NY Post apologizes for ‘Obama’ cartoon
Written February 20, 2009
by The Reverend
(BBC News) – The New York Post newspaper has apologised to readers offended by a cartoon some people say was a racist depiction of President Barack Obama.
Cartoonist Sean Delonas drew police having shot dead a chimp, saying “they’ll have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill”.
The paper said it had been meant to “mock an ineptly written” bill.
Commentators had denounced the cartoon, and protesters picketed the newspaper’s headquarters.
“To those who were offended by the image, we apologise,” the paper said in an editorial.
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everything is racist … any doofus knows that this is NOT racist. A story the same week about a rabid chimp pretty much describes how this stimulus bill was put together – Reid (a white dude), Pelosi (a botox chick), and Obama (of mixed ethnicity) put this pile of skat together. Racist cartoon puhlease … I don’t even think it is a matter of hypersensitivity. I smell opportunism on the part of race card sharks and it smells a bit like the stimulus bill … Skat.
I fail to see how this is NOT racist. I swear people are so stupid sometimes. I don’t ‘even know why I’m GRACING you with a response Skat. Take a deep, long, look at the cartoon. I mean really look at it.
What have blacks/those of a darker skin been conceptualized as throughout the ages?
Non-intelligent? Incapable of handling large scale matters? So infinitesmal, so incredibly primeval infact that they would have the moral/analytical i.q. of nothing more…then a mere chimp.
That my friend, is precisely what the cartoon is trying to get across. And the fact that you don’t get that…is alarming.
Only ignorant white folk would say that this isn’t an act of racsim.
Have we not been called monkeys for about 4 centuries.
I agree that we can sometimes be a bit hypersensitive but this is blatant. I know all about the incident involving the chimp.
However, our president helped to write that stimulus bill. He happens to be black . Gee I don’t know how we could have ever drawn
That conclusion from the cartoon. And let’s also bear in mind that
In the picture there are two cops standing over the apes bullet riddled body. Think that didn’t bring back memories of Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell for black folk who witnessed police brutality toward people of color
On a consistent basis. The post was dumb for even alowing this to go to print. What kills me is that white folks called us monkeys and the once we call them on it
They say we’re overreacting. Thye came up with the slur, not us!! No white president would have been cast in a cartoon depicting him shot and killed that is for damn sure.