Is the Obama-Monkey Post Cartoon Offensive or Just Stupid?

Is the Obama-Monkey Post Cartoon Offensive or Just Stupid?

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?

Racist! Burn the Post!

Not intentionally racist, but they should know better.

If Bush was a monkey, Barack can be a monkey too.

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