Posts Tagged ‘Halloween’
Cartoons of the day
Posted: 12 October 2020 in UncategorizedTags: business, cartoons, coronavirus, election, FDA, Halloween, pandemic, stocks, Trump
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 1 November 2019 in UncategorizedTags: 1 percent, cartoon, climate crisis, GOP, Halloween, infrastructure, Nazis, opioids, racism, Republicans, tax cuts, trickledown, Trump
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 12 October 2018 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, climate change, GOP, Halloween, immigration, inequality, politics, Republicans, Trump, United States, war, wealth, work, workers
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 31 October 2017 in UncategorizedTags: 1 percent, cartoon, coal, gender, Halloween, harassment, inequality, jobs, middle-class, miners, tax cuts, workers
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 3 November 2015 in UncategorizedTags: Afghanistan, cartoon, election, Halloween, Iraq, Republicans, soldiers, Turkey, United States, war
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Only in America
Posted: 31 October 2015 in UncategorizedTags: academy, Halloween, immigration, Kentucky, Mexico, Only in America, racism
University of Louisville students protested the decision by university president James Ramsey to host a Halloween party with members of the university staff at Amelia Place, a mansion owned by the University of Louisville Foundation.
The University of Louisville apologized Thursday after President James Ramsey [lower right in the photo above] faced criticism for a photo in which he and other university staffers were depicted at a Halloween party wearing stereotypical Mexican costumes with sombreros, which a university spokesman said some had “considered offensive.” . . .
“We made a mistake and are very sorry,” Kathleen Smith, chief of staff to the president, said in a statement, which noted her office had met with a top official of U of L’s Office of Hispanic and Latino Initiatives and shared “our deep regret for the hurt this experience has caused.”. . .
As social media criticism grew, university officials released an apology Thursday evening, addressing it to “Hispanic/Latino Faculty, Staff and Students.”
“We commit to a series of campus conversations with students, faculty, staff, alumni and community members to further focus on diversity and racial equality issues underpinning the pluralistic society we all support. This event shows we have much more to learn about our community,” Smith said.
This is what we’ve come to in the United States: a university president hosting a party at which he encourages his guests to dress in costumes that mock Mexican-Americans, and an apology that presumes only Hispanics are offended? While one of the major political parties debates the best way to build a wall on the southern border and deport the 11.5 million undocumented immigrants in the United States.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
Cartoon of the day
Posted: 28 October 2015 in UncategorizedTags: 1 percent, cartoon, family values, Halloween, inequality, Iraq, Paul Ryan, Tony Blair, Tories, United Kingdom, war
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 27 October 2015 in UncategorizedTags: cartoon, corruption, FIFA, Halloween, inequality, Iraq, Tony Blair, trickledown, war
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 22 October 2015 in UncategorizedTags: 1 percent, Bernie Sanders, Canada, cartoon, Donald Trump, election, Halloween, Hillary Clinton, inequality, poor
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Cartoon of the day
Posted: 31 October 2014 in UncategorizedTags: 1 percent, cartoon, corporations, elections, equal pay, Halloween, minimum wage, money, Obama, PACs, Republicans, United States, voting
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