In the very same week amid the throngs of off-key “Lift Ev’ry Voice” refrains sung during this - Black History Month - two statements that stirred controversy were made – one in direct address by our first Black Attorney General and one in a timely, yet poorly timed editorial cartoon.
“To get to the heart of this country, one must examine its racial soul,” said Attorney General Eric Holder in a speech marking Black History Month to hundreds of Justice Department employees.
Examine its racial soul, huh? What a way to take the advice and run with it, New York Post. The paper’s famed editorial cartoonist Sean Delonas sketched a bloodied chimpanzee collapsing under the bullets of two befuddled cops who say, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
Two toddlers in adjoining strollers are being pushed along a busy sidewalk by a pregnant woman in her early twenties while she holds an infant in one hand and the wrist of a rambunctious second grader singing “Go, Diego, Go” in the other.
What is her story? Where is their father? Has she not heard of birth control?
These and many more inappropriate thoughts you wouldn’t dare share with the struggling mother, but would most definitely with your girlfriends later on that day, inevitably cross your mind.
Yet, these scornful glances and critical whispers are not new for the young mother. She has been the butt of many a Comedy Central stand-up joke and PTA lecture since she decided to pop out that fourth baby while still subsisting on government cheese.
But, now, she and many others in her situation are in good comedic company as the story of one Nadya Suleman inundates our broadcast frequencies from sitcoms to school board hearings.
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A campaign to reach gay men in New York City appears offensive.
Miley Cyrus is pummelled for the alleged racy photo shoot in Vanity Fair.
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At the center of workplace, school and church controversy is social networking site, MySpace.