New York Post Controversial Political Cartoon

Darkflan · 02-19-2009, 10:26 PM

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The New York Post recently published the political cartoon shown here, depicting two white police officers standing over the carcass of a bullet-riddled chimpanzee, with the animal representing the author of the stimulus package. The decision to run this cartoon was irresponsible at best, and hurtful and malicious at worst. It seems unthinkable that an editor of a newspaper would not understand the history of Black folks being depicted as monkeys and apes or the recent spate of death threats against President Obama. Worse, when confronted, Post editor Col Allan dismissed people's concerns as baseless.
Join us in demanding that The Post issue an apology for the decision and their callousness, and fire the editor who allowed this cartoon to go to print.

ColorOfChange.org( link to original article)

And heres the cartoon.

What you guys think?

Oh yeah any way A mod can fix my spelling error in the Thread name?

ColdSlaw7 · 02-19-2009, 10:57 PM

It may be in poor taste...but freedom of speech and expression...I don't know. I don't want to silence anyone, no matter how wrong their humor may seem to me.

joebob4790 · 02-19-2009, 11:12 PM

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Originally Posted by ColdSlaw7

It may be in poor taste...but freedom of speech and expression...I don't know. I don't want to silence anyone, no matter how wrong their humor may seem to me.

I agree, but Darkflan, you have a point. That definitely has some racist undertones, but a letter to the editor is the only option you have if you want to speak up. Continue to speak up and inform others and who knows, once enough people see your point, something could happen.

tdlex420 · 02-20-2009, 01:01 AM

I personally don't see anything wrong with it the way it was intended. You have to hold some serious grudges if you see that as anything other than what it means. If you can't have a comic with a chimp in it without people getting upset then something is wrong. People love playing the race card every chance they get these days.

Darkflan · 02-20-2009, 03:15 AM

Just like to note that those are the views of the site in the link I provided. i personally beleive its free speech and nothing you can really do about it.

Freedom_User · 02-20-2009, 03:41 AM

Phish page? WTF? That's what I got when I clicked on the link you gave me. Either my shits fucked up, or that's just some lame shit.

The picture is ridiculous. I think it's an absolute shame that some people will find that okay. Nothing I can do it, but oh well... I just hope sometime in my lifetime stuff like that will cease.

Darkflan · 02-20-2009, 04:36 AM

Sorry, link fixed now.

**goodgirl** · 02-20-2009, 12:49 PM

I thought I heard that the choice of using the chimp being shot was a reference to the recent chimp attack that ended with the police having to shoot the chimp that ripped off the woman's face?

Yes, they should have been aware of the possibility of it being taken as having racist undertones but if it is true that it was drawing on the recent chimp attack events to poke fun at the stimulus bill then some allowance should be made for intent.

Still.....you would think that they would think these things through....sigh.

marcusJay · 02-20-2009, 02:34 PM

The media has their sensitivity meters turned up too high. Have you ever heard the comment "Its so easy a trained monkey could do it" or "It looks like a trained monkey was hired to fix this"? That, along with the police shooting of the pet chimp IS what inspired the cartoon. Here is what bothers me. If, every time a political cartoonist makes fun of Barak Obama, the race card is used then its time for those who use the race card to STFU.
For some people EVERYTHING is about race.

**Hashishi** · 02-20-2009, 02:57 PM

I damn near spewed coffee everywhere when I saw this story this morning!

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Originally Posted by marcusJay

The media has their sensitivity meters turned up too high. Have you ever heard the comment "Its so easy a trained monkey could do it" or "It looks like a trained monkey was hired to fix this"? That, along with the police shooting of the pet chimp IS what inspired the cartoon.

Agreed to the extent that 'a monkey could've written this' etcetera applies, but c'mon: WTF were they thinking?

How could they not have foreseen this furore? Someone just flunked the racial sensitivities test with the fattest 'F' anybody's scored since the civil rights movement. It would've been easily enough forgiven (as Jesse Jackson said) if they'd come out red-faced with their hands in the air and just apologised, but they compounded it by defending it and then issuing a circumstantial apology. Shouldn't expect anything better from a Murdoch franchise, I suppose.

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Here is what bothers me. If, every time a political cartoonist makes fun of Barak Obama, the race card is used then its time for those who use the race card to STFU.

I don't think that's of much concern: just stay away from using blatantly racially charged comparisons.

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tdlex420 Member Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 395 Grams: 8,705.65 Thanks: 76 Thanked 165 Times in 90 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	I personally don't see anything wrong with it the way it was intended. You have to hold some serious grudges if you see that as anything other than what it means. If you can't have a comic with a chimp in it without people getting upset then something is wrong. People love playing the race card every chance they get these days. __________________ Make sure the mood is right, be it day or night Let your mind take flight, make you feel so right Pass the marijuana, pass the marijuana my way

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Freedom_User ....Is really high Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 3,239 Grams: 13,521.89 Thanks: 1,718 Thanked 2,246 Times in 1,077 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	Phish page? WTF? That's what I got when I clicked on the link you gave me. Either my shits fucked up, or that's just some lame shit. The picture is ridiculous. I think it's an absolute shame that some people will find that okay. Nothing I can do it, but oh well... I just hope sometime in my lifetime stuff like that will cease. __________________ The feds continually use and twist this simple clause as an excuse to expand their own power - at the expense of our liberty. "If you shot a ton of pot to the Sun, will it burn up and get everyone high?"

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goodgirl Incognito Join Date: Oct 2000 Posts: 1,865 Grams: 15,418.54 Thanks: 1,518 Thanked 2,199 Times in 696 Posts Stock Portfolio Total Value: 0.000 Gain/Loss: 0.000%	I thought I heard that the choice of using the chimp being shot was a reference to the recent chimp attack that ended with the police having to shoot the chimp that ripped off the woman's face? Yes, they should have been aware of the possibility of it being taken as having racist undertones but if it is true that it was drawing on the recent chimp attack events to poke fun at the stimulus bill then some allowance should be made for intent. Still.....you would think that they would think these things through....sigh. __________________ "No one is free when others are oppressed."

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