Obama Chimpanzee Stimulus Comic
And I thought that the writer of the first comment on the post below was a racist.
Well I guess there are sick racist sons of bitches and their are professional racist sons of bitches. Sean Delonas gets paid for the offensive stuff that gets published in the New York Post.
And if you are overly generous with your giving of “the benefit of the doubt” and think maybe Delonas is making fun of Congress, the “author” of the Stimulus Bill, the New York Times points out that:
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.
If you want to see some more of this man’s fine work go here.
Oh, and Sean Delonas’s website is “temporarily unavailable” for some reason…
I think we can all agree that Rev. Sharpton likes attention, but it is painfully obvious that this cartoon contains a clearly racist thread, intentional or not. Saying that there is a need to find someone new to write a stimulus bill after shooting one ape implies that only one person wrote the bill in the first place. The only person who might be considered solely responsible for that piece of legislation is President Barrack Obama, who we all know is African American, ergo the chimp in the comic stands for Obama whether the artist intended it or not. Here, Rev. Sharpton has a valid point, because white racists frequently refer to darker skinned people as monkeys, apes, or some vulgar variation, and specifically call black people chimps. Many racists are currently looking at this cartoon in exactly the way about which Rev. Sharpton was concerned. Sean Delonas is guilty here, of not being funny, and of not thinking this cartoon through. The NY Post is guilty of blind insensitivity.