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Post Won’t Apologize for Obama-Monkey Link
Published by Pamela Gentry on Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 12:58 pm.
By Pamela Gentry, Senior Political Analyst
Feb. 20, 2008 – In case you were wondering, The New York Post will not be apologizing for the racist and violent cartoon it published in Wednesday’s paper. The editor in chief of the paper called the cartoon “a clear parody of the current news event” and placed the blame for the outrage on civil rights activist the Rev. Al Sharpton.
The cartoon, which appeared in Tuesday’s editions, depicts two police officers, one holding a smoking gun and standing over the body of a dead chimpanzee, which lay in a puddle of blood. One of the officers says, “They’ll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill.” The paper admits the comparison of the stimulus bill, signed into law by President Obama on Tuesday, and the actual shooting of a violent chimp in Connecticut, was an intentional tie, but maintains that it was not racially motivated or meant to be offensive.
CNN was able to get Editor Sean Delonas on the phone. In that interview, he called the controversy “absolutely friggin’ ridiculous.”
“Do you really think I’m saying Obama should be shot? I didn’t see that in the cartoon,” Delonas said. “It’s about the economic stimulus bill. If you’re going to make that about anybody, it would be [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, which it’s not.”
Earlier, in a statement to media, Delonas 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,” Delonas said in a statement, adding that the paper is standing behind the cartoon. “Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”
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But Sharpton isn’t alone in his outrage. Hundreds of BET.com users also found the cartoon racist and insensitive. Debbie Turner wrote, “I believe this is an outrage. Who ever wrote this needs to be fired, and an apology [issued] to our 44th President. [The] New York Post people are small minded – they need to get over it …President Obama is a wonderful person. Give him a chance to do his job.”
Vonnie wrote, “This man has a family, just like everyone else, and feelings. He is only tryin’ to fix what Bush did, give him a chance: Everything doesn’t have to be all about skin COLOR!!!!!!!!!
Sharrese cautioned that this could be the beginning of something even uglier. “The graphic nature and blatant disregard for those who have authority over us is overwhelmingly disgusting. America just hasn’t learned … with freedom comes responsibility, and that’s why we’re in the predicament we are in now. Until we humble ourselves and demonstrate a repentant heart, we will continue on a downward spiral, regardless of who is in office,” she wrote.
Several BET.com users, like Robert Poindexter, want to take action against the Post. Poindexter wrote, “As a Black American man in today’s society, we have witnessed a Black man become President. As a people, we need to stop acting as if we are not being insulted and that it doesn’t matter. Let’s stand together and demand respect at all times. Let’s boycott the Post and any other franchise that insults us as people of color.”
bunch of sorry a$$ mother F@#$%&
Please people,does it really matter what the White race thinks? Nobody needs their approval or meaningless apologies, Just stop spending your money where you know your not respected. Before too long they will be begging for your business or go begging to a Black man (The President) for welfare like their doing now. Whites are a very FEARFULL race. History has proven that.
We need to teach the PIG’s down there at the New York Post a lesson they will never forget. target their sponsors and share the publicity with their name brands, and we shall see if their sponsors will endure this controversy with the so called POST. As for the cartoonist, this is the kind of garbage that one would write on a bathroom wall while they were on the edge of a toilet bowl taking a dump. For a so called experienced editor to sign off on this filth is to soil the reputation of what ever good writers and integrity that paper ever had, and for that alone the editor needs to be fired immediately.
This world will always judge a person by the color of their skin. It is a shame that the NY Post is printing racist photos but it is not out of the norm. Anytime a person of another race other than white is in a position of authority it becomes a threat to white people. It doesn’t matter what editor Sean Delonas says because it is still a racist photo and he would have never disrespected President Bush or any other President like he did President Obama. In my opinion “Hell Yes” he needs to apologize to President Obama and to the American people as a whole. The cartoon was not funny and very offensive. Racism will always exist because of ignorant people. So I close with these famous words “May GOD have mercy on us all”
Obama is GOING TO BE PRESIDENT WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. Why are yall hatin’? Where I go to shool people were saying ( before he won) Nobama, and if Obama won the school would be bombed and all other sorts of racist stuff. When he won the next day all the racist people at school were hushed mouthed. It was so funny.
If this wasn’t meant to be racist or inappropriate toward President Obama, then why was a monkey used. Why wasn’t another animal chosen. The man that wrote this is a journalist. So surely he has done research on history and what Blacks have been called throughout our time, and I am quite sure that he knows “monkey” is one of the things that we have been called. This was definitely a jab to not only, President Obama, but our race as a whole. I also think that he is trying to imply that only African-Americans are benefiting from the stimulus bill. I think it is very ironic how, republican and some white americans can criticize President Obama for trying to correct a problem that a republican president, who happens to be white, created in the first place. He was in office 8 whole years, and no one posted comics about the horrible job as president that he was doing. There wasn’t any comics portraying soldiers being shot and police saying, “now we will have to find someone else to fight for these high gas price/our president stealing gas.” Obviously the New York Post is run by a group of racist people that employ another group of racist people. It is not my reading of choice and thanks to this little parody, I will never purchase this magazine, and I will not keep my account at Bank of America, if they continue to support this racist publication.
I also wanted to comment about what David said, about “you people are trying to make an issue out of nothing, when Bush got a shoe thrown at him, nothing was said.” First of all, to make a statement like “you people” is racist within itself. Why should Blacks have to be referred to as “you people”. To me, “you people” refers to us as if, we are not apart of this country, like we are a separate entity. It is people like ” you people” David that keep me motivated to take my education as far as I can, so I can prove “you people” wrong about Black people and make “you people” kiss my @$$.
Here we are fighting a war in the states concerning our race, while our young men and women or overseas fighting a war that isn’t ours to fight. What is it going to take for this country to come together and make a change for the better.
We as African American has been cut down and thrown out like yesterday’s trash but, we still continue to stand strong in the mist of all this mess. Our people came to this country so that we could live a better life and be better than those who try to hold our people back. Look where we have came from and let’s not let negative comment put us in a rage where, we be what they wants us to be. I know it’s hard to ignore things, but, sometime we have to put GOD in the mist and let him do his job. Our people has work hard and paid the price for us as a people to be proud of Our Blackness.
The comment made me mad because, it condome the very being of what we fight for everyday, is equality. But, by the NY Post allow the cartoon to be printed and published in it’s paper should be held accountantable for what it’s employee print and the employee should be held for his actions too . Which is a federal offense to threaten the President life, since he signed the bill. If the comment was about Nancy, then it should’ve had her name present with the cartoon. But, either way it goes the comment was an violation in work ethnic.
The first amendmet gaurantee`s the papers right to freedom of speech.Having said that why would you all think that because we have an american of african descent as president it would make every wrong right and every a!!hole quite.Stay focused my folks !!!!!
What is really going on! how could someone put something out like this and think that it wouldn’t insult the African American Culture. For 100’s of years we as Americans have been in denial. Why can’t we look past the skin color when we look at a person. I am involved in a legal dispute right now that is in the same catagory as this. I lost my Job for complaining about three white guy’s hanging a monkey on a noose at my work place. This is very upsetting to know that some1 will print something like this about the President of the United States of America. I think if the N.Y. Post can’t see that there’s something wrong with this picture….then they should be boycotted.
So, is anyone aware of the fact that Obama didn’t write the bill?
NEW YORK POST SUCKS!!!!!!!! PLAIN AND SIMPLE
This is why America is going to hell slowly. We are a strong country but not as strong as we use to be. Our food is not worth eating, a lot of our leaders are in jail or going, and like the bible predicted, “Men are getting wiser but weaker.” That was a nice way to put it. I would say ‘getting stupid and greedy.’ Bush screwed up for 8 yrs and there was nothing done or said. When someone bends over backwards to do good, you see what happens. This is America? It is sad to say, but yes this is America. We always beat up the wrong person. Like 9-11. Where is Bin Laden? I will give you my opinion. There is no such person, unless its an alias for the person who truly did the dirty deed. Who benefited most from that tragedy? We all know but is afraid to say.
… wow
It is sad and pitiful, that after all that has taken place in this current year for the progression for African Americans we are constantly reminded of how far we need to go. It is unfair that racism still exist in this world, but what people fail to realize is that Jim Crow laws had not happened that long ago. Racism is just as alive today as it was then. Some are just more discreet with showing it…for example…two cops shooting a monkey dead and referring to the stimulus bill in the same comic frame. This is just a sad reminder of how obtaining an education does not make you intelligent.
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