To See or Not To See

For the week nine blog I chose to do it over a political cartoon on page 380. The cartoon is focusing on gay marriages. The argument is that forty years ago we were complaining about inter- racial marriages. Now we are complaining about gay marriage. In the cartoon it shows in one panel label 1960 a large white man holding a picket sign label No inter- racial marriage. The man in the 1960 box is saying “We’re just protecting’ the sanctity of marriage.” Then in the other cartoon panel label 2000 it shows another large white man that looks almost identical to the man in the 1960 cartoon panel. He is in the exact same spot as the man in the 1960 panel, but instead of saying we are protecting the sanctity of marriage it just shows the man pointing at the man in the 1960 cartoon panel  just stating “…What he said.”

            I enjoyed reading this cartoon because the way I viewed it was what the cartoonist did not focus on. Not that I am against gay marriage or anything. Though it may be similar to the situation that is shown in the 1960 panel about no interracial marriage I feel the cartoonist should have focused on the main problem of why the government has a problem with gay marriage is because all states must recognize contracts no matter where they are from. Unfortunately some of states won’t recognize gay marriage. The reason that causes a problem is because they may not recognize one contract they could start saying they do not recognize other contracts like rent or business contracts.