There's a big uproar over this New York Post cartoon that people are calling racist because it compares Barack Obama to a monkey. It's a play off a recent incident where a cop shot a rogue chimpanzee, but most people aren't getting the joke. 

The "funny" part is that the comic is implying the stimulus is so bad, a monkey wrote it, but then people are saying that means they're calling Obama a monkey, and that's racist. The joke isn't particularly funny either way.

Look, I see the point, it's a dumb move on the Post's part to not expect fallout, but we're going to have to get over this whole African American monkey stigma at some point in our lives. I mean, Barack is the president now, and how many times did we compare our LAST president to a monkey in ten thousand editorial cartoons over the past eight years? The new president has every right to be compared to a monkey as the last one. It's about actions, not color. 

What do you think about the whole debacle?