In a follow up to the New Yorker’s “ironic” cartoon, the Washington Post published the following:

via Anxious Black Woman

As I asked in comments here, the interesting thing to consider is what could the New Yorker artist have done differently in his comic such that he truly represented irony? What’s different between the WaPo comic, which seems to represent it’s message very clearly, and the New Yorker comic, where the audience must be told how to interpret it?