Last week The Recorder, a non-official student newspaper distributed at Central Connecticut State College, ran an explicitly sexual cartoon about urinating on a 14-year-old Latina being held prisoner that set a new level for campus racism and sexism.
Amazingly, it was published at virtually the same time that six White men and women in West Virginia were arrested for kidnapping and sexually abusing a young Black woman in a very similar scenario.
The cartoon called “Polydongs” features geometric characters, a triangle and a square, having the following conversation:
Triangle: (on phone to Square) You know… when I eat a bowl of Smacks or Golden Crisps, my urine smells like honey.
Square: Does it taste like honey too?
Triangle : I dunno. I’d have to ask that 14 year old Latino girl tied up in the closet.
Square: Oh. Tell Juanita I say, “Hola.”
