Newspaper Runs Racist Cartoon about Ferguson Looting, Ignites More Anger

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Newspaper Runs Racist Cartoon about Ferguson Looting, Ignites More Anger
By Lindsay Toler - Riverside Times

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Twitter erupted in fury after the Tribune ran a syndicated Gary McCoy cartoon based on the looting and riots that gripped Ferguson after the shooting death of eighteen-year-old Michael Brown. In the cartoon, Ferguson burns in the background as three black protesters hold picket signs advocating looting, and one black man steals a television set.

"I understand for many people, there is a very thin line between provocative and disturbing and racist," Robertson tells Daily RFT. "Maybe we were a little tone deaf on that. And maybe that's an understatement."

The cartoon accompanies a column from Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, who criticizes the "completely unjustifiable lawlessness" of the looters in Ferguson, who burned down a QuikTrip and stole from Feel Beauty Supply, Sam's Meat Market, Ferguson Market and Liquor and other stores on West Florissant Avenue.

But by the time McCoy's cartoon ran, protesters hadn't looted a store in Ferguson for four nights, and Ferguson had finally experienced its first night of relative peace in a week.

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[chervilant]

1. That "cartoon" is offensive on many levels,

and indicative of how clueless are the racists among us.

[Live and Learn]

2. No kidding. How could the editor not realize it? nt

[BlueJazz]

3. As usual, Right-Wing-cartoons= Low Class, Mean, Not Funny.

Can anyone here imagine Mike Luckovich drawing such crap as that ??

I can't either.