Protest Over Cartoon at University of Kentucky Leads to Apologies, Resignation

A cartoon appearing in the Friday edition of the University of Kentucky's student-run publication The Kentucky Kernel sparked an impromptu protest of about 100 students that day. At issue was the use of slave auction and chain visual to parody the integration attempts by a few of the campus's fraternities. The cartoon was drawn by staff cartoonist Brad Fletcher.

Fletcher apologized here. The newspaper's apology, by Editor Keith Smiley, appears here. And it was probably a bad day to be the other Brad Fletcher.

The newspaper's opinions editor, Chad Reese, resigned his position after being told his column defending the cartoon's publication would not run in today's Kernel.
 
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