(as I grab a chair)

So tell me, how ARE black people being treated these days?

While you are putting your thoughts together, also keep in mind of the REAL racism that is being applied by Arab Muslims on dark-skinned Africans in the Sudan.

I feel sorry for any black person who can not draw a parallel between what’s being done to Muslims and the way black people have been and continue to be treated.

I’m not an African American but I am a Black Canadian and I can see the blatant racism in those cartoons. You don’t see the main stream media calling us niggers because it is socially unacceptable. This has nothing to do with free speech.

I guess it’s socially acceptable to degrade Muslims.

You said,ALL OF THE CARTOONS (at least the ones that I have seen)WERE AIMED DIRECTLY AT MOHAMMED. Where does the race factor enter into that fact?

Well the best way to insult any people is to attack the thing they hold closes to their hearts.

Try doing this to the Jews and see what the result will be.

Open you mind to what’s really going on.

On your first example, people were outraged because the depiction was made out of crap. I don’t recall anyone drawing the conclusion that the pile of crap also look like a black man—that is a faaaaarrrr stretch.

As far as your other examples go, you are still missing my point here. ALL OF THE CARTOONS (at least the ones that I have seen)WERE AIMED DIRECTLY AT MOHAMMED. Where does the race factor enter into that fact? While it is wrong to “make fun” of anybody’s religion, this still does not grant these radicals free reign to kill and destroy. It is the later that I am not hearing being acknowledged by those that want to make this Denmark’s fault.

Furthermore there is one crucial period we blacks can revisit in our own history to shed light on the hyprocisy of free speech in the American Media ..

Do you remember

On one occassion in brooklyn New York a former Mayor by the name of Rudolph Gullianni had removed a depiction of Jesus Christ? Let me refresh your memory.

One particular picture was singled out for having used elephant feces in its depiction. the media went ballistics learning that others like it also depicted a black man as Jesus Christ!

In the name of free speech the show lost its funding and subsquently removed by the brooklyn muesuem.

A public domain in a black community!

You do known,

similiar events have occurred regarding this so called practice of freedom of speech on American soil by its majoriative citizens?

for instance, the discontinuation of a Broadway show where Jesus is play by a black man are you reminded yet?

Its not freedom of speech its racism.

Its so simple that only the media can hide the simplicity of right and wrong.

Could you imagine the outcry if buddha or its people of china were depicted as fat slimy men holding a mc donald cheesburger? How would you feel seeing the god of your people depicted in such a fashion?

would you call that an attack on your culture or an expression of a people with good intentions?

Could you imagine Hare krishna and its mythical 2 face and eight hands holding eight condoms? How would you explain that?

Please lets not assume a position of neutrality and then point fingers if we are to be fair, we should never forget our own struggles and appreciate the awareness of unfairness no matter who it is.

The problem with this war is that its perpertrators-have travelled down a path of disrespect and refuse to acknowledge it.

In my opinion an over emphasized strategy on technological communication has devalued the compulsions of civility by means of men sitting at a table face to face and solving their problems.

drones machines and cartoons can never express fully the desires of man.

if a machine is to hae its own revenge, it is to defrock man and mangle every word of peace from its mouth.

Our country, These states, has forgone human diplomacy for machination.

This policy of talking machines be it guns bombs cameras voice clips internet, and tv. will do nothing but peace that old fashion human contact can do for it.

It’s time we end this nonsense in our global community by cutting the wires that employ it, agitate it and circumvent it ,and come to the table like human beings!