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Paper retracts racist cartoon
By
Cheryl LaBash
Dearborn, Mich.
Published Jul 10, 2005 7:07 PM
Community anger
and demonstrations along the Michigan Avenue shopping district forced the
Dearborn Press and Guide newspaper to publish an apology for a racist,
anti-immigrant cartoon published in June. The cartoon implied that Latin@s came
to the United States for welfare. But on June 25 and July 2, protesters demand
ed more than a small apology. They want the newspaper to publish a series of
articles accurately depicting the contributions and lives of Mexican workers and
also give them proof that the person responsible was fired.
The cartoon
appeared near the beginning of the summer, when migrant workers and their
families following the fruit and vegetable harvest come north into Michigan.
While heroic organizing by the United Farmworkers Union and the Farm Labor
Organizing Committee improved conditions for farm workers, the work is still
difficult, dangerous and very low paid.
The paper insulted not only
migrant work ers but immigrant workers from Mexico and other South and Central
Amer ican countries and the Middle East. These immigrants are beginning to
change Dearborn from the exclusive racist stronghold founded by Henry Ford into
a multi-national community. On June 25 the community met at ACCESS, the Arab
Community Center For Eco nomic and Social Services.
African American
drivers passing the demonstration honked their solidarity and called out,
“They’re racist against us, too.” To this day it is still
commonly considered risky for African American men in particular to be in
Dearborn after dark. Demonstration organizers vowed to continue the fight
against racism in all its forms.
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