called for a boycott of the New Yorker Magazine during an interview on CNN Monday.
The magazine has depicted Presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama in Muslim dress. His wife, Michelle is depicted as a Black Panther Militia Party member. Michelle has an an automatic weapon and ammo strapped to her back and is giving her husband a fist bump.
Both are standing in the Oval Office with the flag burning in the fireplace. Proponents say the disgusting, baseless, satire is just that--satire--and should be taken as such.
It is unclear why Mrs. Obama is depicted wearing an Afro, a popular
hair style from the 1970s or why a black militia member or a Muslim would illicit fear.
Satire of the politics of fear, is what the cover was supposed to depict as well as an article inside the magazine. The Obama and John McCain camp considered it in poor taste.
Parks said the cover is considered a "setback" and "wouldn't have been acceptable decades ago," let alone today.
(Apparently, in the "land of the free" the only acceptable candidates for president are people who aren't of the Jewish, Catholic, Islamic and some sects of Christian faith. I remember growing up hearing JFK being mentioned as "a Catholic" as if it were a negative quality and not the God-blessed thing that it is.)
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