Comments on: The Great Divide

By: BULLDOG

BULLDOG — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:16:26 +0000

didn’t think of that one FEDUP. Now there’s the best choice!!!

By: Fedup

Fedup — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:15:57 +0000

I also voted for the lesser of the 2 evils. I voted for Jesus Christ! He was my write in Candidate.

By: BULLDOG

BULLDOG — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:23:58 +0000

It depends on who that alternative is DebS. I do tend to vote Republican more than Democrat but being an independent i went Democrat this time. If there was a BETTER candidate
than Obama yes i would have voted for someone other than Obama. For instance i don’t like Obama or McCain but i figured Obama was the lesser of 2 evils. Had Mitt Romney been the Republican candidate i would have voted for him.
I don’t like anyone to far to the left(Obama) or anyone to
far to the right. Somewhere in the middle is what i go for
but they are hard to find. as far as money in school districts you do have a point. However, I think it goes back
to how a child is brought up and has nothing to do with money. What can i say you have your opinion and i have mine. Have a happy Thanksgiving which is a great American
holiday. I think we both agree on that.

By: DebS

DebS — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:34:18 +0000

Bulldog:

I’ll respect you enough to say: 1) I believe you’re saying what you think, not being obnoxious just because you can be anonymous on the internet, 2) racism isn’t a matter of agreeing or disagreeing w/you, if you espouse racist sentiments, the shoe fits, & you gotta wear it.

To me: sending kids to 1 school system or the other means 1 of them has more money for good teachers, good class size, good text books, etc. If the other system has broken down buildings, no ball fields, threadbare books, etc, you can bet the system’s got no $$$. It all boils down to MONEY, not intelligence or skin color. Black vs. white, Scarsdale vs. Mt. Vernon? Drive around Scarsdale & find black kids doing well in good schools. Drive around Mt.V & find white kids doing badly in apparently rotten ones. MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.

I’d never walk around alone ANYWHERE @ 2:00AM. I’d avoid a group of 10 kids, period. Nowadays, I think kids should have to wear colored jumpsuits (like prisoners) so you know from far away what’s up ahead. Have you ever been to a mall (yeah, upscale too) where kids know how to BEHAVE? The City Center in White P. has had so much trouble w/this stuff it has posted rules about the behavior they won’t stand for.

Lastly, Obama got 2x as many electoral votes as McCain & more than half the popular vote. You’re 1 in a really big group of voters who just chose the better guy.

Got a ? for you: if you’d had a better alternative than McCain, would you still have gone for Obama?

By: BULLDOG

BULLDOG — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:53:16 +0000

What’s not to understand Debs? Would you rather send your
kids to Mt. Vernon High School or Scarsdale High school?
If you were walking down Central Ave at 2:00 AM and there
were 10 white kids walking on one side and 10 black kids walking on the other, which side would you rather be on?
i think i know which choices i would make. You can disagree
all you want but my statement stands. Oh yea please don’t call me a racist either because i have an opinion different
than yours. I get along with all people and i voted for Obama.

By: DebS

DebS — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:15:06 +0000

BULLDOG
Would you consider elaborating on what you said, “Stereotypes are
not a good thing but they do come about for a reason.”? I’m afraid I don’t understand.

For me to say present-day African-Americans walk in the shoes of slaves is the same as saying “Don’t talk the talk if you can’t walk the walk.” White Americans, I believe, cannot fathom what it means to be black. Who among us would trade our (my) white skin for that of a black American’s? I KNOW I simply can’t comprehend how African-Americans deal w/bigotry or a history that contrasts so starkly w/that of my forebears whose names probably show up in the logs @ Ellis Island.

Matt, do black Americans share our assumption that in your words, “What is sacred is that the words embody the idea that democracy would one day include all of us equally.”?

What would Herb Pinder say, I wonder, if you asked him whether even Barack Obama’s enormous achievement means that black Americans have finally reached the promised land?

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 01:40:47 +0000

I don’t agree with your editor. I think the line is the right one. You didn’t use it to belittle the concept of overcoming racism, but to expand upon it. And to expand upon it, as you said, in the same way that Barack does—to include all of us. Great cartoon.

By: Matt Davies

Matt Davies — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:45:39 +0000

Subito,
No need. Did a whole new cartoon on the odious Prop 8.

By: Subito Katz

Subito Katz — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 09:33:45 +0000

Another very timely cartoon, indeed.

Please also consider posting something unusual for you. A repeat of the SAME artwork, but with one sign: “Real Americans”, and the other: “LGBT”, rest stet.

(Variations on a theme…)

By: Lord Baltimore

Lord Baltimore — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:53:23 +0000

hope: well said.