Picture's worth a thousand words

The illustration is titled "The Politics of Fear."

"The cover combines a number of fantastical images about the Obamas and shows them for the obvious distortions they are. Satire is part of what we do, and it is meant to bring things out into the open, to hold up a mirror to prejudice, the hateful, and the absurd."

The appropriate response to this The New Yorker front cover is: Laugh! Enjoy! Bump! Pound bruh! Hollaaaaaaa!. This is the power of art, controversial and provocative. Art isn't just some pretty picture that you frame up and put on the wall. Great art makes you think and even upsets you. It asks questions like what is the intention of the work? What is the artist trying to convey? Is he (Barry Blitt-the artist) successful in bringing the message across? Good artists have the ability to say so much without using a single word. I like the way that artist/cartoonist told a story that would take several thousand words to describe in writing. You also gotta think about the context of the current political climate. It is satire at its best. Brilliant!
This reminds me to post in the future about the reluctance of people to use the word nigger. Relax, people, it's only a word. Words are neutral, they are not racist, sexist or demeaning in and of itself. People with harmful intentions use those words to inflict anger, hostility or hatred. The word nigger itself is neutral. Go ahead, say it with me: Nigger, nigga, niggaz, niggas with attitude, my nigguh. See? Nothing. As usual, it's the context or the intention that makes the word "nigger" ugly. Black people do not own this word, and in America there's this thing called the first amendment, you know freedom of speech. I can say any words like brother tucker, sucker, ducker, hucker, lucker, and yucker all day. And that also gives me the right to say nigger whenever I like. As long I don't intend to hurt anyone, right? Well, Fudd rucker. There are laws that protect my rights to say and think however I want. Own the word, embrace it, and Chill out! It's a word, don't let it control your thinking.

HAPPY BASTILLE DAY !