Word: fistfuls
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...Cracking Up Is Hard to Do There is no excuse for your flighty defense of the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as fist-bumping terrorists [July 28]. You ask if America has lost its sense of humor - America has not. But we have lost patience with the kind of hatemongering that drove the New Yorker to try to sell magazines by marginalizing the man who will be the next President of the United States. You should be ashamed of defending its decision to run that cover. Thomas Rajala, Stockton, California...
There is no excuse for your flighty defense of the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as fist-bumping terrorists. You ask in the piece if America has lost its sense of humor--America has not. But we have lost patience with the kind of hatemongering that drove the New Yorker to try to sell magazines by marginalizing the man who will be the next President of the United States. You should be ashamed of defending its terribly bad decision to run that cover. Thomas Rajala, STOCKTON, CALIF...
...sprint at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, the Australian silver medalist gazed at the flag rising in his honor. Behind him, history was being made. Tommie Smith and John Carlos used the occasion to protest their country's treatment of African Americans, each raising a gloved fist in the Black Power salute, a gesture of solidarity and defiance. Bowing to pressure from the International Olympic Committee, U.S. authorities sent the pair home to a firestorm of controversy...
...Christian who didn't so much loathe racial prejudice as not understand how it could exist. When Carlos revealed he'd left his gloves at the village, it was Norman who suggested that the Americans share Smith's pair. Norman was never going to raise his own fist, but did wear a badge that said "Olympic Project for Human Rights", an organization that had threatened a black boycott of the '68 Games...
...most glaring recent example was the New Yorker cover that satirized the smears against Barack Obama and his wife. In a Dagwood sandwich of stereotypes, cartoonist Barry Blitt drew Barack (dressed in a turban) and Michelle (with an Angela Davis 'fro and an AK-47) exchanging a fist bump in the White House while a portrait of Osama bin Laden looks on and an American flag burns in the fireplace...