{"id":4165,"date":"2024-08-02T09:55:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T13:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T17:31:44","slug":"always-relevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/?p=4165","title":{"rendered":"Always Relevant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/JPA456.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"560\" height=\"410\" src=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/JPA456.jpg\" alt=\"Always Relevant\" class=\"wp-image-4166\" srcset=\"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/JPA456.jpg 560w, http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/JPA456-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I drew this cartoon a week ahead of time so I&#8217;d be free and clear to enjoy vacation. It&#8217;s always a challenge to guess ahead at what might remain relevant. But to be honest, I hedged my bet considerably by picking race as a topic because it is safely always relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So a week ago, the buzz was about Kamala Harris and floating the accusation that she was a DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) hire. This has now been superseded by Donald Trump&#8217;s rant about Harris that, in his esteemed assessment, she is somehow not Black. This, of course, from a person and a party (they are really now the same thing) who often profess not to see color and are annoyed by all this racial stuff. Yet they keep weaponizing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In any case, I&#8217;m sadly confident this cartoon will have another good reason to be relevant next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I do think the common ground here is the aspiration to treat all people as people first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I drew this cartoon a week ahead of time so I&#8217;d be free and clear to enjoy vacation. It&#8217;s always a challenge to guess ahead at what might remain relevant. But to be honest, I hedged my bet considerably by picking race as a topic because it is safely always relevant. So a week ago, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial-cartoon","category-michiganpress-org","category-michiganradio-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4167,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions\/4167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/auchtoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}