Newspaper Under Fire For Alleged Racist Cartoon

clickondetroit.com ^ | July 28, 2005

[WillMalven]

Yes, at least in Texas. The state legilature gave them the status of "browns" instead of just being caucasians, or indians (of the mongoloid race).

See: Carlton S. Koons The Five Races of Man: Negroid, Caucasian, Mongoloid, Australoid, and Bushman.

[Echo Talon]

I'm Swedish... They didn't have much to say about that.

[TheForceOfOne]

That must have been a funny show. What about shooting them from cannons? lol

[hispanarepublicana]

I thought anthropologically there were only 3 races. What's Australoid and Bushman?
I've never heard this "brown" race business, and I'm in Texas. Where/what agencies is it used?

[hispanarepublicana]

My best friend is a 3rd generation American of Swedish ancestry (on both sides), and she says she's experienced the worst racist comments, etc., from ALL ethnic groups (even Irish Americans, German Americans, etc.)

[waverna]

What's the racist part, the sombrero?

[Echo Talon]

hmmm... well im not ALL Swedish... Swedish last name probably like 30%, German about 50%, the rest is Irish and American Indian.

[hispanarepublicana]

She's 110% Swedish. White blonde hair & dang near see-through eyes.
I was astounded when her accounts were confirmed after I spent some time around some Minnesotans, and they were speaking in very derogatory terms about Swedish people. I can't even post some of the things they were saying or some of the names she says she was called as a child.

[hispanarepublicana]

Latino welfare mooches

against ILLEGAL Latino welfare mooches, isn't it? simply complaining about illegals isn't racist. drawing a white taxpayer is, because the last time I looked, Mr. HR and I (who look nothing like the taxpayer in the toon) were paying around 35% of our earnings to the moochers of all flavors, legal AND illegal.

[kittymyrib]

Hey, Ahmad, don't kid yourself. The cartoon did not cause that letter to be sent. These are the feelings of the people that have observed your community and haven't liked what they saw, and the cartoon had nothing to do with their disdain for you.

[Echo Talon]

Lots of Swedish in Minnesota.

[janetgreen]

The bottom of the cartoon read: "Services for legal and illegal immigrants cost taxpayers over $68 billion per year."

So now it's racist to tell the truth?

[hispanarepublicana]

The Minnesotans I was around made reference to Swedish being who they employed on their farms, so I don't know if it was Minnesotan Swedish or Migrant Swedish or what.

[Echo Talon]

Minnesota is known as largely Norwegian...

[Echo Talon]

But, like everywhere else Germans rule...

[hispanarepublicana]

So it was Norwegians making fun of Swedish?

[foreverfree]

bump

[Echo Talon]

probably.

[hispanarepublicana]

I once read that something like 3 or 5 out of every 10 Americans can trace their heritage to Germany. I wish I could remember the exact figure. I have 2 or 3 sets of "hispanic" cousins who even have German ancestry far back on the "non-HR Family" side because of some Germans who settled in Northern Mexico.