lovelyivy84
I think that the cartoon is insulting people who always question minority achievements- it's never on our own merit, they can always find another reason to doubt us. At least that is what I got out of it.
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I also got that out of it. Really, it's a matter of interpretation.
And sometimes comic strips, depending on the reader's POV, aren't meant to make people laugh. Sure that the Boondocks or Mallard Filmore aren't that funny to people who have opposing views to the creators.
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06-08-2004, 12:58 PM
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I think it is a matter of interpretation. My feeling is that "they" have helped each other SINCE THE BEGINNING and the "helping" that we do do (lol)does not amount to their own hand-ups and hand-outs. That's why I say that strip should be in the reverse.
For we know or have heard about the "crabs in the barrel".
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06-08-2004, 01:05 PM
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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
Shouldn't that be in the reverse?
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 Exactly. Where is this from?
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06-08-2004, 06:04 PM
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Reverse...
I think it's kind of a "reverse racism" satire (i.e., you minorities are always saying this, so I'm going to turn the tables).
Definitely not meant to be "ha-ha" funny.
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06-08-2004, 10:13 PM
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That cartoonist is Hispanic--the strip is about a Latino family.
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06-09-2004, 01:14 AM
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Thanks for the info!
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Originally posted by carnation
That cartoonist is Hispanic--the strip is about a Latino family.
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See, that is why we shouldn't take things out of context. That info makes a big difference especially since I couldn't tell what "minority" Baldo was. But evenso I also took it as satirical.
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06-09-2004, 11:46 AM
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Thanks, Carnation.
Yes, Carnation, thanks for the info. Although it doesn't change the satire, it does change what I think his viewpoint is.
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06-09-2004, 01:33 PM
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Originally posted by Steeltrap
I also got that out of it. Really, it's a matter of interpretation.
And sometimes comic strips, depending on the reader's POV, aren't meant to make people laugh. Sure that the Boondocks or Mallard Filmore aren't that funny to people who have opposing views to the creators.
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Very true..cause I have yet to find a boondocks comic entertaining 
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06-09-2004, 01:40 PM
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Originally posted by Love_Spell_6
Very true..cause I have yet to find a boondocks comic entertaining
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Now you better duck, but then again, you're used to being the lightning rod. 
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06-09-2004, 01:46 PM
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Now you better duck, but then again, you're used to being the lightning rod.
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You know it!  
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06-09-2004, 01:48 PM
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Now you better duck, but then again, you're used to being the lightning rod.
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Right! I personally love the Boondocks. But, even I don't agree with everything he says (the political ones).
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06-09-2004, 08:05 PM
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Originally posted by AKA2D '91
Shouldn't that be in the reverse?
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I second that, or third it, whatever u get the point.
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