‘Extremely offensive’

Dear Editor:

I am writing about the extremely offensive cartoon in last week’s Wellington Advertiser.

I am well aware that the Wellington area is a largely Conservative county and our prime minister may not be very popular but to make a parody of what happened to George Floyd in the U.S. is an absolute disgrace; the only thing that would have made this worse is have a clock running in the background running to 8 minutes and 46 seconds.

Last week you published an article from a local Black student who spoke very poignantly about her struggles with racism in our area and this week you published this cartoon.

I hope you take a step back and take a long hard look at what made you think this was an appropriate cartoon to publish. As our local newspaper you need to be part of the solution not the problem.

Keely Smith, Fergus