The Slave Narrative

Over time, racism has evolved and changed to form equal rights, yet some people use the past as a form of spite against the other race. In the political cartoon, Obama is shown with another man labeled "Skip Gates" and Gates is saying "Racist! Do you know who I am? This is what heppens to black men in America. Yo Mamma!" to a woman saying "Can I see your I.D. please?" Obviously back during the narration of "The Middle Passage", racism was a common seperation which has been carried onto today with pointed fingers and accusations of racism just over something simple. Obama is seen saying "Stupid! Well, not you, but your actions... mumble...uh calibrations?" and the little girl is telling him "Why don't you just show your I.D." Powerful positions back in the days of slavery took charge by passing laws of equal rights in which America hopes to see in Obama's diversity of being African American yet this cartoon shows him as putting on a front of innocence yet believing what Skip Gates claims. Over all, the past is the past and politics shouldn't get itsself raveled into something that has been passed as a law and done with.