Actually, the strips from the 1991 book that never made it to the website suggest otherwise. The strips after this that aren’t online confirm it. It looks like they really cherry-picked the strips they put online.
Unfortunately we didn’t get to see where they were, because in the September 11, 2001 strip, the Apteryx (sp?) was telling the turtle that the reason he was giving such a menacing look was because he was practicing to be a predator, and when the turtle asked why, he said it was because he couldn’t afford to go to law school. Haw haw haw.
This type of depiction was ok when it first came out. Doesn’t make it right by today’s standards, but surely anyone reading a comic strip from an era when racism was prevalent should certainly expect to see the same depicted.
No, you murricans make them president.