tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32402245.post3247772968533890699..comments2023-09-25T07:44:17.471-04:00Comments on The Editorialiste: Don't Snitch, Times-Union: Race Lessons Learned From "A Good Little Ho"Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13684537013120858057noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32402245.post-18432738109324250092007-09-07T15:58:00.000-04:002007-09-07T15:58:00.000-04:00@kay: Thanks so much for commenting. Your words ar...@kay: Thanks so much for commenting. Your words are relevant for your passion and your local knowledge.<BR/><BR/>I can agree that the problem is bad. But I don't imagine how "that's a good little ho" could contribute to the seriousness of the problem. Using the subject as a topic for a cartoon was raw, cutting and harsh -- was it just me or did the "good little ho" line just come off as an artistic flourish? <BR/><BR/>I'm right there with the next person (and you) about not filtering art. So in principle, I'm with you. If the artist planned on receiving outrage, fine. But if he was surprised to have to defend himself, he should have thought about how "ho" is interpreted post-Imus.<BR/><BR/>I personally didn't find it to be an egregious cartoon. But I'm just one voice -- one who happens to live by public housing in Brooklyn.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Thanks so much for commenting and please keep reading and doing so,<BR/>The Editorialiste.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13684537013120858057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32402245.post-23860532501252727752007-08-31T23:15:00.000-04:002007-08-31T23:15:00.000-04:00I really don't think he did--I think he meant it t...I really don't think he did--I think he meant it to be raw, cutting and harsh.<BR/><BR/>Here's why. We've had at least half a dozen children killed in our city where the T-U is published, one of them in her bedroom, a 13-year-old, reading a book. Her assailant was a trigger-happy stranger.<BR/><BR/>In Jax, the majority of these murders occur in a geographic area on the Northside (not a sic; we cap and connect the areas of the city here for reasons I don't fathom.)<BR/><BR/>In these areas, there is a culture of fear and anger towards authorities. I'll leave it to you to come up with imaginative reasons for it. I can hear the choir singing 'poverty' now.<BR/><BR/>But the fact is children are dying and many are young men, most of them young, black men.<BR/><BR/>You'd really need to be familiar with the area perhaps to understand the city's frustration. Cops are frustrated because people won't testify. Why? They're scared as hell. Why? Check out myflorida.com for the lists of gangs here and you'll get an idea.<BR/><BR/>Even if you discount everything I've told you, the cartoonist came up with his artistic rendering of a social situation. That it is politically incorrect is often the case with art. You can make a subjective decision about the worth of the cartoon, but I'd give it a 10. He told it like it is, despite the criticism he surely knew would follow.<BR/><BR/>This isn't just a problem in Jax--remember the African-American teen killed on a street corner in L.A.? And the teens in Newark? Nobody talks, there's no justice.<BR/><BR/>The minute you start filtering art, you erode the freedom of speech distinguishing our nation from most others in the world.<BR/><BR/>Regarding language and stereotypes, bear in mind I support all artists in their right to express their ideas regardless of how I feel. Even gangsta' rappers and even Carson McCullers, who wrote a beautiful story no longer included in high school English studies because, you guessed it, it's politically incorrect, a sign of the sophistic indigination of our times, a sign of the abandonment of common sense.<BR/><BR/>best to you, Kay Day<BR/><BR/>P.S. I write for newspapers as a freelancer, so consider this a disclosure completely unrelated to my passion about the subject at hand.Kay Dayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18275071321640008940noreply@blogger.com