HOME  |  CARTOON ARCHIVE 1  |  CARTOON ARCHIVE 2  |  EMAIL  | STORE  | BIO

Sunday, January 04, 2004

Strom Thurmond's daughter: a few good cartoons

(OK, I know I'm a bit behind on this, but bear with me, I had pneumonia). Most of the cartoons about the (gasp) revelation that segregationist Senator Strom was the father of a black daughter, Essie Mae Washington-Williams, said little more than Strom=hypocrite. Few journalists went near the r word (though the young black woman in question was 16 at the time and working as a maid in Thurmond's house)--but the Boondocks doesn't shy away. After all, this was a time in the South when black women had little to no protection from white male desire, while a black man who allegedly so much as glanced at a white woman could find himself hanging from the nearest tree branch--as Jeff Danziger so eloquently reminds us.

posted by Mikhaela Reid at 12:35 AM

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]

<< Home

RANDOM CARTOON

www.flickr.com

"Mikhaela Reid's cartoons are right *$%@ing on."
--Alison Bechdel

"Mikhaela Reid rocks!! She's where i steal most of my ideas from!!"
--Keith Knight

EMAIL NEWSLETTER

Previous Posts

  • New Cartoon! Great Resolve Yeah, so after t...
  • Sigh... How can I be silent when there are so m...
  • 7-year-old disciplined for talking about his famil...
  • New Cartoon!: 440 Who Missed the Photo Op... I ...
  • The big decision: Same-sex marriage in Massachuset...
  • Newspapers finally report all U.S. military deaths...
  • Editorial cartoonist Kirk Anderson has a website.....
  • Cartoon fun with racist stereotypes in space ...a...
  • Six Months since Bush's Top Gun photo op......it's...
  • I'm still here, and have been cartooning... ......
Google

Powered by Blogger

Subscribe to
Posts [Atom]

View mobile version

Add to Technorati Favorites