RiffTrax!

I have the blog, I’m writing a little bit more, I’m starting to feel like maybe I do remember how to put words together. And then I gotta go read an article by Greg in The Independent and whoops there goes the little bit of ego I’d scraped together.

For background, the article refers to a cartoon he had in the paper, which was itself a reference to city councilman Chris Williams writing “Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive” in permanent marker on city property. The councilman has been unsuccessfully trying to get a street named for Dr. King, so he thought writing it on the front of his desk in council chambers was a good way to get the point across.

Apparently Greg wrote the article for a specific person: an Ind employee who gets a number of “how can you work for these racists?”-type comments. But they decided to run it in the paper, because a non-zero number of people were calling and writing, demanding to know why the paper was insulting Dr. King.

It’s amazing to me that people are so ready to go past the sarcasm and assume racism. But they don’t know Greg, so eh, I guess they don’t know.