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February 18, 2009
Is it racist to compare Obama to a dead monkey?
This is a cartoon that's running in today's New York Post.
Does this mean the stimulus bill he just passed is actually gonna fix the economy? Nah, right?
The Reverend Al "Mr. Do" Sharpton is already on the case, and has somehow managed to issue a response before I could even roll off of the couch and figure out what day it was. Check it out, after the jump, if you're into that sort of thing.
Sayeth Mr. Do:
"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?"
Checkit: New York Post Chimp Cartoon Compares Stimulus Author To Dead Primate [Huffington Post]
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