Posted on 08/05/2005 10:38:40 AM PDT by Happy2BMe
Thu Aug 4, 5:20 PM ET
Picketers are expected to gather in Dearborn to protest a cartoon that was published in the Sunday, June 19, edition of the Dearborn Press & Guide.
The picket is scheduled to take place at 4 p.m. Thursday outside the newspaper's offices on Park Street, according to Local 4 reports.
The cartoon has touched off a firestorm from ethnic groups across metro Detroit who characterized it as derogatory and incredibly divisive, the station reported.
"We are shocked that any newspaper, let alone one that serves a community as diverse as the one served by the Press & Guide, would publish a cartoon purveying the blatantly bigoted attitude reflected in the one that ran in that paper on June 19," said Shirley Stancato, of New Detroit Inc., a nonprofit coalition of leaders from civil rights groups and other organizations.
The cartoon depicted what appeared to be a Mexican man wearing a sombrero who had just crawled through a hole in the border. The man in the sombrero was holding his hand out to what appeared to be a white man who was labeled as a "taxpayer." The dialogue for the man with the sombrero read as follows: "No amigo, I'm not interested in the immigration office. Just the welfare office!"
The bottom of the cartoon read: "Services for legal and illegal immigrants cost taxpayers over $68 billion per year."
About 30 representatives from different ethnic communities including the American Jewish Committee, Institute of Mexicans in Michigan, the Council of American Islamic Relations and several other groups, gathered on July 28 at New Detroit Inc. on West Grand Boulevard in Detroit to speak out against Jim Williams, the president of Heritage Newspapers, which publishes the Press & Guide.
Ethnic community leaders have asked advertisers to pull their support of the newspaper and for readers to cancel their subscriptions, the station reported.
The cartoon depicted what appeared to be a Mexican man wearing a sombrero who had just crawled through a hole in the border. The man in the sombrero was holding his hand out to what appeared to be a white man who was labeled as a "taxpayer."
"Services for legal and illegal immigrants cost taxpayers over $68 billion per year."
$68 Billion Dollar Ping.
The Emperor Has No Clothes bump to the top.
Get...a...job.
Truth doesn't matter if feeeeeeelings have been hurt.
I like Michael Savage's idea. Charge Mexico one barrel of oil per month for every wetback in the USA.
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
If you are a legal immigrant who works, pays taxes and minds his or her own business, I don't see where this figure comes from. My neighbors growing up were immigrants, they worked hard, made their kids study and the kids went out to make something of themselves. Hell, we have American citizens living in the 'hood who add nothing to society.
Plus, I tend to look at illegal immigrants as a form of business welfare that we seem to like. It's cheaper to have the lawn cut, the house painted or the roads cleared than union labor. If businesses would stop hiring them then there would be less of a demand for their discounted services.
Run Owl Run. Get out of that thread fast!!
"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government,
1. The act of invading; the act of encroaching upon the rights or possessions of another; encroachment; trespass.
If I was the editor of the paper, I would apologize on the front page by saying "I'm sorry that the truth hurts. Before you criticize us, what are you doing to stop illegal immigration and the theft from the American taxpayer?"
Glad to see a newspaper with courage.
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Can you find the cartoon in question?
Missing cartoon ping.
Here's a copy... its a PDF...
https://www.accesscommunity.org/documents/Dearborn_Press__Guide_Cartoon.pdf
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