Recently, I was shown a forwarded email that reminded me of the person I blogged last about, Bob. As I viewed this email I was in utter disbelief that images such as these are being passed around publicly. Call me naive, but I thought that Bob was the typical ignoramus. I did not realize that there is worse out there!

This stereotypical depiction is so offensive to myself, and so many others, whether a democrat or not. It is this kind of disgusting humor that not only hurts people, but pushes our country back decades.

This image is obviously targeted toward those people that are disadvantaged, that many view as "lazy", and those people that will "take money" from the "working people" and give it to the "lazy poor". That makes me sick. In this image, is everything we have discussed all semester. From the idea that the impoverished minorities are simply sitting around asking the government for money, to the idea that anyone willing to put time, effort, or funding, is to be shunned.

In class this past week, we discussed the uplifting book, "Comeback Cities", in which there are stories of people believing in hope, themselves, and their community, enough to come together and make a change on their own.

While this book was published in 2000, and many of these changes took place in the 1990s, I can only hope that they are still happening today, and that these people are stronger than myself and can ignore the terrible "comedy" that portrays all impoverished as poor and lazy.