Jug Ears

This is the work of Gary Brookins of the Richmond Times-Dispatch (RTD). He is also the artist responsible for comic strip named "Shoe".

For the most part I enjoy Brookin's artwork, but in this case if drawn to proportion, Obama's ears would be sticking out of the bag too.

While visiting the newspaper's home page I read a story related to the cartoon. RTD columnist, Michael Paul Williams, has offered the column titled "Remarks of ex-pastor ring true". This is mainly a article which gives perspective to the remarks of Pastor Wright from the perspective of a black American.

His remark about the government inventing HIV as a means of genocide against people of color screams for proof. But such statements resonate in a community hard-hit by AIDS and mindful of a Tuskegee Experiment that left black men with syphilis untreated.

A tempered statement and by no means polarizing. Williams hits upon a tone that is surely present but misguidedly entrenched in a period that has past and whose behaviour is repudiated by all mainstream citizens. The fact that past misdeeds occurred is regrettable but buys no entitlement to or from future generations. Some black theologians provide disservice to their followers be perpetuating the myth that white Americans are their enemy. I understand that a great deal of this resentment grows from poverty, but poverty is overcome every day by those who pull themselves into the mainstream.