If you live under a rock or a bridge or a really fat chick, you may not have heard of the political cartoon depicting two police officers shooting a monkey. This one.
Word on the street is The New York Post was calling Barack Obama a monkey, which is kind of racist. Today the dude who drew it released an “apology.”
Wednesday’s Page Six cartoon – caricaturing Monday’s police shooting of a chimpanzee in Connecticut – has created considerable controversy.
It shows two police officers standing over the chimp’s body: “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill,” one officer says.
It was meant to mock an ineptly written federal stimulus bill.
Period.
But it has been taken as something else – as a depiction of President Obama, as a thinly veiled expression of racism.
This most certainly was not its intent; to those who were offended by the image, we apologize.
However, there are some in the media and in public life who have had differences with The Post in the past – and they see the incident as an opportunity for payback.
To them, no apology is due.
Sometimes a cartoon is just a cartoon – even as the opportunists seek to make it something else.
Now, George Bush was compared to a chimp constantly, I am sure many presidents were. Calling someone a monkey is what you do to call them stupid. HOWEVER!
In this politically correct driven world. A place where Imus was fired for saying “nappy headed” hoes did you really not expect, even if it wasn’t your intent, that this would be perceived in such a way?
It isn’t racist to call a white person a monkey, it’s still offensive, but the offense has far less weight. You cannot argue that well if I call everyone a monkey it isn’t racist if I call a black person a monkey. Well, you know what, I would argue that, but who the fuck am I ?
It is different when you’re friends with someone, it is different when you personally know someone and the way they relate to the world.
This is a newspaper. You don’t get to say whatever you want, unless you expect repercussions to that. The audacity to act all flabbergasted, when you say something or rather portray something that is quite blatant racist, is just obnoxious. And to accuse people who pointed it out as opportunists is absurd.
You fucked up, oops! But I find it hard to believe that with all the editors, and there are many editors that check over shit in such a large paper, approved this without possibly thinking someone might take this the wrong way. Man up!
As if there was no other way to portray Barack Obama as an idiot? Even if this person didn’t mean it as a racist portrayal, which they probably did, nigga shoulda known better?
C’MON! C’MON!
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it was in bad taste. when in doubt, leave it out. if the cartoon referred to someONE i would compare the chimp to a person. someTHING to a stimulus bill. they knew what they were doing and the cover up is even weaker than the comic strip.
Thank you!