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Posted on 07/19/2004 6:30:20 AM PDT by mhking
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To: National Desk
Contact: David Almasi of The National Center for Public Policy Research, 202-371-1400, ext. 106 or Project21@nationalcenter.org
WASHINGTON, July 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Because of the racially-insensitive content of a recent cartoon, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are asking Universal Press Syndicate to cease the distribution of comics drawn by Ted Rall. Project 21 also is challenging several other civil rights-oriented groups to join in the demand.
A July 1 comic by Rall suggests "appropriate punishments for deposed Bushists" that parodies alleged treatment of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison. The panel featuring Bush Administration national security advisor Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) has her saying "I was Bush's beard! His house nigga. His" She is interrupted by a character wearing a shirt reading "You're not white, stupid" who says, "Now hand over your hair straightener."
"Is it OK for Ted Rall to use such vile language because he's using it against a black conservative?" asks Project 21 member Michael King. "I'm beside myself with anger over this comic."
Project 21 is asking Universal Press Syndicate, the distributor of Rall's comics, to immediately terminate their relationship with him. Project 21 is also asking the NAACP, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to make similar demands based on their past involvement in pressuring ESPN to fire radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh in 2003.
Last year, in his capacity as a football commentator for ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown," Limbaugh criticized the performance of Philadelphia Eagle's quarterback Donovan McNabb, saying, "The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." Afterwards, NAACP president and CEO Kweisi Mfume called Limbaugh's comments "bigoted and arrogant" and called for his removal. The NABJ demanded ESPN "separate itself" from Limbaugh. Rainbow/PUSH Coalition president Jesse Jackson called the remarks "not accurate andinsulting." Limbaugh later resigned.
"From radical poet Amiri Baraka to singer Harry Belafonte and now cartoonist Ted Rall, too many people feel they have free rein to insult the dignity of Condoleezza Rice and have no problem injecting race into that abuse," adds King. "It's time for the civil rights establishment to stop allowing this assault on an accomplished black woman or they put their credibility at risk."
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Project 21, a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization, has been a leading voice of the African-American community since 1992. For more information, contact David Almasi at 202-371-1400, ext. 106, e-mail: Project21@nationalcenter.org or visit Project 21's Web site: http://www.project21.org/P21Index.html online.
At the same time, the silence over this from the "Soul Patrol" is deafening.
Because of the racially-insensitive content of a recent cartoon, members of the African-American leadership network Project 21 are asking Universal Press Syndicate to cease the distribution of comics drawn by Ted Rall. Project 21 also is challenging several other civil rights-oriented groups to join in the demand.Is it OK for Rall to do this because Rice is a conservative black person? You know as well as I do that if Rall had used the same term to describe Jesse Jackson or Sheila Jackson-Lee or some other member of the Soul Patrol that there would be such an uproar that Universal Press would have yanked everything that Rall had done. Not only that, but Rall would be publicly excoriated and virtually excomunicated from the entirity of Western culture.A July 1 comic by Rall suggests "appropriate punishments for deposed Bushists" that parodies alleged treatment of Iraqi detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison. The panel featuring Bush Administration national security advisor Condoleezza Rice has her saying "I was Bush's beard! His house nigga. His" She is interrupted by a character wearing a shirt reading "You're not white, stupid" who says, "Now hand over your hair straightener."
"Is it OK for Ted Rall to use such vile language because he's using it against a black conservative?" asks Project 21 member Michael King. "I'm beside myself with anger over this comic."
Project 21 is asking Universal Press Syndicate, the distributor of Rall's comics, to immediately terminate their relationship with him. Project 21 is also asking the NAACP, the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) and the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition to make similar demands based on their past involvement in pressuring ESPN to fire radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh in 2003.
Last year, in his capacity as a football commentator for ESPN's "Sunday NFL Countdown," Limbaugh criticized the performance of Philadelphia Eagle's quarterback Donovan McNabb, saying, "The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well." Afterwards, NAACP president and CEO Kweisi Mfume called Limbaugh's comments "bigoted and arrogant" and called for his removal. The NABJ demanded ESPN "separate itself" from Limbaugh. Rainbow/PUSH Coalition president Jesse Jackson called the remarks "not accurate andinsulting." Limbaugh later resigned.
"From radical poet Amiri Baraka to singer Harry Belafonte and now cartoonist Ted Rall, too many people feel they have free rein to insult the dignity of Condoleezza Rice and have no problem injecting race into that abuse," adds King. "It's time for the civil rights establishment to stop allowing this assault on an accomplished black woman or they put their credibility at risk."
So what's the difference?
What makes it right here and wrong at any other point?
If I get no reply -- or worse yet, a negative reply from the NAACP, Rainbow/PUSH and the NABJ, then, at least as far as I'm concerned, they will have shown their true agenda to the world: that if one is black and conservative, that we are to be treated as blacks were treated at the beginning of last century. That we are lower than human. And that it is OK to treat us in such a fashion.
I, for one, won't take it lying down. Will you?
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This organization sounds like a "true" civil rights group, not a branch of the Democratic Party.
He is a disgusting person (Rall) who also denigrated Pat Tillman and Ronald Reagan. How Awful.
You're spot on, MHK. Nail him to a board. But don't expect any help from the bigoted, race-pimps in those organizations. They know what side of their "DNC-issued Bread", is buttered on.
Is Rall white or black?
That's what I thought ever since I first caught mhking on Hannity & Colmes.
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He's white.
White, male, sexual orientation unknown.
Bravo,sir! Give 'em hell!
Ted Rall is completely disgusting and unredeemable. If nothing else, his contempt for conservatives has allowed his true self to show through. The left has certain roles for people laid out in their minds.
How dare a person of color stray from their position in society and away from the government programs set up to control them...
Mike, I hope you can expose this POS for what he is.
Kudos to you Michael, for fighting this hate campaign against Ms. Rice.
Good for you, mhking.
Makes it clear, though, doesn't it? It is not white vs. black. It is liberals hating conservatives. And I do not use the word "hating" lightly.
When people are losing their power and control, they are downright scary. This holds true for individuals and for groups as well.
Keep up the good fight, mhking.
Not only is he abusive to a gratuitous extreme, he's also a crappy cartoonist. I've seen kids do better artwork than this.
Does he get paid to do this stuff?
Kudos, Mike! We're all proud of you.
Dr. Rice is an inspiration to me.
That cartoon is vile and hateful and had a conservative written something like that about a black liberal, it would be all over the news.
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