George Forbes has crawled out of his hole, Aunt Jemima is serving pancakes to State Senator Nina Turner, and the entire political landscape of Cuyahoga County is heading to battle stations. Who doesn’t love Issue 6! From 1973 to 1989, George Forbes was the circus act known as City Council President. And as [...]
The Call & Post’s racial slur of a black elected official in an editorial cartoon underscores two significant problems in post-segregated America. First is the trope of a homogenous black community. Second is the total bankruptcy of race-only centered politics. Both dynamics, as a friend points out, are different sides of the same coin. [...]
In the fallout over Aunt Jemima-gate, no one bothered to report that George Forbes uses long-time political “spokesperson” Powell Caesar to pen his Call & Post editorials. As a “black-conservative” columnist for the Sun papers, Caesar was known for his anti-affirmative action stances and Phillip Morris-like characterizations of lazy young blacks. Over the years [...]
