NY Post Cartoon Raises Some Eyebrows

Sharpton is a putz.

Give me a fricken break!!!

As an African American, of course this image is deeply disturbing to me. Although I am only 38 years old, I, too, have experienced a great deal of racism in my time, growing up in the South. That being said, I still don't think the cartoonist was intentionally being racist. I realize that I can't let my OWN experiences rain on a "new day" in America, where people are moving beyond olden ways. I think that my friends below the age of 30, my children, and other younger people wouldn't even blink at this cartoon, because their experiences are refreshingly different. This is a lesson to me that ALL of us, Black and White, should stop clinging to old hurt and anger, and embrace the dawning of this new age. I think Al Sharpton is a relic of the past, and that he needs to shut his PIE HOLE, and MEDITATE on how his place in a new America. Unfortunately, his consistent "policing" of what may or may not be racist, just makes us Black People/African Americans look like a bunch of whiners that can't take a joke. Now . . is this cartoon actually funny??? I think not, but neither is it racist.

Im sure they didn't intend for it to be a racial thing, but in bad taste all the same....

I do think Sharpton is a media whore, and I don't think the cartoon meant Obama per se, but I do find it to be in bad taste as well.

any one that doesn't think that cartoon is mocking obama..you have to be racist..lets get real..we are all adults on here with a decent education level..

that is a racist cartoon,,..and also in bad taste..a woman is clinking to life ..her face and hands chewed off..theres nothing funny about that

both the cartonist and editor need to be fired..today

Go ahead eat up! I hope you enjoy your TURD. )!(




Your MARXIST Obama has served you a SUGARCOATED TURD; you'll be chewing on it for along time to come and it's not over yet so hurry and eat the one you have now, because he said he has a few more for you.....and they are big......in the end you dumb-ass NAZI PUPPETS WILL HAVE SHIT ALL OVER YOUR FACE!

Sharpton has no basis for the attack. Although drooling liberals and media do not agree, Obama is not African-American, his mother is White. He is Halfrican American. And, besides, he didn't write the "Stimulus" bill, Democrat members of Congress did.

Should we thrust B.O.* to keep his word? Of course!

He made a promise of “The most ethical Administration of all time” followed by Four tax cheats selected as Cabinet members and top advisors.

He made a promise of “Total transparency with five days to review all important legislation” followed by the most expensive “Stimulus” legislation in history rushed through over a weekend.
He made a promise of “No Lobbyists in my Administration” followed by eleven Cabinet and top advisors given waivers.

Investors trust B.O.* The DJIA is down 2090 points since election day.

The Dems bought B.O.*, but we all get to pay for him. Nice job, libs. Great start!

both the cartonist and editor need to be fired..today


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considering this was done under the auspices of an outside agitator, not an American citizen, but in fact a citizen of a Muslim nation who is dedicated to disruption and corruption of American government in the name of a single political party, it sort of compounds the problem.

NAZI PUPPETS WILL HAVE SHIT ALL OVER YOUR FACE!

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republicans are the nazis. didn't rush tell you?

Gov. David A. Paterson, the Rev. Al Sharpton and others expressed concern on Wednesday morning over an editorial cartoon in The New York Post that showed a police officer, having shot a chimpanzee, saying to his colleague, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.”

Critics said the cartoon implicitly compared President Obama with the primate and evoked a history of racist imagery of blacks. The chimpanzee was an apparent reference to the 200-pound pet chimpanzee that was shot dead by a police officer in Stamford, Conn., on Monday evening, after it mauled a friend of his owner.

Speaking at a conference of the New York Academy of Medicine on Wednesday morning, Mr. Paterson said that while he had not seen the cartoon, he believed that The Post should explain it. Given the possibility that some people could conclude the cartoon had a racial subtext, Mr. Paterson said the newspaper needed to clarify its meaning.

“It would be very important for The New York Post to explain what the cartoon was intended to portray,” Mr. Paterson said in response to a question about whether the cartoon’s depiction of a monkey was racist, as Mr. Sharpton has suggested. “Obviously those types of associations have been made. They do feed a kind of negative and stereotypical way that people think. But I think if it’s enough that people are raising this issue, I hope they would clarify.”

A newsroom employee at The Post, who spoke on condition of anonymity because employees were not permitted to comment on the matter, said its newsroom received many calls of complaints on Wednesday morning after the publication of the cartoon. “Every line was lit up for several hours,” the employee said. “The phones on the city desk have never rung like that before.” Many Post staff members were dismayed by the cartoon, the employee added.

The cartoon was on Page 12 of Wednesday’s edition, next to the paper’s Page Six gossip column. On Page 11, the reverse side, was a photograph of President Obama signing the stimulus bill into law in Denver.

Mr. Sharpton, who has been an unflattering subject of work by the cartoonist, Sean Delonas, in the past, said in a statement on his Web site:

The cartoon in today’s New York Post is troubling at best, given the racist attacks throughout history that have made African-Americans synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual inference to this form of racism when, in the cartoon, the police say after shooting a chimpanzee, “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 whether the Post cartoonist was inferring that a monkey wrote it?

In a statement, Col Allan, editor in chief of The Post, denied Mr. Sharpton’s assertion that the cartoon was “racially charged.” Mr. 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 2001 cartoon by Mr. Delonas depicted Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president who was seeking the Democratic nomination for mayor that year, kissing the buttocks of Mr. Sharpton — a depiction that was widely criticized as demeaning, and even racist.

In a phone interview, Mr. Sharpton said he planned to hold a protest outside The Post’s Midtown offices at noon on Thursday.

“What does shooting a chimpanzee have to do with a stimulus bill?” Mr. Sharpton said. “This raises all the racial stereotypes we are trying to get away from this in this country.”

He added: “I’m not speaking on behalf of the president or the chimpanzee. I‘m speaking on behalf of the offended African-American community.”

Mr. Delonas has drawn ire from a number of groups for past cartoons in The Post. In 2006, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation denounced a cartoon of his that showed a man carrying a sheep wearing a bridal veil to a “New Jersey Marriage Licenses” window, a reference to the State Supreme Court’s ruling that year requiring the state to grant same-sex couples the same legal rights and benefits as heterosexual couples through civil unions.

Andrew Rojecki, associate professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago and co-author of “The Black Image in the White Mind” (University of Chicago Press, 2000), a study of racial attitudes and their relationship to mass media content, said he found the cartoon deeply troubling.

“Of course I would say it’s racist,” Professor Rojecki said in an interview. “There’s no question about it.”

He added, “The cartoonist, whether he did this consciously or not, was drawing upon a very historically deep source of images about African-Americans that African-Americans do not have a lot of control over.”

Such images are harmful on a number of levels, he said. “Even people who do not harbor deep-seated prejudices, because they have stereotypes deeply embedded in their consciousness, may react unconsciously when those associations are triggered,” he said.

Professor Rojecki rejected Mr. Allan’s assertion that the cartoon was devoid of racial content. “It strains credulity to imagine that there is any association between a chimpanzee that was shot because it had attacked someone and a bill that has successfully passed through Congress,” he said. “It makes no sense. What possible explanation could there be?”

Jan Nederveen Pieterse, a professor of global studies and sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of “White on Black: Images of Africa and Blacks in Western Popular Culture” (Yale University Press, 1995), said, “I agree the cartoon is racist, without a doubt.”

Professor Pieterse, who is Dutch, said that portrayal of non-Westerners as primates became well-established in both the United States and Europe in the late 19th century, and has affected not only blacks, but also the Irish and Chinese, for example.

“It’s absolutely outrageous,” he said of the cartoon, “and I think people are concerned because it sets a nasty, mean, very aggressive tone. You can’t get any lower.”

Since when did freedom of speech have to involve spewing hatred amongst everyone?

I agree with the fact that while we have the right to say how we feel, it is inhumane to degrade persons based on skin color.

If for nothing else, this cartoonist had gotten his day in the sun. No doubt that there will be some idiot to ask him to draw for his underground white supremacist group...so if he takes the money...is it then just a job because he may/may not share the same belief?

Most of you bloggers are a bunch of fence-riders. Pick a side or get off.

It doesn’t get any more blatantly racist than that.

Considering it was printed in The Post, it shouldn’t surprise anyone. It’s not like anyone reads that piece of trash paper anyway so they’re probably trying to get any kind of publicity they can get at this point.

Mr. Delonas’ cartoons are unfunny and mean-spirited and are frequently racist.

As an American of Middle Eastern descent I am outraged by the caricatures of Middle Easterners that Mr. Delonas frequently uses in his cartoons.

There is something in Mr. Delonas’ cartoons to offend everyone.

How can the New York Post continue to offend large groups of its readers by continuing to post Mr. Delonas’ cartoons? They need to stop providing Mr. Delonas with a forum for his filthy disgusting hatred right away. Kudos to Mr, Sharpton for finally stepping forward to highlight this outrage

This is the first time in my life I’ve agreed with Al Sharpton on ANY issue.

The chimp-shooting in CT may be current events but there is no logical reason to connect that incident with the stimulus package or with its champion, except in the racist mind of Mr. Delonas.

It’s not that this is offensive to the African-American community exclusively. This is offensive to all who decry bigotry and who value the inherent worth of ALL people.

In other words, it’s offensive to all reasonable people with morals.

How many cartoonists, how many times,depicted Bush as a chimp?

Nancy Polosi and Gang wrote the Stimulus Bill so no I am not by any means offended by the classless act. Obama did not write the Bill he only signed it so lets move foreward and stop this mess because we have other things to worry about and this most certainly is not at the top of the list.

Just when you think Delonas can’t get any worse, he puts out junk like this. What’s so shocking about it isn’t that the Post printed it (please, it’s nothing more than a tabloid) — but that it’s so *obvious*. Surely they don’t think they’re kidding anyone…do they?

The cartoon is blatantly racist. Bigots have a long history of equating blacks with monkeys. This cartoon is no different. Hopefully it will cause the Post to lose revenue.