Racist Mother Goose and Grimm Cartoon
by Guest Contributor Angry Asian Man, originally published at Angry Asian Man
Kimchi Mamas first blogged about this a couple of weeks ago… What kind of messed up nonsense is this? This Mother Goose and Grimm comic strip is a couple of weeks old, but dude, what the hell? Come on! Really? They really had to go there with the idiotic Korean dog-eating joke? And then take it one step further with the Kim Jong Il caricature?
I’m no fan of Kim Jong Il, and honestly, I welcome any kind of intelligent lampooning of his evil dictator craziness. Because the man is nuts. But this is a one-note jab, a cheap laugh that squarely aims for Kim Jong Il’s ethnicity. And then seen by millions of Americans, in newspapers nationwide. That’s racist!
(Thanks, Toni.)
Edited to Add:
Reader Katie points out that the Kimichi Mama’s post also shows how to take action:
OKAY KIMCHI MAMAS…
A protest unspoken is never heard. There is a contact for feedback on the Mother Goose & Grimm comic site. I don’t know if mike peters actually sees the comments, but it’s worth a try. There is power in numbers; speak from a position of power!Send email to: ben@grimmy.com
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Katie wrote:
to write a letter in response to this hateful cartoon (via Kimchi Mamas):
From kimchi mamas:
OKAY KIMCHI MAMAS…
A protest unspoken is never heard. There is a contact for feedback on the Mother Goose & Grimm comic site. I don’t know if mike peters actually sees the comments, but it’s worth a try. There is power in numbers; speak from a position of power!
Send email to: ben@grimmy.com
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Posted by: b.q. | Monday, August 18, 2008 at 07:14 PM
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 9:23 am ¶
Rob Schmidt wrote:
When I was reading comic strips regularly, I collected examples of strips featuring Indians (http://www.bluecorncomics.com/nastrips.htm). The portrayals were usually stereotypical if not racist.
Besides “Tumbleweeds” and “Redeye,” which were about Indians, the worst offenders were “Bizarro,” “Herman,” and “Mr. Boffo.” But “Mother Goose and Grimm” was up there too.
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 9:30 am ¶
jvansteppes wrote:
Kim Jong Il caricatures are rarely if ever pulled off by whites without resorting to racism. I’m having flashbacks to Team America World Police.
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 10:23 am ¶
RainaWeather wrote:
Dammit that wasn’t even funny
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 10:32 am ¶
Celeste wrote:
Yeah, the Kim Jong Il treatment had much more of a racist tone to it than Saddam Hussein had in the South Park movie. However, they went completely nuts with the middle eastern muslim stereotypes in TAWP
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 11:32 am ¶
gatamala wrote:
…b/c nobody has ever made the dog joke before….
yet Boondocks was “too much” for some papers…
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 12:13 pm ¶
Jess wrote:
I remember the bit from the book “American Born Chinese.”
Teacher: Welcome our new student, his famnily came all the way from China!
Jin: Uh, San Francisco
Timmy: My momma says Chinese people eat dogs.
Teacher: Now be nice! I’m sure Jin’s family stopped that sort of thing when they came to the United States!
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 1:40 pm ¶
JC wrote:
Lovely. Why comics page is still around? It seemed that they are rarely ever funny and appears that great majority of them caters only to older white people.
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 2:31 pm ¶
drew wrote:
where’s the flapping dickey, ah so, and me so solly references? disappointed.
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 4:16 pm ¶
Traveler wrote:
I honestly don’t even get it…
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 7:01 pm ¶
CVT wrote:
It never fails to amaze me how okay it is to make racist jokes on a nationwide level. I’m sure the overall response to people’s complaints is the tired, “Learn to take a joke.” How more of us PoC don’t end up violent or militant in this country is just as amazing.
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 8:37 pm ¶
Mike wrote:
Yup this was some foul ish right here, I’ll send them a kite.
But the Koreans needs to raise hell first and for most.
Posted 09 Sep 2008 at 10:05 pm ¶
Reiter wrote:
I wonder if Grimm would get a free pass if they had a black character presented as wanting to eat fried chicken and watermelon.
The white-washed media loves mocking Asians because they think they can get away with it and that’s total BS.
Posted 10 Sep 2008 at 11:18 am ¶