
A little girl with a "Don't Snitch" shirt on says, "I didn't see nuttin!" to a man, also wearing a "Don't Snitch" shirt, standing over a corpse with a smoking gun in his hand. "That's a good little ho," he responds. Behind them looms a billboard emblazoned with the words, "Rap Your Life Away."
This is the political cartoon that got Florida Times Union cartoonist Ed Gamble in trouble. His editor has said that maybe he shouldn't have allowed the use the word "ho," but Gamble maintains he used it to show that rap is demeaning to women.
The cartoon in general was inspired by the now notorious 60 Minutes segment starring Cam'ron, who advocated not snitching even when there's a serial killer living next door. Ignorance inspires ignorance. Thanks, Cam.
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This cartoon is just wrong on so many different levels. The broad generalization of rap, the use of the word "ho", and the whole "stop snitching" motto. Very, very upsetting.
Yea, i can't believe the editor let this one go. And, it's not funny.
Ditto to bmp and bmd
That was ignorant. What makes it worse in my eyes is that the cartoon man with the gun is calling the YOUNG girl a hoe.
What also sucks is that we as black people do it to ourselves. So we're all wrong.
the picture 'tells it like it is'..