I know a lot of people will automatically call this a racist strip because of the image of the Ku Klux Klan…but thinkers like myself will see this in a different light…

1. In this picture, there is no reference to race. If the farmers had said “He doesn’t lay brown eggs.”, then there might have been a problem.

2. Some will say this strip glorifies the Klan, but if that was the case the cartoonist would have used an animal that signifies strength, i.e. a lion, bear, tiger, etc…

3. What good is a chicken that only lays egg whites? Maybe if you are making lemon meringue pies…

We can’t deal with the problem of racism, because alot of us don’t know what it truly is...

Wisconsin Paper Suspends Comic With KKK Reference

The Beloit (Wis.) Daily News has decided to drop “Non Sequitur” for at least “awhile” because of a recent episode of the strip.

Wiley Miller’s Nov. 24 comic showed a KKK-clad chicken who only lays egg whites. A number of Daily News readers — as well as cartoonists and “Non Sequitur” syndicator Universal Press — noted that the strip was obviously ridiculing racism, not endorsing the racist KKK in any way. But the Wisconson paper has not reinstated the comic.

“Non Sequitur” runs in more than 700 newspapers.

The Daily News suspension decision was mentioned on Alan Gardner’s Daily Cartoonist blog.