The Truth About the Monkey Business
6 03 2009The Page Six cartoon – caricaturing the police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut – has created considerable controversy. The cartoon shows two police officers standing over the chimp’s body: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill,” one officer says.
More recently, a photo emerged, taken from a window display at a Georgia bookstore. It shows several books featuring Barack and Michelle Obama, and then shows another book, positioned squarely in the center of the display, that features a monkey.
While this demonstrates the undercurrent of racism in the collective consciousness, what is less apparent is how race and racism operate predominately at the subconscious level, which in many respects, makes it more insidious, less apparent and, seemingly insolvable.
It seems insolvable because no one has addressed the real, underlying issue: cultural conditioning.
There is a tool called the Implicit Association Test or the IAT. The Race Test measures unconscious or automatic associations of “good” and “bad” with Black and White people.
Continue reading Veronica’s post at Huffington Post.
We have been dealing with this childish behavior every since we were brought here. They are projecting on to us their own fears and insecurities. I understand them now more than every before.
To emulate and understand Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the UNIA organization is the seed to our redemption. We can’t change them but we can change our thinking, behavior and strategy: so that we might enjoy a better life!
I know I am a leader with Vision and a Strategy, there are just no organization or followers to implement our liberation. We are running around like chickens with our heads cut off! A lot of talk, but no self-determined strategy!
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Primate in Chief: A Guide to Racist Barack Obama Monkey Photoshops
Anyone who has been on the real Internet knows that the Obama-as-ape Photoshop actually predates the mainstream talk about his birth certificate. How prevalent is it? Very. Here’s a collection of artwork depicting the nation’s first-ever African American president as a primate, which builds on a long history of various racist Obama caricatures.
See the photo of Barack Obama Money on http://www.imageshumor.com/political/p1259-barack-obama-monkey-humor-the-president-of-the-united-stateshumor.html
A perfect example of the argument in action is the post accompanying the above “Primate in Chief” image. It’s the kind of reasoning commonly employed in the online political debat.