Yeah, the cartoon (from a Rome, Georgia paper, I believe, though there are other cities called Rome around the south) should rightly self combust, it is so stoooopid.
The "true racism" meme is a neocon concept that Liberals defend welfare and food stamps and affirmative action and teaching ebonics at schools and subsidized school lunch programs and fuckin' R.I.F. because all liberals are in fact racists who think black people are incapable of thinking and feeding and caring for themselves and their children.
(I have a huge brain ache from writing all that down - ouch!)
added later: Note that the famous Rockwell painting of a little girl being escorted into school was a cover art for The Saturday Evening Post, an extremely popular magazine in it's day. IIRC, Rockwell was nominated for a Pulitzer for that masterpiece of heartening/tear-inducing populist art.