Aunt Jemima Cartoon Angers Supporters of Ohio Lawmaker
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An African-American newspaper in Cleveland published an editorial cartoon that portrayed a black lawmaker as Aunt Jemima, angering her supporters.
Some blacks find the food company advertising character offensive because of its use as a racist stereotype.
The weekly Call & Post cartoon cast state Sen. Nina Turner as Aunt Jemima. The cartoon accompanied an editorial criticizing the Cleveland Democrat for supporting last month's successful ballot issue to overhaul county government.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Some blacks fear the changes will reduce minority political power.
Call & Post associate publisher and editor Connie Harper says the caricature isn't hurtful.
Backers of Turner, many of them young black professionals, call it racist and demeaning.