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stormbear

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April 15th, 2008 1:51 PM

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New series for Town Called Dobson - Birth of a Notion

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I started a new special series, Birth Of A Notion. The title is a take-off from the KKK film Birth of a Nation. This series will deal with Black History.

When I went to school (think Nixon), we were never taught Black History. We never learned about the Black leaders, the long, agonizing history that brought most Blacks to America. Those atrocities were glossed over in favor of mindlessly boring topics like the X Y Z Affair.

This series of cartoons will review Black history as told from a Black mother to an interracial child. This series will be ugly, course, horrific and truthful. I will mostly abandon the commentary for an article on Black history.

This series is not about Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton. I want to you to try to imagine how Black families tell their children of the atrocities their ancestors, all of them, suffered because of the color of their skin. Try to imagine how Black families counsel their children when someone calls them “nigger” for the first time. Can you imagine the bone crushing emotion that must well up? Can you imagine the agony, frustration and anger?

Can you imagine being the Black preacher who tries to paint a picture of a just God every Sunday? Especially in a country that claims where the notion of racism is a thing of the past, the job is difficult.

These strips may at times be entertaining and sometimes they may not - mostly not.

I don’t want you to laugh so hard you cry, I want you to cry so hard you do something about it.

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