re: #147 nonic

I really want to abandon this conversation, but…

I saw “witch doctor medicine” meaning quakery, fakery, phony healthcare — which I would have interpreted exactly the same way if it had been a picture of Pelosi or Ted Kennedy with a bone through his nose, because I do not define the term “witch doctor” as being NECESSARILY black.

Then you’ve missed the point. To take the title of a Cornell West book, Race Matters. I don’t agree with West on much at all, but those two words are true. It is different when the subject of a witchdoctor photoshop is a black man. This is due to the long and ugly history in America of deploying such stereotypes against black people. Doing a photoshop of Ted Kennedy and Barack Obama is not the same thing.