NY Post Racist?

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090219/us_nm/us_chimp_attack_cartoon

New York NEW YORK (Reuters) – Hundreds of demonstrators rallied to boycott the New York Post on Thursday, branding the newspaper as racist for publishing a cartoon that appeared to compare President Barack Obama to a chimpanzee.
Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton chanted "End racism now!" outside the parent company's skyscraper in midtown Manhattan and called for the jailing of Rupert Murdoch, whose international media conglomerate News Corp owns the Post.

The newspaper has defended the cartoon as a parody of Washington politics, but Sharpton said it exploited a potent image in the history of racism toward blacks.

Published on Wednesday, it shows police shooting an ape and plays on the real shooting of a pet chimpanzee that went on a rampage in Connecticut this week.

One of the police officers says, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

Because Obama promoted the $787 billion economic stimulus that he signed into law on Tuesday, critics of the cartoon interpreted the dead chimp as a reference to Obama, who became the first black U.S. president on January 20.

"I guess they thought we were chimpanzees," Sharpton said. "They will find out we are lions."

Sharpton said he would meet with advertisers to encourage them to pull their ads and said New Yorkers would boycott the newspaper.

"You would have to be in a time warp or in a whole other world not to know what that means," said demonstrator Charles Ashley, 25, a model who did not believe the cartoon was an innocent political joke.

Others said it made light of assassinating Obama, a possibility they said that worries many African-Americans.

"Just the fact that they put a monkey with gunshot wounds in his chest, it gives the idea of an assassination," said Peter Aviles, 48, a building superintendent.

Police in Stamford, Connecticut, shot and killed a 200-pound (90-kg) chimpanzee on Monday after the pet nearly killed its owner's friend and attacked a police car. The chimp, named Travis, had once starred in television commercials and was taking medication for Lyme disease.

New York Post Editor-in-Chief Col Allan said in a statement the cartoon "broadly mocks Washington's efforts to revive the economy."

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[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

Is it owned by white people?

 

[dave_damage 10+ year member]

niggy Please

 

[wu36ca 10+ year member]

Is it owned by white people?

Probably mostly Jews.

 

[MrDave 10+ year member]

Gawd, people are so sensitive. Who the hell cares. Everyone needs to just get over it, and "it" is a lot more than just this cartoon.

Now for the next two months I'll have to hear/see Sharpton, and if you ask me, he is probably the MOST racist man alive.

 

[mbaoo]

"Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton "

Al Sharpton...

No surprise there. That dumb ****ing nga will do anything to make it look like the white man is holding him and his "people" down. He will turn anything with the slightest hint of being interpreted different from its intend and making a huge ****ing deal about it. He's the one who is racist, not the cartoon.

He and jesse jackson would make great butt buddies.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Wow, way to take something that was completely harmless and turn it into racism.

 

[duece212 5,000+ posts]

I don't get it, whats racist about comparing a black man to a monkey?

 

[mcsoul 10+ year member]

Satire should not have to be explained, they did a poor job.

They could have put a banner on the monkey that says "congress"

because the uneducated masses don't know who wrote the

stupid plan.

 

[SavageBlackout 10+ year member]

i found it quite funny

 

[LazyRider 10+ year member]

The way I look at it is that the NY Post knew that this would cause controversy so why would they put it out? The only thing that makes me mad is that they act like they can't understand why someone would be offended by it. If you know race is a touchy subject in this country why would you put out something like this that the whole country is going to see?

That's like hanging out with your friend who's mom died and everyone starts talking about what their going to get their mom for mothers day. You didn't mean to offend him but you did.

 

[jdawg 5,000+ posts]

Probably mostly Jews.

this is probably right, just like all the other media in the US

 

[splduck1978 10+ year member]

"Demonstrators led by civil rights activist Al Sharpton "
Al Sharpton...

No surprise there. That dumb ****ing nga will do anything to make it look like the white man is holding him and his "people" down. He will turn anything with the slightest hint of being interpreted different from its intend and making a huge ****ing deal about it. He's the one who is racist, not the cartoon.

He and jesse jackson would make great butt buddies.

Sharpton and Jackson have done more to hurt civil rights then any other white man out there. They are both POS's

 

[Banana Balls 5,000+ posts]

Probably mostly Jews.

Then its obviously white.

I mean racist.

 

[smd4life 5,000+ posts]

it's pretty funny to me