What a difference a mustache makes! Gary Varvel has been a cartoonist at the Indianapolis Star-News for a long time, and as a former Indianapolis resident, I have been one of his biggest fans. One of his cartoons that attempted to show the ultimate result of the policies of weak-in-the-knees politicians regarding forcing people to “share” what is theirs with people who would rather not earn it for themselves, and shows a family climbing in a window on Thanksgiving, invading a family’s home, uninvited. The “censors” assumed it was racist (Why not? everything else seems to be racist) because of a luxurious mustache on one of the “invaders” and his editors stuck their thumbs in their mouths and demanded he remove the mustache from the drawing. Since when is a mustache racist? If it is, I’m a racist, even though I judge each person as an INDIVIDUAL, not by the group he/she is in. And actor Tom Selleck, of “Blue Bloods” fame is also a racist, although I’ve never seen any indication in that direction in any of his work, and I’ve seen a lot of it. Then there’s Geraldo Rivera, of Fox News with his flamboyant whiskers. Somebody needs to tap that editor at Indy Star on the head and wake him up to reality. A mustache does not a racist make before he insults everybody with hair on his upper lip—and today that’s a LOT of people, as face whiskers are making a comeback. The big problem is, the drawing does illustrate a real problem whether that editor knows it, or not, perceived racism aside. (DailyHeadlines)
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