Sometimes a political cartoon defies even the lowest expectations of civility in public discourse, and so it is with one of the latest from The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder

National Review, Feb 14, 2005

* Sometimes a political cartoon defies even the lowest expectations of civility in public discourse, and so it is with one of the latest from The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder. The cartoon relates a news broadcast on affirmative action in which Condoleezza Rice is reported to support the death penalty for "anyone who teaches a black person how to read." President Bush is said to have settled, with difficulty, on a compromise position of "just keeping black students out of college." There's not much we can say about such vileness--the accusation of murderous racism against our president and secretary of state, and by extension anyone who opposes race-based preferences--except to repeat the immortal words of Bob Dole: Where's the outrage?