Politically Correct Chick Likes Black People

[Upchurch]

I couldn't make this (http://www.chick.com/newseries.asp?wpc=newseries.asp&wpp=a) up.

In new black versions, This Was Your Life (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0001/0001_01.asp) has become It's Your Life (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1101/1101_01.asp) and Somebody Loves Me (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0006/0006_01.asp) has become Hard Times (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1102/1102_01.asp)

Words fail me.

[hgc]

Chick Publications has specialized in non-English language tracts for missionaries all over the world. They have found a higher level of acceptance when the tract is in their language.Friggin' brilliant. What'll they think of next?

[tkingdoll]

Fred Carter, one of the world’s best illustrators, who did the magnificent art for the Light of the World video, is redoing the art for this series. He is also a black pastor of a church, giving him a special insight into what the unsaved person will respond to.

...

[Marquis de Carabas]

Here (http://www.chick.com/tractimages5951/1101/1101_06.gif) we have Jarome "Jaromiel" Mitchell, the first black man to break Heaven's long-standing "colour barrier" and become an official Major League angel. This man is a true hero for our times.

[HarryKeogh]

The black tracts were especially useful to tell the people of color that they are special enough for Chick Publications to make a special edition of the tract line just for them

Congrats, black people! You're special enough...You did it!!!

[Marquis de Carabas]

The black tracts were especially useful to tell the people of color that they are special enough for Chick Publications to make a special edition of the tract line just for them
Translation: That's right, hispanics, you're not special enough yet. Maybe if fewer of you suckled the teat of the whore of Babylon, we'd make one for you, too.

[Upchurch]

Translation: That's right, hispanics, you're not special enough yet. Maybe if fewer of you suckled the teat of the whore of Babylon, we'd make one for you, too.
I think I saw that movie. It's in the back of the video rental place in that little room were "everybody's hugging".

[Mercutio]

Even the Big Guy Himself is...tanner in the new version.

Old... (http://www.chick.com/tractimages5951/0001/0001_16.gif)
...New. (http://www.chick.com/tractimages5951/1101/1101_16.gif)

[Upchurch]

Got a little sun (son?). Looks good on him.

He beat that nasty pointing habit, too.

[Marquis de Carabas]

I'm waiting to see if God throws up a west side anytime soon.

[Dinsdale Piranha]

Here (http://www.chick.com/tractimages5951/1101/1101_06.gif) we have Jarome "Jaromiel" Mitchell, the first black man to break Heaven's long-standing "colour barrier" and become an official Major League angel. This man is a true hero for our times.

Which one of our hispanic friends would care to step-up and become the 'Minnie Minoso" of Chick Tracts? We need a pioneer with conviction to represent!

[I'll_buy_that]

That is quite offensive.....

but then again, look who im talking about :rolleyes:

[FireGarden]

This applies to some sit-coms too, not just Jack


But....
Why does there seem to be an appartide where all the white folk are in one, and all the black folk are in another?

They pray to the same God, surely?

[Upchurch]

But....
Why does there seem to be an appartide where all the white folk are in one, and all the black folk are in another?
Well, there is this one (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1017/1017_01.asp), which has both black and white folks in it. I don't know if it helps that the sub-theme is that only God and little old ladies prevents black men from being criminals.


...or am I reading too much into it?

[Upchurch]

Note: I asked a moderator (namely, me) to change the title of this thread for more comedic purposes. He was nice enough to help me out.

[Marquis de Carabas]

"Cajun Chick Likes Blackened People" would have been funnier, if irrelevant.

[Palimpsest]

So... Black babies are naked and play with drums, white babies have clothes and play with dollies. Sinful Black people indulge in carnal congress with evil-looking Jezebels, while sinful white folks have expensive cars. Thanks, Chick!

Oh, and as Bart Simpson said, "Black God rules!" :D

I have to say, I love the art for "It's Your Life", especially The G-rated sex scene in the first panel and the funeral scene in panel 4.

As for "Somebody Loves Me"... :jaw-dropp I'm speechless. I have no speech. What the hell am I supposed to get out of this Poor Little Matchboy story? I mean... damn! And did Chick draw this new version himself? Because it sucks.

[blutoski]

I couldn't make this (http://www.chick.com/newseries.asp?wpc=newseries.asp&wpp=a) up.

In new black versions, This Was Your Life (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0001/0001_01.asp) has become It's Your Life (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1101/1101_01.asp) and Somebody Loves Me (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0006/0006_01.asp) has become Hard Times (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1102/1102_01.asp)

Words fail me.

I don't know why, but I always thought Chick was black.

[ChristineR]

Don't be silly. Here is the story of Gomez (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0013/0013_01.asp) a violent gang leader who turns his life around just by hearing some guy recite the standard Chick fluff! And here is the story of the Mexican 'bandito' Juan (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0019/0019_01.asp) whose bad habits lead to the death of his little son! And finally, we mustn't forget the moving story of this other guy named Juan (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0053/0053_01.asp) who is misled by communism!

Surely this will prove that Chick is sensitive to Hispanics and their issues!

[FireGarden]

Well, there is this one (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1017/1017_01.asp), which has both black and white folks in it. I don't know if it helps that the sub-theme is that only God and little old ladies prevents black men from being criminals.


...or am I reading too much into it?

The immortal line:
"Back when your Mama walked the streets as a hooker.."


But I stand corrected.
This Evilution Lesson to kids has a mixture of races.
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1051/1051_01.asp


So quit bashing Chick! He's better than the Cosby Show and Frasier put together! He's at the forefront of improving race relations.

[FireGarden]

God has varying degrees of colour in this tract: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0027/0027_01.asp

Which also includes the line, "Your MOTHER!"

[Walter Wayne]

I thought this was going to be about an article in the Onion, about a woman who likes to tell everyone how liberal she is.

"Oh, I like black people," said local college student Kristen Smith ...

Should have clicked though when it was in the R&P forum.

[Dark Jaguar]

Haha, oh sure there's nothing wrong with a mere redraw, it's the very idea that it had to be changed that's blatently offensive, in two ways really.

By the way, did anyone else notice that Death is shrouded in white in the black version? I found that amusing.

[Palimpsest]

By the way, did anyone else notice that Death is shrouded in white in the black version? I found that amusing.

Hah, yeah. I guess they couldn't get away with a Black Grim Reaper.

[ond_magiker]

I thought this was going to be about an article in the Onion, about a woman who likes to tell everyone how liberal she is.

"Oh, I like black people," said local college student Kristen Smith ...

Should have clicked though when it was in the R&P forum.

I expected the exact same thing :)

[Orb]

My favorite line from "Its Your Life":


NEXT!

Hilarious!

[Upchurch]

By the way, did anyone else notice that Death is shrouded in white in the black version? I found that amusing.
That's a white man dressed in a white robe with a face-covering hood killing a black man. I could be wrong, but I don't think that's the anthropomorphic representation of the state of non-being.

[Jekyll]

http://forums.randi.org/imagehost/47514461bcd5d3b61.gif
http://forums.randi.org/imagehost/47514461f8c9e3400.gif
So the politically correct chick says Hispanics and Blacks beat their children?
Where is the white version of the cartoon?

[Cetecea]

God has varying degrees of colour in this tract: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0027/0027_01.asp

Which also includes the line, "Your MOTHER!"


and the now ever popular....


It's True!

Also notice that the angel "recording" all events is now using a camcorder. Can't say they aren't keeping up with technology!

[brodski]

God has varying degrees of colour in this tract: http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0027/0027_01.asp

Which also includes the line, "Your MOTHER!"
Amy Wilson is Jack Chick!
http://www.chick.com/tractimages24646/0027/0027_16.gif


Did you know that someone was executed.. for you? It's True!

:D

[brodski]

and the now ever popular....


It's True!

damn you for reading my mind, damn you! :p

[Forty-Two]

The newest Chick tract (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1028/1028_01.asp?wpc=1028_01.asp&wpp=a) features a person of color -- a kindly black cleaning woman. So progressive!

[Forty-Two]

Slight threadjack, but in thinking about the new Chick tract I linked above, I don't know who it's aimed at. Usually the target audience of the tract is meant to identify with the character who gets saved (hence the blackification of the older tracts). But in this one, the character who finds salvation is a famous movie star who donates his money to the Catholic church. So, this tract is for Mel Gibson?

[ChristineR]

As little as I think of Mel Gibson, the guy is intelligent, knows his theology pretty well, and for better or for worse has chosen pre-Vatican II Roman Catholicism. The idea that a cleaning lady could convert him to evangelical Protestantism is silly.

I think the main target of the tract would be Catholics and possibly Protestants who don't agree with Chick's "saved from hell and entire lifestyle changed by 15 second prayer" theology. Chick thinks no one has ever heard this stuff before and that as soon as they hear it they will know it's true....

[Cetecea]

damn you for reading my mind, damn you! :p

No need for further evidence.

I can take the $1M in bearer bonds please!

:D

[Abdul Alhazred]

Remember that Chick's customers are the people who buy the tracts to distribute them, not the supposed target audience.

[Forty-Two]

Remember that Chick's customers are the people who buy the tracts to distribute them, not the supposed target audience.
So, people will be buying this particular tract for the sole purpose of mailing it to Mel Gibson?

[FireGarden]

The newest Chick tract features a person of color -- a kindly black cleaning woman. So progressive!

Be fair...
She's the hero of the story. And there's a black doctor, I think, in the second panel.

Chick just loves the Catholics.

It's True :)

(for all those spreading unfounded rumours, let me say that Amy adds a smiley -- plus she's Catholic)

[FireGarden]

BTW,
For all the doubters out there.....

I have the final proof! Argue with this and show your ignorance!

http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/

Jack Chick -- 99% Good
James Randi -- 50% evil, 50% good
It is True -- 99% Evil


Scientific Proof
It's True :)


Incidentally, rating websites is possible http://www.randi.org/ is
45% evil, 55% good

[Palimpsest]

The newest Chick tract (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1028/1028_01.asp?wpc=1028_01.asp&wpp=a) features a person of color -- a kindly black cleaning woman. So progressive!

Ah, yes, that reminds me of another masterpiece I picked up one night downtown some years ago, by the Pilgrim Tract Society (http://www.pilgrimtract.org/). It's entitled "Cuff - A Negro Slave" and begins thusly:


Cuff was a negro slave who lived in the South before the Civil War. He was a joyful Christian, and a faithful servant.


Well, times are hard, and his master sells him to an "infidel," who vows to stop Cuff from praying. But Cuff says


O Massa, I loves to pray to Jesus, and when I pray I loves you and Missus all the more, and can work all the harder for you.


Massa doesn't like it, Cuff keeps praying and gets a nasty whipping, but still goes on to work.


Meantime, God was working on the Master. He saw his wickedness and cruelty to that poor soul, whose only fault had been his fidelity, and conviction seized upon him. By night he was in great distress of mind.


He feels so bad that he thinks he's dying. But he doesn't want a doctor, he wants someone to pray for him. So they send for Cuff.


The master, groaning, said, "O Cuff, can you pray for me?"

"Yes, bless de Lord, Massa, I'se been prayin' for you all night,"

Master and Mistress are converted, Cuff is set free, and the master goes out to preach the Gospel. The reader is asked not to resist our loving Saviour any longer. The end.

Sigh. The more things change...

Incidentally, you can read a lot of the Pilgrim Tract Society's oeuvre online (http://www.bygodsgrace.net/tracts.html). However, the heartwarming story of Cuff is conspicuously absent.

[FireGarden]

http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/
says:

Pilgrim Tract Society -- 99% good

You can't bash them either!

[richardm]

The newest Chick tract (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1028/1028_01.asp?wpc=1028_01.asp&wpp=a) features a person of color -- a kindly black cleaning woman. So progressive!
"please... please... tell me the secret of Salvation before I die"
"Sure, right after I clean the toilet".

How very Christian!

Also: "God's gonna get you for that" :rolleyes:

[Upchurch]

Also: "God's gonna get you for that" :rolleyes:
It should read: God's gonna git you sucka! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095348/)

[Upchurch]

More love for the black man by a politically correct Chick. (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1104/1104_01.asp?wpc=1104_01.asp&wpp=a)


But not so hip about muslims (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1031/1031_01.asp?wpc=1031_01.asp&wpp=a).

[LibraryLady]

Did anyone else open this thread expecting to see something about an African American woman?

[JamesDillon]

Did anyone else open this thread expecting to see something about an African American woman?
I more expected a liberal white girl who's into interracial dating.

[Upchurch]

I more expected a liberal white girl who's into interracial dating.
How do you know it isn't? :eye-poppi

[Palimpsest]

More love for the black man by a politically correct Chick. (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1104/1104_01.asp?wpc=1104_01.asp&wpp=a)


But not so hip about muslims (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1031/1031_01.asp?wpc=1031_01.asp&wpp=a).

Well, this is interesting. For once, Chick isn't completely full of feldercarb. The bit about three goddesses and 360 idols in Mecca fits with Salman Rushdie's reinvention of Muhammed's story in The Satanic Verses (which, coincidentally, I'm rereading right now).

(Though, to be honest, I don't know how accurate Rushdie's version is, or whether the book Chick references, Islamic Invasion, just took all their material from The Satanic Verses.)

[Meffy]

http://homokaasu.org/gematriculator/

Jack Chick -- 99% Good
James Randi -- 50% evil, 50% good
It is True -- 99% Evil
God = 50% evil, 50% good
Satan = 50% evil, 50% good
Meffy = 50% evil, 50% good
Snozzcumber = 50% evil, 50% good

Feh, very short text fragments tend to come out 50-50. A shame, it was looking right amusing there...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious = 1% evil, 99% good
President Bush = 99% evil, 1% good
Gematriculator = 1% evil, 99% good

[JamesDillon]

God = 50% evil, 50% good
Satan = 50% evil, 50% good
Meffy = 50% evil, 50% good
Snozzcumber = 50% evil, 50% good

So Meffy = God?

[Meffy]

Or Satan, or possibly one of Roald Dahl's snozzcumbers. But it's more likely I'm just this ordinary mephit. =^_^=

P.S.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snozzcumber

[FireGarden]

More love for the black man by a politically correct Chick. (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1104/1104_01.asp?wpc=1104_01.asp&wpp=a)


But not so hip about muslims (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1031/1031_01.asp?wpc=1031_01.asp&wpp=a).

And Islam is blamed on Khadija, the Catholic widow Mohammed married!

Chick loves his Catholics!

I'm not sure that Khadija was Catholic. The sites I turn up on the net don't inspire much trust.

It must have been a strange form of Catholicism. Based, in part, on the Gospels of Thomas and denying the trinity/Godhood of Jesus.

The bit about three goddesses and 360 idols in Mecca fits with Salman Rushdie's reinvention of Muhammed's story in The Satanic Verses (which, coincidentally, I'm rereading right now).

The three daughters of God are denied in the Quran. Try [37:149] amongst others.

The argument is twofold. First, Why would God choose daughters for himself? (IE:rather than sons). And second, "If what you say be true, then show us your scripture." Cause it ain't true if it ain't writ down!

(It's True :))

translation by NJ Dawood

[37:149-157] Ask the unbelievers if it be true that God has daughters, while they themselves have sons. Did We create the angels female? And were they present at the creation? Surely they lie when they declare 'God has begotten children.'

Would he choose daughters rather than sons? What has come over you that you should judge so ill?

Will you not take heed? Have you a positive proof? Show us your scriptures, if what you say be true!

And Mohammed threw out all of the idols.
That said, there is a black rock that Umar ibn al-Khattab kissed -- but only after saying, "No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither harm anyone nor benefit anyone. Had I not seen Allah's Messenger kissing you, I would not have kissed you."

For once, Chick isn't completely full of feldercarb.

For once? FOR ONCE?
He's 99% good I tell you!
'tis written at aforementioned site.

Seriously?
I think the man complains too much. Jack Chick, aka "Jacoub abu Jaaje," is obviously a Muslim.

It's True.
(Unlike everything Chick says)

[Beerina]

The newest Chick tract (http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1028/1028_01.asp?wpc=1028_01.asp&wpp=a) features a person of color -- a kindly black cleaning woman. So progressive!

And this idiot of a cleaning lady willingly worships a god that would do this to people?

[andyandy]

pure gold :D

Are Roman Catholics really Christians?

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0071/0071_01.asp

Is it ok to be gay?

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1052/1052_01.asp

and my absolute favorite
Is suicide OK?

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0052/0052_01.asp
Where.....lance discovers that hell is not the party place described in popular songs. :)

[fuelair]

Until Chick recognizes we who wallow in fear of the web of the Great Arachnid that Rules the Universe we do not acknowledge Chick.