Aunt Jemima Toon Widely Condemned

Reactions to a Walt Carr cartoon in the Cleveland Call And Post featuring state senator Nina Turner in a mammy/Aunt Jemima outfit continued to build throughout out the week. Most of them were negative. The Diversity Center Of Northeast Ohio condemned the cartoon in a press release that came out yesterday afternoon. Local political and religious leaders seemed unhappy with it as well. The Plain Dealer has been running letters like this one all week. This article describes the heat placed on outgoing Cleveland NAACP president George Forbes, who has endorsed the cartoon in as much as he says the NAACP chapter will not come out against it and by underlining one of its intentions -- that Turner was doing a disservice to the black community when she performed the political action that brought about the cartoon.

A couple of the interesting and I think largely unstated -- I don't have a link -- ideas percolating throughout a lot of these stories is the specificity of it being appropriate to the Call And Post to do a cartoon like then when the Plain Dealer couldn't, and how much the African-American newspaper still represents the wider black community in its area of service.
 
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