Ok. I need to quickly chime in on this whole New York Post cartoon thing.
Here is the cartoon in question:
Delonas' cartoon
Al Sharpton is all in an uproar about this and I guess I begrudgingly have to agree with Al this time for the first time ever.
When you are a political cartoonist you have to keep current events in mind when you are making your point. What I think Delonas was trying to say here is that he disagrees with the stimulus package and it looks like it was created by a monkey. What Delonas and the New York Post are insensitive to are two very important things.
1) The lady that was mauled by the chimp is still in intensive care fighting for her life. That whole story is not funny now and it may never be funny but it certainly isn’t funny now. A parody of that event is tasteless and cruel. That is my opinion.
2) Our president, the man who worked so hard to make this stimulus package go, is black. Someone needs to get Delonas a memo that President Obama is black and he is bringing up a pretty nasty racial slur with this kind of image.
I guess what makes it worse for me is Delonas’ reaction to Al Sharpton’s charge (Al is not alone – there is a long list of people upset with Delonas) that this cartoon is racist.
In an interview with CNN Delonas said: “Do you really think I’m saying Obama should be shot? I didn’t see that in the cartoon.”
I am in no position to call anybody out on anything because I don’t know Delonas personally and I don’t know the president either. For as much as Al has been on television over the years I feel like I know him but I guess I would have to admit that I do not know Al either. But for Delonas, and others, to miss the racist angle on this cartoon is pretty shocking. I’m not going to say it because you all know what I want to say next, but I won’t. Let’s just say that this could be one of the more obvious cases of newspaper irresponsibility since Dewey was rumored to have defeated Truman.
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