Get a load of this racist "cartoon" by a U of Texas Austin student...

[joeybee12]

Couldn't get it imbedded...click on the link.

http://www.trbimg.com/img-4f74bc4c/turbine/la-na-nn-trayvon-cartoon-20120329-001/600


Houston—
The controversial cartoon that appeared this week in the University of Texas at Austin's Daily Texan showed a mother sitting in a chair labeled "the media" reading to a child from a book titled, "Treyvon [sic] Martin and the case of yellow journalism.”

The mother says: “And then the big bad ‘white’ man killed the handsome, sweet, innocent ‘colored’ boy.”

The cartoon appeared in the paper Tuesday, just as students and residents held a rally in downtown Austin for Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old youth shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Florida.

An online backlash ensued, and the Daily Texan's editorial board initially responded by adding a disclaimer to the cartoon.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-trayvon-cartoon-20120329,0,2989517.story?track=rss

[gateley]

1. I saw that, and what makes me even sadder is that I kind of naturally

assume that college-age people (and other young people) know what's right and wrong. After all, I grew up in the sixties, these kids would be my grandchildrens' ages now. I'd have raised my kids 'right' and they in turn would have raised their kids 'right'. Right?

Probably a good thing I never had any.

I was surprised this appeared in a paper affiliated with a college.

[joeybee12]

2. It's Texas, of course, but Austin is supposedly the one sane

area in the state...cannot believe they allowed it to run.

[WI_DEM]

3. the cartoonist (Stephanie Eisner) will soon be offered a gig by Faux News, I'm sure.