Overtly racist cartoon published in rural MO paper sparks protests

[jcgoldie]

https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/missouri-newspaper-racist-cartoon/63-1700a8f0-ec78-4e8c-b4b9-95985df31659

[Solomon]

1. Yep. That's pretty bad.

[Bettie]

2. I can see why

whoever said "yeah, that's good, we'll run it" is either stupid or wanted to stoke tensions.

[cry baby]

3. I'm speechless at the stupidity and overt racism in this depiction.

How in the ever loving he’ll did this make it into a newspaper?

[jcgoldie]

5. Washington MO prides itself as the corncob pipe capital of the world...

Whenever you find yourself puzzling over how the worst person in the world was elected president think of the thousands of Franklin County MOs

[cry baby]

9. I've only ever lived in Tennessee and Texas. Small towns

in east Texas are similar. Tennessee legislators just voted to keep the founder of the KKK on display in the capitol building.

I’ll just never get used to the stoking of hatred. And they’re quite proud of their racism. The current administration is making them feel good and right in their hatred of people that don’t look like themselves.

I hope these many nightmares are over soon.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. White women are both a tool and a weapon in the system of white supremacy, and this cartoon

captures that reality.

[MyOwnPeace]

6. That story has been out for several days.......

the "owner/father" of the family-run paper "OK'ed" that to be run in the paper, much to the dismay of the daughter/person in charge. It's my understanding that the father (a "senior citizen&quot has agreed to step down from the paper.
Here's the DU post from earlier: https://www.democraticunderground.com/10614339

[jcgoldie]

8. sorry just saw it on local news

When I looked up the story and saw how over the top the cartoon was unabashedly pulling on the most basic racist stereotypes I felt compelled to share.

[MyOwnPeace]

10. No apology necessary.........

certainly a story that needs to be seen more than once and not lost in 5 minutes!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. How on earth could they have *not* noticed that cartoon was all wrong?

And they don't mention the cartoonist anywhere. Who even draws shit like that any more?

[WePurrsevere]

11. Apparently Tom Stiglich was the cartoonist...

It's sideways in the lower right corner.


He replied to a question about it in a news article.I

The cartoonist Tom Stiglich sent the following statement to 5 On Your Side's Sara Machi:

"Thanks for writing and for giving me the opportunity to respond. First and foremost, may George Floyd rest in peace. he did not deserve to die like that. I do not condone racism or police brutality of any kind. It's such a hostile environment we're living in right now, one that needs more law and order, not less. The rioting and looting was extremely disheartening. That cartoon was based solely on violent crime numbers here in the US. To ignore that would be doing a disservice to the reader.Best wishes, Tom"

"Based solely on violent crime numbers here in the US"... Pigpoop! Those are racist assumptions!

A quick search finds this on the FBI site...
White = 5,626,140
African American = 2,221,697

Here's info from OJDDP .gov site from 2018: (All ages)
White = 7,115,940
Black = 2,826,460

That sure looks like WHITES commit MORE violent crimes than BLACKS do.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. He sounds nice.

Actually, he's not. I just looked up some of his other cartoons; he appears to be somewhere to the right of Darth Vader.

[WePurrsevere]

14. Yeah, he's really awful. nt

[lettucebe]

13. So stupid -- guess they don't know what defunded means

[struggle4progress]

15. Washington MO: 96.7% White, 0.7% African American

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington,_Missouri#Demographics

[Tipperary]

16. Wow.

Ugh.