Is this racist?

[Taverner]

Poll question: Is this racist?

[davidthegnome]

1. Personally, I'd call it stupid, not racist.

[notadmblnd]

5. +1

How old is that song?

[MilesColtrane]

8. 20 years old

Man, that's one hip, edgy cartoonist.

[arcane1]

9. Indeed

Conservative humor sucks. There's never any depth, or intelligence, or even wit.

[Lost-in-FL]

2. Racist, not much.

Stupid, yes, a boat load.

[WhiteTara]

3. Racist and stupid!

Interesting to see the white woman knows about OPMs.

[MilesColtrane]

4. Mike Lester is a moron.

What did he think Bush waged the Iraq War with, his personal checking account and some Green Stamps?

[Terra Alta]

6. more stupid than racist. nt.

[Brickbat]

7. If it's a Cagle cartoon, the simplest answer is that it's just crap.

Frankly, I think the artist was pretty understated in making Obama look like a rapper. Some of them look ridiculous; at least Obama's wearing a tie!

[marmar]

10. Racist and extremely stupid and not at all humorous.....

..... Plus, using a song from the early 1990s? Not the hippest cartoonist in the world, n'est-ce pas?

[aikoaiko]

11. For those who don't know about the Naughty by Nature song, OPP....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O.P.P._%28song%29

"O.P.P." is a 1991 song recorded by rap group Naughty by Nature. The song made it to the U.S. Top Ten (peaking at #6), propelling their self titled album Naughty by Nature to platinum status. The song's declaration "Down Wit' OPP" was a popular catchphrase in the U.S. in the early-'90s. Its beat is sampled from Melvin Bliss' "Synthetic Substitution", with instrumentation samples from Jackson 5's "ABC" in which Alphonzo Mizell, Freddie Perren, Deke Richards, and Berry Gordy Jr. got a writing credit for the song. It was a hugely successful single, as Allmusic described "There was not a bigger, more contagious crossover radio smash in the autumn of 1991 than Naughty by Nature's ‘O.P.P.'" <1>

The song was one of the first rap songs to become a pop hit when it reached number 6 in the U.S. and number 35 in the UK in 1991. MTV picked up on its video, and it got heavy airplay on Yo! MTV Raps that year, inspiring a remake of the song as "Down Wit' MTV."

The title is an acronym for "other people's pussy"; when the song asks if the listener is "down with O.P.P.", it's asking if he/she is willing to have sexual relations with a person who is known to already have a significant other. Lead rapper Treach coyly obscures the meaning of the second "P" (which is meant to refer to either "pussy" or "penis") using euphemisms throughout the song saying – instead of pussy – that it is "another way to call a cat a kitten" or – instead of penis – a "five-letter word rhyming with cleanest or meanest." In the lyrics following, the rap defines the third "P" as "property" to "do it sorta properly."

Treach was inspired to write the lyrics by a neighborhood dealer who used to move in on other dealers' territories and say he was "Down With O.P.M. – Other People's Money." <2>

Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xGuGSDsDrM

Funny how this cartoon brings the concept full circle.

[damntexdem]

12. Yes. Very much so.

[Buzz Clik]

13. Many cartoonists find it necessary at times to draw attention to themselves.

This is such moment for Lester.

Whatever.

[TheKentuckian]

14. 1. Unfuckingfunny 2. Stupid as dog turds. 3. Willfully racist.

[Taverner]

16. That was my impression too

And you put it better than I could have

[TheKentuckian]

27. Well, thank ya

[darkstar3]

15. Check the overstatement of the ears and lips.

Ask yourself why anyone would draw a President with a baseball cap on sideways.

Ask yourself when was the last time anyone associated rap music with the President of the United States.

It is quite obviously racist, and the cartoonist knew it too as you can see from his choice of support characters.

[arcane1]

17. I was curious about the big red nose

and thought the lips were normal, until you mentioned it and I looked again. He has three lips!

This fool can't even draw :)

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Racist and extremely dated...

Backdated bigotry. Also horrible drawings, just awful.

[Taverner]

19. Let me add Taxes are NOT OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY

That money belongs to the Federal Government, not 'other people'

[iris27]

20. What does it say about me, that my first reaction to the cartoon was "Those lyrics are wrong!"

(Beyond just changing OPP to OPM, obviously.)

:rofl:

[lunasun]

21. Yes Obama talks like that all the time not

[Hugabear]

22. Obama is black, ergo he must like rap music

No, it's not racist to insinuate that.

Just like it's not racist for George Allen to assume that a black reporter played sports.

:sarcasm:

[AsahinaKimi]

23. I am sure its something

Glenn Beck would find humorous. Me, not so much. It is stupid...period.

[roody]

24. truly stupid

[Lyric]

25. Of course it is.

And ignorant as well. NOBODY loved "Other People's Money" more than Saint-King Shrubya-the-Deficient, but they loooooved him.

[Tresalisa]

26. Incredibly stupid? Yes. Racist? No. n/t