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I agree that it just furthers the stereotype of A&M as backwoods and redneck. As if A&M needs any more national scrutiny after the Bonfire tragedy. And I will also say that the cartoon wasn't even that funny. But tell me, what cartoon or comic out there has it's characters drawn in correct proportion? Are you telling me I should protest and boycott Dilbert, Calvin and Hobbes, and The Far Side because they all portray White males with disproportionate features?
I am a big defender of freedom of the press, and the editor had every right to print the cartoon. The sure-fire way to stifle a college newspaper is to implement administrative oversight, which (unfortunately) is probably what Southerland will do in an effort to appear "concerned".
I think nowadays, minority activist groups spend their time looking to pick their next fight to draw local and national attention to their agendas. An offensive cartoon at a conservative Southern university....Al Sharpton couldn't have dreamed up a better incident. I see why the cartoon offended African Americans, but come on...are you going to let a freaking cartoon get you so wound up that you stage major protests and seek national media attention? The rest of the world sees Americans as uptight, overly-sensitive, easily offended crybabies. Can you really blame them, though?
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The longer story I read about it was quite interesting that the Jewish population complained about a cartoon earlier, but nothing was said... Once it brought the blacks into the picture, it was a huge deal... My feelings on this go both ways... One one hand, if the people in the picture were white, there wouldn't have been a problem. If our nation wants to treat people equally as far as jobs, schooling, and everything else goes, shouldn't it treat people equally as far as humor goes? But on the other hand, this isn't a local or national newspaper, it is a college newspaper... I'm all for freedom of the press, but in the public's eyes, it makes A&M look bad.
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