If you ever needed a reason to hate the Right wing, this could be the tipping point.....

[DainBramaged]

Conservative Paper Invokes Lynching In Anti-Sharpton Editorial Cartoon






Conservative magazine National Review Online also ran the piece as its “Cartoon of the Day.”

Crown Heights, Freddie’s Fashion Mart, and the Tawana Brawley hoax are all cases that Sharpton was deeply involved in. And all three turned out to be somewhat disastrous — a riot in Crown Heights, a shooting at Freddie’s, and a false rape accusation by Tawana Brawley. But while it’s totally acceptable for the cartoonist to take issue with Sharpton and the controversies in which he’s been involved, this cartoonist instead chose to invoke a racially-motivated crime that killed nearly 5,000 Black people in the 19th and 20th centuries. What’s more, two major conservative publications decided to run it.

IBD has a long history of questionable editorial decisions. During the legislative fight over the Affordable Care Act, for example, IBD published an editorial claiming that “[p]eople such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.” Hawking was born in Oxford, England — which is located in the U.K. He is now a professor at the University of Cambridge — which is also located in the U.K.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/07/22/2334351/website-invokes-lynching-in-anti-sharpton-editorial-cartoon/?mobile=nc

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Do I need to do this

But DainBramaged - that's not a racist image. Don't you know - EVERYONE was subject to lyching and well - my cousins brother's nephew's twice removed great great Uncle was shot at in the Civil War by Union Soldiers so no racism towards black people specifically in America exists today.

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Ahem - I'm not shocked or outraged by this. Boring. Blah. Same old. Same old. And this is America.

[Township75]

2. That does piss me off. Hangings/lynchings are OUR cartoons!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023309580

Maybe both sides should stay away from using that.

[Scuba]

3. American conservative's relentless search for the bottom continues.

[n2doc]

4. That's not the only one

I've seen others along the same theme. Also a despicable one today with Obama as a KKK member (!!!!) and a flaming cross with "zimmerman trial" on it.

Just copying old Clarence Thomas' deflection strategy.

[Dash87]

5. Describing this as tasteless would be

the world's greatest understatement.

[OneGrassRoot]

6. I just learned that the last recorded lynching was in 1981.

[font size="+3"]1981[/font]

Michael Donald (July 24, 1961 – March 20, 1981) was a young African American man who was murdered by two Ku Klux Klan members in Mobile, Alabama, in 1981. The murder is sometimes referred to as the last recorded lynching in the United States.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Donald

[lastlib]

7. Now they do it with "Stand Your Ground" laws.......

same principle, same result in the end................