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THE WTF FILES: NY POST RACIST CARTOON
The NY Post must have forgotten what year we’re living in by posting the above cartoon:
The Rev. Al Sharpton is demanding that The New York Post, which has come under fire in the past for racially tinged cartoons, explain what it meant in its latest controversial offering.
Played prominently on today’s editorial pages, the cartoon depicts two police officers – one with his smoking gun drawn – standing over what appears to be a dead chimpanzee in a pool of blood. One officer says to the other: “Now they’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”
Is begs the question: Are they referring to the dead chimp as the president of the United States?
Without jumping to conclusions I tried to determine what the $787 billion stimulus package signed into law yesterday and the police shooting of a raging mad chimpanzee have in common.
The Rev. Al Sharpton appears to be a bit puzzled as well. “Being that the stimulus bill has been the first legislative victory of President Barack Obama (the first African American president) and has become synonymous with him it is not a reach to wonder whether the Post cartoonist was inferring that a monkey wrote it?”
The Rev. Al Sharpton is demanding that The New York Post, which has come under fire in the past for racially tinged cartoons, explain what it meant in its latest controversial offering.
“On its face, it appears that the Post is not only calling Obama an ape, but a dead ape. “The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best, given the racist attacks throughout history that have made African-Americans synonymous with monkeys,” Sharpton writes on his National Action Network Web site. “One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual inference to this form of racism when, in the cartoon, the police say after shooting a chimpanzee, ‘now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill, Sharpton writes.
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I think this cartoon is a true testement to the ignorance still alive in our society, think about this, that cartoon had to pass a few eyes in the publishing world to have made it to press… crazy! Ignorance only hurts them in the long run, one way or another…
This is clearly racial and targeted at Obama. We don’t need to wait for an answer from NY Times. It’s messed up and ignorant. The best thing we can do is continue to follow Obama’s example to move forward with the message of CHANGE in mind and don’t play into the heat of this controversial cartoon. If we don’t change and lead with good spirited hearts there will still be many left with an ignorant mind against minorities. That would be unfortunate and counter-productive towards what Martin Luther King Jr. and Barack Obama have laid down for us. Ignorance is based upon fear and those who fear need to see and learn that there is nothing to fear but that’s only possible with loving hearts and open minds. Don’t be angry with this cartoon. Someone just needs a better persepective and anyone who believes in change can sway them.
My first thoughts when looking at the comic was, “Oh no, this is gonna turn into a huge race issue” but how about everyone just forget the race card for a second. Whatever genius that came up with this comic strip should remember that all this negativity towards the new direction our country is going in is what got us in this mess in the first place. The stimulus bill didn’t even have time to start working yet and we get this type of unenthusiastic comment. If we want our country to move forward we need everyone to stop playing these petty games and just work together as the one United States, after all that is what we are and I think people have forgotten that.
Also, all these people who have comments to say about the racial aspect of this comment need to remember that by condemning the New York Post and whoever the artist of this comic is won’t help. It will just create more problems for the rest of us and you’re just giving these people the attention they want.
-High School Student from the DMV.
This is terribly disappointing. I can’t imagine what or who the monkey is supposed to represent. I guess on a high-level it can represent the Obama Administration as a whole, depicting them as a crazed monkey gone out of control, such as the crazy monkey that was shot down by police earlier this week in California. On the other hand, it could represent Obama himself, depicting a black man as a monkey. Either way this political cartoon will definitely not bode well in the African American community or those who are against racism.
Oh!! There is no doubt and no other way to accept it. This cartoon is very racist.
Who ever wrote and decided to publish it also knew it was racist but did not care.
Think about it, these people are not dumb. They did not get their jobs by being stupid, they have degrees in that field. They have already thought about all the negative feedback they were going to receive from this cartoon, but they published it anyway. They do not respect black people, never have and never will, they just put up with us because they have to. It is very sad that in this day and time prejudice is still alive and well. Sad, Sad, Sad!!!!!
That is straight up fucked up whoever wrote that shit should be fired from the paper and then delt with later like have no job 4 a couple years like sum folks!!!