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Minanyiles Quintero
Professor Batty
English 113A
14 December 2014
Racism Has Never Vanished
The Holocaust was an event during 1933, where Germans and mainly Hitler thought as
themselves as superiors and Jews as inferior (Projetaladin). In this time, Hitler was president and
he was the reason for discrimination against the Jewish race. Since Hitler and other Germans
thought Jews were a threat to their racial community, therefore they began to send Jews to
concentration camps where they ended up killing them. They had complete power over The Jew
race because more and more Nazis joined and overpowered the Jews. Around eleven million
Jews were killed. The Holocaust is a historical issue. In the political cartoon S.C Rawls and
Keith Temple allows us to view the racism that occurred to the Jews. Racism that ultimately
killed a great part of the Jewish community is seen in these political cartoons.
Jews experienced a tragedy that no race should pass through. The Jews know from first
hand experience the suffering of concentration camps. It is ironic however that instead of
stopping the use of concentration camps and death they would allow it to continue as long as
their race is not the one being harmed. Jews can be careless of what might happen to others
because other countries that did nothing to help Jews enough when they were in danger. The
United States were basically the only ones who helped out the most. Rawls illustration is not
very detailed. The cartoon is a flat horizontal, which gives us a sense of calm and stability. Calm

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and stability contributes with the cartoons message because the author is not giving too much. It
shows calm and stability because of the way the picture is not all over the place. Although, the
Jews that are behind an electric fence look as if they have frown faces because they are all the
center of attention. In some sort of way, Rawls drew the Jews with angry or sad faces to feel pity.
Pity because it was a big conflict that happens to them with Hitler and many died. He uses two
phrases, We must make sure that this never happens again... and At least not to us to give his
overall message. Rawls intension for his cartoon is to show how one race suffered through a big
tragedy and we should not let this get in the way of coming to peace. This connects to the color
of his cartoon. His illustration is black and white because of the emptiness they have and black
for the experience they went through, but also how little and dark they feel inside. They might
feel dark because of Hitler might have killed a family member or close friend. Even though, not
everyone believes in equality we should strive for it so that everyone can support one another.
The Time-Picayune published the political cartoon Just in Case He Goosesteps Too
Much by the cartoonist Keith Temple shows Hitler has the man and the weapon as Nazi
Theories because they believe that the Jews should not be alive and are ready to kill them. The
weapon is good diagonal, which shows tension and danger because weapons are made to cut and
kill. Nazi's were dangerous because they also believed in Jews as being a threat to them and
followed Hitlers orders to kill. However, Hitler represents the Nazi's in the picture because he is
marching the same way Nazi's march. Which explains for the title Just in Case He Goosesteps
Too Much because if Hitler goes beyond of what he does consecutive leaders are waiting for
them to take over of what Hitler was doing. The bottom half of the picture feels more threatened
and heavier than the upper half because the bottom half shows the knife and the way a huge rock
ball is connected to a chain with Hitlers leg. The illustration is also black and white. Often,

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black and white backgrounds feel safer but in this cartoon is the total opposite. In other words,
the way Hitler is heartless and only cares to satisfy him. Furthermore, this cartoon has a sense
that it is showing racism against Jews because of the way Hitler is holding the Nazi's sign and his
intensions against that race. The big woman is the center of attention because she is larger than
Hitler and any other thing on the picture because she represents Germany. It seems as if the big
woman and Hitler were both husband and wife. The background shows a window of a house and
they are both in the front yard. Temples designed the big woman, which is representing Germany,
as a fancy homemaker mother because they let only one man control them by doing what they
say. The men are breadwinners and they expect for their wifes to clean the house, make them
food and etc. Someone so little like Hitler can have complete power over everyone else in a huge
country like Germany. Consecutive leaders in the German political and industrial communities
wanted to overpower Hitler.
In the story, Black Men and Public Spaces, Brent Staples, talks about the way people
assume all black race are the same. In other words, people who are not black tend assume that
they are criminals or muggers. Staples give examples of several events in his life where he got
accused of something several times just because he was black. The first event he talked about
was when he was walking in the dark and in front of him was a white woman. The lady assumed
that he was a criminal, mugger or rapist; she began to run away from him. Another event, was
when he was a journalist working on a story, in Chicago, around 1970s and late 1980s (Staples
185). His story had a deadline, so he rushed into the magazine office and next thing you know he
was getting arrested (Staples 185). The officers had a misunderstanding from the way he looks
because they thought he was a burglar. Staples writes about these personal events because it is
showing how people often misjudge others by the way that they look. This happens because

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people everywhere judge one person for their actions and then think that specific race all others
ones that belong to that race are the same. This connects with Rawls cartoon because of the way
people view others. We usually tend to judge others before even knowing them or their story. By
this, I mean by knowing who they are and where do they come from. The way someone is judge
is by his or her appearance and not of his or her personality. People are quick to judge because
they are not satisfied with themselves and their life. Even though, between the cartoon of Rawls
and Staples story they show another side of how people judge others. They judge by the way
other people have talked to them about a specific race. So, they assume that everyone who is the
same race are going to be and act the same. These types of problems that some races face and we
usually ignore. People may ignore these types of problems, because they have gotten used to, it
then becomes natural.
Racism has never vanished and has kept alive for over centuries. Its a problem that
cannot disappear immediately but if more people would pay more attention we can make the
world a better place. I would not expect for many people to try to change this but little by little
we can change the way others view people of different races and treat them as equal. Thinking
we are superior to others can only show so little of someone. Rawls and Temples have the same
purpose to show racism and how others view it.

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Works Cited
"Holocaust | The Nazi Regime." Holocaust | The Nazi Regime. N.p., n.d. Web. 29
Sept 2014.
Staples, Brent. Black Men and Public Space. One Hundred Great Essays.Third ed. N.p.:
Joseph Opiela, 2008.182-86.Print
Temple, Keith. "Hitler Cartoon." Algemeinercom RSS. 4 Feb. 1933. Web. 29 Sept. 2014.
S.C Rawls < http://www.the40yearplan.com/img/Political%20Cartoons/holocaust.jpg> Web.
Sep 29, 2014.

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