How's this for the most inappropriate political cartoon! And here's the kicker, it was published in the New York Post. How did this possibly get past the editors of the newspaper? I'm not crazy, it's definitely comparing Obama to a chimpanzee which is terribly offensive from a racial perspective but it manages to take it a step further. The chimp is dead! Well, actually the chimp was killed! I'm not one to sensor people but this seems to be going a little too far.
Just what we needed...Rev. Al Sharpton decided to chime in (no shocker there).
"The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill."
"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 are they inferring that a monkey wrote the last bill?"
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