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Wed Mar 28, 2012 at 03:13 PM CDT
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| One day after her offensive cartoon made national news, Daily Texan cartoonist Stephanie Eisner has apologized.
"I apologize for what was in hindsight an ambiguous cartoon related to the Trayvon Martin shooting. I intended to contribute thoughtful commentary on the media coverage of the incident, however this goal fell flat. I would like to make it explicitly clear that I am not a racist, and that I am personally appalled by the killing of Trayvon Martin. I regret any pain the wording or message of my cartoon may have caused," she said.
Good. This story has a brighter ending if the cartoonist isn't a frothing student-racist with direct access to the editorial pages of UT's student newspaper. Eisner's appears to be a sincere apology and a recognition that the cartoon was reprehensible in its effort to minimize the murder of Trayvon Martin to a media attempt to bash white people.
In the future, The Daily Texan must better screen their editorial content - if there is a subtle message that the writer or cartoonist intends, it needs to be well designed. Eisner's cartoon amounted to a hateful degradation of Trayvon Martin's murder. The cartoon deserves all the criticism it has received.
Indeed, the backlash against this cartoon and other hateful commentary on the murder has been inspirationally strong. A CNN poll last week showed that 3/4 of Americans want George Zimmerman arrested for murder. That is heartening; most Americans know what a brutal outrage Trayvon Martin's murder is, and they know that justice has not been served. |
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