Eventually liberals will get around to declaring everything racist but these things take time to catalog. As such it’s taken nearly a half-century for them to add A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving to list of racist things. As an added bonus this is also part of the liberal campaign to ruin Thanksgiving since this cartoon is a big part of the holiday tradition. I bet if they realized they’d get a twofer out of this one, liberals would have gotten to this much sooner.
You gotta hand it to the left. They are nothing if not persistent and come to think of it, they really are nothing. Here’s BET with the dumbest racial outrage of the season:
The classic 1973 Peanuts special A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving that airs annually during the holidays has stirred up a bit of controversy in recent years, thanks to one particular scene that could be construed as racist.
Created by Charles Schulz, the conflicting scene shows the only Black character, Franklin, is sitting by himself on one side of the Thanksgiving table. While Charlie Brown, Sally, Peppermint Patty, and Snoopy, all sit together on the opposite side of the table. Some have critiqued this scene, considering it problematic, even arguing that it could be racist since Franklin is separated from the rest of the characters, who are white.
Really? That’s what all the fuss is about? I’m guessing these kooks have no idea how segregation works. Franklin is clearly sitting at the same table as his white friends. If this were truly Jim Crow at work, Franklin would be at a different table near an open sewer line.
In fact, if you look, Franklin has 3 or 4 ice cream sundays, while Linus, Sally and Lucy have none. On top of which, Franklin has 2 bowls of popcorn and the rest of the gang has nothing. Not only isn’t this segregation, it’s actually reparations.
Some people however just can’t be happy about achieving racial justice so…
Darnell Hunt, dean of social sciences and professor of sociology and African American studies at UCLA…said that “having [Franklin] on this long side by himself, you could interpret it that no one wanted to sit next to him.”
Did anyone notice that Pig Pen is nowhere near that table? Where’s the outrage over stinkism?
“Today this would not be acceptable,” Hunt continues speaking about the comic. “It really does speak to the need for more inclusive creators and storytellers behind the scenes who produce these images.”
Adding: “That’s why it’s so important to have people in the writers’ room and in production who might be more sensitive to these issues.”
Yes, if only Charles Shulz had the foresight to anticipate the wokeness and political correctness of 2020 and hired somebody to adjust the 1973 cartoon accordingly. Although, now that I think about it, Peppermint Patty is clearly a lesbian, so Peanuts was ahead of it’s time.
Is it just me or these racial grievances getting lazier? At least try to argue that Charlie Brown is a Nazi skinhead. I mean, he is bald and his last name is Brown like the Brown Shirts, plus he wears a shirt with squiggles that could be assembled into a Swastika. It took me less than 10 seconds to come up with that and I’m not even a professional race hustler.
