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Clearly, there's something in the image that is infantalizing and dismissive, and that's unfortunate. But it's the same move made by Comedy Central's Lil Bush. To call it a racial slur rests one of two really difficult assumptions. First, one could view it as racist because it's a dismissive jab at Obama that employs a black youth. But on that count, every visual representation of Obama would qualify as offensive. Second, Casper seems to want to read this image through the cliched racism that "all black kids are cute." I suppose that could be going on, but it seems the viewer has to bring a lot of that to the image to see it at play. In Casper's estimation, can one be dismissive of Obama in any way without being racist? Can one create an image critical of Obama (an image that would call forth race as a matter of fact) without a visual racism? And what happens to the underlying argument about experience when Obama supporters (though Obama doesn't seem to do this) deflect the experience question by way of race?