Controversy At South Philadelphia High Continues; Newspaper Cartoon Denounced At Public Meeting
A cartoon by the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Tony Auth published Tuesday portraying South Philadelphia High principal LaGreta Brown asleep at her desk—a reference to the charge that the school’s leadership was in disarray on Dec. 3 when Asian students were beaten in a series of well-publicized attacks—drew a swift and sharp response from a number of Brown supporters yesterday at a School Reform Commission yesterday.
According to a story in today’s Inquirer, J. Whyatt Mondesire, head of the Philadelphia chapter of the NAACP, called the cartoon “disgusting,” and said “the Inquirer should be ashamed of what it did to Mrs. Brown.”
Fueling the fire, Inquirer publisher Brian Tierney fired back: “In a battle of credibility between Jerry Mondesire and Tony Auth, I’m going to go with Tony Auth all the time.”
