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 A lot of what you gentlemen are saying makes a great deal of sense. But what we must consider is the problem of "double counsciousness". This affliction is often carried for hundreds of years by those who are either colonized or enslaved. The power of the colonizer's stereotypes effect the colonized in many negative ways. I do not want to deal with this in "black" and "white". The "minority" are already acutely aware of their differences from the "majority", and physical stereotypes reinforce the idea that they are somehow "ugly", deficient, or less than the "majority" (note the simian-like appearance). This mentality is not beneficial for the minority, or for any society as a whole. Imagine seeing yourself through your own eyes, and through the eyes of another race simultaneously; now imagine growing up with these deficient beliefs, and further siring children who will carry these beliefs as well. This leads to anger, frustration, hatred, and the like, and we all can do without that.

  In the case of this comic character, he may be Cuban, but remember there are "claros",  "morenos", and "negros" in hispanic culture as well which are as subject to stereotypical treatments, and class separations like in American culture. I agree sometimes that some of these African American activists go over board, but if you look at how they (African Americans) were treated in this country not even half a century ago (denied the right to vote, lynching, water hoses, attacked by police dogs), one might be able to understand such a scramble to respond to issues like this, they do not want to ever be degraded or humiliated like that again. I understand that. If I drew a picture of a white lipped monkey, and presented it to your child and said, "That's what you look like to me," a great number of you would probably douse my torch posthaste, yes? Now extend that to a whole race of people and tell me that that does not hurt on some level, especially after the atrocities of the past. If the majority does nothing when the majority is disrespected in such a manner, this serves to reinforce the beliefs of the minority that they are hated, different, inferior, and ugly. That is bad for everyone involved; the seeds of disharmony lead to disunity lead to strife. We all sink or swim together.

Respectfully,

David