Why in the world is this cartoon racist?
Via Red Alert:
The University of Alabama is dealing with even more claims of racism after the student newspaper The Crimson White published a cartoon was forced to apologize for running a cartoon depicting the event’s of last week’s Iron Bowl stunner in “Obama’s America.”
During the final seconds of the Iron Bowl, which is played annually between then top-ranked Alabama and their in-state rival Auburn, an Auburn player recovered a missed field goal kick by Alabama and returned it for the winning touchdown. The cartoon was meant to depict the confusion that many Alabama students felt after the touchdown was scored.
“The cartoon was meant as satire, but unfortunately it has been perceived by many readers as having racist intentions,” Mazie Bryant, the paper’s editor-in-chief, penned in Thursday’s paper.