US editor who tried to criticize Vivek Ramaswamy apologizes to Indian Americans

New York: An American newspaper editor has apologized to the Indian-American community for a cartoon. Published in criticism of Vivek Ramaswamy, who was involved in the presidential nomination of the Republican Party, this cartoon took a dig at the conservatism of the Indian-American community. Tom Martin, executive editor of the Quad City Times, apologized to the community and Ramaswamy in Friday’s edition of the newspaper, saying, “Racist and hateful ideas, words or images have no place in our publications, much less in our society.” ‘

The editor defended the cartoonist
He said that cartoonist Leo Kelly has been fired from the newspaper. But Ramaswamy came to the rescue of the cartoonist in a letter published in the newspaper. He wrote, ‘We should not take this matter forward nor should people be taken out on this matter. The cartoonist should not be fired in any way. We are all humans. Accepting the editor’s apology, he wrote, ‘I sympathize with people who occasionally make mistakes.’ The Quad-City Times is a regional newspaper based in Davenport, Iowa and also covers parts of neighboring Illinois.

more than 70 thousand copies
It is owned by the media company Lee Enterprises, which publishes more than 70 newspapers across the United States, including the Dispatch-Argus, which published the cartoon alongside. “We apologize today through our editorial process and for allowing such an image to appear on our opinion page on Wednesday in the form of a political cartoon,” Martin wrote.

Ramaswamy said – it is very shameful
After the cartoon was published, Ramaswamy tweeted, ‘It is sad that MSM (mainstream media) views Republicans like this. I’ve met grassroots conservatives across America and not once did I experience the kind of bigotry I regularly see from the Left. He said, ‘The @QCTimes of Iowa has every right to publish this, but it is still a shame.’