Posted on 04/15/2002 9:05:29 AM PDT by Big Guy and Rusty 99
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:33:14 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
An editorial cartoon questioning the notion of slave reparations published by a student newspaper in Indiana was denounced as disrespectful of Purdue University's minority community and prompted an apology by the editor of the paper, The Exponent.
The cartoon, by Pulitzer-winner Pat Oliphant, features Abraham Lincoln as reluctant to hand out reparations to a group who already seems to have garnered a number of benefits. It also makes a side comment about blacks and the Academy Awards.
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great, we'll be right over to deport you.
Dear Katrina Baker
The Line to leave this country (Constitutional Republic that is!) forms to the right... Don't let the Door Hit'ya were the Good Lord Split'ya
Should've made it critical of whites in some way; then there wouldn't have been a problem!
Face painting has been banned at 4-H camps in West Virginia and several other longstanding American Indian customs could also be axed because they might be offensive to Native Americans and violate federal law, reports The Associated Press.
Heaven forbid the children have fun. After all, they're just miniature adults, and, at EVERY age should be fully aware of EVERYTHING offensive, unless they're playing basketball, and then they can make fun of the white guy(s).
Espinosa was on assignment at the city library when his 50-pound Labrador mix, Kimba, was attacked by L.C., the library cat. The suit contends the city is guilty of a hate crime for putting the welfare of its "dangerous cat" above people with disabilities.
I could make a few crude pussycat references here, but won't.
"When I saw that flyer, I read it as 'Bay Buchanan is here to hang me,'" said Katrina Baker. She said the "Constitution is irrelevant on this campus. We are [a] private [college]. We do not go by that here."
Hear HEAR! No need for the pesky Constitution when there are IMPORTANT issues to tackle, like transgenderness, and CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM.
"I feel The Exponent has a long way to go in terms of long-term commitment with goals set forth in terms of diversity training and contacts among diverse groups," said junior Felix McElroy, president of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Holy crap! This guy’s channeling the ghost of Jesse Jackson!
Aren’t you supposed to wait till they die before you do that?
Espinosa was on assignment at the city library when his 50-pound Labrador mix, Kimba, was attacked by L.C., the library cat…Espinosa, who sees perfectly well, relies on the state-certified assistance dog to help him deal with anxiety attacks and other health problems.
He draws emotional strength from a dog that gets beaten up by a cat.
Daniel Baker, president of Created Equal: Allied in Fighting Homophobia, said the poster was in poor taste, "especially in Gaypril when there is heightened risk of violence against the LGB community."
This article is the funniest thing that’s been posted since the month of Femruary.
But It is not ok for me to "speak" if I am anti-reparations?
Well, shut my mouth, literally!!
Gaypril? What does that make some of the other months?
Manuary?
Lesbruary?
The mind boggles.
-archy-/-
The only little bit of editorial tinkering I did was to include the descriptive adjective *black* in the copy, since one of my neighbors at the time was a single black guy, and that helped me- and presumably, our readers- better visualize him as an oppressor of women.
HE thought it was funny as he11, and spot-on. My editor thought it was a hoot. Them dumbJanes did not.
LOL......excellent! I woulda loved to have seen their reactions in person, but I can imagine......and be entertained. hehe
Purdue thread, slugbug!
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