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Letters | SIGNE CARTOON CONTROVERSY STIRS A DEBATE
GREAT JOB, Ms. Wilkinson!
I am a 26-year-old African-American male and would like to commend Signe for her great "Ku Klux Klan Travel" cartoon (Nov. 29). While it may have rubbed some overly sensitive people the wrong way, it is undoubtedly true.
If you're searching for a spot to witness young African-American males "offing themselves in record numbers," the City of Brotherly Love is the place for you. If you want to see a reality show about young black males committing self-genocide, then come on down to Philadelphia.
Perhaps if Police Commissioner Johnson spent more time trying to make the city a safer place and less time criticizing the media, the city would be a safer place. Perhaps if Mayor Street didn't throw the city's money away on baloney programs like Safe Streets, Philadelphia wouldn't be the hellhole that it is, and has been for decades.
Ms. Wilkinson is not the problem, Commish, we African-Americans are. As a wise man (Frank Rizzo) once said, "The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe."
Greg Johnson, Philadelphia
Signe's cartoon portraying a KKK travel agent displaying views of young black men killing each other adds great insult to the grave injury of so many young black male deaths in recent weeks. Using the Klan as a tool of intended satire is beyond tasteless, it's offensive.
Ms. Wilkinson would better use her considerable talent to depict why the Pennsylvania legislature insists on keeping gun laws that make murder easy - whether for a black teen in Philadelphia or a white teen in Lancaster County.
Debra Weiner, Quakertown
So Commissioner Johnson is angry about the cartoon depicting a KKK travel agent touting Philadelphia to see black men killing each other. Well, I'm a black man just a angry as Johnson. But my anger is not with the cartoon - I'm angry that it takes a cartoon to point out the stupidity of these idiots who think nothing of taking a life to prove how macho they are.
I'm glad the commissioner is angry. I wish everyone who saw the cartoon was. I applaud Signe for having the guts to create the cartoon, and Editor Michael Days for having the backbone to back her up on this issue.
Ben St. Cyr, Philadelphia
Re the KKK editorial cartoon:
I'll keep this short - very poor taste. Very poor indeed. What kind of heartless people are running this tabloid? You lost a reader. You guys are too below my reading level anyway!
Lisa M. Andrews, Philadelphia
Guns aren't the problem
It's the criminal that is the problem
That letter from Debra Weiner of Quakertown is a joke. I'll bet there aren't 100 black people in Quakertown. It's 40 miles from inner city Philadelphia. Typical limousine liberal response.
This is why I could never be a liberal. For the life of me, I can not understand the logic that believes making gun ownership illegal would keep criminals (by definition someone who does things that are illegal) from securing guns and using them.
If every gun in the United States was rouned up and melted down, there would still be murders in Philidelphia.
It is not guns or the ease of access to guns that the murder rate is so high. It is a group of people who has such a low value on human life they do not think twice about taking anothers life.
The Pennsylvania legislature has passed gun control laws to strip law-abiding citizens of their ability to defend themselves against murderers?
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