Will someone call their NAACP chapter? where is the headquarters Md? I called my local Chapter--we're waiting impatiently.
NY Post cartoon seems to link Obama to dead chimp
NEW YORK - The New York Post is standing behind a cartoon that some have
interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee
gunned down by police.
The cartoon in Wednesday's Post by Sean Delonas shows two police officers
standing over the body of a bullet-riddled chimp. One of the officers says
the other, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus
bill."
Civil rights activist Al Sharpton called the cartoon "troubling at best
given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous
with monkeys."
But Sharpton said the Post should clarify the point it was trying to make
with the cartoon, which was playing off Monday's rampage by a pet chimpanzee
in Stamford, Conn., that left a woman severely mauled. Police ended up
killing the chimp.
In a statement, Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan said: "The cartoon is a clear
parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee
in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy.
Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity
opportunist."
A story about the cartoon on the liberal-leaning Huffington Post Web site
drew hundreds of reader responses, many calling the cartoon racist and
insensitive.
Sam Stein, a columnist for the site, wrote that "at its most benign, the
cartoon suggests that the stimulus bill was so bad, monkeys may as well have
written it. Most provocatively, it compares the president to a rabid chimp.
Either way, the incorporation of violence and (on a darker level) race into
politics is bound to be controversial."
Posted By: Marta Fernandez
Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 12:01PM
You can also
click
here to view all posts by this author...
