n.y. state of mind...

Unfortunately, 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."


Not only is this NY Post cartoon obviously Racist, but it seems to be PRO-Police Brutality as well. Showing the blatant racial depiction combined with the excessive force of the Police department make this a very DANGEROUS cartoon which is bound to have some very bad effects on the not-so-smart people out there (those are the people whom I would assume read the NY Post to begin with). Yea, bad taste, bad judgement and just plain BAD! The NY Post needs to atone for this, I hope people boycott this "newspaper" and start reading real news.

"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me"

~Frederick Douglass