No more ethnic slurs

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The Bangor Daily News cartoon (April 8) portraying Arabs lining up at a bank to deposit oil profits is misleading and an ethnic slur. It would be unthinkable for the BDN to portray Jews or African Americans in a comparably stereotyped manner. This implies that…
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The Bangor Daily News cartoon (April 8) portraying Arabs lining up at a bank to deposit oil profits is misleading and an ethnic slur. It would be unthinkable for the BDN to portray Jews or African Americans in a comparably stereotyped manner.

This implies that OPEC is an exclusively Arab organization when it fact it includes non-Arab countries such as Venezuela, Indonesia and Iran. I hope the BDN will avoid such slurs in the future.

Thomas E. Martin

Ellsworth


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