Funny how Asians always get overlooked.

In a black humor kind of way, I mean...

I mean, what the fuck can you do in response to these doofus brained public relations people who work with the police force, anyway?

Geez who is doing the stereotyping here? All the thugs must be black huh?

Actually I'd say the first guy was Hispanic.

The person in the middle is not white, sorry. The lips in all of those caricatures are large, it's highly racist imagery. Fucking "blackface" to the core.

Particularly when it's not in Google's interest to provide racist imagery. Type "hoodie male" and behold all the white people. I suspect that these results are tailored. In particular I think that outside of the baby images for your search your comment could equally apply to "cleft chins are more commonly associated with women." I do not think the person depicted is a woman!

How it turned into such a controversial thing...who knows. Its always the bad actors that spoil things.

I wonder what the ass who was stealing from Zimmerman's community thinks. I hope he feels guilty that Trayvon was mistaken for him and paid the ultimate price. Martin wasn't shot because he was black..he was shot because he was mistaken for the black guy that was robbing people.

They are Cape Verdian mostly and consider themselves Both Hispanic and Black even though they don't speak Spanish.

how can you tell from a b&w image?

Come on...am I the only one who thinks the artist was trying to do a Hispanic, White and Black male?

But certainly one of the few.

It still teaches us important things about robbery, specifically, which implements the robbers will use.

Hispanics: guns
Whites: baseball bats
Blacks: knives

It's fucking obvious. Black, white, Hispanic my ass.

Also ALL of them have kinky hair no matter the "Color" that you are implying that isn't there.

And now you're trying to make white guys out of a clearly, CLEARLY racist poster put out by the same police department that, for all the world, looks to be involved in the coverup of a murder. What gives, dkf?

To me that goes to your own stereotypes.

But I'm never surprised at what many at DU will get in a kerfluffle about.

Maybe Dolph Lundgren.

But you called me and a lot of other people racists. And I don't like that, because it's not true. The inability to see any problems with your side of any given story should probably give you pause and make you consider some things, but it won't. So I alerted on your post. And I do hope it's removed, forthwith.

Someone says oh they must all be black because they are carrying weapons and look like thugs what would you think?

I was called a racist for pointing out a racist cartoon. I guess it's opposite day here.

Do tell

Really.

It doesn't excuse the cartoon.

Isn't that odd...

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Not one of those scary swedes be wearin a hoodie.

Funny, there are rich white kids I know of in my area who have gotten into trouble with the law, including burglaries.

I'm sure the Sanford area is no different.

Rec

this is truly outrageous.

The very first picture is in color, and it's a white guy with blonde hair aiming a shotgun at a woman in a bank, and the bank manager is a black man who is sitting at a desk calling police on the phone.

I get what you are saying from this one particular picture, but taken in context of the entire pamphlet, with the main picture being as I described above, it's a bit of a leap to claim this is racist.

Frankly, there is enough room for debate as to what race any of these cartoon characters are without them being in color, but there is no debate about the one on the front page of the pamphlet.
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Blacks = made to look menacing even though there is not crime in progress.

In other words, "Whites are only suspicious the moment they start committing a crime. Blacks can be suspicious just hanging around in groups of three."

A black man is the bank manager. Bank managers tend to be involved in "high pay off crimes" in action LOL!

I do get what you are saying, but I think there is a point where you can take things so far out of context that it will support anything you argue.

I posted it with the accompanying text, noted it was on P. 2 and provided a link to the original document. To be more complete, I'd have to fax you the pages. lol

If anything is out of context it's 3 "ethnic" or non-white, disreputable looking characters holding weapons in a flyer about robbery. What is the message of that cartoon?

If you'll note, I even clipped the picture on the front of it, so I assure you, I did read it.

The only thing that would correct it would likely be to get rid of the cartoons altogether except for the one on the front page, since it's just going to cause controversy.

I'm not purposefully being obtuse, EF, and usually I agree with you. In this case, though, I think in some ways people are seeing what they want to see because of the justifiable anger at the Sanford Police Department. In any case, however, it would probably be a good PR move for them to get rid of the drawings and just leave the one on the front page.

It has nothing to do with robbery.

It is blatantly racist and would be in any context.

Because you have people with a bat, a gun and a knife. The image on the initial page looks frightening and violent, too, and it's a blonde man with a gun.

If you draw people with guns and knives, it looks violent, but that doesn't mean that the drawing on the second page was exclusively of minorities, anymore than the drawing on the front page means that all white people tote shotguns and rob banks. The guy with the bat looks like a white guy to me.

*MOST* of the bank robberies around here have been committed by white men, and we've had several. Am I to assume as someone else suggested that it's less violent to put a gun to someone's head in a bank than it is to put a gun to someone's head in a convenience store?

It doesn't matter that it's not on the cover. That's just passive aggressive racism, like so much of what happens in this country.

the racism in that image isn't even subtle, isn't even up for debate, imo.

Move over. I need to join you as I

and, on top of that, it seems we are racists for pointing out the racism. Appalling on so many levels.

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kelly's assets are in the way. lol.

You know, sort of make "The Onion" version of it?

I have been sorely tempted.