End of week roundup
Are you all Obama'd out? Some of us apparently aren't, it wouldn't surprise me to see Newsworld reruns of the orgasmic Obamathon that ran all day yesterday. It's a wonder that Peter Mansbridge can even stand up after all the reporting that wet dreams are made of. I even had a friend admit to me that they watched it all day. Somewhat like the fellow who I met one Spring who had put on a few pounds over the Winter. "The Gulf War was on TV and I had the wife bring me the food it was so gripping" What did we do before TV?
For a mixed reaction to Yesterday look here
Joh Ivison of the National Post takes a look at yesterday's Obamathon with a typically NP eye. But, the entertaining part of his commentary, as usual, is the collection of comments under the article. A few good reference to the relationship between John Lennon and Ringo Starr.
Finally a touch of sanity in all of thus gushing over-reaction to normal people doing extraordinary things. A story about the first cop on the scene at a crash on the 400 yesterday. The TO Star story is here but the bit I really liked was the quote from that cop - Sgt. Dave Woodford. "While his actions appeared heroic, Woodford firmly dismissed such praise."A hero?" he said. "Absolutely not. We're trained to do these things. It's part of the job. It's what policing is all about."I'm not a hero. Jeez, I hate that," he added. "Hopefully we did enough to save his life. We waited what seemed like forever for the ambulance to come, but it wasn't. It came quickly, but in those situations, it can feel like forever.""
This I don't understand
There has been a furor about a published cartoon in the NY Post copied here. Black people and those on the left are going nuts about its racist undertones and implication. Here is an article by a Psychology Professor that puts the reasoning in some psycho-babble context. Basically I read it to mean that subconsciously black americans are haunted by the man-ape comparison. Strange for a 21st Century society of well-educated people. Obviously they all may have super large inferiority complexes!
For a mixed reaction to Yesterday look here
Joh Ivison of the National Post takes a look at yesterday's Obamathon with a typically NP eye. But, the entertaining part of his commentary, as usual, is the collection of comments under the article. A few good reference to the relationship between John Lennon and Ringo Starr.
Finally a touch of sanity in all of thus gushing over-reaction to normal people doing extraordinary things. A story about the first cop on the scene at a crash on the 400 yesterday. The TO Star story is here but the bit I really liked was the quote from that cop - Sgt. Dave Woodford. "While his actions appeared heroic, Woodford firmly dismissed such praise."A hero?" he said. "Absolutely not. We're trained to do these things. It's part of the job. It's what policing is all about."I'm not a hero. Jeez, I hate that," he added. "Hopefully we did enough to save his life. We waited what seemed like forever for the ambulance to come, but it wasn't. It came quickly, but in those situations, it can feel like forever.""
This I don't understand
There has been a furor about a published cartoon in the NY Post copied here. Black people and those on the left are going nuts about its racist undertones and implication. Here is an article by a Psychology Professor that puts the reasoning in some psycho-babble context. Basically I read it to mean that subconsciously black americans are haunted by the man-ape comparison. Strange for a 21st Century society of well-educated people. Obviously they all may have super large inferiority complexes!
2 comments:
Am quite surprised that nobody has an opinion about this; when I first saw this cartoon I was terribly shocked and knew immediately that Obama was the ape. Since I got over that I've been trying to figure out if that is what was intended, since I'd prefer to think I got it wrong.
In conversation with the writer of this blog, he said he didn't leap to that conclusion himself because he didn't make the connection between blacks and monkeys/apes. We thought perhaps that was because, growing up in England, that odious connection was not part of the national consciousness the way it has been in North America.
It certainly was part of the consciousness here, even outside the USA. Thinking it was an age related phenom, I asked my 30-something son about it, and he told me he certainly saw it the same was I did, without hesitation, so he feels it too. He assured me he is well aware of this perceived connection in spite of growing up in a more enlightened time than me.
I guess after spending last Thursday watching Obama in Ottawa this cartoon just jolted me back into grim reality where a major New York newspaper would publish this trash.
I am afraid for him and his family.
DJO
I suppose if the ape were an albino that would be more acceptable. But then again, I am not a member of the uber-sensitive class, being a pure-bred WASP myself, and just to make it worse, I'm a straight male.
People like me are the root cause of colonialism, imperialism, racism, sexism, and ism after ism after ism. And I have an attitude problem.
I suppose I could get upset that killers are always portrayed as white males. And white males are always portrayed as a dufus in tv commercials.
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