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Sotomayor Cartoon Sparks Outcry
By Kevin Spak
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Posted Jun 4, 09 7:05 AM CDT
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An editorial cartoon depicting Sonia Sotomayor strung up as a piñata has sparked a minor outcry, the Huffington Post reports. Published in the right-leaning Oklahoman yesterday, it shows Obama in a sombrero inviting the GOP to take a whack at the Supreme Court nom. “She’s of Puerto Rican descent—ergo the piñata image—right? wink, wink,” wrote the chair of the Oklahoma Women’s Coalition. “Not funny; actually, stupid and damaging.”
“That cartoon sends a message to women of all ages,” she continued, “‘Back off. Know your place. Or we'll take a stick to you and teach you a lesson.’” A Daily Kos blogger also pointed out that it looks a lot like Sotomayor’s being lynched. “There is a vigorous racist block of voters in Oklahoma,” he wrote, “that I believe this cartoon is catering to.”