City Island hate mail cartoon has origins in notorious 'WAR' white supremacist group via bronxtimes
In late October and early this month, Caliente’s, Seafood Kingz 2, Archie’s Tap and Table and Little Frida’s Eatery, all restaurants on City Island in the east Bronx, received the same cartoon in the mail postmarked from New Jersey. The cartoon,
Seafood Kingz for its role in informing the media about the letters. The restaurant organized a press conference on Saturday to denounce the hate mail, which was“You decided to call the news,” the letter read, in part. “ … The Nazi party has resurrected. We have agents everywhere.” Mann is known for creating the “Happy Merchant” antisemitic caricature, which has been replicated countless times through antisemitic memes, as reported by Buzzfeed News in an article thatThough the Jewish man depicted in the cartoon disseminated on City Island isn’t exactly the “Happy Merchant,” it mirrors the style of Mann’s many bigoted drawings.
“Something that makes A. Wyatt Mann’s cartoon infamous is the grotesque racist and antisemitic imagery,” Pitcavage told the Bronx Times. “There is no level of crudity that would stop him. He was willing to go as low as you could possibly get. And that’s why the worst racists and antisemites love his work. It really appeals to the worst aspects of those people’s nature.”
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