Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie Hebdo....Pour Toujours

I think Byron York's response to the Charlie Hebdo cover depicting Nazi flags covered by water with the caption, "God Drowned All The Neo-Nazis of Texas" was perfect:

"Today, we are not all Charlie Hebdo."

Such a cartoon and caption could only be written by a group of people who know nothing of Texas. The idea that the Lone Star state is homogeneous much less one that subscribes to Nazism is a preposterous fallacy. More than a third of the state is Hispanic. A quarter of Houston residents are African-American. So Texas voted for Trump. But even so and even if Texas were 95% white, no one deserves to be kicked while they are down.

With all that said, I don't believe anyone from Paris, Texas will fly to Paris, France and shoot up the Charlie Hebdo offices. Nor should Charlie Hebdo be subject to any penalty by the French government. Charlie Hebdo has every right to put out whatever cover they see fit. In turn, the French public has every right not to buy it and I have the right to declare their cover to be stupid and cruel.
However, the people of Texas, particularly the people of Houston, will survive the stupidity and cruelty of Charlie Hebdo and rebuild from Hurricane HarveyThis cover says more about them than it could ever say about the people of Texas.

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Je ne suis pas Charlie Hebdo....pour toujours.