Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, two white guys, took quite a chance creating The Black Panther back in the mid-'60s. There were not many...in fact, there weren't ANY black superheroes then and they stuck with their creation even when a radical, anti-American group adopted the name shortly thereafter and became quite infamous. They (the Marvel guys) were not politically correct, you see (and I'm glad they weren't)!
People thought for themselves in those days.
Fast forward to today, when white people who sing that they're "dreaming of a White Christmas" are called racists for no other reason than that they like that song.
A (white) friend of mine and I were driving recently and wound up inadvertently on WHITESville road. We both laughed when I joked that this "accident" may indicate a secret desire to be white supremacists....after all, we do both live in WHITING. It's funny in a way, but the sad thing is there really are folks who would peg us like that, based on such stupid "evidence." .
Pictured is my new submission to our local paper. This is the 25th bird they've published over the years, but it was the first FICTIONAL one I've drawn. After I submitted it, I actually feared that my poem / art could be misinterpreted, by the Politically Correct out there, as having a subliminal racist message. The truth is, "Whitehawk," the fictional bird I drew and wrote about, is merely a variation of a real bird named "Nighthawk." It's a shame how paranoid people have become these days, and there's no excuse for it at all.
Political Correctness has to stop, and people have to start thinking for themselves (and not letting OTHERS tell them what to think, feel or do.)
Nice commentary!
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