Bob Gorrell for June 23, 2021

Bob Gorey don’t need no history.

… Uh, Gorrell? Are you alright?

Racists like Bob Gorrell hate to be called out on their racism. It’s why they can’t stop complaining about it.

P.S. I left GoComics feedback complaining about this racist comic and suggest that it be removed, since comics can’t be flagged like comments can.

Does Li’l Bobby write “history” books for the Texas board of uneducation?

Another Trump Disciple cartoon that implies Gorrell believes racism to be a bad thing.

AS IF.

What if Gorrell actually got his neck out of his anal sphincter and looked around at what’s REALLY happening in the world?

Nah. That would probably cause a split in underlying universal reality, and we’d all fall through.

This is not a matter of opinion …

New data from the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) show that long-standing and substantial wealth disparities between families in different racial and ethnic groups were little changed since the last survey in 2016; the typical White family has eight times the wealth of the typical Black family and five times the wealth of the typical Hispanic family.

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/notes/feds-notes/disparities-in-wealth-by-race-and-ethnicity-in-the-2019-survey-of-consumer-finances-20200928.htm

https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/educational-attainment.html

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpsee_e16.htm

…and in 1967, the law was changed to legalize mixed race marriages in the US… before that, it was forbidden by law in 31 states…. then in 1968 Schultz introduced his first black character…. just throwing out a little racial history

Why are white people so afraid to talk about the mistakes made in the history of America? I guess, why are white people so afraid in general?

Accepting history doesn’t make one a racist. Denying actual history just might.

So this is according to “The Republican Gospel According to Peanuts”? Certainly this is a nasty take-off on his characters that Charles Schulz would be unhappy to see.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2016/04/the-spirituality-of-snoopy/479664/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/269646.The_Gospel_According_to_Peanuts

Yes, just close your eyes and it will disappear like magic. It’s not the individual, it’s the society. Nice opinion piece here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/06/22/republicans-just-proved-critical-race-theory-correct

This is really offensive. Way to show your biases, Bob.

And 10 million Americans cancelled their subscriptions.

uh…Mr. Gorrel, Shulz introduced a black character to his strip eleven days after the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.—a clear effort on his behalf to reach across the ever widening racial bridge of that time. If Shulz were alive today, he would find your parallel of critical race theory to his efforts repulsive. Adding Franklin to the Peanuts gang showed children everywhere that it was possible to form friendships and powerful bonds with all people of all races at a time of violent racism. I have a pretty good idea of what your message would’ve been back then if you were penning his strip in 1968.

Teaching history should include all history. When we knew better, we did better. That’s a good, not divisive, thing

I guess this is what people who never meet anyone outside their very white circle think is real.

If that happened today? Well, Charles Schultz would understand what he was talking about.

In 1968 I lived in an all white community and attend all white school in Drayton Plains, Michigan. I didn’t actually know, or even speak to a black man until about 1980, when I joined the Army. It wasn’t until the late 1980’s when I had my first black female coworker.

Today that social/cultural mix has dramatically changed. Much thanks to men like Charles Schulz.

I am glad that we can finally discuss our racial past, acknowledge it and learn from it so that we can move on.

Men like Gorrell want to hide it, rely upon it as needed, pretend that that part of our history did not happen. They want us to live in ignorance.

Like the slave owners made the slaves live. If we are ignorant we can be better controlled.

Shhhh! You’re not to talk about anything that makes White people feel bad.

Yo Bob… Schiltz was one of the pioneers of diversity in media. Sherman was accepted by the group without comment. This at a time when Billy Graham was being forced to allow colored people into his rallies. Also, someone should get an education on critical race theory. You obviously believe that it’s threatening your white privilege or you wouldn’t be so pathetically trying to mock it by taking the name of Charles in vain.

Every American history class should be taught about the Cornerstone Speech delivered by the vice-president of the traitors Alexander Stephens on March 21, 1861:

The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the “rock upon which the old Union would split.” He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old constitution, were that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with, but the general opinion of the men of that day was that, somehow or other in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the constitution, was the prevailing idea at that time. The constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly urged against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the government built upon it fell when the “storm came and the wind blew.” (cont’d)

9/62

a quick google search of “Linus shaking Franklin’s hand”

https://www.upworthy.com/a-young-black-kid-saw-this-comic-in-1968-and-burst-into-tears-the-reason-why-is-great

Define Critical Race Theory Gorrell.

Let Amber Ruffin Explain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCya-XjjBsc

“you shouldn’t fix history to make you feel better. Learning about slavery feels awful. too bad! Try living with it’s repercussions while white people tell your there weren’t any. Also it should make you feel bad. It should make you feel so bad that you make sure nothing like it ever happens again. "

“Critical Race Theory gives us the tools to examine our history in an open and honest way, and to fix the parts of our educational system that aren’t doing that. But my theory is that some white people don’t want to change our education system because it benefits them. "

or Samantha Bee:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWzavPpc7EE

“You keep hearing about Critical Race Theory because you keep talking about it, which means you hear about it more, which means you talk about it more. Outrage from stories like this are Fox’s main source of income after ads for reverse mortgages and a life-size theme park of Noah’s Ark. "

“While conservatives have recently appropriated Critical Race Theory as a catch all term for basically any conversation about teaching history of race in America, the actual concept of it has been around for decades and big surprise! it’s really not scandalous at all.”

“in short, CRT is an approach based on the idea that the history of white supremacy still has a very real and lasting impact on our society and institutions today. it just says, let’s pay attention to what has happened in this country and how what has happened in this country is continuing to create differential outcomes, so we can become a country that we say we are.”

(cont’d) Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science. It has been so even amongst us. Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well, that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. The errors of the past generation still clung to many as late as twenty years ago. Those at the North, who still cling to these errors, with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate fanatics. All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind from a defect in reasoning. It is a species of insanity. One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the anti-slavery fanatics. Their conclusions are right if their premises were. They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man. If their premises were correct, their conclusions would be logical and just but their premise being wrong, their whole argument fails. I recollect once of having heard a gentleman from one of the northern States, of great power and ability, announce in the House of Representatives, with imposing effect, that we of the South would be compelled, ultimately, to yield upon this subject of slavery, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics, as it was in physics or mechanics. That the principle would ultimately prevail. (cont’d)

(cont’d) That we, in maintaining slavery as it exists with us, were warring against a principle, a principle founded in nature, the principle of the equality of men. The reply I made to him was, that upon his own grounds, we should, ultimately, succeed, and that he and his associates, in this crusade against our institutions, would ultimately fail. The truth announced, that it was as impossible to war successfully against a principle in politics as it was in physics and mechanics, I admitted; but told him that it was he, and those acting with him, who were warring against a principle. They were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal.

The complete speech here:

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech

Republicans seem to insist that history has no place in society. History shouldn’t be taught: it should be presented and students encouraged on how to decide if there is any wisdom to be gained as to how they should live/behave/direct their societies.

1968.. OK, then Bob. —→ Did that event really mark a major milestone in race relations to you, Bob? I guess to a simpleton, who doesn’t understand the history of racism in America, putting a black character in an otherwise all white comic strip meant that everything was fixed in race relations. Where you around in 1968? Before or since then? It’s a shame you don’t understand CRT, or why people are discussing it. Just a knee jerk comic from neo-con Gorrell.

Charles Schulz worked as a cartoonist. He wanted people to come together. You are actively opposed to both of those.

Oh Mr. Schulz did that in 1968!! Why didn’t they tell anybody!! Ok everybody go home, racism has been over for 53 years.

Goofy Gorrell seems to have suffered a stroke or he’s #JustPayneStupid.

This use of Charles Schultz work to support a intellectually dishonest political position is offensive and appalling. He was 10 times the cartoonist and person as the creator of this cartoon. Shame on you.

Actually, nothing happened back then. It was accepted.

First appearance of Franklin:

https://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1968/07/31

Bob Gullible slanders Charles Schulz!

And he believes that all the slaves were so happy on the plantation, as were the Indians on their reservations, and Japenese in their internment camps

More GQP fantasies…

Gorrell has no shame.

Political cartoons can have their consequences and will offend those who don’t agree with the subject. Does not mean they are meant to be racist when posting that subject matter.

“Those who deny history, perpetuate racism.” Qpublican dogma.

Gorrell adds adds insult to ignorance.

Funny, for all the left wing hate spewed at Gorrell, what he depicted in this ‘toon is exactly what CRT teaches. First question I’d ask in a CRT class would be ‘were there any black slave owners’. Second would be where did the term ‘slave’ come from.

Krack, you seem to have no idea what you are talking about. Have you checked what CRT is? Or are you taking for granted what you are being told? I’ve known people that had this same reaction when history of unions and union busting was taught.

Nah, I don’t think so. Another stupid dog whistle.

Conservatives don’t want Critical Race Theory taught in public schools because it will expose the influence conservatism has played in imbedding racism into our society and institutions.

notice the argument is never “this is false, or this is wrong” … its always “this will divide”… republicans are really embracing juvenile logic these days. Ignore and suppress any and everything that makes you upset or uncomfortable. … thats not what a healthy democratic society does… that is what panicking supremacist do in an effort to hold on to power.

The wokester$ would have ruined that too.

In 1968, Charles M. Schultz was aware of the lack of diversity in the comics and did something to change that. I wonder what he would think of us today?

Kids are not intrinsically racist. It has to be taught to them. “I do not go to church anymore … I guess you might say I’ve come around to secular humanism, an obligation I believe all humans have to others and the world we live in.” Charles Schultz. So no Bob, Schultz would not have written this at all.

Schultz’s estate should sue your arse off.

Further to my comment above Bob, had you learned about the oppression of the slaves, you would have learned that not all white people were throughout history were oppressors. Take for instance, Quaker abolitionist Levi Coffin and his wife Catherine helped more than 2,000 enslaved people escape to freedom via the underground railway. Fugitive slaves were not the only black people at risk from slave catchers. With demand for slaves high in the Deep South as cotton was developed, strong, healthy blacks in their prime working and reproductive years were seen and treated as highly valuable commodities. Both former slaves and free blacks were sometimes kidnapped and sold into slavery. History Bob, learn it, remember it, or be condemned to continuing the God awful tradition of not ever recognising the injustices done to these people then and th injustices they continue to suffer. As a white person Bob, I guess when you drive your car, you never have to worry about some zealous cop in the 21st century pulling you over and blowing your brains out.

Yep, that’s what they will be teaching. Just ask Christopher Columbus. Oh, right he isn’t around to defend himself.

My Grandfather immigrated to the U.S. The only job he could find was filing up toilet paper in rail road coach cars. His supervisor was a black man. My Grandfather calledhim “my boss man.” He also said he was a very fair man. He worked for his “boss man”for 20 years. Boss man was accidentally shot having a beer in a bar. My Grandfatherwent to his funeral. I remember him saying, “I only white man in church.” There was noSystemic Racism from the early immigrants.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/critical-race-theory-may-violate-civil-rights-act-constitution-dr-carol-swain

Here are some key points from that article:The civil rights movement itself is a moment in history where whites, blacks, people of other races and ethnicities came together for a cause. “That was powerful,” she continued.

Swain was born during the time of “systemic racism” in the segregated South. She witnessed the collapse of institutional racism and benefited from the opportunities created for black Americans like herself.

“My love of country came about because when I was in school, we were taught civics and patriotism. And I felt like I lived in the greatest nation in the world,” Swain said.

Racism was dying in the United States before President Barack Obama was elected, she said. At that time, the country was portrayed by legacy media as being a post-racial society. “I think that because we were making so much progress, the political left and those that benefit by racism and keeping us divided … they had to act.”

This was the time when the racial tensions, which divided people, restarted and when standards in classes, especially in public schools, were lowered owing to CRT and the restorative justice agenda being pushed, she added.

Has anyone notified the Schulz estate? This surely violates some sort of copy write laws.

Senator Ted Cruz summarized CRT very well when he said: “It’s a theory that derives from Marxism. Karl Marx viewed the entire world as a conflict between classes, between the owners of capital and the working men and women, the proletariat; a fundamental battle in society. Critical Race Theory takes that same Marxist concept, except it replaces class with race.”“And it says all of America and all of the world is a battle between the races. Critical Race Theory says every white person is a racist. Critical Race Theory says America is fundamentally racist and irredeemably racist. Critical Race Theory seeks to turn us against each other, and if someone has a different color skin, seeks to make us hate that person.”“And let me tell you right now, Critical Race Theory is bigoted, it is a lie, and it is every bit as racist as the Klansmen in white sheets.”

Its the parents dude.

Quick, what’s the black kids name?

Why do so many white people get triggered by the truth? Why have so many of them never heard of Juneteenth until this year? It is an 150 year old fact.