BLACK NC LT GOVERNOR SLAMS 8TH GRADE TEACHERS WRAL CARTOON DEPICTING HIM AS KKK MEMBER

North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson held a press conference Tuesday, February 2, 2021, to complain about a cartoon published the opinion section at WRAL that depicts Republicans as members of the KKK

And if I ran a statewide publication like WRAL, I would not post something like that. It’s all about where you stand at the moment when you speak.”

Seth Effron, the opinion editor for Capitol Broadcasting, said the point of the cartoon is not to literally call Republicans KKK members.

“Editorial cartoons are creative and provocative, using hyperbole and satire,” Effron wrote in an email. “No one believes Republicans on the State Board of Education are members of the Ku Klux Klan. The editorial cartoon by Dennis Draughon is meant to point out that these members of the State Board are trying to wipe out from the social studies curriculum the record of racism which includes the Klan and the segregationist practices that were imposed in our state and nation’s history.