This is what I enjoy, a civilized conversation on a topic that has been blown out of proportion by many organizations. Ok, here is my take on the issue...

I think that the artist was not intending the cartoon to be taken as "racest" but rather he/she was trying to combine 2 news stories in a comical fashon. What the cartoon depicted was wrong, no doubt about that, but as said earlier it is his right under the first amendment. That being said, the editor who allowed that cartoon to be published should have had enough sense not to publish it. Maybe something that has not been said, perhaps the editor saw this as an oppurtunity to increase the papers sales. I know that I will be keeping a closer eye on it.

Thanx to everyone for your opinions.