# B.C. 5/2 - Johnny Hart tosses dig at KKK **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 28, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020 "2003-05-28T14:37:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/1 "2003-05-28T14:37:51Z")
I haven’t been paying much attention to the comics lately so I only just caught this. [http://www.comics.com/creators/bc/archive/bc-20030502.html](http://www.comics.com/creators/bc/archive/bc-20030502.html) ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/2 "2003-05-28T15:04:12Z")
Cute strip, I suppose, but why is it noteworthy? It’s not as if the Ku Klux Klan has ever been a sacred cow. The Klan has been mocked (rightly) in popular culture for decades. Or are we supposed to be surprised that Johnny Hart (a conservative, evangelical Christian who’s often slammed in these boards for his beliefs) shares America’s general disdain for the Klan? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/3 "2003-05-28T15:15:59Z")
We’re supposed to be surprised that Hart is being topical for a change. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/4 "2003-05-28T17:25:28Z")
Call me when Hart takes potshots at the Republican Party or the Christian right, then we’ll talk. Heck, even Aaron McGruder takes aim at black people… ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/5 "2003-05-28T17:39:03Z")
I won’t swear to it, but I strongly believe that that strip is a rerun from several years ago.\* If it is, then so much for topicality, I guess. \*[sub]Bear in mind that I’m the same guy who remembers Peppermint Patty (Peanuts) call things “dorks” and “dorky” over a period of several weeks. So accept this at your own risk.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/6 "2003-05-28T18:03:40Z")
You might be right about it being a repeat, I noticed one of the more recent Sunday strips is _really_ old. Still, it’s better than his usual preaching and bad puns. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2003, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/7 "2003-05-28T20:48:55Z")
“I don’t get it…if B.C. is a caveman, how can he celebrate Ash Wednesday?” 😃 Come to think of it…are there actually any _black_ cavemen in the strip? ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/8 "2003-05-29T01:55:06Z")
What’s that thing in the middle frame? Looks like a mosquito wearing spectacles. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/9 "2003-05-29T02:18:40Z")
LOL That’s the schoolmarm ant. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/45deac/32.png) [@Evil\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_One)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/10 "2003-05-29T14:07:09Z")
“BC” is like “Doonesbury” for me. If I want preaching, I will go to church. And I haven’t been there in a long time. I read the comics to be amused. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/11 "2003-05-29T17:55:50Z")
I used to enjoy BC. When I was a kid it was one of my favorite strips. It’s still funny sometimes, but the preaching gets me down, and the interview with Johnny Hart that appeared a while back was really sad. ---
**Author:** ![stolichnaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bcef8e/32.png) [@stolichnaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stolichnaya)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/12 "2003-05-29T18:02:52Z")
> [@](#): > > I read the comics to be amused. Well, there’s your first problem. Ah, yeah I hate to be that guy, durn it. I am just always amazed that things like “BC” stay on and on when there is really funny stuff out there, and Calvin is gone forever. I remember Foxtrot being my favorite post-C&H, is that still around? ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/13 "2003-05-29T18:17:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by kaylasdad99 \* > \*\*\*[sub]Bear in mind that I’m the same guy who remembers Peppermint Patty (Peanuts) call things “dorks” and “dorky” over a period of several weeks. So accept this at your own risk.[/sub] \*\* **Hijack:** I remember that too. Early 70s. But was it Peppermint Patty or Marcie? It was definitely in conversations between the two. Why do you doubt your memory? Or should I be doubting mine? ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/14 "2003-05-29T20:20:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jeff Olsen \* > \*\*We’re supposed to be surprised that Hart is being topical for a change. 🙂 \*\* Topical? That strip could’ve been run at any point in the last 130 years or so. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/15 "2003-05-29T20:52:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ranchoth \* > \*\*Come to think of it…are there actually any _black_ cavemen in the strip? \*\* Hey, the last time I ever red the strip regularly, the only cavewomen in the strip bore the names “fat broad” and “skinny broad”. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2003, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-c-5-2-johnny-hart-tosses-dig-at-kkk/178020/16 "2003-05-29T21:10:29Z")
Wow - taking on the KKK? That’s pretty radical. Watch out, Hitler, you might be next. What would impress me would be if he stopped having a character called “Fat Chick”.:rolleyes: On preview, looks like it’s “Fat Broad” - same difference.