New York Times Political Cartoon

[damyanti]

Was he trying to be racist? I don't know, and no one but the cartoonist knows, either. And what if the cartoonist is black himself? Does that still make the cartoon racist?

Was he trying to be racist? I answered that in a post above. But being a racist/holding prejudices is not exclusive to the "white" and holding negative racist prejudices towards "one's own" is scarily common.

In fact, just as a point of interest, how many people here actually saw that cartoon when it was initially published, and how many didn't see it until after all the noise started and the accusations of racism were thrown around?

I saw it before "accusations of racism were thrown around" and it was pretty clear to me.