WASHINGTON — Georgetown University students are slamming a humor magazine for a satirical piece they say is racist and not funny.
The story in The Georgetown Heckler describes the official campus paper, The Hoya, holding a fictional cross-burning and refers to “dark, human-shaped pinatas.” A photograph shows what appear to be the Ku Klux Klan and a burning cross.
The Heckler was poking fun at troubles The Hoya ran into this year when it published an April Fool’s issue criticized as racist and sexist.
Jheanelle Brown, 21, president of the campus NAACP chapter, said a coalition of groups asked for an apology from the Heckler.
“I’m extremely, extremely angry and, as a black person, really offended and physically sick,” said the senior from Lithonia, Ga. “I’m just personally tired of being attacked for who I am at a white school.”
Senior Jack Stuef, 21, editor of the Heckler, said he apologized to the group but had no plans to take the article down from the website.
“They didn’t really understand the point, which was not to be racist but to satirize racism itself,” he said. “We still stand behind our point in the article that we think racism exists on campus.”
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