Missouri paper owners resign in protest over racist cartoon.
Publisher Bill Miller, Sr., subsequently wrote in a column that the cartoon was meant to convey opposition to defunding police but was “racially insensitive."The co-owners said they resigned in protest because they don't have editorial control to prevent something like this happening again. They also said the publication of the cartoon hits close to home because it was their father who chose to run it.
“Many families have been having these painful discussions in the privacy of their homes,” they wrote. “We unfortunately have to have this debate in a more public way.”The cartoon was distributed by Creators, which in a statement said: “Black Lives Matter. Black voices matter. We condemn racism in all forms.” The company has pulled the cartoon and says it's not aware of it being published anywhere else.
“As a media distributor, Creators neither controls nor censors the content we receive from our writers and artists,” the company's statement said. “However, in this instance, this editorial cartoon should not have been sent and we have pulled the cartoon from all distribution platforms." Cartoonist Tom Stiglich, who made the cartoon, told St. Louis television station KSDK-TV that the nation needs “more law and order right now, not less.”
“The rioting and looting was extremely disheartening," he told the station. “That cartoon was based solely on violent crime numbers here in the US. To ignore that would be doing a disservice to the reader.”
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