Someone was listening a little too hard to Kanye’s “New Slaves.”

A Pennsylvania newspaper had to apologize on behalf of their editorial cartoon, which compared modern-day air travel to the “Middle Passage” aka slave ships. The trans-Atlantic leg of the slave trade continues to be a very touchy topic that involves brutal experiences of most of our ancestors. The slave trade involved transporting captive Africans to the Americas to be sold into bondage…

YEA, nothing to make light of.

The now-deleted cartoon ran in the Lancaster New Era. The cartoon drew the parallel between uncomfortable seating on airplanes to gruesome and repulsive conditions under which African men, women, and children had to forcibly live.

THAT’S AN ISSUE!

The president of Lancaster Newspapers [John A. Kirkpatrick] and the company’s executive editor [Barb Roda] issued a statement of how they are “deeply sorry” for publishing such ignorance in their cartoons. They “promise to do better.”

“To somehow link the inconveniences of air travel with slavery in general and the slave ships in particular was not only just plain wrong[,] it was deeply hurtful to our African American community and all those who understand the horrors inflicted on the men and women forced into the slave trade,” Kirkpatrick and Roda wrote.

-_- Do better.

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Source Huffington Post