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KKK-Themed Cartoon Stirs Emotions in Philadelphia
Editor & Publisher ^ | 12/1/05 | E&P Staff

Posted on 12/01/2005 12:17:09 PM PST by LdSentinal

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To: Dems_R_Losers

I can't remember if it was the Daily news or the Inquirer .. but a couple years back they printed a list of the top criminals in Philly .. most of whom were black

The paper rec'd a lot of flack for that


21 posted on 12/01/2005 1:24:22 PM PST by Mo1 (Message to Democrats .... We do not surrender and run from a fight !!)
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To: Shalom Israel
So we can clearly see part of Philly's problem: their police commissioner is a moronic boob who can't comprehend simple English. (Hint to Mr. Sylvester: did the cartoon actually compare black youths to KKK members? In your own words, what was the cartoon really saying?)

Mr. Sylvester isn't a moron, he is a liar. Lies are more acceptable than the truth if the truth is something they would rather not acknowledge. It is precisely like the ABC reporting on the riots in Ohio a couple of months ago when they reported that white supremacists were rioting.

The politician or the news network doesn't expect to fool anyone with their lies anymore. They want people to love them because they are willing to tell it how their audience or constituents wish or prefer it to be rather than how it is.

22 posted on 12/01/2005 1:34:43 PM PST by Jim_Curtis (Torture works)
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To: LdSentinal
Using the Klan as a tool of intended satire is beyond tasteless, it's offensive.

Good! It should be offensive! Your blind A** needs to wake up!

Ms. Wilkinson would better use her considerable talent to depict why the Pennsylvania legislature insists on keeping gun laws that make murder easy

How many of those men legally had a gun? What would this fool do about the ones who get their guns illegally? I know he wants confiscation, so let's not even pretend. But so what? This fool thinks the thugs are just gonna turn them over? He thinks the future thugs are going to NOT get guns anyway? I no longer tolerate Black fools or the garbage they say anymore.

23 posted on 12/01/2005 1:35:25 PM PST by Clock King ("How will it end?" - Emperor; "In Fire." - Kosh)
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To: Jim_Curtis
The politician or the news network doesn't expect to fool anyone with their lies anymore. They want people to love them because they are willing to tell it how their audience or constituents wish or prefer it to be rather than how it is.

That reminds me of a podcast by Hans Hoppe, in which he points out that leagues would go out of business if referees started calling according to whatever pleases the audience best. Once the people realize that the actual game-play is irrelevant, they'll go watch something else.

24 posted on 12/01/2005 1:37:12 PM PST by Shalom Israel (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
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To: LdSentinal

If one can hold their knee still long enough to understand the toon, you'll realize it's criticizing the people that are murdering each other. Remember when murderers and gangs were just bad people right off the bat?


25 posted on 12/01/2005 1:43:59 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: LdSentinal

Quick, everyone accuse the cartoonist of racism and maybe no one will notice the crime problem!


26 posted on 12/01/2005 1:44:10 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters
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To: azhenfud

Ya think they tried to spell it wrong to avoid copyrights? ;-P


28 posted on 12/01/2005 1:45:59 PM PST by sam_paine (X .................................)
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To: schaketo
White flight is at an all time high.

Can't be as bad as it was in the 1960s and 1970s when whole swaths of North and West Philly went black overnight.

Philly's main problem is that it is a HAS BEEN city. It doesn't even attract immigrants. Meanwhile, up I-95 New York thrives.

29 posted on 12/01/2005 1:50:26 PM PST by Clemenza (I am here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and I'm all out of bubblegum!)
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To: Pikamax
Ms. Wilkinson would better use her considerable talent to depict why the Pennsylvania legislature insists on keeping gun laws that make murder easy...


This is why I could never be a liberal. For the life of me, I can not understand the logic that believes making gun ownership illegal would keep criminals (by definition someone who does things that are illegal) from securing guns and using them.

If every gun in the United States was rouned up and melted down, there would still be murders in Philidelphia.

It is not guns or the ease of access to guns that the murder rate is so high. It is a group of people who has such a low value on human life they do not think twice about taking anothers life.

30 posted on 12/01/2005 1:56:08 PM PST by CIB-173RDABN
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To: Dems_R_Losers
Especially because Signe Wilkinson is an unabashedly liberal cartoonist and the Daily News a liberal paper.

Do you think the locals may stumble on the identity of the real racists in America?

31 posted on 12/01/2005 1:56:58 PM PST by Navy Patriot
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To: LdSentinal

More Americans have died from black on black murders than in Iraq


32 posted on 12/01/2005 1:58:28 PM PST by bert (K.E. ; N.P . Peta girls end up as spinsters)
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To: LdSentinal
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Sylvester Johnson was quoted in a Wednesday Daily News story as saying at a press conference: "I think the News has an obligation to be responsible. To compare the Ku Klux Klan with the young black men being killed in the city of Philadelphia is irresponsible."

What a clueless git. The point of the cartoon, obviously, is to not that the hooligan subculture in black communities is effectively on the same side as the Klan.

33 posted on 12/01/2005 2:06:09 PM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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Ms. Wilkinson would better use her considerable talent to depict why the Pennsylvania legislature insists on keeping gun laws that make murder easy

The Pennsylvania legislature has passed gun control laws to strip law-abiding citizens of their ability to defend themselves against murderers?

< JOHNNY CARSON > I did not know that. < /JOHNNY CARSON >

34 posted on 12/01/2005 2:08:16 PM PST by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: LdSentinal

The truth to sensitive, easily offended types usually causes outrage.


35 posted on 12/01/2005 2:09:16 PM PST by Rebelbase (Food stamps, section-8, State paid Child support, etc. pay more than the min. wage.)
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To: LdSentinal

The cartoon is spot on. Racist vermin like David Duke LOVE stories of black Americans murdering each other. The commenters at Duke's website were ecstatic about the reports of black-on-black violence in New Orleans and everyday b-on-b murders are a regular subject of conversation.
Their greatest joy, however, came when black communist Randall Robinson put his foot in his mouth by claiming that black folks in NOLA were so hungry and desperate they had resorted to eating the dead----after just four days. "Black cannibalism already in New Orleans, reported by a black!" they screamed.


36 posted on 12/01/2005 2:18:31 PM PST by atomic conspiracy (Islamo-terrorists: Strike force of the MSM)
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